[Lib-helig-l] Open access book: Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play

Dear Colleagues

FYI

Regards

Ingrid Thomson

From: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society
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From: Gary Hall [mailto:gary.hall@connectfree.co.uk]
Sent: 22 October 2010 15:37
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Information Play

PUTTING KNOWLEDGE TO WORK AND LETTING INFORMATION PLAY

An e-book produced for the 10th anniversary of the research center at
Virginia Tech, the Center for
Digital Discourse and Culture.

Available at: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/10th-book/


The e-book is free in cost, free to copy, free to distribute. The volume

confronts many of the issues in
contemporary academia as it meets the internet and computing in all of
its spheres with many specific contributions on academic publishing,
e-research, the history of the center, and related topics.

Contributions to the volume are:

Introduction
Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger

The Book Unbound: Reconsidering One-Dimensionality in the Internet Age
Ben Agger

Fluid Notes on Liquid Books
Gary Hall

What Can Technology Teach Us about Texts? (and Texts about Technology?)
Jean-Claude Guedon

Open Works, Open Cultures, and Open Learning Systems
Michael A. Peters

Textscapes and Landscapes: A Settler Poet Goes On-Line
Brian Opie

Reweaving the World: The Web as Digital Discourse and Culture
Timothy W. Luke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Progress, Issues, and Prospects
Edward A. Fox, Gail McMillan, and Venkat Srinivasan

From gunny sacks to mattress vine: notes on Douglas Engelbart, Tim
O'Reilly, and the natural world
Sue Thomas

The Pleasures of Collaboration
Thom Swiss

Info-Citizens: Democracy, Expertise and Ownership in European Research
Funding
Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger

The New River: Collected Editors' Notes
Ed Falco, et al.

On the Origins of the Cute as a Dominant Aesthetic Category in Digital
Culture
Dylan E. Wittkower

Culture, Media, Globalization
Mark Poster

Barack Obama and Celebrity Spectacle
Douglas Kellner

A Short History of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Jeremy Hunsinger

Digital Research and Tenure & Promotion in Colleges of Arts and
Sciences: A Thought Piece
Theodore R. Schatzki

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Gary Hall
Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Co-editor of Culture Machine
http://www.culturemachine.net
Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
My website http://www.garyhall.info

Latest: 'Affirmative media theory and the post-9/11 world'
http://www.garyhall.info

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Ingrid Thomson

Librarian: Humanities Information Division

Chancellor Oppenheimer Library

University of Cape Town Libraries

Private Bag

7700 RONDEBOSCH

SOUTH AFRICA

 

Tel: +27 21 650 3703  Fax: +27 21 689 7569

Email: Ingrid.Thomson@uct.ac.za

 

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] LIBER Quarterly, vol 20, no. 2 2010

 

 

Sent to you by IngridThomson via Google Reader:

 

 

LIBER Quarterly, vol 20, no. 2 2010

via Library Intelligencer by shirley on 10/24/10

http://liber.library.uu.nl/

contents include:

Challenges for Libraries in Difficult Economic Times: Evidence from the UK; Michael Jubb

Library Roles in University Research Assessment; John MacColl

Institutional Repositories: an Internal and External Perspective on the Value of IRs for Researchers' Communities; Maria Cassella

How Serious Do We Need to Be? Improving Information Literacy Skills through Gaming and Interactive Elements; Ana van Meegen, Imke Limpens

 

 

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• Subscribe to Library Intelligencer using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

[Lib-helig-l] IFLA FAIFE Newsletter

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From: Federica Marangio <Federica.Marangio@ifla.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:00:31 +0200
Subject: [FAIFE-L] FAIFE Newsletter
To: faife-l@infoserv.inist.fr

Dear colleagues

Please mark your diaries with the quarterly appointment of the FAIFE
Newsletter. Today has been released the very first issue which is
available at: http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/faife-newsletter.

It contains 17 pages of news about the domain where freedom of
expression and human rights intersect, especially about the new use of
social media by FAIFE and the impact of the FAIFE workshops in the Latin
Caribbean region.

Enjoy your reading and if you have stories and experiences you would
like to share with other members, please let us know!

Your article could be part of the next FAIFE Newsletter.

