Throughout 2019 we were busy ordering books for the physical libraries of our project members.

Physical libraries

Physical libraries and books are a very important tool for education institutions. In fact, one of the project objectives, defined in the inception report was:

Development of data base for rapid and easy exchange documents and data on Integrated water Management in Zambezi valley including working library of basic IWRM books and manuals in Portuguese, in cooperation with the local stakeholders

Having this in mind all ROs were asked to produce a list of all necessary books for the various courses related with Integrated Water Resources Management. This included books on, for example, water and wastewater treatment, irrigation, water supply, irrigation or hydrology; most of them in Portuguese. A complete list of the books supplied can be found at the end of this post. The books were then procured in Mozambique and are at this moment being delivered to the various institutions.

The books being received at FEAF.

The books for FENG.

Feedback

For this piece we decided to interviewed the various ROs in order to understand the importance of the books, you can read their thoughts below. Unfortunately no feedback was received either from FAGRENM or FENG.

Faculdade de Engenharia Agrária e Florestal (FEAF)

Books are very necessary for FEAF because there was little literature available at the institution in matters related to Integrated Water Resources Management. Therefore, there was a need to enrich and diversify the library.
The books will be used in the courses of Irrigation and Drainage, Hydrology, Climatology, Soil Sciences, in order to reinforce and update their contents.
The books can be used by Professors, Students and Professionals in the sector in the area of influence of the faculty, and are located in the institution’s library.
Thus, books will be very important to raise the quality of teaching.

Faculdade de Engenharia Ambiental e dos Recursos Naturais (FEARN)

These books made it possible to increase the institution’s bibliographic collection on water management, but also to respond to one of the indicators of the Ministry of Education, which is to guarantee the existence of at least 3 copies of reference works for each core subject of the course. In this case, it will allow us to evaluate positively the courses of the degrees in Environmental Management and Planning, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Agricultural Engineering and the Master in Environmental and Water Resources Management.
The books will provide more research elements to students, teachers and the entire academic community in the province and will be allocated to the institution’s library, so the entire academic community of UniZambeze and visitors are the beneficiaries of the books.
Thus, the books will reinforce the institution’s bibliographic collection in order to support the teaching and learning process of students.

Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias (FCA)

FCA is an organic unit of the Zambezi University whose mission is to train agrarian professionals with high scientific technical quality to develop, undertake and disseminate knowledge, thus contributing to the sustainable development of the region and of Mozambique. This technical quality is acquired through practical and research activities for which we lacked the necessary bibliographic sources. This fact shows the relevance of the books on the topic of IWRM for our institution. Finally, the books will be available in the institution’s college library and used both by students, teachers and by the community.

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT)

These bibliographic references were necessary for the institution, since their acquisition allowed to increase access to physical bibliography by students and teachers of the institution, thus facilitating the teaching and learning process.
The books can be used by the entire academic community, in particular students, teachers, according to the regulations in use at the FCT library and will be available at the FCT Central Library in the city of Beira
For the institution, these books represent a gain in the process of growth and equipping the library in works related to different areas of knowledge, or in course taught at their Faculty.

Instituto Superior Politécnico de Manica (ISPM)

The requested books are needed to reinforce ISPM‘s institutional capacity with regard to the teaching and learning process, will be available in the institution’s library and will be used as reading sources for:

• Students: consultations, as part of the learning process initiated in the classroom; for consultations in scientific research works, such as reports of practical classes, professional internship reports, elaboration of research protocols and monographs;
• Teachers: preparation of theoretical and practical classes, preparation of research proposals to compete for competitive funds; preparation of scientific articles and research proposals for graduate studies;
• Community in general: the books will be available for consultation by the ISPM community as well as students from other higher education institutions.

These books will be a fundamental component in the teaching and learning process and they will become even more relevant in a context of student-centered teaching followed at ISPM. Finally, the titles requested make it possible to reinforce not only the areas of specialty, such as irrigation and drainage and Hydraulics, as well as cross-cutting areas such as Environmental Management and Water Quality, Groundwater and Sustainable Agricultural Practices.

Instituto Superior Politécnico de Songo (ISPS)

The books were necessary due to the lack of specialized bibliography for the courses taught at ISPS.
The books will be used for consultation and will be accessible to the entire ISPS academic community and to the general public at the institution’s library.
ISPS offers engineering courses related to Energy Production and Water Resources Management. In this sense, the books acquired improve the teaching and learning process and help the institution to score well in the institutional evaluation and in the accreditation of the courses taught, thus increasing the level of the institution in the national and international ranking.

