[Lib-helig-l] Call for Papers – Access to Information in Quality Education

 

 

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Call for Papers – Access to Information in Quality Education

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Should Access to Information be a Cornerstone Standard to Achieving Quality Basic Education in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Conference details: February 2011, 14-16. Livingstone, Zambia

From 14-16 February 2011 the Right to Know, Right to Education project will host a regional conference to address the issues of quality basic education for all. The conference will provide a platform for regional bodies, academics, civil society organisations and international aid organisations to deliberate critical questions such as the role of international quality standards for Sub-Saharan African countries; the effective monitoring of education standards in-country; how the right of access to information could be promoted by multi-lateral agencies; and whether quality education can be realised without stakeholders' free and open access to relevant information? Also, the contentious notion of the nexus between resource and outcomes will be discussed. The latter is important especially in the context of delivering targeted resources to poor and vulnerable schooling communities. Finally, the conference will probe the role of regional institutions such as SADC, PAP and the AU in promoting a quality basic education agenda.

Themes
Access to Education, Quality of Basic Education and Linkages with the Right of Access to Information

Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Policies and Outcomes: The Role of Governments, Civil Society and other Non-State Actors

The Nexus between Resources and Outcomes in Basic Education

We are inviting abstracts for any one of the three themes and our aim is to have a fair distribution of abstracts and papers across the three sub-themes. The abstract should be citation-free and should not exceed 150 words. They should include the title of the paper, name(s) of the author(s), organisational affiliation(s) and contact information of the author(s). All abstracts should be sent to Francina Mhundwa at fmhundwa@idasa.org.za and Rose Hemmer-Vitti at rhemmervitti@idasa.org.za by 31 October 2010 for consideration.

Note for presenters

Presenters must be able to present their findings at the conference that will be held on 14 to 16 February 2011 in Livingstone, Zambia. Subject to peer review, some papers will be chosen to be published in an edited conference book through a reputable publisher. For further inquiries, please contact Rose Hemmer-Vitti at rhemmervitti@idasa.org.za.

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[Lib-helig-l] LIASA Conference IS the Hype

The LIASA 12^th Annual Conference

“Libraries driving access to knowledge”

 

REGISTER NOW!!

There are only 1 week and 3 days left before registration for the LIASA Annual Conference closes.

To register online, click here.

To view the programme, click here.

Beyond the Hype with Barrie Bramley on Friday 1 October 2010

Barrie heads up the Talent Development Project of TomorrowToday.  They are convinced that discovering, attracting and retaining Bright Young Things is one of the next BIG challenges business is going to have to find solutions for, and that they are ideally positioned to significantly contribute to this global conversation.

 

 

Beyond the Hype: How Web 2.0 is impacting today’s young people, and how they’re going to impact your business?

A new generation of young staff and clients have different expectations of work, management, how they will buy from you, and even how they communicate.  What people now want is a way to engage with you.  As customers they want websites that allow interaction – they want you to listen to them, not just shout messages at them.  As staff, they use their computers and mobile phones not just for work, but as integral ways of managing their lives – and even as tools to help them take a break and refocus.

Yet, so many companies simply fail to grasp this new approach to the application of technology that is happening in their offices.  Some respond by banning the use of social networks during office hours.  Others have attempted to use these sites to sell their goods and services, and have done more harm than good to their brand.  Contrary to the media’s characterisation, Twitter and Facebook are not just places for celebrities to tell the world what they ate for breakfast.  The stats – and reality – tell a different story, of a vibrant community of opinion shapers and a new forum for your team to interact with each other and your customers.  This is the world of Generation Y – and they’re here to stay.

In this presentation Barrie will show you why today’s young people have different values and what they expect from your company, as both staff and customers.  He will help you make sense of the dizzying array of options, and select appropriate tools to enhance productivity in your office and to improve your brand awareness through intelligent use of new social networking technologies.

For more information on the Conference, contact Engela Barnard on 0861 921 921 or visit www.liasa.org.za.