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[Lib-helig-l] Indian Citation Index (IndianCitationIndex.com) Launched

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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:46:29 +0530
Subject: [InfoLit-L] Indian Citation Index (IndianCitationIndex.com) Launched
To: ifla-l <ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr>
Cc: rscao-l <rscao-l@infoserv.inist.fr>, diglib
<diglib@infoserv.inist.fr>, infolit-l <infolit-l@infoserv.inist.fr>,
managementphd <managementphd@yahoogroups.com>

Indian Citation Index (IndianCitationIndex.com) Launched

India is contributing good amount of knowledge contents to world
literature but there is no tool for evaluation and measurement of its
impact, quality and quantity. Accordingly, Indian researchers,
scholars, policy makers, decision takers, funding agencies and others
too have been facing a big problem to perform/assess the
contribution/contributors objectively. At international level few
tools/databases like WoS and SCOPUS are available but coverage of
Indian knowledge contents in these databases are negligible.
Therefore, these tools/databases are not adequate to evaluate/analyze
India's knowledge contents.

As is known that to come over such limitation, few of the countries,
like China, Korea, Japan etc. have already brought out their own
citation indexes for proper evaluation and representation of their R&D
contribution. With the same approach and bridge existing gap, I am
happy to inform you that the "Indian Citation Index (ICI)" has come in
existence for the benefit of R&D community including researchers,
planers, decision makers, funding agencies etc. and it is
ready/available for users w.e.f. 25th October 2010.

Indian Citation Index (ICI) is a home grown citation database, planned
to have multidisciplinary information/knowledge contents from about
1000 top Indian scholarly journals. It provides powerful search engine
to perform search and evaluate researchers, policy makers, decision
makers, institutions, subjects, city, state etc. Presently, ICI have
five years back files data depth of 400 plus journals which would go
over to 1000 journals by March/April 2011. ICI is equipped with all
major search features including analytics to serve the requirements of
users. Also, by the end of December 2010, few more specific and
elaborative search features will be in place to meet local needs more
specifically.

Indian Citation Index (ICI) is developed by a society named "The
Knowledge Foundation" which is fully supported by M/s Divan
Enterprise. ICI as a product for sale, distribution, enter into
agreements, receive revenue etc is exclusively owned by M/s Divan
Enterprise. The ICI may be accessed by its URL:
www.indiancitationindex.com.

We are happy to announce that Indian Citation Index (ICI) is being
launched on 25th October 2010 at New Delhi, India.

Prakash Chand
Head ICI Project
Email: prakash[at]indiancitationindex.com
www.indiancitationindex.com

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[Lib-helig-l] Library Inc. - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Dear Colleagues

You may be interested in this piece "Library Inc" in the Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/article/Library-Inc/124915/

 

(Hat-tip to Celia Walter for sharing)

 

Regards

Ingrid Thomson

 

 

 

Ingrid Thomson

Librarian: Humanities Information Division

Chancellor Oppenheimer Library

University of Cape Town Libraries

Private Bag

7700 RONDEBOSCH

SOUTH AFRICA

 

Tel: +27 21 650 3703  Fax: +27 21 689 7569

Email: Ingrid.Thomson@uct.ac.za

 

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] Chronicle of Higher Education: Different futures for Research Libraries

Dear Colleagues

 

You may be interested in an article in Academe Today (Newsletter of the Chronicle of Higher Education)  discussing four scenarios  (prepared by ACRL)  describing  what the future research environment would look like in 20 years time and how our "future users" may be behaving.

 

Here's the link:

 

http://chronicle.com/article/4-Very-Different-Futures-Are/125011/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

 

Regards

Ingrid Thomson

 

 

Ingrid Thomson

Librarian: Humanities Information Division

Chancellor Oppenheimer Library

University of Cape Town Libraries

Private Bag

7700 RONDEBOSCH

SOUTH AFRICA

 

Tel: +27 21 650 3703  Fax: +27 21 689 7569

Email: Ingrid.Thomson@uct.ac.za

 

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] The African Journal Archive supports Open Access Week 18-24 October 2010

The African Journal Archive is pleased to be able to support Open Access week (18-24 October 2010).    The project is collecting journals published exclusively in Africa and about Africa, with a focus on the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. The Archive contains issues digitised retrospectively back to the first issue. The journals are available free of charge on the African Journal Archive website at www.ajarchive.org.  

 

The project provides a unique opportunity for universities and research organisations to digitise their journals free of charge back to the first issue. The digitised materials are then sent back to publishers for preservation and use on their own websites, further extending open access to African scholarship.

 

We invite African publishers to email requests for inclusion as soon as possible to benefit from currently available funding to info@ajarchive.org.za

Any recommendations  for new titles to be included may be emailed to info@ajarchive.org.

