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The Six International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art was
held from November 5-8 at the IES and in the auditorium of the Graduate
Minister
of Information of the FDRE Visited the IES
A delegation led by minister of information Ato Berket
Semon Minster of information and other Senior
officials of the Ministery
visited the Institute of
The IES Library launched an electronic information System In response to the needs expressed by for easy access to information on Ethiopian studies the Ethiopian Languages and Periodicals Section of the IES Library launched an electronic information system .The IES Library Integrated Bibliographic Information System (ILIBIS) is database designed and developed by Berhanu Kassa and Ebrahim kassa (both IT professionals of the IES). The Ethiopian Languages and Periodicals Section of the IES Library has the objective of building up a comprehensive computerized information storage and retrieval System for the IES Library. The System enables to gather, collect, store, generate and disseminate bibliographic data related to Ethiopian studies as a whole . What is a database? A database is usually constructed to store information about things or persons. For example, a bibliographic database contains information about documents, such as journal articles or conference proceedings. A personnel database contains information about employees. The database consists of records and there is generally a one-to-one correspondence between the records and the things described. In a bibliographic database one record may correspond to one journal article: in a personnel database one record may correspond to one employee. These data sets are sources of information for different kinds of bibliographic items. They can be books, articles, Newspapers, maps, micro formats, and many others, and provides details bibliographic information about an item and to help a user find out if it is of interest to him. However, a database is computerized reference system like ILIBIS is much more elaborate than the usual library catalog and provides more sophisticated and effective search and access facilities. To this end, various works were conducted. Among the works that were conducted includes survey of the existing system, definition of the operational requirement, design, data compilation, testing, implementation and documentation are the major once. Currently, for a preliminary phase about 800 journal articles form different scholarly journals (Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Ethiopian Journal of language and literature, Journal of Educational Research,) are indexed for retrieval in the system. For More Information Contact:
South African President and current Chair Person of the AU, Thabo Mbeki visited
the Institute
of Ethiopian Studies (IES) on the 4th of February 2003.Presedent of the The IES developed the centennial project The institute of Ethiopian studies developed a centennial project for research and publication on major developments that have taken place in Ethiopia and the horn since the turn of the Century. The project which costs Five million birr ,has been submitted the university for consideration of funding at both international and national levels.
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Ethiopian Art and architecture. A renowned art history professor
Stanislaw Chojnacki opened the conference discussing the predicates of
Ethiopian Paintings.
Ethiopian Studies (IES) . He said his visit to the IES could be instrumental in strengthening
the existing cooperation between his Ministry and the Institute. Professor Baye
Yimam, Director of the IES, and other officials of the Institute has welcomed
Ato 
received the amulet of
emperor Tewedros from AFROMET, an organization for the return of objects taken
from Mekidela during the British expedition. The amulet was back from the UK
after 135 Years