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] The Internet will set you free

August 29, 2010
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Internet-Will-Set-You-Free/124126/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
The Internet Will Set You Free
For the 10th-anniversary issue of The Chronicle Review, we asked
scholars and illustrators to answer this question: What will be the
defining idea of the coming decade, and why?
Peter Singer

It doesn't take remarkable insight to suggest that the defining idea
of the coming decade will be the Internet. The Internet's significance
is already apparent, especially in higher education. Everyone now has
access to the resources of the world's greatest libraries.
Collaborating with distant colleagues, and keeping up on the latest
developments in your field, has become much easier. Some scientists
and other scholars now publish their findings online, rather than wait
for a response from a peer-reviewed journal. If you are in the social
sciences, the Internet brings you millions of research subjects.

Similarly, the number of possible students has exploded as more online
courses are offered, and students in developing countries can now take
courses with the world's best teachers from elite universities. The
cost—both financial and environmental—of giving students access to
what they need to read has dropped, as more materials can be read
online or posted on a course Web site. These trends will progress
further; yet they will be among the less significant changes that the
Internet brings about.

Over the next decade, closed cultures will find it increasingly
difficult to keep their members from seeing and contacting people who
live in more open societies. The grip once held by a few media owners
over what reaches the public has been irreversibly loosened by
independent bloggers and reporters who are read by millions. Web sites
like WikiLeaks disseminate leaked documents and cause severe
embarrassment to governments around the world. An Iranian lawyer has
used the Internet to bring international attention to the case of a
woman sentenced to death by stoning for the "crime" of adultery. At
the time of this writing, it appears that the protests have succeeded
in averting the carrying out of the sentence.

The biggest unknown is how far and how fast access to the Internet
will spread. Mobile phones have already proved to be enormously
beneficial for people in developing countries that lack the
infrastructure for landlines. To give just one example, mobile phones
have freed poor rural farmers from dependence on price information
supplied by the merchants who buy their crops. The farmers now have
independent ways of determining market prices. The Internet will make
even greater strides as a tool that empowers the world's poor, but
only if we can find a way to provide cheap and easy Internet access in
developing countries. Will that happen? I hope so. One thing is
certain: We will continue to be surprised at how relatively simple
changes in technology bring about fundamental changes in the way we
live.

Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University.

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[Lib-helig-l] The Latest Stay-in-School Tool for College Students: Facebook

Can FB make a difference in Higher education through put rates? What
do you think?

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Latest-Stay-in-School-Tool/26705/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
September 3, 2010, 06:04 PM ET

The Latest Stay-in-School Tool for College Students: Facebook
By Paige Chapman

You're in the middle of writing a 10-page term paper, it's 11 p.m.,
and there's no end in sight. Looks like it's time for Facebook.

That ever-beckoning distraction has led some people to see the
combination of the popular social network and studying as an academic
disaster. However, a recently published study in the Journal of
College Student Retention finds that frequent Facebookers are actually
more likely to return to their initial college after their freshman
year. It's the latest in a series of studies exploring possible links
between Facebook and academics.

In a survey of 375 randomly selected students at Abilene Christian
University, those who were more active on the social network were
likelier to return for their sophomore year. On average, returning
sophomores had 27 more friends and 59 more wall posts than did
students who didn't return.

Richard Beck, an author of the report, says there is often an "Animal
House paradigm" associated with college students, meaning that all
their time is either spent studying or slacking. But "it may be more
complex than that, as students are trying to find both a vibrant
academic and social life on campus," he says.

The Facebook effect on college campuses is twofold, Beck says: Not
only does the network make it easier for freshmen to find friends, but
it also increases the likelihood of students' developing deeper
friendships following chance encounters.

Both aspects, he argues, lead to a deeper sense of connection on both
campus and in the classroom.

Other studies, conducted by Northwestern University and the University
of New Hampshire, have found no relationship between time spent
Facebooking and academic performance.

Eszter Hargittai, an associate professor of communication studies and
sociology at Northwestern University, says studies making
cause-and-effect claims about Facebook and student performance may
fail to take into account another factor: socioeconomic background.
Students with better-educated parents are both more likely to use
Facebook and more likely to perform better academically, she says.