 

Browse the Archive http://content.ajarchive.org/index.php  

 

 

Merle Ruff

African Journal Archive Coordinator

 

We facilitate access to information

T       012 643 9500
F       086 542 5202

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[Lib-helig-l] FXI press release on Silent March on Tuesday, 19 October 2010

PRESS STATEMENT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

14 OCTOBER 2010

RE: The R2K Silent March in Gauteng on 19 October 2010 Says "No to
Secrecy Bill, Let the Truth be Told!"

Right to Know Campaign (R2K) in Gauteng will be embarking on a silent
march on the 19 October 2010 to voice its objections to the Protection
of Information Bill (Bill) that is currently before Parliament and the
subject of considerable public debate. The R2K Gauteng march will also
commemorate, Black Wednesday - 19 October 1977 – when three newspapers
were closed, 17 political organisations were banned and many activists
arrested. The R2K would also like to highlight the start of "The Week
of Action" - 19th to 27th October 2010 – during which South Africans
are called upon to support the campaign by holding meetings, pickets
and protests in their communities to defend and uphold the public's
right to know and right of access to information.

R2K is national campaign and joint effort of a large number of civil
society organizations, members of the public, students, academics,
artist, journalists who have come together in defence of the public's
right to know. The right to know and freedom of expression are crucial
to a functioning democracy and entrench the principles of
transparency, accountability and openness which underpin our
Constitution.

This campaign was established as a result of the serious concern that
has arisen as a result of the tabling of the Bill in Parliament this
year. The Bill has been criticised for failing to meet the test of
constitutionality. If passed in its current form the Act is sure to
undermine the right to know, access to information and free flow of
information.

Our concerns:

The Bill will create a society of secrets:

• Any state agency, government department, even a parastatal and your
local municipality, can classify public information as secret.
• Anything and everything can potentially be classified as secret at
official discretion if it is in the 'national interest'. Even ordinary
information relating to service delivery can become secret.
• Commercial information can be made secret, making it very difficult
to hold business and government to account for inefficiency and
corruption.
• Anyone involved in the 'unauthorised' handling and disclosure of
classified information can be prosecuted; not just the state official
who leaks information as is the case in other democracies.
• The disclosure even of some information which is not formally
classified can land citizens in jail. This will lead to
self-censorship and have a chilling effect on free speech.
• Whistleblowers and journalists could face more time in prison than
officials who deliberately conceal public information that should be
disclosed.
• A complete veil is drawn over the workings of the intelligence
services. It will prevent public scrutiny of our spies should they
abuse their power or breach human rights.

Who will guard the guardians?
• Officials do not need to provide reason for making information secret
• There is no independent oversight mechanism to prevent information
in the public interest from being made secret.
• The Minister of State Security, whose business is secrecy, becomes
the arbiter of what information across all of government must remain
secret or may be disclosed to the public.
• Even the leaking of secret information in the public interest is
criminalised.
• Unusually severe penalties of up to 25 years in prison will silence
whistleblowers, civil society and journalists doing their job.
• All these factors will limit public scrutiny of business and
government, whether through Parliament or journalists. Accountability
will be curtailed and service delivery to the people will be
undermined.

Our demands:

The Constitution demands accountable, open and responsive government,
realised among other things through freedom of expression and access
to information. Our elected representatives are bound by these
Constitutional values and any legislation they pass must comply with
the Constitution. We demand that the Protection of Information Bill -
the Secrecy Bill - must reflect the following:

• Limit secrecy to core state bodies in the security sector such as
the police, defense &intelligence agencies.
• Limit secrecy to strictly defined national security matters and no
more. Officials must give reasons for making information secret.
• Exclude commercial information from this Bill.
• Do not exempt the intelligence agencies from public scrutiny.
• Do not apply penalties for unauthorised disclosure to society at
large, only those responsible for keeping secrets.

• An independent body appointed by Parliament, and not the Minister of
Intelligence, should be the arbiter of decisions about what may be
made secret.
• Do not criminalise the legitimate disclosure of secrets in the
public interest.

The silent march will proceed on 19 October 2010 at 12h30pm from
outside the University of the Witwatersrand's Senate House entrance in
Jorissen Street to Constitution Hill. Please bring tape along to tape
mouths shut!

