MAKTABA NA KITUO CHA MAARIFA YA JAMII CHA MADARAKA NYERERE BADO KINAENDELEA KUWANUFAISHA VIJANA KATIKA PROGRAM MBALI MBALI....



Students from chief Wanzagi secondary school, Mugango secondary school and Nyegina secondary school have get the training of installing the Raspberry Pi computer during the short break.






This training was conducted with DIT Dar es salaam institute of technology, funded by TDS Tanzania Development support during of the short break holiday at Madaraka Nyerere Library and Community Resource Center - Nyegina 

Students participated on training are now experts on building up the Raspberry Pi computer from organizing the hardware and installation of Operating system.

 

IMAGINE YOUR FUTURE


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Madaraka LCRC - NYEGINA

The LCRC was built adjacent to Nyegina Secondary and Nyegina Primary Schools. In total, there
are about 1,500 students that attend the three schools. The location was chosen both for its
proximity to the three schools and its location at a crossroads that connects the Village of
Nyegina to three other neighboring villages.


 The facility includes three separate buildings
that were designed with asymmetric roofs to
maximize natural light and airflow into the
buildings. This was purposefully done to create an environment that is conducive to learning.
The main building is the library building that
includes a lobby with comfortable chairs, tables for students to study, a children's area with a wheelchair accessible ramp, and a secure room for book reserves and staff to work. The second building includes a community seminar room and teacher resource center that is
equipped with ten computers.



LCRC AMBASSADORS

Adults and students are eligible to receive a free annual membership to the LCRC in exchange
for promoting the library's services. With their memberships, ambassadors can check out books to take back to their village to host reading circles with their families, friends, and neighbors.
Ambassadors that recruit new members to the LCRC gain points as part of an ongoing competition. The winners of the competition are then eligible to pick a favorite book from the library to keep for themselves.

DIGITAL LIBRARY

5 main benefits of Digital Libraries at School

Digital libraries are quickly becoming the norm at colleges and universities since they combine technology and information resources to allow remote access to educational content, breaking down the physical barriers. But this is not the only benefit: here are 5 good reasons why teachers and parents should invite children and young learners to use digital libraries.

What is a digital library?

Before taking into consideration their 5 main benefits, let’s try to give a definition of what digital libraries are. A digital library is a collection of documents – such as magazine articles, book, papers, images, sound files and videos – organized in an electronic form and available on the Internet or on a digital support, for example a CD-ROM disk. Compared to CD-ROM disks, Internet-based digital libraries have a plus: they can be updated on a daily basis.

Many schools and institutions have already begun the task of converting their traditional collections of books and educational materials to electronic format: some files become available in HTML format while others can be downloaded in PDF format, to be printed if necessary.

  1. A heightened amount of choice

Digital libraries give access to multiple contents with a potentially infinite number of resources and selections at hand. The main limit for traditional libraries is represented by physical space: books consume a lot of it and people often have to walk round in search of a particular material. Thanks to Internet and cloud storage, digital libraries overcome this limitation, expanding students’ horizons in learning. They can access an enormous amount of knowledge and share contents with others, facilitating the expansion of education.
  

      2. Building a heritage for the next generation

Online libraries help the scientific society since they act as a reservoir for the storage of important research data, information and findings. For a very long time, the physical records of scientific studies and researches had to live with a critical issue: they were destroyed or lost. But today, thanks to digital libraries, the online copies of studies and researches can be protected and collected to create a virtual heritage of information for the coming generations.

     3. Instant access to educational content

As long as an Internet connection is available, digital libraries are accessible anywhere and at any moment using a simple technological device, such as a PC, a tablet or even a smartphone. This means students can consult online books, images, videos and all the other educational contents without having to wait and go to the nearest physical library. They can do it in a formal environment, for example at school, or they can relax at their homes getting an instant access to the information they need.

      4. Fighting against deterioration

The digital storage of books and, above all, audios, solve the problem of deterioration. In traditional libraries, audio cassette tapes and vinyl records are shared among a lot of students posing the problem to stand a large number of playings. Fragile photographs or ancient documents have to resist several handovers and consultations, with the risk of being subjected to breakages or other damages. Thanks to the digitizing of materials, it is possible to access contents how many times a student needs, using formats (mp3, digital images, online textbooks, etc.) which are definitely much safer to use.

       5. An easier information retrieval


 Over the years, digital libraries have developed a range of search features – such as boolean and proximity operators, truncation, etc. – that facilitate the access to information and data collections, allowing students to perform sophisticated searches for a variety of queries.

Thanks to intuitive search engine technologies – for example, ranking or automatic term expansion – even novice users can start using digital libraries accomplishing their searches independently. And the most encouraging thing is that, as the digital collections grow larger, the level of sophistication of these searching features increases exponentially.