High Altitude Integrated Natural Resource Management – a research

collaboration with a library / information component

Norwegian Library Meeting, Hamar, 19.3.2010

Liv Ellingsen

Senior librarian, UMB, Noragric

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Partners:Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, Baltistan (CSO)Norwegian University of Life Sciences (academic)

HAINRM: 10 years cooperation 1997-2007

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Baltistan – Little Tibet

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Background

In a team co-operating across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, information resource management represents an important challenge.

Purpose (from the 1997 Project document)

To create a common information resource base relevant to all project areas

To facilitate exchange of information between counterparts in Baltistan and Norway

To support AKRSP Baltistan’s efforts in networking for information access

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Status of partners’ resources at project outset

Noragric had a well functioning library which made sharing easy

AKRSP Baltistan had no established system or routines for sharing information /documents

Project resources Competence on information management in the project

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– Noragric: librarian

– AKRSP: leader of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Section (MER)

Funds for purchasing information as needed

– Mainly spent on books for AKRSP, but some for Noragric special collection, and for research articlesto partners in both ends

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Activities

Encouraged project partners to share relevant information resources – with one another and with outsiders.

Noragric library established

– special collection relevant to the project, mainly consisting of grey documents from the area– integrated in the library catalogue (BIBSYS)

– database of relevant information networks within the project themes – used by AKRSP B

– simple web-page for sharing of project documentation

AKRSP wanted to establish a library, collected scattered materials in one room

Created document database in ProCite, which was also used by some of the researchers for personal documentation

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1999 Noragric librarian visited AKRSP

Meetings with AKRSP staff for needs assessment

Meeting with other libraries in Skardu for networking and professional exchange

Short training of AKRSP library staff on:

– Efficient use of the database system (ProCite)

– Simple classification for better order and retrieval

– Aquisition of documents

– Journals’ management

– Circulation system

– Networking (newsletters, exchange agreements, mailing lists etc.)

– User services, information dissemination to users

– Etc. Etc.

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And all the time people went back and forth – researchers, managers, MSc and PhD students…

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…and sometimes library staff

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2001: End of phase 1

Information component got good evaluation, but funds for next phase were reduced

You can’t kill personal comitment – contact continued, until

Yesss…2006 gave more funding AKRSP drafted a plan to turn its library into a

Resource and Research Centre (RRC) for the benefit of the whole research community in Baltistan

Staff training in Norway Staff training and study tours to libraries in Pakistan Contact established with Pakistan National Digital

Library

– Tailored training in use of e-resources

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2007: The end of AKRSP – UMB cooperation

Final workshop and presentations to external stakeholders showed RRC’s visions:

– To meet the information needs of AKRSP, AKDN, LSOs, CSOs, tourists, researchers, planners, students, elected representatives and others

– Strengthen capacity and competence of AKRSP staff, partner organizations, government departments, CSOs and LSOs through

• Providing a well functioning research environment with readily accessible documentation and information services

• Providing support for planning, training and development activities

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