ECBP Donates E-Books to ECSU
The Ethiopian Engineering Capacity Building Program Office (ECBP) has donated 62,000 electronics books to the Ethiopian Civil Service University.
The Engineering Capacity Building Program (ECBP) was launched in November 2005 to enhance the role of the industrial sector as a source of employment and economic growth, and to improve its contribution to the country's international trade. This bilateral Ethiopian-German program forms the core of the priority area of sustainable economic development.
Ato Daniel Admasu, Head of the University Information and Technology Service Centre said the donation contains the greater part of the current collection of the ECBP. The books are in PDF formats and include engineering, history and philosophy of science, geology, mathematics, computer science, law, management, economics, psychology and other references.
According to Ato Daniel these e-books can be used as an input for the e-governance project which has 211 services in which all governmental organizations in the country are supposed to digitize their day to day activities. The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology took the initiative to run this nationwide project.
Further Ato Daniel said
" these books have a great contribution in facilitating the teaching learning process. The availability of the books in the Net minimizes costs and makes possible&availability of the service to University community easily."
Besides, these can serve as a reference for those who conduct researches and other academic duties.
Finally Ato Daniel explained the e-books will be accessible for the University community through KOHA after the bibliography distribution work which includes author, title and date of publication completed. Further the University will strive to meet the demands of the Staff and Students.
In related news about 3,000 e-books were gained from internet and different sections of the University. This makes the total number of e-books reach 65,000