[Lib-helig-l] Enhancing librarians' ICT skills for research enablement in African universities: a Carnegie-funded CPD programme

 

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Enhancing librarians’ ICT skills for research enablement in African universities: a Carnegie-funded CPD programme

 

Applications are now open for the first intake of the Carnegie-funded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme, which is aimed at enhancing ICT skills for research enablement in African universities. Academic librarians and LIS faculty in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda are eligible to apply for admission to this programme.

 

Eight four-week training sessions will take place over a period of three years. 32 participants will be selected for each intake.

 

This four-week residential training programme with both practical (70%) and theoretical (30%) components will cover the following topics:

 

1.       Setting the context: Libraries, ICTs and research 

2.       Leadership and innovation

3.       Information literacy

4.       Social media for research discoverability in an academic environment

5.       Mobile technology and mobility

6.       Managing and organising information

7.       Personal Information Management

8.       Open Scholarship and Open Science (OS/S) – Publishing

9.       Open Scholarship and Open Science - Institutional Repositories.

10.   Open Scholarship and Open Science - Understanding and using research data management

11.   Digitisation

12.   Evaluating website architecture

13.   Cloud computing and storage

14.   Virtual research environments

15.   The next generation librarian

 

This is a fully funded programme which will take place in Pretoria, South Africa. The funding covers books and other academic expenditures, flights, accommodation, and a daily stipend while in Pretoria. All participants are expected to reside in the accommodation provided in Pretoria for the duration of the programme.

 

Grant exclusions:

·         Visa applications, personal expenses (for example medicine, laundry, phone calls, etc.)

·         ICT equipment such as laptops, modems, internet access top-ups etc.

·         Travel to and from the airport in your home country

 

Application for the first intake of 2014 closes on 29 April 2014.  No late applications will be considered. (There will be a second intake in November 2014, as well as further intakes in 2015 and 2016.)

 

For additional information on the programme content, eligibility and selection criteria, application procedures, important dates, etc., please see:

http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=22719&subid=22719&ipklookid=7.

 

All correspondence or enquiries: Joan de la Haye at Carnegie-cpd@up.ac.za

 

Kind regards

 

Theo Bothma

 

 

 

 

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Prof Theo JD Bothma

Head: Department of Information Science

Chair: School of Information Technology

 

Physical address:

Dept. of Information Science

Information Technology Building 6-73

Hatfield Campus

University of Pretoria

Corner of Lynnwood Road and Roper Street

Hatfield

0083

 

Postal address:

Dept. of Information Science

University of Pretoria

Private Bag X20
Hatfield
0028

South Africa

 

Tel +27 (0)12 420-2961

Fax +27 (0)12 362-5181

 

E-mail theo.bothma@up.ac.za

Web http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=3706

 

Disclaimer / Vrywaringsklousule

 

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] Friday afternoon read: Leveraging the liaison model

Dear colleagues

A Friday afternoon read:      

 

http://www.sr.ithaka.org/blog-individual/leveraging-liaison-model

 

Two good questions:  what  does the library do that promotes academic productivity and is it the most effective and efficient way to

achieve that end?

 

Regards

 

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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[Lib-helig-l] Reminder: Short course: Records and Digital Content Management at UCT

·         Message has been cross-posted.

·         Please contact Tasneem Salie directly.

 

There are only a few spaces left for the short course on Records and Digital Content Management  to be held at UCT on 9-11 April 2014. Please see attached flyer. Contact Tasneem Salie (tasneem.salie@uct.ac.za) for more information.

 

Library and Information Studies Centre

University of Cape Town

 

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[Lib-helig-l] Reminder about Research Data Management Workshop (DCC and LIASA)

Dear Colleagues

 

LIASA Western Cape Higher Education Libraries Interest Group (WCHELIG) and the National Higher Education Libraries Interest Group (HELIG)  host this one-day workshop presented by the Digital Curation Centre (Glasgow, UK), made possible by UCT’s Library and Information Studies Centre (LISC).

Presenters are 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 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.                                             Read more: Digital Curation Centre at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/about-us

This workshop builds on the DCC roadshow model.  Joy and Sarah will explain the importance of Research Data Management (RDM), profile examples of how UK universities are developing services, and share practical lessons and tools to help you get started.

