Training at the capital of Europe

At the Atomium in Brussels

As previously mentioned, I was lucky to be selected as one of the participants in the long running training for librarians which happens to be in Brussels, capital of Europe. They call it capital of the Europe because Belgium is a host country to European Union, the economic and political union of 27 member states located in Europe.

STIMULATE 10 or Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries: an Active Training Environment (the last one in the series) is a three-month training for librarians and information specialists about information management in a lecture and hands-on training given by the professors who are expert in that field. Classes are conducted mostly at Vrije Universiteit Brussel Campus Etterbeek and a little on Campus Jette. The funding of the program came from VLIR-OUS.

The contents of the training are as follows: Management in Libraries and Information Centers, ICT for Libraries and Information Centers, Information Retrieval, Information Architecture and Digital Libraries, and Library Visits. Most of the library visits are limited to the area of Flanders, a region in Belgium where Brussels is located and where most people speak Dutch.

More to follow...:)