"The types of things students can do on Facebook can cancel each
other out," Hargittai says. "On one end, the connections one can make
on it make students feel more comfortable linking up with others for
class notes and advice. On the other end, it can be used for
procrastination. I think there is definitely more room for research on
the topic."

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[Lib-helig-l] FINAL REMINDER: 3rd Carnegie Library Leadership Academy 5-19 November 2010

The closing date for applications has been extended to Friday September 10, 2010.

 

For information on the application process and instructions, stipulations of the Academy, eligibility and criteria, please visit: http://www.library.up.ac.za/carnegie/academy.htm

 

Applications should reach the office of the CALL Programme Co-ordinator by 16:00 (via courier or delivered in person).

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The Carnegie Centre for African Library Leadership will be hosting

its third two-week Library Leadership Academy in Pretoria,

South Africa, from 5-19 November 2010

 

In 2008 the University of Pretoria Library Services 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.

 

Following the success of the two Carnegie Library Leadership Academies held in July 2009 and March 2010, this Academy will be the third in a series of six to be held over a period of three years.

 

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 & 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 middle to senior level managers at national, academic and public/community library services in South Africa. 

 

All Academy expenses will be covered by the Carnegie grant.  Successful candidates will:

• Travel to Pretoria and Leriba Lodge in Centurion at their own cost
• Share double occupancy accommodation
• Comply with the requirements and adhere to the arrangements of the Academy from the initial selection to the completion of the Academy, including pre- and post Academy projects.

For more information regarding the application process and instructions, stipulations of the Academy, eligibility and criteria, please visit: http://www.library.up.ac.za/carnegie/academy.htm

 

Closing date for applications: Friday September 3, 2010 (extended to September 10, 2010).

 

All inquiries may be directed to the CALL Programme Co-ordinator, Ms Martha de Waal: (012) 420-5308 or martha.dewaal@up.ac.za

 

 

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Martha de Waal

Programme Co-ordinator: Centre for African Library Leadership,

Merensky Library, Level 4,

Department of Library Services,

University of Pretoria,

Lynnwood Road,

Pretoria, South Africa 

Tel.: +27 12 420 5308

Fax: +27 12 362 5182

Email: martha.dewaal@up.ac.za

Website: http://www.library.up.ac.za

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] Papers from the Information Literacy Research Seminar 2010

 

 

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Papers from the Information Literacy Research Seminar 2010

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"We are happy to announce that some of the authors of the position papers discussed at the Information Literacy Research Seminar 2010 at CoLIS in London have made their papers accessible online, most of them via the Borås Academic Digital Archive.

Together with Professor Limberg's opening address, six position papers presenting ongoing and future research can be found via the links provided below:

• Francke, Helena, Credibility, Materiality, and Mediated Interaction
• Huvila, Isto, What about Creating and Organizing?
• Limberg, Louise, Information Literacies at the Intersection between Information Seeking and Learning: Contexts and Values
• Mackey, Thomas P. & Jacobson, Trudi E., Re-Conceptualizing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy for Social Media
• Moring, Camilla, Learning Trajectories: Becoming Information Literate across Practices
• Sormunen, Eero, Lehtiö, Leeni & Hongisto, Heidi, Collective Authoring of Wikipedia Articles as a Learning Task in Embedded Information Literacy Instruction
• Talja, Sanna, From Teaching Information Literacy to Teaching Information Management?: An Information Practice Model for Teaching and Learning Information Competences"

 

 

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[Lib-helig-l] Presentions from "Marketing Libraries in a Web 2.0 World" Now Online Pre-Con...

 

 

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Presentions from "Marketing Libraries in a Web 2.0 World" Now Online Pre-Conference at IFLA

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New available on the IFLA.org web site are links to the presentations from "Marketing Libraries in a Web 2.0 World." It was organized by The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the Management and Marketing Section, in collaboration with the Stockholm University Library, The pre-con took place in Stockholm on August 7, 2010 [...]

 

 

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