InfocentreAddis_Minutes

InfoCenter Services job status follow-up—February 7, 2012 **Participants:** Abeba Asmelash, Abeba Desta, Abenet Yabowork, Asabech Eshete, Bizuwork Mulat, Emaelaf Kebede, Goshu Cherinet, Meron Mulatu, Wondimu Tilahun

Asabech reported that:
 * **Job** || **Status** || **Action** ||
 * Publication distribution || ILRI publications from various ILRI zones:
 * The publications from variousMali,Niger,Asiaare placed in archive,
 * Publications for the 2nd phase Google books project are not sorted yet, will be sorted & sent toNairobi,
 * New IPMS publications have been received & working with Fanos for distribution,
 * Regarding the “Training manual”, CaST will handle the distribution issue ||  ||
 * Fiction books || Emaelaf explained that:
 * Been sorted, donated; the selected ones would be given to Housing & waiting for Hailu to collect them ||  ||
 * Discarding & re-organizing documents || ISNAR publications:
 * Were intended to send to Google…ISNAR was asked on this issue & there is no reply from them…waiting for further instruction…NO Progress

Deleting Discarded documents from InMagic DB: Abeba Desta reported that she is working on this & needs some times… Emaelaf noted that Abeba will work the way she started & also Goshu is weeding what he can & we could handle it the work in progress ||  ||
 * Routine works of the InfoCentre || Many workshops & event were held & InfoCentre was very busy;

Emaelaf explained that the broken chairs been disposed & some of them have been given to Housing & Catering unit; the tables will be changed gradually to make them comfortable for the participants; ||  ||
 * Theses || Since Abeba was busy with other duties no status change is seen on this ||  ||
 * ILRI Reprints || Goshu noted that he will continue this when Wondimu is back from leave ||  ||
 * Copy-righted journal articles in Mahider || Abenet suggested that this will be solved maybe when the new d-space version is updated… ||  ||
 * Long-term book loan || All flora books were given to Gene bank collection… ||  ||
 * SWETS subscription renewal || All magazines are coming regularly except “Times”, and it was Ceased on request… ||  ||