First ODINAFRICA-II Training Course in Marine Information Management, Cape Town, South Africa 29 October – 9 November 2001.

Abstract

The First ODINAFRICA Training Course on Marine Information Management was held in Cape Town, South Africa, kindly hosted by Marine and Coastal Management at the Research Aquarium, Sea Point. Seventeen out of twenty ODINAFRICA countries were ale to send a participant. The course included theoretical lectures on Information Management as well as a practical hands-on course on the use of the Integrated Library Management System (ILMS) INMAGIC for Libraries which was identified by the IODE Steering Group for the Resource Kit (Miami, March 2001) as a suitable software for this purpose. Discussions were also held on the results of an institutional survey filled by the participants during the course.