Hybrid libraries

The second step will include the implementation of hybrid libraries with access to (open source) learning materials leveraging the acquired ICT infrastructure.

List of books

The books were acquired from two Mozambican suppliers, Minerva and Escolar Editora.

Minerva

Title	Number of copies
Anatomia Vegetal - Parte I - Células e Tecidos	3
Fisiologia e Desenvolvimento Vegetal	3
Fundamentos de Genética	3
Mecânica dos Fluidos	3
Reuso de Agua na Agricultura	2
Bioquímica de alimentos	2
Topografia Para Engenharia	2
Vogel: Análise Química Quantitativa	2
Fitossanidade - Princípios Básicos e Métodos de Co	2
Tratamento de Água e Efluentes	2
Fundamentos em Ecologia	2
Princípios Integrados de Zoologia	2
Invertebrados	2
Princípios das Operações Unitárias	2
Fisiologia vegetal: Fotossíntese, respiração, rela	2
Sistemas Sustentáveis de Esgotos	2
Tratamento de Água	2
Esgoto Sanitário: Coleta, Transporte, Tratamento e	2
Tratamento Biológico de Efluentes. Fundamentos e A	2
Sistemas Sustentáveis de Esgotos	2
Irrigação princípios e métodos	2
Irrigação por Aspersão em Hortaliças	2
Manual de Hidráulica	2
Microbiologia. 12 edicao	2
Manual de Hidráulica	2
Bombas Industriais	2
Geologia Geral	2
Para entender a terra	2
Mapeamento geologico	2
Microbiologia. 12 edicao	2
Mecânica dos Solos e suas Aplicações, Exercicios e	2
Mecânica dos Solos e suas Aplicações, Fundamentos	2
Mecânica dos Solos e suas Aplicações, Mecânica das	2
Mecânica dos Solos e suas Aplicações, Exercicios e	2
Topografia: Aplicada a engenharia Civil (Volume 1)	2
Topografia: Aplicada a engenharia Civil (Volume 2)	2
Exercicios de Topografia	2
Instalações Hidráulicas e o Projeto de Arquitetura	2
Irrigação princípios e métodos	2
Irrigação por Aspersão em Hortaliças	2
Uso e manejo de irrigação	2
Manual de Hidráulica	2
Instalações Prediais Hidráulico-Sanitárias: Princí	2
Manual de Hidráulica	2
Manual de Hidráulica	2
Hidráulica em Engenharia Civil e Ambiental	2
Introdução à hidráulica, hidrologia e gestão de ag	2
Drenagem Urbana. Do Projeto Tradicional à Sustenta	2
Uso e manejo de irrigação	1
Irrigação princípios e métodos	1
Princípios Agronómicos da Irrigação	1
Infiltração da agua no solo	1
Microirrigação: gotejamento e microaspersão	1
Dinâmica da água no solo	1
Solo, planta e atmosfera: conceitos, processos e a	1
Barragens de terra de pequeno porte	1
Água - Métodos e Tecnologia de Tratamento	1
Saneamento para Gestão Integrada das Águas Urbanas	1

