Thursday, June 21, 2012

[Lib-helig-l] Academic Librarians and Research: A Study of Canadian Library Administrator ...

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via College & Research Libraries current issue by Berg, S. A., Jacobs, H. L., Cornwall, D. on 6/20/12

Within the literature exploring the role of research in academic librarianship, very little attention has been paid to the perspectives of upper library administrators. This perspective is critical because library administrators play a key role in hiring, evaluating, supporting, promoting and tenuring professional librarians. As a way of bringing the administrative perspective to these discussions, our study examines how library administrators within the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) view the role of research in their own libraries and within academic librarianship, as well as how they perceive the current and future climate for librarians' research. Our study reveals key areas in need of further research and identifies several issues that librarians and upper administrators would benefit from exploring together in order to advance discussions about research.

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[Lib-helig-l] Working together: evolving value for academic libraries

See below. One needs to register to get access to the report which was commissioned by Sage.

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Ingrid

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http://libraryvalue.wordpress.com/report/
The final report has now published.
you will need to register but access is free

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[Lib-helig-l] Reminder: IFLA 2012 attendance

IFLA WLIC 2012 – Helsinki, Finland
11 – 78 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 2012 Conference in Helsinki, Finland.                   

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 or poster session, you are welcome to indicate so.

Please send your details to Annamarie Goosen or fax it to 086 694 7272.



Annamarie Goosen
CiCD Programme Manager
A LIASA-Carnegie Project
Tel: 012 324 6096
Fax: 086 694 7272

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LIASA 14th Annual Conference
1 – 5 October 2012
Theme: Empowering communities, building a nation


[Lib-helig-l] Fwd: [Emerge-l] e/merge 2012 Registration and Keynotes - with corrected link



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
>>> "Tony Carr" <Tony.Carr@uct.ac.za> 6/19/2012 6:40 PM >>>
Corrected version with second link reset if you're intending to circulate this to other colleagues and networks
Thanks
:)
Tony
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Dear colleagues,
Registration for the e/merge 2012 online conference is open.
e/merge 2012 – Open to Change (9-20 July 2012) is the fourth online conference on educational technology in Africa. The conference is primarily designed to share good practice and knowledge about educational technology innovation within the further and higher education sectors in the Africa, as well as to strengthen communities of researchers and practitioners across the continent. Participate from anywhere with a reasonable Internet connection and engage with the presentations and discussions, live meetings, workshops, participant driven conversations and social media interactions that are most interesting to you.
Registration is free for all participants based in Africa and costs R750 (approximately $90) for  participants in other continents who are not presenters.  If you're based outside Africa and can't afford the registration fee then you are welcome to contact us on info@emerge2012.net and tell us about the value that you will bring to e/merge 2012.
Our keynote presenters are:
  • Nnenna Nwakanma, Information and Communication Consultant - From Kilimanjaro to the Rift  Valley: A sneak view of openness in education through an African's eyes
  • Professor Victor Mbarika, Executive Director, International Center for IT and Development, Southern University, USA -  A Good Farmer Should Not Complain of His/Her Tools:  Using A Hybrid E-Learning Approach at The ICT University to Reach Thousands in Developing Nations
  • Associate Professor Yacine Atif, College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University - Instructional design patterns in a conversational learning model
  • Professor David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute -  Networking Knowledge: Globalizing Connected Learning
  • Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz, Director of Open UCT, University of Cape Town - Open Scholarship and what it means for African Universities
Presentations and papers at e/merge cover a wide range of topics including online learning environments, introducing elearning to universities, the eLearning Africa Report, gendered use of computers, peer to peer learning, open educational resources, teaching with social media, learning design, and innovative research methodologies. Experiences and learning from the PHEA:ETI project  involving seven African universities will be featured across e/merge.
e/merge 2012 online workshops include opportunities for participants to explore learning analytics, peer to peer learning, knowledge curation, online facilitation practices, and the use of social networks for teaching and professional networking.
Please circulate this announcement widely in your networks. In Twitter please use the hashtag #emergeafrica  in messages about e/merge.
I look forward to seeing you in e/merge 2012.
Best wishes
:)
Tony
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Contact details
Website: http://emerge2012.net
General Enquiries: info@emerge2012.net
e/merge 2012 Registration: http://emerge2012.net/registration/
Tony Carr
Staff Development and Curriculum Projects Coordinator
Centre for Educational Technology
University of Cape Town
phone: +27216505033
e-mail: tony.carr@uct.ac.za
Please note that as of 15th August 2011 Stephen Marquard is the Acting Director of CET. He can be contacted directly on stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za .