 

Date:  Thursday 27 March 2014

Venue:   CPUT Library, Bellville Campus

Costs:  R100 for LIASA members;  R150 for non-LIASA members

To register:  http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/liasa/rdms

Closing date: 23 March 2014

(Please no walk-ins, as space is limited)

 

The programme:

 

09:30	Registration
09:45	Welcome and Introduction	LIASA
10:00	RDM: what it’s all about, the benefits and drivers...	Joy Davidson, DCC
10:30	RDM initiatives in UK universities	Sarah Jones, DCC
11:00	Coffee
11:15	CARDIO quick quiz & discussion. Exercise to assess your RDM readiness	All (exercise)
12:00	Reflections on the RDM position in South Africa	Lucia Lotter, HSRC
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Useful RDM tools and services – resources you can reuse	Joy Davidson, DCC
14:00	DMPonline – brief talk and demo	Sarah Jones, DCC
14:45	Developing a data roadmap for your institution	All (exercise)
15:30	Closing discussion	Joy & Sarah

 

 

 

 

 

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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[Lib-helig-l] VAT on digital media will contribute to SA Higher Education Libraries losting over 40% of their purchasing power

Dear Colleagues

 

Please see the attached joint press statement on VAT from LIASA, CHELSA, NCLIS and SANLiC, and distribute along your networks as well.

 

VAT on digital media will contribute to South African Higher Education Libraries losing over 40% of their purchasing power

 

“....  is for these reasons that the higher education library fraternity, represented by CHELSA, LIASA,NCLIS and SANLiC are united in calling for a rethink on the implementation of 14% VAT on scholarly

electronic information by Treasury with effect from 1 April 2014. In addition the fraternity is calling for urgent, co-ordinated and inclusive initiatives to remedy the squeeze on library assets.”

 

 

Kind regards

 

 

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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[Lib-helig-l] Tuesday Read: Latest College & Research News March 2014

Dear Colleagues

Here is the link to the latest College and Research News March 2014

http://crln.acrl.org/content/75/3.toc

 

Articles of possible interest:

o    Renee Dechert, Susan Richards, Carol Zawacki, and Gerald Giraud

Exploring the learning commons: Tutoring moves into Hinckley Library

Coll. res. libr. news March 2014 75:125-146

        

o    Ilka Datig and Luise Herkner

Get ready for a long night: Collaborating with the writing center to combat student procrastination

Coll. res. libr. news March 2014 75:128-131

 

o    Maria Bonn

Tooling up: Scholarly communication education and training

Coll. res. libr. news March 2014 75:132-135

 

o    Christina M. Desai

What’s so important about children’s literature?: Nostalgia meets research

          Coll. res. libr. news March 2014 75:144-146

 

Kind regards

 

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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[Lib-helig-l] Invitation to LIASA WCHELIG/HELIG/DCC RDM Workshop in Cape Town

Dear Colleagues

LIASA Western Cape Higher Education Libraries Interest Group (WCHELIG) and the National Higher Education Libraries Interest Group (HELIG)  host this one-day workshop presented by the Digital Curation Centre (Glasgow, UK), made possible by UCT’s Library and Information Studies Centre (LISC).

Presenters are 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 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.                                             Read more: Digital Curation Centre at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/about-us

This workshop builds on the DCC roadshow model.  Joy and Sarah will explain the importance of Research Data Management (RDM), profile examples of how UK universities are developing services, and share practical lessons and tools to help you get started.

 

Date:  Thursday 27 March 2014

Venue:   CPUT Library, Bellville Campus

Costs:  R100 for LIASA members;  R150 for non-LIASA members

To register:  http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/liasa/rdms

Closing date: 23 March 2014

(Please no walk-ins, as space is limited)

 

The programme:

 

09:30	Registration
09:45	Welcome and Introduction	LIASA
10:00	RDM: what it’s all about, the benefits and drivers...	Joy Davidson, DCC
10:30	RDM initiatives in UK universities	Sarah Jones, DCC
11:00	Coffee
11:15	CARDIO quick quiz & discussion. Exercise to assess your RDM readiness	All (exercise)
12:00	Reflections on the RDM position in South Africa	Lucia Lotter, HSRC
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Useful RDM tools and services – resources you can reuse	Joy Davidson, DCC
14:00	DMPonline – brief talk and demo	Sarah Jones, DCC
14:45	Developing a data roadmap for your institution	All (exercise)
15:30	Closing discussion	Joy & Sarah

 

 

 

 

 

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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