Escolar Editora

Authors	Title	Copies
Rogalski, Mircea Serban	Fisica para Engenheiros	10
Armanda Lencostre	Hidraulica Geral	10
John Morfett e Andrew	Hidraulica em Engenharia Civil e Ambiental	10
Mario de Assis Paixão	Aguas e Esgotos em Urbanizacoes e Instalacoes Prediais	10
Macitire, Archibal	Instalacoes Hidraulicas - prediais e Industriais	10
Marlon, Karungo Gomes	Fundamentos da mecanica dos solos	10
José Carlos Pascoa	Turbimaquinas - Uma abordagem moderna	10
António José	Bombas e instalacoes hidraulicas	10
Pedro Carlos da Silva	Tubulacões Industriais - Cálculo	10
Archibald Joseph	Bombas e instalacoes	10
Pedro Carlos da Silva	Tubalacoes industriais - materiais, projecto, montagem	10
João Bernardo Lares	Notas para o estudo da mecânica dos fluidos	10
Adriano Manuel da Almeida	Automacão oleo-hidráulica - Princípios de funcionamento	10
Carmo, José Simão	Modelacão em hidráulica Fluvial e Ambiente	10
Ferreira, Carlos Antero	Tecnologia da Pulverometalurgia	10
Sousa, Joaquim José	Hidráulica Urbana	10
José Paulo Saraiva Cabral	Gestão da manutencão de equipamentos, instalacões e esgotos	10
Luis Santos Pereira	Necessidades de água e métodos de rega	5
Jose Rasquilho Raposa	A rega por aspersão	5
Alftab & Azhar	Irrigation planning. Scheduling and evaluation software -Irpsaev: managing Meagre water Resources Efficiencly	5
National Research Council	Soil and Water Quality. Na agenda of agriculture	5
Deborrah M. Fairchild	Ground Water Quality and Agricultural Practises	5
Abel Pinto	Sistema de Gestão Ambiental	5
Sacarrão, G. F.	Ecologia e Biologia do ambiente Vol. I	5
Sacarrão, G. F.	Ecologia e Biologia do ambiente Vol. II	5
Pereira, Henrique Miguel	Ecossistemas e Bem Estar Humano	5
Joaquim Quelhas dos Santos	Fertilizacao - Fundamentos Agroambientais da utilizacao dos adubos e Corretivos	3
Frank M. White	Mecanica dos Fluidos	3
Srinivasan Damodaran - Kirk	Quimica de Alimentos de Fennema	3
Alberto Gomes de Castro	Embalagens para industria alimentar	2
Murteira, B.	Introducao a Estatistica	2
Luís Miguel Brito	Compostagem, Fertilização do Solo e Substratos	2
Joao Reis Hipolito	Hidrologia e Recursos Hidricos	2
Denise Lacasse	Introdução à Microbiologia Alimentar	2
J.M. Coulson e J. F. Richardson	Tecnologia Quimica I: Fluxo de Fluidos, transferencia de calor e transferencia de massa	2
Archibald Joseph Macintyre	Manual de instalações hidráulicas e sanitárias	2
Armando Lencastre	Hidraulica Geral	2
Homero Pinto Caputo	Mecânica dos Solos e suas Aplicações, Fundamentos - Volume 1	2
Homero Pinto Caputo	Mecânica dos Solos e suas Aplicações, Exercicios e Problemas resolvidos - Volume 3	2
Constantine Pozrikidis	Fluid Dynamics: Theory, Computation, and Numerical Simulation	2
Yunus A. Çengel, John Cimbala	Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications	2
José Alfeu Sá Marques, J	Hidráulica Urbana. Sistemas de Abastecimento de Água e de Drenagem de Águas Residuais	2
John Morfett e Andrew Chadwick	Hidráulica em Engenharia Civil e Ambiental	2
Charles Fitts	Águas Subterrâneas	2
Heitor Pina	Métodos Numéricos	2
Gerard J.Tortora, Berdell R Funke	Microbiologia	2
D. J. Tritton	Physical Fluid Dynamics	2
Marcos Von Sperling	Basic Principles of Wastewater Treatment	2
Larry W. Mays	Water Resource Engineering	2
Fernandes,Manuel De Matos	Mecânica Dos Solos - Vol. 2 Introdução À Engenharia Geotécnica	2
McLean, Adam C.; Gribble, Colin	Geology for Civil Engineers	2
P.C Varghese	Engineering Geology For Civil Engineers	2
McCall, G.J.H.	Urban Geoscience	2
João Reis Hipólito, Álvaro Carmo	Hidrologia e Recursos Hídricos	1
Pereira, LuísSantos	Necessidades de água e métodos de rega	1
Peter Atkins & Jones	Principios de quimica	1
Lanny D. Schmidt	The engineering of chemical reactions	1
Charles G. Hill. Jr NA	Introduction to chemical engineering kinetics and reactor design.	1
FOUST, ALAN, LEONARDO	Principios das operacoes unitarias	1
White, Frank M	Fluid Mechanics,	1
Chung, C. A	Smulation Modeling Handbook a practical apprach	1
John Wiley & Sons	Middleman, S. Na Introduction to Mass and Heat Transfer. Principles of Analysis and Design	1
A. Bejan, John Wiley & Sons	Convection Heat Transfer	1

Photo gallery

Finally we’re sharing photo gallery of the books being received at the various ROs.