Books for the
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| The Hon. Mr Wong Hon Wai, Penang Executive Councillor (Town and Country Planning, Housing, Arts) and Ms Shukriah Binti Haji You, Director, Penang Public Library Corporation reviewing a Southbound book. |
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Southbound presented the Penang Public Library Corporation with 12 sets of publications which will be added to the collections of various branches of its public libraries located across the State of Penang, Malaysia. Each set comprises 30 titles from the Southbound catalogue of scholarly books which focuses on the role of the media, internet and human communication processes in supporting sustainable social change and development.
Ms Shukriah Binti Haji You, Director, Penang Public Library Corporation, who has devoted the past three decades towards building and consolidating the network of state libraries, informed Southbound that more than 100 public libraries make up the extensive network managed by her corporation. The network of libraries is the first in the country to be fully networked online. The corporation also operates a dedicated children’s library located next-door to the main public library in George Town, the capital of the State.
The Hon. Mr Wong Hon Wai, Penang Executive Councillor (Town and Country Planning, Housing, Arts) also presented at the same time a large collection of books published in the Malay, English and Chinese languages to the state libraries. His special interest in mobilizing individuals and companies to contribute books to the state libraries was piqued when a library user posted a comment online suggesting that the corporation improve its collection of Chinese-language books. The Hon. Mr Wong renewed his call to the private sector to contribute books to the libraries in the State.
The Penang Public Library Corporation’s collection comprises books published in four languages: Bahasa Malaysia, English, Chinese and Tamil. The libraries in its network also offers users access to electronic and digital material.
Southbound has also recently contributed sets of its books to libraries located in Kabul, Afghanistan and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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To be published Spring 2013
Utilization Focused Evaluation:
A primer for evaluators
by Ricardo Ramírez and Dal Brodhead.
with contributions from Chelladurai Solomon, Shubh Kumar-Range, Sonal Zaveri, Sarah Earl and Matthew Smith
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| Utilization Focused Evaluation (UFE) facilitates a learning process in which people in the real world apply evaluation findings and experiences to their work. The focus is on intended users. UFE does not prescribe any specific content, method, or theory. It is a guiding framework, rather than a methodology. UFE can include a wide variety of evaluation methods within an overall participatory paradigm. Decision making, in consultation with those who can benefit from the evaluation, is an important part of the process. Intended users will more likely utilize an evaluation in which they have ownership. This Primer is for practitioner evaluators and project implementers who have heard of UFE and are keen to test-drive the approach. |
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People's Radio
Communicating change across Africa
New book by Linje Manyozo.
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| The Department for International Development United Kingdom recently reviewed one of our books at its website. The following are highlights of this review:
“People's Radio: Communicating change across Africa, by Dr. Linje Manyozo, a lecturer in Media, Communication and Development at the LSE, explores the challenges and benefits presented by radio for development initiatives. Manyozo examines radio as a platform for linkage and exchange between policy makers, government bodies, communities and researchers.”
“Looking at different strategies, the book highlights the importance of integrating indigenous knowledge systems and local communication requirements into any radio for development initiative. Manyozo notes that for Africa “linguistic diversity is both a problem and strength.” He emphasises that to be effective, broadcasters must work alongside this diversity, using local language and concepts to communicate social change to their audiences.”
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 For more information about the book click here. |
The above DFID review may be read in full here. |
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