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Dear GAELIC friends
There is a distinct chill in the air as Autumn fast approaches and with it the end of the first semester for the year. Our advice to you is to keep warm, avoid the flu and drink lots of hot chocolate!!
 
Zodwa, Anke, Tanya, Carole & Lawson
The GAELIC Strategic Plan report back
Although facing a few challenges lately, the strategic plan is still on track. Several key members have resigned, leaving gaps in our teams which we hope to fill soon: Hannie Sander resigned as Convenor of objective 3 and Anette van Vuuren as Operational Manager of objective 2. Rachel More has left the GAELIC network entirely and her role as incoming chair of GALEIC has been filled by Mushoni Mulaudzi of the University of Venda. Thanks to all for their hard work and welcome Mushoni. Staff members from all our institutions were appointed to the Teams and we welcome all of you on board.
FOTIM Notes
VUMA!
GAELIC extends a big WELCOME to Lawson Ricketts who is doing amazing things on the FOTIM VUMA! website. Check out the discussions, career information, and join the blogs and groups.
Visit the site >>>
More student issues...
Do your students engage in "WIGWAM research?
(Wikipedia - Internet - Google - Without Anything More)"... Read more >>
GAELIC Celebration
We celebrate on behalf of our members. :-
Congratulations to Rachel More on her appointment as Deputy National Librarian
The University of Pretoria joins the World Digital Library ---- read about this collaboration of 23 institutions.
The University of Johannesburg launched its DigiSpace Institutional Repository on the 24th March.
UNISA offers its users AirPAC, a wireless catalogue with the ability to view and access the Library's catalogue and documents via their cellphones: A 1st for South African libraries. 15/5/09
IFLA News
Claudia Lux, IFLA President, officially launched the new IFLA website on Wed 22 April. See also the Publications section where you can access the IFLA Journal
GAELIC Notes
Objective 1 : Promote Optimal Use of the Millennium System in GAELIC member libraries
The Operational team of this Objective Area is up & running and already have their action plans set for 2009. They are organizing a show 'n tell workshop on 15th July to highlight GAELIC member experiences & discuss issues. Look out for the notices.
GAELIC in the News!!
Read the article "South Africa: Bands of the Rainbow" in the latest INN Touch newsletter.
Objective 2 : Build capacity through identification and provision of training needs and services for the optimal utilization of resources
The Team members held a telephone meeting to introduce themselves, while we wait for the new Operational Manager to be appointed to drive the Team.
Are you a data warrior? [infoworldreview.co.uk by Peter Williams] 
YouTube launched a new section for Higher Education videos which organizes video channels of more than 100 colleges and universities. Called YouTube Edu, this service makes it easier to find and expose scholarly content to a broader audience.
Read more >>>>
[from The Kept-Up Academic Librarian by Steven Bell]
Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World: a JISC report (March 2009)
"Information literacies, including searching, retrieving, critically evaluating information from a range of appropriate sources and also attributing it - represent a significant and growing deficit area"
Objective 3 : Improve cost efficiency through joint procurement and resources sharing
Opening Access to Knowledge in Southern African Universities : a SARUA report
Read more about restrictions on access to knowledge in Africa …..including restrictive copyright practices, lack of access to Internet-based technologies, out-dated paradigms for knowledge collection and dissemination, & lack of creative and effective government supported enabling environments within higher education.
Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want a report authored by an OCLC research team headed by Karen Calhoun, presents findings about the data quality expectations of catalogue end users and librarians.
2009 Strategic Thinking Guide for Academic Librarians in the New Economy by ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries, American Library Association)
Open access and Institutional Repositories
The Directory of Open Access Journals reaches it 4,000 journal mark. & E-LIS (an international archive for LIS) now contains over 9,000 documents. [Thanks to Andrew Waller the OA Librarian)
"Education is thriving in Second Life" … Second Life Is No Dud When It Comes To Higher Education from The Kept-Up Academic Librarian by Steven bell Read more >>>
Managing digital information: the issues for libraries
Getting to grips with digital content and its preservation raises huge issues for libraries and other repositories. By Tim Buckley Owen, Information World Review 27 Apr 2009
Digital Preservation Cartoons on YouTube DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) uses cartoons to explain complex digital preservation issues to the widest possible audience.
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BLOG NOTE
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Think security... Protect yourself and your possessions
The laptop that shouts 'Stop, thief' when stolen Read more >>>
At risk of ID theft : Are you one of those individuals who stores all confidential information in your cell phone? - Beware
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NOTEWORTHY
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Unesco has designated April 23 as World Book & Copyright Day. Read more >>>
The National Library of South Africa celebrated this day on the 13th of May.
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TAKE NOTE
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LIBRARY TRIVIA NOTES
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Upcoming Conferences and workshops
The Carnegie Centre for African Library Leadership (CALL) hosts a 2-week Library Leadership Academy in Pretoria 05-18 July 2009.
1st International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-1), 1-3 Jul 2009. UN Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Wits & IFLA are partners). See >>
5th International Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference. Sweden, 29/6/09 to 3/07/09. See >>>
13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009) Digital Societies Corfu, Greece, 27/09/09 to 2/10/09 See >>>
GAELIC Objective 1 Team host a "Show and Tell" experience on 15 July 09. Venue to be confirmed.
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FUTURE NOTE
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"Life happened because I turned the pages"
Alberto Manguel - History of Reading
Final Note
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it".
M. Gandhi
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