Ayesha Kajee – Freedom of Expression Institute – 083 5007486

Melissa Moore – Freedom of Expression Institute - 082 924 8268

Siphiwe Segodi – Freedom of Expression Network – 011 482 1913 or 072 655 4177

Gabriella Razzano - South African History Archive - 082 780 1903

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[Lib-helig-l] 19 October 2010, March 2010,

Colleagues
As part of the Right to Know Campaign which opposes the Protection of
Information Bill, a march is to be held.

The March to oppose the current Protection of Information Bill are as follows:
Assembly point: March from outside Wits University, Senate House,
Jorissen Street to Constitutional Hill.
Date: 19 October 2010
Time: 12h30 (outside Wits)

From the poster:

SILENT MARCH: Tuesday 19th OCTOBER
@ 12h30 outside Wits University, Jorissen St to Constitution Hill,
PLEASE BRING MASKING TAPE ALONG TO TAPE MOUTHS SHUT!
Bring musical instruments or whistles to use at END of march!

To arrange transport contact Right2Know Campaign @ FXI on 0114821913
JOIN THE WEEK OF ACTION19 - 27 OCTOBER 2010
Plan meetings, pickets, protests in your community
SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGNsign the campaign statement (on back)

SMS "r2k" and your name to 32759
Visit www.right2know.org.za for resources
Call us 021 4617211 / 011 4821913 for info

A responsive and accountable democracy that can meet the basic needs
of our people is built upon transparency and free flow of information.
The gains of South Africans' struggle for freedom are threatened by
the Protection of Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill) currently before
Parliament. We accept the need to replace apartheid-era secrecy laws.
But this Bill extends the veil of secrecy in a manner reminiscent of
that apartheid past.This Bill fundamentally undermines the struggle
for whistleblower protection and access to information. It is one of
several proposed measures which could have the combined effect of
fundamentally eroding the rights to access information and freedom of
expression enshrined in the Constitution.
Our concerns:
The Bill will create a society of secrets:
• Any state agency, government department, even a parastatal and your
local municipality, can classify public information as secret.
• Anything and everything can potentially be classified as secret at
official discretion if it is in the 'national interest'. Even ordinary
information relating to service delivery can become secret.       •
Commercial information can be made secret, making it very difficult to
hold business and government to account for inefficiency and
corruption.       • Anyone involved in the 'unauthorised' handling
and disclosure of classified information can be prosecuted; not just
the state official who leaks information as is the case in other
democracies.       • The disclosure even of some information which is
not formally classified can land citizens in jail. This will lead to
self-censorship and have a chilling effect on free speech.      •
Whistleblowers and journalists could face more time in prison than
officials who deliberately conceal public information that should be
disclosed.       • A complete veil is drawn over the workings of the
intelligence services. It will prevent public scrutiny of our spies
should they abuse their power or breach human rights.
Who will guard the guardians?      • Officials do not need to provide
reason for making information secret  • There is no independent
oversight mechanism to prevent information in the public interest from
being made secret.       • The Minister of State Security, whose
business is secrecy, becomes the arbiter of what information across
all of government must remain secret or may be disclosed to the
public.       • Even the leaking of secret information in the public
interest is criminalised.       • Unusually severe penalties of up to
25 years in prison will silence whistleblowers, civil society and
journalists doing their job.       • All these factors will limit
public scrutiny of business and government, whether through Parliament
or journalists. Accountability will be curtailed and service delivery
to the people will be undermined.
Our demands:
The Constitution demands accountable, open and responsive government,
realised among other things through freedom of expression and access
to information. Our elected representatives are bound by these
Constitutional values and any legislation they pass must comply. We
demand that the Protection of Information Bill - the Secrecy Bill -
must reflect the following:
• Limit secrecy to core state bodies in the security sector such as
the police, defense &intelligence agencies.• Limit secrecy to
strictly defined national security matters and no more. Officials must
give reasons for making information secret.• Exclude commercial
information from this Bill.    • Do not exempt the intelligence
agencies from public scrutiny. • Do not apply penalties for
unauthorised disclosure to society at large, only those responsible
for keeping secrets.

• An independent body
appointed by Parliament, and not the Minister of Intelligence, should
be the arbiter of decisions about what may be made secret.• Do not
criminalise the legitimate disclosure of secrets in the public
interest.

