New Library & MultiMedia Learning Center Itambira Island, Lake Bunyonyi
The new library and learning
center at Byoona Amagara will become the nerve center of our education
initiatives. At present, none of the lake area's secondary schools or
communities maintain an operational library. The Lake Bunyonyi
Secondary School often keeps their library and its resources locked
tight simply for lack of a librarian.
It was decided that a
library that could serve all the area's schools, as well as the
community at large, would be ideally located at Byoona Amagara, due to
its central location, and its ability to provide staff, accountability
and the efforts needed to find the ongoing support necessary to make it
a state-of-the-art facility (or at least as "state-of-the-art" as we
can manage!)
When complete, the 3-room learning center will
contain a reading room with stacks of teaching and learning texts, as
well as classical, western, African, children's and local literature,
periodicals and plenty of additional general reading material. (We
already have over 500 donated books awaiting shelf-space in the library
with another 250 on the way.) The library will also house multi-media
resources for computer training and networking using the Internet.
As
a functional telecenter, the schools and community would begin to
realize the benefits of various information and communication
technologies (ICT). The library will have an exhibition hall for
student projects and local history and cultural displays, and which can
serve as a combined classroom/seminar room for various purposes, as
well as a screening room for viewing educational films and videos.
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