[Lib-helig-l] The Future of Universities and Their Libraries,‖ Committee Report, June 2011

Dear Colleagues

A weekend read!

This report focuses on the "future of higher education" and there is an "outline of issues accompanied by a bibliography of current hot topics."

Regards
Ingrid Thomson

 

 

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The Future of Universities and Their Libraries,‖ Committee Report, June 2011

via Library Intelligencer by shirley on 7/21/11

http://connect.ala.org/node/151502

The Committee's work this year has been based on two assumptions.

1. The future of academic libraries is tied to the future of their universities.
2. The Committee is just one unit with ULS and ACRL that is actively examining the role of libraries and the Committee does not need to duplicate that immense body of work.

On that basis the Committee chose to focus on the future of higher education and produced a Report that is an outline of issues accompanied by a bibliography of current hot topics. The Report cites issues and publications that have piqued the interest of committee members over the course of the year, and is not intended to be comprehensive in its coverage. The hope is that the work might spark conversations and inform decisions. Clayton M. Christensen, professor of business at Harvard University, coined the term "disruptive innovation" for changes that improve products in unexpected ways. In surveying this Report one can get an appreciation for the current and future leadership and management challenges and a deeper understanding of how changes in higher education can fashion what we can contribute to the effectiveness of our universities as well as our libraries.

The Committee will continue to make changes in the Report, so you should consider this a draft. Nevertheless, if it is convenient, I ask that you share our Report with the Executive Committee in advance so that there can be a discussion of next steps at the Executive Committee meeting in New Orleans.

Marilyn Myers, Chair, Committee on the Future of University Libraries

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] Fwd: Interesting

>>> "Schoombee, LUCIA <lcs1@sun.ac.za>" <LCS1@sun.ac.za> 7/21/2011 8:15 AM >>>

Hi Ingrid

 

This is an story academic librarians will find interesting!  Rgds, Lucia

 

http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/activist-swartz-indicted-for-massive-mit-and-jstor-data-theft/

 

 

Lucia Schoombee                                               

Navorsingsteun | Research support

Tel.: + 27 (0) 21 808-2125  • Faks | Fax: + 27 (0) 21 808-3723 • Web: www.sun.ac.za/library

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] Guide to Reference Services

Dear Colleagues
Check out the libguide on Reference Services from Stephen Francoeur.

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Ingrid Thomson

 

 

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Guide to Reference Services

via Digital Reference by Stephen Francoeur on 7/15/11

This week, I completed work on a guide to reference services that was commissioned by the Metropolitan Library Council of New York. Originally, I was asked to create a guide to digital reference, but lately I've been feeling less inclined to carve out a unique space for "digital reference" in the larger sphere of reference services. More and more, I think of any question answering libraries do as reference and try not to get too hung on distinctions that mean less and less and online reference services have become commonplace and the cross-referrals between online and physical service points are de rigeur.Libraries have mostly moved past the era of creating separate, cutesy brand names for the IM or chat reference services and now just present a raft of service options under the rubric of "Ask Us" or "Ask a Librarian."

This guide is meant to appeal to libraries of all types, although some might see a bias toward the needs of academic libraries. If you have any suggestions about links or changes in terminology that would broaden the appeal the guide, I'd love hear about them.

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] Fwd: CFP: Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age, Oxford, 25-26 June 2012

 

 

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

 

 

 

>>> Joan Wardrop <J.Wardrop@CURTIN.EDU.AU> 7/16/2011 3:10 AM >>>
From: Marion Wallace
Sent: 16 July 2011
Marion.Wallace@bl.uk

SCOLMA: The UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa

50th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age

Oxford, 25-26 June 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS
The digital revolution is profoundly affecting African studies. New
digital resources are making available large areas of content, as well
as greatly improving access to bibliographies. In Africa, governments
and NGOs are publishing online, some publishers are moving to print on
demand and e-books, and international academic journals are increasingly
becoming available in university and national libraries.

Yet the story, as is well-known, is far from straightforward or
unproblematic. This conference will mark the 50th anniversary of the
founding of SCOLMA by taking a critical look at the field of African
studies and how it is changing. In particular, although there has been
much discussion of new digital resources and what their creators plan to
do, we have a limited understanding of their impact on their users and
on knowledge production in general. For example, what are the
implications for historical research of the availability of digitised
sources, and of the choices made in their selection? How do social
science researchers work in a field in which much, but not everything,
is now available online? Are e-journals - or indeed mobile phones -
beginning to change the research process in Africa? And, more generally,
how have broader historical and political developments changed African
studies and librarianship over the last half-century?


We welcome papers on these themes across the humanities, arts, social
sciences and sciences. Papers may deal with digital content, whether
digitised or born-digital, of any kind, e.g. archives and manuscripts;
audio-visual material; maps; newspapers; books, journals and theses;
photographs, prints, drawings and paintings; ephemera; statistical
databases; and social media.

The conference will bring together academics and other researchers with
librarians and archivists. We aim thus to have a productive exchange of
expertise, experience and analysis on the question of knowledge
production in African studies.

Themes may include, but are not limited to:

- How scholars, researchers, librarians and archivists use digitised
resources.
- How African studies is changing, and the place of the digital
revolution in these changes.
- Access to, selection of, and training in the use of digital resources
in the library context. Are resources under-used?
- To pay or not to pay? How easy is it for researchers to find
subscription e-resources? And for libraries to fund them? What is the
balance of free and charged resources in the research process? How well
do the models for making e-resources available in Africa work?
- How well does user consultation work?
- Access to the technology that underpins e-resources.
- Digital scholarship: are scholars in African studies using digital
collections to generate new intellectual products?
- The impact of mobile phone technology on African studies.
- How patchy is the creation of digital resources, and what - and who -
is being left behind?
- Language in Africa and new technology.

