All our funded projects are focused on supporting our organisational objectives as well as sharing our learning and findings with ECA Staff and other users.
1. New Trends
- Shift to building human capital, relationships and knowledge networks.
- Changing information seeking behaviour –anytime, anywhere & any device
- Retooled Librarians
- New spaces providing - tools, services, and expertise encouraging social interaction - physical and virtual
place
2. Technology
- Digital age: most content going online
- Centralized access to platforms that enable discovery, creation and sharing of knowledge
- Powerful discovery tools effective navigation
- Facilitates new patterns of interactions, learning and information access
- Impact assessment – Bibliometric
3. ECA Management
- Changing mandate of the UN & ECA
- ECA leadership: - appreciation knowledge an acritical resource in think tank institution
- Increased investment in the library & knowledge services