In my information service today, I have sent out a number of articles about this Bill. Librarians should be encouraged to write to Mr. Burgess in Parliament to express concern about the Bill.
Thanks
Regards
Denise
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2. Fwd: Bloglines Continues to Lead Google Reader (Fatima Darries)
3. Is There A Social Media Librarian In Your Library?s Future
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4. Fwd: Protection of Information Bill (Ingrid Thomson)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:09:57 +0200
From: Fatima Darries <darriesfa@gmail.com>
Subject: [Lib-helig-l] Archive of posts to HELIG list
To: lib-helig-l <Lib-helig-l@lists.uct.ac.za>
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Dear Collleagues
The activity of the lib-helig list that you are subscribed to, can be
found on a blog we created in order to archive the posts on the
listserv. All posts to the list are automatically posted on the LIASA
HELIG Blog. The blog is available at
http://www.liasahelig.blogspot.com
The blog also has an RSS feed if you would like to use an aggregator.
We hope that you will find this usefull.
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:11:54 +0200
From: Fatima Darries <darriesfa@gmail.com>
Subject: [Lib-helig-l] Fwd: Bloglines Continues to Lead Google Reader
To: lib-helig-l <Lib-helig-l@lists.uct.ac.za>
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Dear colleagues
An interesting bit of information for those of you who use either
Google reader or bloglines, or both as a news and rss feed aggregator.
Heather Hopkins of Hitwise has a new post for all you Blogliners out
there. She's a VP of Research at Hitwise, a leading web analytics
firm. She writes, "It (Bloglines) is the most popular web-based feed
reader based on share of US visits." Or in other words, Bloglines is
beating Google Reader in the U.S. In an interview done by RW/W on
August of 2007, I said it was a "2 horse race." It still is.
Heather goes onto write about the differences between the user bases.
Bloglines users are also more inclined toward Photography websites,
while Google Reader users are more inclined to visit Television
websites.
...Bloglines users are 24% more likely to continue on to a retail
(Shopping & Classifieds) website.
It would be interesting to hear from Blogliners on your blogs to see
if you really do track more photography websites. We launched a Flickr
feed module in Bloglines Beta for our photography enthusiasts. We hope
you liked the feature and also like Bloglines Beta.
Enjoy!
- Eric Engleman and the Bloglines Team
http://www.bloglines.com/about/news#164
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:13:33 +0200
From: Fatima Darries <darriesfa@gmail.com>
Subject: [Lib-helig-l] Is There A Social Media Librarian In Your
Library?s Future
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Subject: Is There A Social Media Librarian In Your Library?s Future
Academic libraries are leveraging social networks to increase
opportunities to connect with students and faculty. Facebook or
Twitter are the primary social media tools used for this purpose, but
others are exploring how geo-location sites may play into a social
strategy. It's not clear how academic libraries are tackling these new
methods of marketing and promoting services and resources. Is
oversight for social media accounts and activity assigned to a single
librarian? Is the same staff member who oversees marketing and PR
taking on social networking? Are all library workers empowered to
contribute to the effort? We know little about how social media
responsibilities are handled, but it's unlikely that any academic
library has yet to create a dedicated Social Media Librarian position
- although whenever I say something like this in a post before the end
of the day there's a comment along the lines of "No you're wrong - we
have a Social Media Librarian here". With Facebook reaching its 500
millionth member and Twitter members tweeting over 50 million times
per day these behemoths can't be ignored. Corporate America certainly
isn't ignoring them.
Two trends point to a growing interest in taking social network
marketing quite seriously. First, many companies that market to
consumers are rushing to create positions for social media officers -
and that's at a time when no one is even quite sure what someone in
this position even does or what qualifies someone for such a position.
But who's waiting to figure all that out? Not companies like Sears,
Petco, Ford, Pepsi and many others. Second, MBA programs are adding
courses in social media to provide students with the skills needed to
get jobs as social media officers or at least help their future
employers create social media strategies. According to the article
these courses "focus on thinking broadly about social media, not just
Facebook and Twitter. Topics include the underlying psychological and
sociological foundations of social media and the metrics and
measurement tools for gauging the effectiveness of social media
campaigns. Students are required to participate in social media
marketing projects for big brands."
An important point made in these articles is that someone who is
merely a user of or participant in social media is not the same as
someone who truly understands how to use it in a business or marketing
context. Just because you tweet all day and watch lots of YouTube
video doesn't mean that you know how to turn social media into
proactive tools for getting consumers excited about your organization
and what it offers. For businesses social media is all about
influencing purchase decisions. How does that translate to an academic
library environment? One way in which academic librarians might become
better at using social media to influence library use decisions is to
become more adept at using the tools to get user community members to
do the work for us - by sharing the word about the library with their
friends. That's what happens when your user community members share
your library video with their friends - but you have to know how to
get that started. Another is to pay more attention to what is
happening in the world of business to learn how companies are
leveraging social media. Having said that, I always like to remind my
colleagues that saying we should pay attention to what corporations
are doing is not a statement that libraries are businesses and should
be run like one. Some good ideas emerge from the world of business,
and we should pay attention when they do.
Does librarianship, like the MBA programs, need to provide more
opportunity for LIS students to gain these skills, and if so how
should it happen? I still lean on the side of not dedicating entire
courses to social networking and media tools. There are too few
courses LIS students get to take, and they can learn about the
mechanics of social networking tools on their own time. Perhaps what
is needed is a course dedicated to library marketing and promotion.