--
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Fatima Darries

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[Lib-helig-l] Fwd: [DIGLIB] rfp: Managing in the Middle (ALA Editions) - REMINDER

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From: Robert Farrell <robert.farrell.lib@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:10:49 -0400
Subject: [DIGLIB] rfp: Managing in the Middle (ALA Editions) - REMINDER
To: diglib@infoserv.inist.fr

Request for Proposals

Publication Title: Managing in the Middle: The Librarian's Handbook
Publisher: American Library Association (Fall 2011)
Editors: Robert Farrell and Kenneth Schlesinger (Leonard Lief Library,
Lehman College, CUNY)
Contact: inthemiddle2011@gmail.com

Scope: This "grab and go" volume for ALA's Librarian's Handbook series
seeks brief, real world articles of use to mid-level managers in academic
and public libraries.

Topic and Audience: Top-level library managers, responding to contemporary
trends, are increasingly delegating responsibilities to those in the middle,
demanding innovation and entrepreneurial creativity, as well as
accountability and day-to-day coordination of staff and services. Today's
mid-level managers face a variety of new supervisory challenges. Of the
roughly 70,000 academic and public librarians, about a third find themselves
"managing in the middle:" reporting to top-level managers while supervising
teams of peers or support staff. Our target audiences are current mid-level
library managers, new librarians assuming these roles, and library
management students looking for grounded insight into the administrative
issues they'll soon be facing.

Authors: We invite essays from those who know the realities of the job
best: those managing in the middle. We also seek perspectives from
management experts, former mid-level managers, scholars, nascent
supervisors, top-level managers, as well as librarians and paraprofessionals
who have been "middle managed." A variety of formats are encouraged: "how
to," interviews with practitioners, case studies, illuminating anecdotes,
brief tips, theory in practice pieces, rants and confessionals, annotated
bibliographies, etc.

Some possible themes for consideration include:
* middle manager as leader and entrepreneur
* management expectations of middle managers
* "sandwich effect" – getting it from above and below
* real world applications of leadership principles and management techniques
* developing reflective management practices
* project management: best practices and skills, challenges and successes
* managing the top-level manager
* supervising administrative units and empowering work teams
* risk taking and learning from failure
* both sides now: conflict resolution from the middle
* communicating and listening in the middle
* recruiting, training, retaining
* building trust and morale
* coaching, facilitating, mentoring
* goal setting and annual evaluations
* nightmare bosses and problem employees
* creative problem solving: achieving the impossible

Length, Timeline, Compensation: Proposals due November 1, 2010. First drafts
will be due by or before March 31, 2011 and any revisions requested will be
due May 30, 2011 (Memorial Day). The final manuscript is due September 2011.
Contributors will receive a free copy of the publication and discounts on
subsequent copies. Finished pieces should be between 1900 and 2500 words
(longer pieces will be considered if they can be subdivided).

Please submit a one-page proposal (multiple ideas encouraged) including a
biographical sketch by November 1, 2010 to: inthemiddle2011@gmail.com.
Brief e-mail queries or questions about the project are also welcome.

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[Lib-helig-l] Seeking information literacy policies, worldwide

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Boekhorst, A.K." <A.K.Boekhorst@uva.nl>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:44:45 +0200
Subject: [InfoLit-L] RE: Seeking information literacy policies, worldwide
To: infolit-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Cc: Andrew.Whitworth@manchester.ac.uk

Here a request from Andrew Whitworth

With kind regards

Albert K. Boekhorst
_____________________________________
www.albertkb.nl <http://www.albertkb.nl/>
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, Media Studies
University of Pretoria, South Africa, Dept. Information Science

<http://www.ensil.eu/>

________________________________

Van: Information literacy and information skills teaching discussion
list namens Drew Whitworth
Verzonden: do 14-10-2010 4:57
Aan: LIS-INFOLITERACY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Onderwerp: Seeking information literacy policies, worldwide

Dear colleagues,

I am currently writing a paper for the forthcoming special issue of
'Library Trends' which will examine information literacy policy
statements around the world in the light of other trends in education
which may prevent them coming to fruition.

I am hoping to solicit a small amount of help from you, in the matter
of collecting together as wide a range of formal policy statements as
I can, whether from governments or NGOs. The 'big ones' are easy
enough - things like UNESCO, the Prague Declaration, the Alexandria
Proclamation etc,: but I would also like to look at others,
particularly from smaller countries.

Although I realise this is a UK-based list there are many people
involved in work abroad and any help you could give me in this area
would be appreciated - even if it is just a URL or a PDF.

Please reply to me OFF LIST. I thank you in advance for your help and
will try to credit all assistance in the final article.

Yours,
Drew Whitworth
University of Manchester.

