Tuesday, January 24, 2012

[Lib-helig-l] UWC Library vacancies

Dear Colleagues
 
 
See attached.
 
Regards
Ingrid Thomson


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Thursday, January 19, 2012

[Lib-helig-l] (no subject)

Colleagues
You may enjoy these top Library stories from the US. Available here  http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/top10stories2011 for the online version.

Facing natural disasters, technology issues, and privatization concerns, librarians responded with advocacy and innovation.

These are the top library stories of 2011, as selected by American Libraries editors. Share your top 10 in the comments.

1. Ebook Escapades
HarperCollins imposed an arbitrary 26 loans per ebook license and Penguin refused to let libraries lend its new titles altogether. Even good e-news had a catch: Patrons who could now borrow Kindle-formatted ebooks had to disclose their identities before downloading. Rejecting ebook licenses, Kansas State Librarian Joanne Budler struck a deal to ensure consortial ownership of what taxpayer money buys.

2. Occupying Libraries
Guerrilla libraries sprang up in the numerous camps of the Occupy movement, most notably in Zuccotti Park in New York City, where Occupy Wall Street protesters set up the People's Library. By the time police cleared the park on November 15, it held more than 5,500 volumes, showing that information is an essential ingredient to any community, however temporary.

3. Rising Above Natural Disasters
Colleagues worldwide coped with sudden calamity. Japan lost lives and libraries in a tsunami. Libraries shifted into community-relief mode in New Zealand and Virginia after enduring earthquakes, as well as on the East Coast after Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. It helped that FEMA added libraries to its list of essential post-disaster services. Library associations and library workers aided colleagues with funds and tech assistance.

4. Transforming Libraries' Image
As e-reader sales soared, "ebooks" and "digital" became mots du jour. When content creators changed the lending rules, librarians responded by seeking digital workarounds. Libraries embraced crowdsourcing as a way to enlist volunteers in deepening digital research potential. ALA launched Library Boing Boing, libraries sprouted hackerspaces and 3D printers, and Chicago's YOUmedia lab inspired similar teen spaces at other libraries.

5. Taking Copyright to Court
In September, the Authors Guild sued HathiTrust and several universities, claiming that book digitization infringed on copyright and calling into question the fate of millions of scans at research libraries. Authors are seeking a class-action suit against the Google Books project and a judge is weighing whether Georgia State University pirated its e-reserves.

6. Cutbacks: Meet Advocacy
Across the country, advocates united to persuade politicians that libraries matter enough to fight for them. Zombies crawled in Oakland, California ("Zombies love brains"), cute kids and parents held read-ins from Chicago to California, and 200 folks held hands and hugged the New York Public Library. The third trip to the ballot box was the charm for Troy (Mich.) Public Library, and volunteers collected cash in shifts to reopen Central Falls (R.I.) library.

7. School Librarians' Hard Times
Cuts hit school libraries around the country, perhaps most severely in California, where the number of certified teacher-librarians dropped to 895 this year. Los Angeles Unified School District laid off dozens of library staff, interrogating them for a chance to be reassigned to a classroom. In 2012, advocates will seek support for school libraries in the reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

8. Privatization Pushback
Savings-conscious administrators in at least two states got an earful from constituents worried about outsourcing their libraries. A new California law mandates that proponents make their case with hard numbers as of January 1, 2012. Meanwhile, officials of Santa Clarita, California, and Osceola County, Florida, signed library privatization contracts with LSSI.

9. Privacy Concerns Mount
Librarians and technophiles are currently fighting the Stop Online Piracy Act, a sweeping bill that would require internet service providers to police users' activities for potential copyright infringement. Librarians cheered the September announcement that OverDrive would allow library customers to lend ebooks to patrons with Kindles, but the fine print raised ethical concerns. ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom hosted a Conference on Privacy and Youth in March to discuss how best to raise awareness.

10. Digital Destiny
The ambitious Digital Public Library of America began a two-year endeavor in October to find a way to make the US cultural and scientific record available online, while the Europeana Foundation launched a plan to aggregate and distribute the continent's cultural heritage.

 

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Fatima Darries

E-LIS SA Editor

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

[Lib-helig-l] Fwd: Comment: Green Paper for Post-School Education and Training



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From: PMG <pmg@pmg.org.za>
Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Subject: Comment: Green Paper for Post-School Education and Training
To: thomson.ingrid@gmail.com


Dear Subscribers



The Department of Higher Education and Training has published the Green Paper for Post-School Education and Training, for public comment.

Comments can be emailed to Mr Zakhele Hlongwane at hlongwane.z@dhet.gov.za  by no later than 30 April 2012

The document is also here: www.pmg.org.za/policy_docs
 
 
Thank you,
 
Mlulami Dodo
Parliamentary Monitoring Group
 
Website: http://www.pmg.org.za
Access to all Parliamentary Committee information
Email mlulami@pmg.org.za
Tel 021 465 8885



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Ingrid Thomson

[Lib-helig-l] Applications invited: 6th Carnegie Library Leadership Academy 13-27 April 2012


 

The Centre for African Library Leadership will be hosting its

6th and final 2-week Library Leadership Academy in Pretoria, South Africa,

from 13-27 April 2012

Background: In 2008 the University of Pretoria Library Services (UPLS) was awarded a $1m grant by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) to establish the Centre for African Library Leadership (CALL), within the Merensky Library.  The CALL addresses the library leadership development needs within the South African Library and Information Services context by facilitating appropriate library leadership training and development programmes.

