East African School of Library and Information Sciences (EASLIS) Collection
Permanent URI for this collection
Browse
Recent Submissions
1 - 5 of 887
-
ItemA digital Library for Islamic Call University College(Makerere University, 2025)The project aimed to design, develop, and implement a digital library system tailored to Islamic Call University College’s (ICUC) unique academic and cultural needs. The objectives focused on examining existing library resource access methods, identifying challenges, determining requirements, and creating a functional digital library system to enhance resource accessibility and preservation. Results indicated that ICUC predominantly relied on print-based resources with limited digital access, causing significant delays and inefficiencies. Key challenges included constrained physical holdings, restricted operating hours, poor digital infrastructure, inadequate user training, and staff resistance to technological adoption. Respondents emphasized the necessity for a scalable, secure, and user-friendly digital platform fully integrated with existing institutional workflows. The design phase prioritized modular system architecture, employing visual modeling tools like entityrelationship diagrams to optimize functionality and usability. Pilot testing validated the system’s reliability, ease of use, and effective resource retrieval, supported by high access success rates and user satisfaction. Ultimately, we developed digital library system that effectively addresses critical access constraints at ICUC, offering a sustainable and inclusive solution aligned with academic standards. It significantly improves equitable access to information that can support academic excellence, preserves unique cultural heritage, and sets a precedent for similar institutions in resourceconstrained environments. With the system developed, we recommend that ICCU adopts the system. For effective use of the system, we further recommend continuous user training, infrastructure enhancement, multilingual and mobile-compatible interfaces, rigorous data privacy compliance (including GDPR adherence), and ongoing monitoring through analytics and user feedback channels.
-
ItemA data driven approach to patient attendant information access for Nakasero Hospital(Makerere University, 2026-02-19)This research, conducted by a Bachelor of Library and Information Science students at Makerere University, developed a data-driven web-based system to address critical inefficiencies in patient attendant information access at Nakasero Hospital, a prominent private healthcare facility in Kampala, Uganda. Patient attendants, essential to effective caregiving, encountered significant barriers, including fragmented communication, navigational challenges within the hospital, language barriers due to English-only documentation, and restricted access to appointment schedules, medication updates, and billing information. These obstacles contributed to missed appointments, medication non-adherence, billing disputes, and diminished satisfaction among attendants and hospital staff. The study sought to enhance information accessibility, improve patient outcomes, and optimize hospital operations in a linguistically diverse urban context characterized by limited internet connectivity and varying digital literacy levels. The specific objectives were to design a user-centered platform featuring online appointment booking, medication tracking, billing transparency, digital navigation maps, instant alerts, secure data storage, and multilingual support in English and Luganda to cater to Kampala’s diverse population. A mixed-methods research approach, integrating qualitative methods (content analysis, case studies, interviews) and quantitative methods (secondary data analysis, longitudinal surveys), was employed to inform system development, though specific data collection details are pending. The system was developed using Agile methodology and open-source technologies, including React.js, Django, PostgreSQL, and Redis, to create a scalable, offline-capable Progressive Web App compliant with Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Act. Findings revealed enhanced appointment adherence, reduced medication errors, fewer billing disputes, improved navigation efficiency, and high user satisfaction, addressing stakeholder needs in a resource-constrained setting. The system improved attendant satisfaction, patient safety, and operational efficiency, offering a scalable model for other urban healthcare facilities in Uganda. Academically, the study advanced library and information science by applying principles of information accessibility and user-centered design.
-
ItemDeveloping a digital storage and retrieval system for medical records at Galilee Community General Hospital in Masanafu, Kampala(Makerere University, 2023)Background: The healthcare industry relies heavily on accurate and accessible medical records, which play a pivotal role in patient care, decision-making, and overall hospital operations. Galilee Community Hospital currently employs a manual system for storing and retrieving medical records which has led to limited storage space due to the accumulation of records making retrieval hard. Objectives: The objectives of the study were: to identify the types of medical records stored at the hospital, to establish how medical records are stored and retrieved at the hospital, to find out the challenges faced while storing and retrieving medical records, to propose solutions to the problems faced in storing and retrieving the medical records, to develop a digital system for storing and retrieving medical records at the hospital. Methodology: The study used qualitative research approach. Data was gathered from a purposively selected sample of six respondents, comprising key personnel from the hospital's Records Management staff, including the Records Manager, Assistant Records Manager, Data Clerks, and Records Management Interns. The study employed the following data collection tools: interview guides, observation guides, focus group discussion guides, and document review guides. The data collection methods included interview method, document review, observation method and focus group method. Findings: The study revealed that the types of records stored at the hospital include; referral notes, discharge cards, medical certificates. These records are currently stored using a manual system with the use of storage equipment like shelves, filing cabinets, cupboards and drawers. It was also revealed that the challenges faced while storing and retrieving these records include; limited storage space, inadequate storage equipment, misplacement of records, limited finding aids, misfiling, data inaccuracy and incompleteness. The solutions to these included; digitization, offsite storage, designing a digital storage and retrieval system, training staff frequently, creating access controls. Conclusion: In conclusion, the hospital has various medical records which accumulate from the daily medical activities. The manual storage and retrieval system used is inefficient hence making storage and retrieval difficult. Therefore, designing and adopting a digital storage and retrieval system would help in improving these processes. Recommendation: The hospital management should carryout regular training workshops for the Records Management staff and the creation of finding aids to facilitate easy retrieval are essential steps to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of medical record management at the hospital. Off-site storage is also key to create space for more records. Finally, the hospital should adopt a digital storage and retrieval system to improve the storage and retrieval processes.
-
ItemDeveloping an information literacy curriculum for Morulem Primary School, Abim District(Makerere university, 2025)This project addresses information overload whereby the overwhelming amount of available information makes it difficult to filter relevant and credible content. This teaches strategies for identifying, organizing and prioritizing information to avoid confusion and inefficiency in Morulem Primary School. It also solves the challenges of misinformation and disinformation. Here the spread of false information undermines trust and informed decision-making developing skills to critically evaluate the credibility of sources, detect bias and verify facts. This teaches systematic research methods including how to define problems, collect data and synthesize findings. It also emphasizes ethical use of information including proper citation practices and intellectual property awareness. Ultimately, this proposal aims to create a blueprint for digital transformation that not only streamlines the teaching process but also strengthens the school capacity for students centered learning.
-
ItemAppraisal of information activities of the Family Planning Association of Uganda(Makerere University, 1994)This research paper centres on the ways in which the Family Planning Association of Uganda disseminates its information about Family Planning throughout Uganda. It looks into the ways in which FPAU plans, implements and evaluates its information activities. "The source of each item of information is ultimately another person" and in this case its an organised body - FPAU. It acts as an information system though not fully installed. It facilitates the transfer of information from one person to another, which is essential for human development. The basis of the study, therefore, is to consolidate the concept of information work for efficient and effective information dissemination by highlighting the information activities of FPAU, identifying what can be added into the information network to ease dissemination, identifying the core causes of neglecting family planning in order to focus on them when conveying the message to the masses and highlighting on the communication skills used in other countries that have led to their success. The association plans for the future promise brighter results for the generation to come. This is highlighted in the findings of the research.