Monthly Archives: 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 Master’s program in IT for university librarians in Sub-Saharan Africa working in an IT environment and LIS faculty at LIS Schools in Sub-Saharan Africa. There are two types of intake, namely funded and non-funded. Prospective students can apply for either the funded or the non-funded intake, depending on their country of origin.

For funding criteria and financial issues, information on the programme content, selection criteria, application procedures, important dates, etc., please see http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=14080&sub=1&parentid=1066&subid=1089&ipklookid=7.

The program is a two-year coursework Master’s with a number of coursework modules and a mini-dissertation of limited scope.

The program makes use of a blended learning methodology – technology-mediated distance education as well as on-site, face-to-face lectures. Lecturing will take place in Pretoria, South Africa, as well as in the USA at the Universities of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Wisconsin-Milwaukee and in Uganda at the Makerere University.

Applications for the 2014 intake close on 31 October 2013.

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:

  1. CALTER, Mariellen (2013) MOOCs and the library: engaging with evolving pedagogy. Paper presented at: IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 17 – 23 August 2013, Singapore.
  2. CHEN, Joyce Chao-chen (2013) Opportunities and challenges of MOOCs: perspectives from Asia. Paper presented at: IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 17 – 23 August 2013, Singapore
  3. SADEH, Tamar (2013) From search to discovery. Paper presented at: IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 17 – 23 August 2013, Singapore.
  4. BURNHILL, Peter and PELLE, Françoise (2013) Who is looking after your e-journals? Telling tales about the keepers registry & your digital shelves. Paper presented at: IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 17 – 23 August 2013, Singapore.
  5. TAN, Margaret (2013) Implementing agile management through collaborative social computing. Paper presented at: IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 17 – 23 August 2013, Singapore.

 

 

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 retiring members became corresponding members and hence will remain involved with the Committee’s activities.  All details about members are available at http://www.ifla.org/academic-and-research-libraries/standing-committee.

If you have anything you would like to promote via this blog, please send to Janet Fletcher.