Welcome To CUUL
The purpose of the Consortium is to facilitate effective and efficient collaboration and resource sharing among university and institutional libraries in Uganda in order to strengthen the library services provided to the students, staff and other patronage of the institutions.
CUUL is a registered non-profit organisation established to plan and manage projects and activities collaboratively, which provides the member library communities with efficient and effective access to library and information resources.
To strengthen CUUL's capacity to deliver services to members
- Assess and improve ICT capability; reviewing and developing our onine resources.
- Review and strengthen CUUL's leadership structure; establish a full time secretariat.
- Increase and diversify income by improving CUUL's marketing capacity
- Strengthen M&E of consortia activities
To build the capacity and effectiveness of CUUL's membership
- Identify and met priority capacity development needs of members
- Enhances access to quality information for learning, teaching and research; developing resource sharing procedures
- Improve research generation and publication of CUUL's members
To advocate for the vital role of libraries in education, research and innovation in Uganda.
- Develop and deliveron advocacy sub strategy
- Strengthen leadership and membership capability related to advocacy
- Build new and strengthen exixting partnerships across a range of sectors, so that CUUL can play a vital bridging role in the knowledge economy
These are the main activities that are carried out at CUUL.
- Licensing negotiation, joint payments and access to E-resources
- Cooperative e-resources selection
- Skills and knowledge development through training & continuing education
- Encourage resources sharing
- Promote exchange of information & expertise
- Capacity building through workshop training and institutional visits
- Marketing and recruitment
- Advocacy to government
- ICT surveys to enhance improving ICT application
- Creating and strengthening partnership
The consortium's current focus hinges on the following:
- Taking greater responsibility for the provision and management of e-resources.
- Developing strong responsive management structures.
- Developing strong membership and financial base.
- Communicating the value of the consortium and influencing key decisions makers.
- Supporting the development of member/constituent institutions, and their staff.
EIFL SPIDER II Project workshop
The CUUL/EIFL SPIDER II Project involving six participating institutions in Uganda is , additionally for one event, including eight other CUUL institutions: Bugema University, Nkumba University, Ndejje University, Kampala International University, Mountain of the Moon University and Muni University under the theme " Open Access Policy Development in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to make more digital content available".
EIFL SPIDER II Project Activity
Open approaches to scholarly communication are changing the way research and learning are done and there are profound implications for universities and research institutions.
New Executive Committee
CUUL Annual Genreal meeting took place on 1 and 2nd Feb 2018 at Makerere University Business School.Subsequently a new executive committee was elected.