Marketing and promotion appear to be the primary reasons to use social
media in the context of library operations. If that's the case we
should be educating LIS students how to leverage social networking and
media tools to create more library awareness and to get the community
to spread the word. That seems like a sensible way to introduce these
increasingly important skills for the Social Media Librarian.
http://acrlog.org/2010/08/03/is-there-a-social-media-librarian-in-your-librarys-future/
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Fatima Darries
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:57:39 +0200
From: "Ingrid Thomson" <Ingrid.Thomson@uct.ac.za>
Subject: [Lib-helig-l] Fwd: Protection of Information Bill
To: <lib-helig-l@lists.uct.ac.za>
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Dear Colleagues
Some more on the Protection of Information Bill. I understand that LIASA is putting a statement together.
Regards
Ingrid
>>> Jeremy Martens <jeremy.martens@UWA.EDU.AU> 8/25/2010 4:02 AM >>>
Date: 25 August 2010
From: Sarah Duff
<sarahemilyduff@googlemail.com<mailto:sarahemilyduff@googlemail.com>>
What follows is not of much relevance research-wise, but is, I think, of
critical importance to the future of academia in South Africa.
Last night, PenSA and and The Book Lounge in Cape Town hosted Keep
Information Free, a discussion on the Protection of Information Bill now
before Parliament (here's a blog on it
http://book.co.za/blog/2010/08/24/a-night-for-media-freedom-in-south-africa-tweets-from-the-book-lounge-wits-and-the-university-of-johannesburg/).
I don't think that I need to go into a great deal of detail about the fact
that the Act has profound implications not only for press and academic
freedom, but for every South African's right to access information.
The internet is abuzz with opposition to the Bill, and I'm sure that the
press will be be flooded with angry letters within the next few weeks. I
think, though, that contacting Cecil Burgess, the chair of the ad hoc
committee steering the Bill through Parliament, would make more of an
impact. Burgess accused NGOs and other advocacy groups of being 'obsessed
with openness'. (Here's a rather depressing description of the hearings,
http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/shock-and-awe-at-parliament-street/.)
His email address is cburgess@parliament.gov.za<mailto:cburgess@parliament.gov.za> and I, and a few friends and
colleagues, have contacted him, explaining our opposition to the Bill.
The more people who email Burgess, the more of an impact we'll make. (I
should add that this is only about the Protection of Information Bill and
not the proposed Media Tribunal - for more on the Bill, see
http://www.idasa.org.za/index.asp?page=output_details.asp%3FRID%3D2180%26oplang%3Den%26OTID%3D50%26PID%3D44)
Would you consider adding your voice?
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:49:20 +0200
From: Fatima Darries <darriesfa@gmail.com>
Subject: [Lib-helig-l] Fwd: [Wolpe-cape] Invitation to the 92nd Open
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From: Wolpetrust Cape Town <wolpe-cape@mail.unwembi.co.za>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:52:16 +0200
Subject: [Wolpe-cape] Invitation to the 92nd Open Dialogue
To: wolpe-cape@mail.unwembi.co.za
The Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust takes pleasure in
announcing its 92nd Open Dialogue.
The aim of these dialogues is to create a space for open and
informed dialogue and debate around key local and global political,
social and economic issues facing South Africa.
Everyone is welcome and entrance is free. Please feel free to
circulate this notice.
There is a racial paradox in our public (and private) renditions of
'the black domestic worker'. 'Eve' is white South Africa's favorite
mischievous 'maid;' the 'black madam' tantalizes both the black and
white imagination, and all while the democratic state mobilizes 'the
maid' as part of its statecraft for and of 'the vulnerable.' How is
this accomplished? How does the figure of 'the maid' come to embody
racial anxieties and fantasies? How do domestics labor in service, not
only of homes and families, but nothing less than the social order(s)
of our times?
IN SERVICE OF RACIAL DYSTOPIA: ANXIETY AND FANTASY IN THE FIGURE OF "THE MAID"
Speaker:
Dr. Shireen Ally
Wits University
Tuesday 7 September 2010
17h30 for 18h00
Venue: Zoology, LT2, UCT
RSVP: wolpeforums@mweb.co.za / 021-6740361
The Trust acknowledges the support of our donors, particularly the
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the National Lottery Distribution Trust
Fund
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Fatima Darries
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:03:36 +0200
From: Fatima Darries <darriesfa@gmail.com>
Subject: [Lib-helig-l] Fwd: [DIGLIB] Wellcome Library announces major
digitisation project
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:51:15 +0100
Subject: [DIGLIB] Wellcome Library announces major digitisation project
To: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@jiscmail.ac.uk, diglib@infoserv.inist.fr,
MASS-DIGITIZATION@jiscmail.ac.uk
The Wellcome Library has announced the launch of an ambitious
digitisation project, to provide free, online access to its collections,
including archives and papers from Nobel prize-winning scientists
Francis Crick, Fred Sanger and Peter Medawar
http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/08/wellcome-library-launches-ma
jor.html
<http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/08/wellcome-library-launches-m
ajor.html> . This pilot project will see the digitisation of up to 1m
images from the Wellcome's archival and book holdings. A new digital
library infrastructure will also be created as part of this project for
long-term preservation, management and delivery of digital content.
The project is highlighted in a BBC audio slideshow published today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11016755.
Dr Christy Henshaw
Digitisation Project Manager
Wellcome Library <http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/>
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
+44 (0)20 7611 7333
Website: Wellcome Library Digitisation programme
<http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node350.html>
Blogs: Wellcome Library <outbind://4/wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com> /
JPEG 2000 <outbind://4/jpeg2000wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com>
Twitter: Chenshaw <http://www.twitter.com/Chenshaw> / WellcomeDigital
<http://www.twitter.com/WellcomeDigital>
The Wellcome Trust <http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/> is a registered
charity, no. 210183. Its sole Trustee is the Wellcome Trust Limited, a
company registered in England, no. 2711000, whose registered office is
215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
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