Re: [Lib-helig-l] [Liasaonline] A first for Higher Education Libraries Interest Group!

Thanks Ujala!

Best regards,

Joy

From: Ujala Satgoor [mailto:u.satgoor@ru.ac.za]
Sent: 03 May 2013 08:29
To: 'Ingrid Thomson'; liasaonline@list.liasa.org.za; lib-helig-l@lists.uct.ac.za; sabinet-sabinews@googlegroups.com
Cc: Joy Davidson; Sarah Jones (HATII)
Subject: RE: [Liasaonline] A first for Higher Education Libraries Interest Group!

Congratulations to the HELIG team and the collaborators (the Digital Curation Centre and Stellenbosch University Library Services) for an excellent first webinar on the critical topic of Digital Curation! This has proven that we can host a series of conversations using this technology which will enable LIASA members and South African librarians to engage with colleagues abroad.

I hope this will the first in a series of exciting exchanges between and by other LIASA Interest Groups as well…

Best regards

Ujala

Ms Ujala Satgoor

LIASA President

president@liasa.org.za

www.liasa.org.za

*Director: Library Services

Rhodes University

TEL: 046 603 8079

FAX: 046 603 7310

u.satgoor@ru.ac.za

From: liasaonline-bounces@list.liasa.org.za [mailto:liasaonline-bounces@list.liasa.org.za] On Behalf Of Ingrid Thomson
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:29 AM
To: liasaonline@list.liasa.org.za; lib-helig-l@lists.uct.ac.za; sabinet-sabinews@googlegroups.com
Cc: Joy Davidson (Joy.Davidson@glasgow.ac.uk); Sarah Jones (HATII) (Sarah.Jones@glasgow.ac.uk)
Subject: [Liasaonline] A first for Higher Education Libraries Interest Group!

Dear Colleagues

Tuesday 30^th April saw a number of firsts for LIASA and the Higher Education Libraries  Interest Group (HELIG).

HELIG National in collaboration with the Digital Curation Centre[DCC]  (Glasgow, UK) held a webinar on Digital Curation.    This was a first for HELIG (and LIASA), a first for the Digital Curation Centre and the first time use of the new Big Blue Button webinar technology from the University of Stellenbosch Library Service.  

There were over 81 sign-ups from all over the world (including Australia and Ghana) but there  were over 100 in the audience (either signed in or in group sessions).    Most of the HE libraries in South Africa were represented.

Our presenters were Joy Davidson,  Associate Director of the DCC and Sarah Jones, Senior Institutional Support Officer. Joy leads the DCC’s training provision and sits on a number of international working groups to define digital curation curricula. Sarah is mainly involved in the DCC institutional engagement programme, supporting universities to develop research data management services. She also contributes to the delivery of training, publications and tools development. (About the Digital Curation Centre: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/about-us ).

Joyce Myeza,  HELIG National Convenor, did the introductions.

DCC has posted a news item at  http://www.dcc.ac.uk/news/liasa-webinar .     Slides are available here at   http://www.slideshare.net/sjDCC/rdm-liasa-webinar

The webinar was not recorded. 

A big thank you must go to Joy Davidson and Sarah Jones of the DCC for their willingness and generosity in presenting the webinar.   Thanks to our Chair, Joyce Myeza and Chair Elect, Ina Smith (who did amazing work behind the scenes to get this all set up) and to Hilton Gibson, at Stellenbosch for all the technical support and assistance.

Some comments  received so far:-

Congratulations to the HELIG team on a very successful webinar. The information provided was very interesting and useful and it was amazing to think that we were enjoying a seminar presented by people in Glasgow but we didn’t have to incur huge expenses or travel anywhere at all! Absolutely wonderful!   - Nora Buchanan, UKZN

Thank you for a splendid webinar that was well received here at Rhodes -. Thandiwe Menze, Rhodes

Seminaar was  baie goeie initiatief! Dankie dat jy dit vir ons bewerkstellig het.  – Martie van Deventer, CSIR

Thanks for a great session this morning. Apart from the usefulness of the content of the Webinar, the interest that it generated, nationally, is great especially going forward in this new area affecting LIS services.  -  Jaya Raju, LISC, UCT

Evaluation forms will be going out to those who signed up. 

The Higher Education Libraries Interest Group (HELIG)  plans to – in support of the LIASA strategy and to help strengthen higher education and research support in South Africa – host a series of activities throughout the year. The purpose of these will be to introduce new trends which also impact on libraries and service delivery, and to stay abreast of new developments as far as it concerns higher education in our country.  

So watch this space for news of the next webinar!      

Regards

 Ingrid Thomson

National PR:  HELIG

Ingrid Thomson

Subject Librarian:  Humanities Information Division

Chancellor Oppenheimer Library

University of Cape Town Libraries

Tel:  +27 21 650 3133

Fax:  +27 21 650 2965

Ingrid.thomson@uct.ac.za

Chair: Western Cape Branch  (2012 – 2014)

National EXCO Additional Member: Advocacy and Social Media (2012 – 2014)

Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA)

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