One-page abstracts of papers on these themes are warmly welcomed. If you
would like to give a paper, please send your abstract to

Lucy McCann

SCOLMA Secretary

Email: lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

Tel.: 01865 270908

THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS 31 OCTOBER 2011.

Papers in French are welcome if a summary is provided in English.

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[Lib-helig-l] LIASA receives R10million Grant from Carnegie Corporation

Dear Colleagues

 

It gives me immense pleasure to announce that LIASA has been awarded a 4-year grant totaling approximately R10million to develop a Postgraduate Diploma Scholarship programme for public librarians working at Carnegie Model Libraries.

 

The Executive Committee has been working very hard over the past few months on the proposal to the Carnegie Corporation.   We are therefore very pleased that the Board of the Carnegie Corporation has awarded the grant of $1.5Million to LIASA.

 

This grant will allow LIASA to:

 

• Develop a one-year postgraduate diploma (PGDipLIS) scholarship program that supports the formal qualification of public library employees at Carnegie model libraries in South Africa
• Develop a corps of 110 well trained and qualified public librarians who will be able to contribute professionally to their institutions
• Achieve a high level of measurable improved skills and service delivery amongst public librarians
• Revitalize the profession and produce a cohort of vibrant modern public librarians well versed in information communication and technology (ICT) and information literacy
• Expand its current training programme based in the Centre for Information Career Development (CiCD) which addresses continuing professional development and workplace skills development of librarians

 

This project will succeed in addressing a critical training need within the South African Library and Information Services (LIS) Profession and will assist the Association in delivering on one of its strategic objectives of providing training opportunities for LIS practitioners.   

 

Please find attached the official Media Release.

 

 

Naomi Haasbroek

President

Library and Information Association of South Africa

president@liasa.org.za

http://www.liasa.org.za

Twitter: www.twitter.com/LIASANews

 

Chair:  IFLA Africa Section

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

http://www.ifla.org/en/africa

 

HEAD:  Library and Information Services

iThemba LABS

P O Box 722

Somerset West

7129

 

Tel:  +27 21 843 1000

Tel:  +27 21 843 1259 (Direct)

Fax:  0866116096 or +27 21 843 3525

Mobile:  0828959931

E-Mail:  naomi@tlabs.ac.za

http://www.tlabs.ac.za

 

 

 

[Lib-helig-l] 13th Annual LIASA Conference - Registration Open

Please find below an invitation to register for the 13^th Annual LIASA Conference that will be held from 3-7 October in East London at the East London International Convention Centre.  

The theme of the Conference is "Dynamic Leadership for LIS".

 

Register before 15 August and qualify for the Early Bird Discount.

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[Lib-helig-l] Reminder: IFLA 2011 attendance

Dear IFLA 2011 delegates,

 

If you have not forwarded your details to me as yet, please send it by 30 July 2011.

 

Thank you.

 

IFLA WLIC 2011 – San Juan, Puerto Rico

13 – 18 August 2011

 

As with previous years, LIASA had requests from various institutions and vendors for a list of South African delegates who registered to attend the IFLA WLIC 2011 Conference in Puerto Rico.                   

 

Therefore, we invite all South African delegates to forward your name and contact details to the LIASA National Office by no later than 30 July 2011.  If you are presenting a paper, you are welcome to indicate so.

 

Please send your details to Annamarie Goosen or fax it to 0866 947 272.

 

 

 

 

Annamarie Goosen

CiCD Project Co-ordinator

A LIASA-Carnegie Project

Tel: 012 324 6096

Fax: 086 694 7272

E-mail: cicd@liasa.org.za

http://www.liasa.org.za

Dynamic Leadership for LIS

 

 

 

Annamarie Goosen

CiCD Project Co-ordinator
A LIASA-Carnegie Project

Tel: 012 324 6096

Fax: 086 694 7272

E-mail: cicd@liasa.org.za

http://www.liasa.org.za

 

 

 

[Lib-helig-l] The power of open

If you wanted to find out more about Creative Commons licencing and open access, here is book  to start you off.

Available at http://thepowerofopen.org/assets/pdfs/tpoo_webres.pdf and an introduction below.

Introduction

The world has experienced an explosion of openness. From individual artists opening their creations for input from others, to governments requiring publicly funded works be available to the public, both the spirit and practice of sharing is gaining momentum and producing results.

Creative Commons began providing licenses for the open sharing of content only a decade ago. Now more than 400 million CC-licensed works are available on the Internet, from music and photos, to research findings and entire college courses. Creative Commons created the legal and technical infrastructure that allows effective sharing of knowledge, art and data by individuals, organizations and governments. More importantly, millions of creators took advantage of that infrastructure to share work that enriches the global commons for all humanity.

The Power of Open collects the stories of those creators. Some are like ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative news organization that uses CC while partnering with the world's largest media companies. Others like nomadic filmmaker Vincent Moon use CC licensing as an essential element of a lifestyle of openness in pursuit of creativity. The breadth of uses is as great as the creativity of the individuals and organizations choosing to open their content, art and ideas to the rest of the world.

As we look ahead, the field of openness is approaching a critical mass of adoption that could result in sharing becoming a default standard for the many works that were previously made available only under the all-rights-reserved framework. Even more exciting is the potential increase in global welfare from the use of Creative Commons' tools and the increasing relevance of openness to the discourse of culture, education and innovation policy.

We hope that The Power of Open inspires you to examine and embrace the practice of open licensing so that your contributions to the global intellectual commons can provide their greatest benefit to all people.

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CATHERINE CASSERLY

CEO
CREATIVE COMMONS

JOI ITO

CHAIR
CREATIVE COMMONS

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Fatima Darries

E-LIS SA Editor

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