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[Lib-helig-l] [Emerge-l] e/merge 2012 Registration and Keynotes



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
>>> "Tony Carr" <Tony.Carr@uct.ac.za> 6/19/2012 12:10 PM >>>
Dear colleagues,
Registration for the e/merge 2012 online conference is open.
e/merge 2012 – Open to Change (9-20 July 2012) is the fourth online conference on educational technology in Africa. The conference is primarily designed to share good practice and knowledge about educational technology innovation within the further and higher education sectors in the Africa, as well as to strengthen communities of researchers and practitioners across the continent. Participate from anywhere with a reasonable Internet connection and engage with the presentations and discussions, live meetings, workshops, participant driven conversations and social media interactions that are most interesting to you.
Registration is free for all participants based in Africa and costs R750 (approximately $90) for  participants in other continents who are not presenters.  If you're based outside Africa and can't afford the registration fee then you are welcome to contact us on info@emerge2012.net and tell us about the value that you will bring to e/merge 2012.
Our keynote presenters are:
  • Nnenna Nwakanma, Information and Communication Consultant - From Kilimanjaro to the Rift  Valley: A sneak view of openness in education through an African's eyes
  • Professor Victor Mbarika, Executive Director, International Center for IT and Development, Southern University, USA -  A Good Farmer Should Not Complain of His/Her Tools:  Using A Hybrid E-Learning Approach at The ICT University to Reach Thousands in Developing Nations
  • Associate Professor Yacine Atif, College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University - Instructional design patterns in a conversational learning model
  • Professor David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute -  Networking Knowledge: Globalizing Connected Learning
  • Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz, Director of Open UCT, University of Cape Town - Open Scholarship and what it means for African Universities
Presentations and papers at e/merge cover a wide range of topics including online learning environments, introducing elearning to universities, the eLearning Africa Report, gendered use of computers, peer to peer learning, open educational resources, teaching with social media, learning design, and innovative research methodologies. Experiences and learning from the PHEA:ETI project  involving seven African universities will be featured across e/merge.
e/merge 2012 online workshops include opportunities for participants to explore learning analytics, peer to peer learning, knowledge curation, online facilitation practices, and the use of social networks for teaching and professional networking.
Please circulate this announcement widely in your networks. In Twitter please use the hashtag #emergeafrica  in messages about e/merge.
I look forward to seeing you in e/merge 2012.
Best wishes
:)
Tony
--------------------------------------------
Contact details
Website: http://emerge2012.net
General Enquiries: info@emerge2012.net
e/merge 2012 Registration: http://emerge2012.net/registration/
Tony Carr
Staff Development and Curriculum Projects Coordinator
Centre for Educational Technology
University of Cape Town
phone: +27216505033
e-mail: tony.carr@uct.ac.za
Please note that as of 15th August 2011 Stephen Marquard is the Acting Director of CET. He can be contacted directly on stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za .

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Monday, June 18, 2012

[Lib-helig-l] A Monday afternoon read

Dear Colleagues
A Monday afternoon read ....
For ladies and gentlemen of a certain age, the library is changing too fast. For kids, it's not changing fast enough. University students are caught in the middle. Their library experience must be like surfing: riding the edge of a moving wave, never quite cresting, never quite crashing. Such a state has to be thrilling, but ultimately exhausting.
Regards
Ingrid THomson
Ingrid Thomson
Librarian: Humanities Information Division
Chancellor Oppenheimer Library
University of Cape Town Libraries
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Tel: +27 21 650 3703  Fax: +27 21 689 7569

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[Lib-helig-l] LIASA 14th Annual Conference Register Now

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[Lib-helig-l] Brilliant Keynote to listen/watch - can we not have him come to the LIASA conference, please??

Dear Colleagues
This comes highly recommended and very much worth the 60 minutes (or so) the audio and slides take.   
From R.David Lankes
"The Bad, The Good, and The Great" Keynote Academic Librarians 2012, Syracuse, NY.
Abstract: Bad libraries build collections; good libraries build services (after all a collection is only one type of service); great libraries build communities. In a time of great change and challenges to the very model of higher education, libraries must move beyond a focus on collections to a focus on communities. As new models of instruction (flipped classrooms, inquiry based instruction, etc.) and research emerge (interdisciplinary, large scale, collaborative, data driven), libraries find themselves well positioned – but only if they see their strongest assets as the librarians, not the materials librarians have organized. This talk will look to a new librarianship that moves past artifacts to knowledge and sets a new path.
Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2012/Syracuse.pdf
Audio: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/pod/2012/Syracuse.mp3
regards
Ingrid Thomson
Ingrid Thomson
Librarian: Humanities Information Division
Chancellor Oppenheimer Library
University of Cape Town Libraries
Private Bag
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SOUTH AFRICA
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[Lib-helig-l] Evidence Based Library and Information Practice - Vol 7, No 2 (2012)

Dear Colleagues
There's some really good reading in this latest issue!

