Category: Uganda

COLAU activities: Buganda Kingdom Library visit

Buganda Kingdom Library paid a courtesy visit to the Community Libraries Association of Uganda for a strategic engagement focused on strengthening library services and exploring areas of collaboration. This library is under the Buganda Heritage and Tourism Board, and will soon become one of the newest members of COLAU. It is working towards setting up satellite libraries in various chiefdoms of Buganda kingdom. We shall collaborate around this area and others to come.

COLAU activites: Visit of Ubongo Kids

A team from Ubongo Kids visited the COLAU secretariat to share how they can distribute more of their content to other community libraries and schools across Uganda. Ubongo Kids is the proprietor of Akili and Me, a children’s educational cartoon that is broadcasted on YouTube and the Uganda Broadcasting services. Some of the community libraries share videos from Ubongo Kids with their users such as children and teachers to supplement the book resources they provide.

COLAU member: Busesa Community Library in Uganda

Busesa Community Library is located in Eastern Uganda on Bugiri Road. This library serves the community through a variety of services ranging from a children’s clinic, modern library services, computer literacy and music dance and drama among others.

Nyaruhsanje Community Library in Uganda

Nyarushanje Community Library and Empowerment Center is a member of COLAU. The library identifies and trains Reading Promotion Volunteers (RPVs), community-based school going children, youth and students who are trained to guide and support other children and promote reading at school, community and household level.

Activities at Nyungu Streams Community Resource Centre, Uganda

Nyungu Streams Community Resource Centre is a community library in Sheema District in Western Uganda. This library serves the community through providing space for all age groups to read, a play area for children, computer training, a Read Aloud and mental health space, and outreach activities among others. Last year, under the Uganda Community Knowledge Project supported by Book Aid International through COLAU, they received about 10 tablets and a RACHEL gadget that gives out a WiFi signal to access to numerous information materials such as ebooks, videos and audios. These have greatly enhanced their reading activities at the library and in the Community amongst the schools they work with.

Capacity Building Training by COLAU in partnership with Goethe-Zentrum Kampala, Uganda

COLAU partnered with the Goethe-Zentrum Library to carry out a 4 days capacity building exercise for 11 librarians representing 6 community libraries. For each of the 4 days, topics discussed were; Collection Development, Book Processing, Automation of library services and social media marketing, respectively. We were able to successfully carry out a capacity building exercise in Kampala for 6 community libraries represented by 11 participants. 


Update from COLAU in Uganda

In the continued work with community libraries around Uganda, COLAU Board and staff represented by Denis, Emmanuel and Leticia got an opportunity to visit Nambi Sseppuuya Community Resource Centre in Jinja district. One amazing item we found interesting in this library was an upgrade from a mobile library to a more motorised one. In the picture is the interior reading space as Justin Kiyimba the founder took us through the history and why this initiative.