Dr. Peter Onauphoo Siyao has set a record to be the first PhD graduate at the Department of Information and Records Studies (DIRS) after his successful PhD public defence on 15 April 2021. Dr. Siyao (BA Hons, MA- LIS UDSM & PhD SUA) is an Academic Librarian at Mzumbe University since 2006.

For the first time, the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) has released 500 Million Tanzanian Shillings to support young early career staff to conduct research using internal-generated funds.

The main objective of this training workshop is to enhance technical personnel and custodian of repositories to undertake the upgrade process of their institutional repositories. The training is titled "Digital Repository Technical Workshop: Management and Upgrading of Repository Software".