Regards
Ingrid Thomson

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[Lib-helig-l] Ingrid.thomson@uct.ac.za has shared: Salem Press Library Blog Awards

Some wonderful blogs here - check out the academic blogs. Voting closes Sunday 17 June 2012
Salem Press Library Blog Awards
Source: salempress.com
Salem is hosting something we call the Library Blog Awards. But the point isn't only to reward good writing once a year. We'd also like to expose the little-known and excellent in an ongoing way. So, we're developing site where we can point out interesting material on a regular basis.
 
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[Lib-helig-l] Resource sharing cost study article now available

Dear Colleagues,

For information, from a colleague of mine in the US, an excellent article is now available on assessing the costs of resource sharing, and provides a good guide and sample methodology for anyone wanting to undertake such an analysis involving multiple organizations. The authors would also like to hear from anyone else involved in similar undertakings.

"I'm pleased to report that the article I wrote with Nancy Kress, North Carolina State Univ., on our resource sharing cost study of some U.S. academic libraries is now available.  This article is based upon the research we discussed at the 12th Interlending and Document Supply Conference in September 2011.  The cost study looked at FY11 average costs across a variety of resource sharing services. You can access the article on one of two ways:
 1) Lars Leon, Nancy Kress, (2012) "Looking at resource sharing costs", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 40 Iss: 2, pp.81 – 87
 2)  Our authors' submitted version can be found on the University of Kansas Institutional Repository ~ KU ScholarWorks at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/9655
Regards,
Kim
Editorial Advisory Board member, Interlending and Document Supply



[Lib-helig-l] College and research libraries news June 2012

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http://crln.acrl.org/content/current
  • ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee 2012 top ten trends in academic libraries: A review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education
  • Laura Andersen andBeth Russell Lessons learned: Five pieces of advice for newbie researchers
  • Cynthia Dudenhoffer Pin it!: Pinterest as a library marketing and informatio n literacy tool
  • Catherine Cardwell,Vera Lux,and Robert J. Snyder Beyond simple, easy, and fast: Reflections on teaching Summon
  • Jason Martin Symbols, sagas, rites, and rituals: An overview of organizational culture in libraries
  • ACRL Information Literacy Best Practices Committee Characteristics of programs of information literacy that illustrate best practices: A guideline: Approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, June 2003, revised January 2012

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[Lib-helig-l] 2012 top ten trends in academic libraries

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A review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee
"Three leaders in academic librarianship were the catalysts for this discussion: Martin Halbert, dean of libraries at University of North Texas; Joan Lippincott, associate director of Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and Mark Puente, director of diversity and leadership programs, Association of Research Libraries (ARL). This discussion forum augmented the trends identified by the committee.
These top trends are listed alphabetically. Each trend includes a brief discussion and references to the literature. The committee also compiled additional resources that may be of interest."

- "Communication value
- Data curation
- Digital preservation
- Higher education
- Information technology
- Mobile environments
- Patron driven e-book acquisition
- Scholarly communication
- Staffing
- User behaviours and expectations"

The committee would like to thank Erin Hood, research assistant at OCLC Research, for her assistance in producing this document."

   


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[Lib-helig-l] Technology & innovations in libraries and their impact on learning, research...

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My keynote for the 33rd IATUL (International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries) conference in Singapore.

"Keynote speaker, Joe Murphy, delivers his presentation on the topic,  Technology & innovations in libraries and their impact on learning, research and user, on Day 2 on the theme "Technology & New Media" of the 33rd IATUL Conference held at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, 4-7 June 2012."



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[Lib-helig-l] Unisa International ODL Conference 5-7 September 2012


Dear Colleagues

Due to various requests the extension of the deadline for submissions for the first Unisa international ODL conference (5-7 September 2012), the final date for submissions have been postponed till Friday 15 June 2012. For more information on the submission process, please visit the conference website at http://www.unisa.ac.za/odl12


[Lib-helig-l] WCHELIG Teaching & Learning (Librarians as Teachers) Workshop - Full

Good Afternoon
Please be advised that the 'Librarians as Teachers' Workshop is full.
To the people who responded to the advert:
Please let Marianne know if you are no longer attending the workshop because; your cancellation will enable us to cater for the people on the waiting list.
Contact Marianne Elliott on 021 7820144 Marianne.Elliott@falsebay.org.za  
Thank you for your cooperation.
Bulelwa Mandubu
UWC Library
WCHELIG Chairperson