Are you participating in OAWeek 2021? (You can update this later)

Yes--definitely!

First name

Sheila N.

Last name

Ndlovu

Organization/institution name

Lupane State Univeresity

Type of institution

Academic Institution

What's your position?

Librarian

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?

Medium

What are your goals for OA Week?

The Workshop will be an all Stakeholders' event which will include the following Librarians, Researchers, Academics, University Administrators and neighboring University Librarians, with the main aim of:
- Clarifying the need and importance of having an Institutional
Repository
- Creating awareness on the importance of Open Access
- Facilitating the creation of relevant policies and policy guidelines
- Agreeing on the appropriate software platforms to host the repository
- Facilitating suggestions on the best monitoring and evaluation
strategies
- Suggesting best ways to create more content at the same time further
the awareness of the need and importance of IR