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[Lib-helig-l] OAPEN Press Release - Successful launch of the OAPEN Library at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:51:03 +0100
Subject: [IFLA-L] OAPEN Press Release - Successful launch of the
OAPEN Library at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010
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Press release - October 13, 2010

Successful launch of the OAPEN Library at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010

On October 6, the OAPEN Library (http://www.oapen.org
<http://www.oapen.org/> ) was successfully launched at the Frankfurt
Book Fair. This marks the start of the first dedicated collection of
freely available academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences
from across Europe.

The goals of the OAPEN Library are:

- to promote Open Access book publishing by building a branded
collection of OA peer-reviewed titles;

- to increase the visibility and retrievability of high-quality
European research;

- to set quality standards for OA books, based on transparent
procedures for peer review and recommendations for OA licences.

Several speakers introduced the OAPEN Library to an interested
audience, starting with Sven Fund (CEO of De Gruyter) who discussed
"Open Access for books and how to accomplish it". Arnoud de Kemp
(Publisher, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA and organiser of the
yearly APE conference - Academic Publishing in Europe) spoke on the
subject of "Open Access as part of Digital Publishing" and Henk Wals
(director of the Huygens Institute - KNAW) revealed in his talk "Open
Access in a research institution" the inclusion of the first titles of
the prestigious Erasmus, Opera Omnia series into the OAPEN Library.
The official launch was executed by Henk Wals, by starting this
animation: http://youtu.be/GnYhialJ648.

More information on OAPEN and the Library is available for you at
www.oapen.org <http://www.oapen.org/> (OAPEN Library) or
http://www.oapen.org/project (background information).

The official launch of the OAPEN Library also serves as an invitation
to interested publishers to benefit through the integration of their
content in the library or to become members of our Partner network and
profit from the growing visibility of OAPEN and the experiences of
participating publishers.

For more information, contact Eelco Ferwerda (Coordinator of OAPEN,
Amsterdam University Press) tel. 0031 (0)20 420 0050, email
e.ferwerda@aup.nl

<http://twitter.com/OAPENbooks>
<http://project.oapen.org/feed.rss>

OAPEN is a Targeted Project co-funded by the EC within its
eContentplus Programme.

OAPEN aims to develop and implement an Open Access publication model
for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). Our
goal is to achieve a sustainable European approach to improve the
quantity, visibility and usability of high quality academic research
and foster the creation of new content by developing future-oriented
publishing solutions, including an Open Access Library for peer
reviewed books in HSS. The 30-months project started in September
2008.

Learn more about OAPEN by visiting the website: www.oapen.org
<http://www.oapen.org/>

If you don't wish to receive further newsletters, please reply to
website@oapen.org with 'unsubscribe OAPEN' in the subject field

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[Lib-helig-l] The Expert Library: Sustaining, Staffing, and Advancing The Academic Library...

 

 

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The Expert Library: Sustaining, Staffing, and Advancing The Academic Library in The 21st Century

via Peter Scott's Library Blog by noreply@blogger.com (Peter Scott) on 10/14/10

"ACRL has announced the publication of The Expert Library: Staffing, Sustaining, and Advancing the Academic Library in the 21st Century, edited by Scott Walter and Karen Williams. In the midst of a decade of extraordinary change in academic libraries – change driven by information technology, new approaches to teaching and learning, new models for scholarly communication and new expectations for the ways we will discover, share and use information – there is nothing as important to the future of the library and its continued place at the heart of the academic enterprise than its people and the expertise that they bring to the design, development and delivery of library services"

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] CEPD Course Announcement and Invitation

Hie Ingrid

 

Can you help circulate the attached announcement and invitation  on our HELIG-Listserv and possibly on  liasaonline

 

Sent on behalf of Blessing from ITOCA

 

Regards

 

Mathew Moyo

Information Services Librarian

University of Fort Hare Library

P/Bag X1322

Alice 5700

 : +27 40 6022541

: +27 73 952 6181

: +27 40 6531423

:mmoyo@ufh.ac.za

 "Anybody who stops learning is old, whether at 8 or 50"

 

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[Lib-helig-l] Fwd: [Wolpe-cape] Forthcoming Events

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Date: Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:44 PM
Subject: [Wolpe-cape] Forthcoming Events
To: wolpe-cape@mail.unwembi.co.za

 

Dear Colleagues:

We are pleased to inform you of two events planned for November.

