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| PLIFOD members @ workshop |
Plifod / Tech Aide / Eifl Capacity Building Project
The Branch had been able to undertake several projects aimed at bridging the digital divide between the served and underserved communities. These are done to inculcate the reading habit among the general public in the Keta library catchment areas some of the projects were as follows:
PLIFOD (Public Library for Development) a capacity building project funded by EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) and offered through Tech Aide (Technological Social Enterprise), in collaboration with Ghana Library Authority (Gh.L.A).In order to change the public perception about library; as a place where books are kept. Ghana Public Library Awareness Raising Group (GPLARG) together with Tech Aide conducted the survey in order to know the public perception about library.
A Capacity Building Workshop was organized for Librarians in the various regions across the country at Winneba to train Librarians on June 2, 2014. This was done in phases or modules, and the participants came from the respective branch libraries across the various regions of Ghana. Keta Branch Library represented by Victor Amedume –Odamson took part in the training which was offered through Tech Aide and sponsored by Eifl. All these were done in order to see how people’s lives and communities have changed as a result of library programmes and services. The Branch used key advocacy measures as a tool to kick start the project using tools like; Advocacy, Communication, Awareness listed below;
1. Outreach programmes: The performance of Basic schools pupils in the 2013/2014 B.E.C.E exams especially in I.C.T subject in the Keta municipality Basic Schools was very poor. In order to curb this poor performance, a survey was conducted using the statistics we have received from the G.E.S which indicated the performance of 70 schools in the keta catchment areas and the percentages got by the various schools. Based on that statistics, a questionnaire was prepared and distributed through the Public Relations Officer of G.E.S of Keta to the various schools in the municipality. Our target was to offer I.C.T training for teachers of I.C.T and to help improve performance in the subject.
2. Public Relations: We have granted so many radio interviews to the local radio station (Jubilee Radio) and occasionally, participated in the radio’s morning reviews. The idea was to sensitize the general public about the concept of library management and development. Ideally, most people believed or had the perception that, library is a place where books are kept, but our aim was to change that perception of the people and to make them see the library as a place for development rather that a place where books are kept.
3. Marketing Information: This strategy was used with the motive of re branding the library to the general public about what we do as library and information officers, and the need for parents and the general public to know the relevance of library and to inculcate the habit of reading in them.
4. Lobbying: We have called on the various Stakeholders to assist both in cash and in kind, we have written so many letters to the M.C.E of Keta for Keta Municipal Assembly to assist us with funds to improve the library.
- BOOKS
We also sent Delegation to some individual and NGOs with some proposals; as a result, We got 3200 assorted books Donated to the Library. Books matters an NGO based in Canada send us some assorted books every year.
- BUILDING
The building became a every big challenge to us for some time now; all effort to the assembly and the MP of Keta to assist didn't yield anything.
We then approached Mr. Mitch Woolams the Owner of Aborigine Resource Beech and He is now renovating the building.
- ICT SECTION
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