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Zambia Library Association
XVIII SCECSAL Conference
Lusaka, Zambia
15 - 18 July 2008
Mulungushi International Conference Centre

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Emerald Group
Publishing Limited The world's leading publisher of management research, Emerald Group Publishing Limited offers a wide range of online database solutions for your institution, including Emerald Management Xtra, Emerald Backfiles, InTouch, Emerald Management First, and BestofBiz. Emerald's databases have something to offer for every aspect of learning within your institution. Working with Library and Information Associations, Emerald aim to establish learning cultures within the workplace. For more information please visit www.emeraldinsight.com or for subscription details please contact Africa's Regional Business Manager ebroug@emeraldinsight.com

Emeralds continually strive to contribute to African development through publishing and look forward to meeting your institutional representative at SCECSAL.

Danish Library Association The aim of the Danish Library Association is to further public library development. The objective is to ensure that public libraries can further enlightenment, education and cultural activity to the highest standard for the good of the community. Primarily in Denmark but the organisation also supports the development of public library structures especially in developing countries.

The Danish Library Association was founded in 1905. It has had and has a big influence on the development of public libraries and on educational and cultural policies in Denmark. The Association has been the driving force behind government select committees, the formation of co-operation on local government level as well as influencing library legislation.

e-Agriculture.org e-Agriculture.org is a global initiative to enhance sustainable agricultural development and food security by improving the use of information, communication, and associated technologies in the sector.

The overall aim is to enable members to exchange opinions, experiences, good practices and resources related to e-agriculture, and to ensure that the knowledge created is effectively shared and used worldwide.

SWETS Logo Swets was founded in 1901 and is the world's leading subscription service organisation with over 20 offices worldwide. It deals with almost 60,000 customers and 65,000 publishers and handles more than 1.8 million subscriptions annually. Its customers fall within the academic, research, corporate, medical and government sectors. Swets is the only subscription agent to have achieved ISO 9001:2000 global accreditation, thereby ensuring a consistency in its processes and standards anywhere in the world. The South African Office can be contacted at info@sa.swets.com will be happy to assist with all print and electronic subscriptions, databases and e-books.

Springer Logo Springer is one of the leading international scientific publishing companies, publishing over 1,900 English language journals and more than 4,000 new books each year. Its publications cover a wide range of subjects including biomedicine and the life sciences, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer sciences, human sciences, social sciences and economics. Springer offers online publications through SpringerLink. SpringerLink is one of the world’s leading interactive databases for scientific, technical, and medical books and journals. The breadth and quality of SpringerLink are unmatched in its growing collection of journals, online reference books, ebooks, book series and archives.

Springer offer special low pricing for developing countries for all our electronic products and a large package of graduate and post-graduate textbooks Springer International Editions.

Please visit www.springer.com to view our complete product offering and www.springerlink.com to search our content database.

EBSCO Logo EBSCO has served the library industry for more than 60 years. By placing customers at the core of our business, we have tapped their ingenuity to assist us in developing the high quality products and services for which EBSCO is known. EBSCO is the only company to provide customers with an integrated service that combines reference databases, subscription management, online journals, books, linking services and A-to-Z solutions. Always at the leading edge, we continue to work to identify new challenges and combine technology with data to meet the information needs of our customers worldwide.

Zambia Coat of ArmsMinistry Of Education, Government of the Republic of Zambia

Vision

  • Innovative and productive life-long education and training accessible to all by 2030.

Mission

  • Providing equitably accessible education and skills training opportunities for sustainable livelihood and development.

Goals

  • To ensure universal basic education provision to children;
  • To ensure that opportunities exist for all citizens to have equitable access to ECCDE, basic and high school, tertiary education and /or technical and vocational training;
  • To improve the quality and relevance of education and Skills training;
  • To promote efficiency and cost-effectiveness;
  • To enhance institutional coordination in both public and private education and training institutions; and
  • To ensure that library services are improved to contribute to high standards and quality of education in Zambia.

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