 

Forthcoming Events

Annual Memorial Lecture

Speaker:

Mr Jay Naidoo

 

Wednesday 17 November 2010

18h00 for 18h30

Venue: Old Mutual Head Office, Pinelands

 

One Day Colloquium on Gender-Based Violence

Tuesday 30 November 2010

9h00 for 16h30

Venue: Leslie Social Sciences Building, University of Cape Town

 

With so much to do towards the end of the year we look forward to you attending both of these events. Please reserve the time in your diary. Invitations will be sent in due course.

 

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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http://www.wolpetrust.org.za

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[Lib-helig-l] Amazon Introduces The Digital Pamphlet With ‘Kindle Singles’

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Subject: Amazon Introduces The Digital Pamphlet With 'Kindle Singles'
To: darriesfa@gmail.com

It looks like Amazon is extending its e-reading platform to include
short works and digital pamphlets. Today, Amazon is launching Kindle
Singles, which are Kindle books that are in the company's words,
"twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters
of a typical book." Generally, Amazon characterized Kindle Singles as
10,000 to 30,000 words (roughly 30 to 90 pages).

Amazon says that Kindle Singles will have their own section in the
Kindle Store, which currently has over 700,000 books, and will be
priced much less than a typical book (although Amazon didn't reveal a
range of pricing for the new format). Like standard e-books on the
platform, Kindle Singles can be read on the Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle
DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, and Android-based
devices.

It sounds like anyone can submit a story or piece to be included as a
Kindle Single, and Amazon is using the announcement as a "call to
serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians,
politicians and publishers" to submit writings. As Amazon writes in
the release: Singles are a "perfect, natural length to lay out a
single killer idea, well researched, well argued and well
illustrated—whether it's a business lesson, a political point of view,
a scientific argument, or a beautifully crafted essay on a current
event."

This new format is is important because Kindle Singles opens up a
market for new authors. Singles gives bloggers and writers out there
who don't have time to write a book the opportunity to publish a
pamphlet or shorter work. In reality, the Kindle Single is something
in between a blog post and a digital book.

A few weeks ago, Amazon released "Kindle for the Web", which enables
people to read and share digital book samples in their browsers
without the need to install or download anything

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[Lib-helig-l] The October, 2010 Issue of College & Research Libraries News is Now Available

 

 

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The October, 2010 Issue of College & Research Libraries News is Now Available

via ResourceShelf on 10/11/10

Access the Complete Full Text TOC (Vol. 21 No.9) Articles Include: + Spread the news: Promoting data services by Hailey Mooney and Breezy Silver (Co-Authors--Michigan St. University) + ACRL's standards for libraries in higher education: Academic library directors weigh in by Patricia Iannuzzi and Jeanne M. Brown (Co-Authors--University of Nevada, Las Vegas + The value of academic libraries: A look forward by [...]

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] HELIG National Executive Committee for 2010 - 2012

Dear Colleagues

Here is the HELIG National Executive Committee for the September 2010 - September 2012 term of office:



Chairperson – Nthabiseng Kotsokoane

Deputy Chairperson- Joyce Myeza

Secretary – Zuki Maya

Treasurer – Dudu Nkosi

Public Relations Officer – Ingrid Thomson

Additional Member –  Jenny Raubenheimer

Additional Member – Mariaan Brummer


Regards
Ingrid Thomson

Ingrid Thomson
Librarian: Humanities Information Division
Chancellor Oppenheimer Library
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch
7700

Tel: 021 650 3703
Email: ingrid.thomson@uct.ac.za

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[Lib-helig-l] LIASA 2010 Conference Feedback and Evaluation

Dear LIASA Conference Delegate,

Thank you for attending the LIASA 2010 Conference at St George’s Hotel.  We trust you had a fruitful and educational experience.

To enable us to provide you with what you want from a Conference and to ensure an even better experience at the 2011 LIASA Conference in the Eastern Cape, please take a few minutes to provide us with feedback about how you experienced the 2010 Conference. 

Please, click here to take you to the survey or follow the link from the LIASA website.

We value your input.

