[Q&A Session] Making Your IR Work: Marketing and Populating Your IR
Channel: Lighton Phiri
Date: 2020-07-16

Question and answer session for the talk given by Zachary Zulu, from The University of Zambia. The actual talk is available here [1]

Zachary Zulu gave a talk titled "Making Your IR Work: Marketing and Populating Your IR" on Monday, July 15, 2020, at 17H00 GMT+2. 

This talk is part of a series of seminars organised as part of the "LIS 5310: Information Systems and Technologies for Information Management" [2] postgraduate course in the Department of Library and Information Science [3] at The University of Zambia [4]

## Abstract

The University of Zambia established an institutional repository (IR) in order to archive and make available to the research community the university’s intellectual output using DSpace. This presentation describes the rationale behind the implementation of an IR, the equipment and software used to digitise the materials. It further explains the steps taken to populate the I.R . As of June.2020, there are over 6000 research materials archived in the University of Zambia IR which are now discoverable, searchable and accessible on the internet.

## Biography

Zachary Zulu has worked at the University of Zambia [2], library Department for 23 years. Presently he is Head Public Services at the University of Zambia, Libary [5]. He is also Acting Manager Institutional Repository. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Zambia and a Masters In Library and Information Science from the University of Zambia.

## About LIS 5310 Seminar Series

The LIS 5310 colloquium is part of a series of seminars for the LIS 5310 course [2] in the Department of Library and Information Science [3] at The University of Zambia [4].

[1] https://youtu.be/uvTXEQa6E9w
[2] http://lis.unza.zm/~lightonphiri/teaching/unza/2020/lis5310
[3] http://lis.unza.zm 
[4] https://www.unza.zm
[5] https://www.unza.zm/library