Success story: To date 5 Academies have been successfully hosted in July 2009, March and November 2010, and March and November 2011 respectively.  73 academic and public librarians have graduated (from 4 Academies) and the impact has been felt personally and professionally by all participants.  A positive contribution is being made to employer institutions and the LIS sector is being strengthened.  We believe that the next generation of LIS leaders will be drawn from this corps of librarians.

Content: The Academy is designed to build leadership expertise in the national, academic and public/community library sectors.  The programme focus is on best practices in library management, organisational leadership, personal leadership and styles, advocacy and communication skills, reconciliation and cultural integration in the workplace, introduction to Web 2.0 technologies, knowledge management, marketing and branding, etc.

Applications are invited from senior and middle managers in academic and public/community and the national library sectors in South Africa.

The April 2012 Academy is also open to applications from colleagues on the African continent who are working in these three sectors.

For access to the application form, application instructions, eligibility, criteria for selection and stipulations of the Academy, please visit the UPLS Website: http://www.library.up.ac.za/carnegie/academy.htm

Closing date for applications: Friday 17 February 2012.

Inquiries may be directed to the CALL Programme Co-ordinator.

 
 
 
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Martha de Waal
Programme Co-ordinator: Centre for African Library Leadership
Department of Library Services
Merensky Library, Level 3, Room 3-20.5
University of Pretoria
Corner of Lynnwood Road and Roper Street
Hatfield 0083, South Africa 
Tel.: +27 12 420 5308
Fax: +27 12 362 5182
 


Thursday, January 12, 2012

[Lib-helig-l] Guest Post on Departmental Liaisonship

A brilliant Friday morning read! Post is spot-on!

 
 

Sent to you by IngridThomson via Google Reader:

 
 

via Academic Librarian by Wayne Bivens-Tatum on 1/12/12

I contributed a guest post on Becoming a Departmental Liaison to Letters to a Young Librarian, which is a relatively new blog aimed at new librarians where guests are asked, "Is there something you wish you'd known when you were a graduate student and/or a brand new to libraries?" My post sort of addresses that question.

 

 


 
 

Things you can do from here:

 
 

[Lib-helig-l] OPEN ACCESS: IMPACT FOR RESEARCHERS, UNIVERSITIES AND SOCIETY

 
 

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via Library Intelligencer by shirley on 1/11/12

http://www.rluk.ac.uk/files/OA%20Impact%20briefing.pdf

RLUK and SCONUL have commissioned from Alma Swan a short briefing on the impact of open access on researchers, universities and society.

source: RLUK


 
 

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

[Lib-helig-l] Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

 
 

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via Information Literacy Weblog by Sheila Webber on 1/10/12

Last week saw the announcement of the new Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education by the (US) Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). They define Visual Literacy (VL) as "a set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media". The VL Standards include: an introduction & definition; brief discussions of VL as it relates to higher education and to information literacy; "suggestions for implementing the Standards"; a bibliography, and, obviously, the standards themselves. The document is at http://www.ala.org/acrl/files/standards/visualliteracy.pdf and the ACRL VL blog is at http://acrlvislitstandards.wordpress.com/
Photo by Sheila Webber: Winter trees, Sheffield, January 2012

 
 

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[Lib-helig-l] College and research libraries January 2012

 
 

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via Library Intelligencer by shirley on 1/9/12

http://crl.acrl.org/content/current

  • Sheril Hook; Impact? What Three Years of Research Tell Us about Library Instruction
  • Maria Taesil Hudson Carpenter; Cheerleader, Opportunity Seeker, and Master Strategist: ARL Directors as Entrepreneurial Leaders
  • Tim Bottorff and Andrew Todd; Making Online Instruction Count: Statistical Reporting of Web-Based Library Instruction Activities
  • Jessica Kayongo and Clarence Helm; Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame
  • Megan Gaffney; Interlibrary Loan Requests for Locally Available Materials: WorldCat Local's Impact
  • John D. Shank and Nancy H. Dewald; Academic Library Administrators' Perceptions of Four Instructional Skills

 
 

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

[Lib-helig-l] UCT LIS programme

Dear Colleagues
 
*   Please share widely within your networks.  
 
Flyer is attached.   Closing date for applications is 1 February 2012   * 

The University of Cape Town is pleased to announce that its Department of Information and Library Studies will remain open in the future, and will be offering the following programmes in 2012:
 
Postgraduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies
Master's degree in Library and Information Studies
PhD
 
Applications for these programmes are invited by those interested in studying at UCT in 2012.
 
Applications:  http://applyonline.uct.ac.za  or  http://www.uct.ac.za/apply/applications/forms/
Inquiries: From the Department at cil-ched@uct.ac.za  or A/Prof Karin de Jager, karin.dejager@uct.ac.za
 
Applicants for the PGDipLIS intending to work in a public library may enquire from the Library and Information Association  of South Africa (LIASA) about the possibility of scholarships for their studies.
 
Enquiries: LIASA,  liasa@liasa.org.za
 

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

[Lib-helig-l] Fwd: eLearning Africa 2012: Call for Papers will close 9 January



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