Monthly Archive for October, 2013

Master’s program in information technology for university librarians and LIS faculty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Applications for the fourth intake of this exciting Master’s program in Information Technology for university librarians and LIS faculty in Sub-Saharan Africa are now open. The Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to establish a […]

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Singapore papers are available from IFLA’s Library

The papers from the joint session of the Knowledge Management SC  and Academic & Research Libraries SC held at Singapore are now available from IFLA’s library. Relevant papers are: CALTER, Mariellen (2013) MOOCs and the library: engaging with evolving pedagogy. Paper presented at: IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 17 – 23 August […]

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New office bearers for ARL Standing Committee

At the IFLA Congress in Singapore, the ARL Standing Committee elected new office bearers:  Vicki McDonald (Chair/Treasurer), Mimi Calter (Secretary) and Janet Fletcher (Information Coordinator, including editor of this blog). In Singapore we also welcomed our new members to the Committee and said thank you to retiring members.  Fortunately our […]

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