Under Construction

Ms Rhoda Nalubega is a Senior Librarian at Makerere University Library. She began her career with Vimto Company as a Records Officer/Data Entry Officer early1995. She was recruited in Makerere University Services in late 1995 as a Librarian II and was first posted to Africana. She was later transferred to Institute of Statistics as a Librarian for 10 years. In 2005, she was moved to Technical Services the period that marked the automation of Library Catalogue which made her to be selected to attended a training at Mortenson Centre, University of Urbana Champagne, USA to enhance her skills in automation. She was later transferred to Head the School of Education Library for 2 years, then Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) where she won a project Think Tank Initiative (TTI) for the next 2 years. This enabled her to benchmark in South Africa to examine how Social Thin-Tanks works. She was later transferred back to Technical Services and later Book Bank.

When the College system was introduced in Makerere, she was moved to College of Natural Sciences as a Team Leader before bringing her back to Technical Services. In 2014, she assumed the Head of Africana till today.

The Institutional Repository began as a system for capturing conference proceedings, research report for the science-based disciplines. She was pivoted in training of trainers (ToT) from NORAD on the implementation of the Uganda Science Digital Library implementation. She was the among the first Librarian’s in Uganda to initiate the electronic resources beginning with fax machines which later evolved to independent e-resources.

Ms Rhoda Nalubega has numerous awards of best practices in librarianship. Among the important services, she provides useful documentation for the coronation of Kabaka in 1994-1995.

She was among the first trainee in digitization and award winner of MakRIF I, Project for Digitization of Land Archival Materials from 1830-1995. Upon completion of the project successfully, she again won another MakRIF Project to upscale digitization of Land Archival Documents which is ongoing. Her project was one of the fifteen commercialization projects to be selected under Mak-Holdings.