Regards

 

Annamarie Goosen

CiCD: Project Coordinator

A LIASA-Carnegie Project

P O Box 1598

Pretoria, 0001

Tel: 012 324 6096 

Fax: 0866 947 272

e-mail: cicd@liasa.org.za

 

website: www.liasa.org.za \

twitter: www.twitter.com/LIASANews  

 

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[Lib-helig-l] Fwd: AFLIB-L:206 THE SOUTH AFRICAN LAUNCH OF THE WORLD SOCIAL SCIENCE REPORT 2010 (WSSR)

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CC:


> "Despite the globalization of research in general and research
>
> collaboration in particular, peripheral regions have not become better
>
> integrated into the world social science system over the past two
>
> decades. This means that the Western dominance of social science
>
> remains a pertinent issue."
>
> Frenken, Hoekman and Hardeman
>
>
>
>
>
> PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN LAUNCH OF THE WORLD SOCIAL
>
> SCIENCE REPORT 2010 (WSSR)
>
>
>
> The WSSR was officially launched at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris
>
> on 25 June 2010. Inyathelo, the South African Institute for
>
> Advancement, has partnered with the Human Sciences Research Council
>
> and the International Social Science Council for the South African
>
> launch of the report. As South Africans we join our colleagues in
>
> celebrating this achievement and continue to ask about the
>
> relationship between knowledge and the world we live in and the
>
> institutions we hope to create for future generations.
>
>
>
> The launch forms part of the Kresge Foundation's 4th Annual Leadership
>
> Retreat for senior university leadership.
>
> Please feel free to forward to your networks.
>
>
>
>
>
> WSSR Launch:    Monday, 11 October 2010
>
> Venue:  The Arabella Western Cape Hotel and Spa (Kleinmond, Western
>
> Cape)
>
> Time:   16h00 - 18h00; followed by dinner
>
> RSVP:   Celiaa@inyathelo.org.za
>
>
>
> Cost:   No cost attached to attending the WSSR Launch and Dinner
>
>
>
> Transport will be provided to and from the venue. Buses will be
>
> departing from Canal Walk at 14:00 and returning to Canal Walk at
>
> 19:30 (before dinner) and 22:30 (after dinner).
>
>
>
> If you have any questions or require further information, please do
>
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[Lib-helig-l] Announcement and Congratulations: New LIASA EXCO and Rep Council

Dear Colleagues

 

Following the recent LIASA Elections, the new LIASA EXCO has been announced.  The LIASA EXCO for the period 2010-2012 are:

Ø      Naomi Haasbroek – President

Ø      Ujala Satgoor – President-Elect

Ø      Martha de Waal – Secretary

Ø      Ina Botha – Treasurer

Ø      Nazeem Hardy – PRO

Our congratulations and well wishes are extended to the members elected for the term 2010-2012.

 

Following the first Representative Council meeting held on Friday, 1 October, the following members have also been elected by the Rep Council members to the LIASA EXCO.  They will serve as Convenors of the various LIASA standing committees:

Ø      Reggie Raju

Ø      Mandla Ntombela

Ø      Raspby Ramugondo

Ø      Segametsi Mlowana

 

We also wish to extend our congratulations and well wishes to the new Representative Council and Branch EXCO members for the period 2010-2012.

 

Regards,

Nazeem Hardy

(LIASA PRO)

 

Library Marketing & Research Officer

Department: Library & Information Services

Directorate: Community Services

 

Tel: 021 400 3933

Fax: 021 400 4076

Cell: 084 888 8408

Email: naziem.hardy@capetown.gov.za

Website: www.capetown.gov.za

 

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[Lib-helig-l] Justice Albie Sachs Freedom Award

JUSTICE ALBIE SACHS FREEDOM AWARD

 

We are happy to congratulate Piet Westra on being awarded the new Justice Albie Sachs Freedom Award to honour South Africans who support the concept of freedom of access to information.  The Award was launched during the 2010 Annual LIASA Conference. 

 

We also want to congratulate all the nominees for the award, Piet Westra, Theresa de Young, Jean Williams, Sue Alexander and Ernene Verster. 

 

The Award was presented to Piet Westra at a special session during the conference.

 

The initial concept of the award was proposed by Clare Walker formerly of WITS University library. The background to the origin of the award has been published in an article by Clare in the July issue of LIASA-in-Touch.  The award was to honour the “unknown librarian” that Justice Sachs mentioned in his speech at the opening of the IFLA Conference in Durban in 2007.That “unknown librarian” had been instrumental in providing him with books during the period he spent in detention - a fact that he has never forgotten to this day.

 

The Award is a departure for LIASA whereby we are honouring South Africans who support the concept of freedom if access to information – it is a bold stand that we are taking and it shows that we have grown as an organisation when we are able to look beyond the boundaries of our Association and honour citizens who have made such meaningful contributions to our society in this area.

 

During the conference a signing session of Justice Albie Sachs latest book “The Strange Alchemy between Life and Law” at conference.

 

Ms R More

PRESIDENT: LIASA

 

 

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