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Welcome to the second edition of GAELIC Notes. Many thanks to those of you who sent comments and ideas through to us - please keep them coming.
Each month, the newsletter will include a Notable section which will profile members in the GAELIC community. Thanks to Heidi Visser for her interesting contribution to this month's newsletter. If you would like to contribute and tell us about yourself, in either a personal or work-related capacity - please contact tanya@fotim.ac.za
Remember that our contact telephone numbers have changed.
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Tanya Healey |
011 476 8727 |
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Gwenda Thomas |
011 807 5375 |
With best wishes
From the GAELIC Office
- A CD of the proceedings of the GAELIC 2005 Symposium have been distributed to all delegates. They are also available on the website :
Click here for more info.
The support that GAELIC has received in response to the Symposium has been both encouraging and motivating. The 2006 GAELIC and Friends Marketing Fair is scheduled for mid-2006. Broadly, it will explore aspects of marketing library services in the growing arena of the virtual research environment.
- GAELIC recently took a step to move its activities away from committee-based and agenda-driven type structures to "Focus Group" structures. Staff working in GAELIC member libraries who have a keen interest in a particular area of library and information work and would like to be part of the process in establishing Focus groups within GAELIC are welcome to do so. Some basic guidelines are available on the website:
Click here for more info. (PDF Document)
- Congratulations to Rachel More who has been appointed as Interim Director at the University of Limpopo Library.
- Following the retirement of Mr Manikam Moodley from the University of Johannesburg Library, the sharing of managerial responsibilities at the Doornfontein and Auckland Park Campuses has been announced and GAELIC congratulates Ms Neli Kaunda (Acting Director: Internal Operations and Technical Services) and Ms Julia Paris (Acting Director: Client Services and Branch Libraries.) on their appointments.
- The staff of the GAELIC member libraries were saddened to learn of the recent passing away of Margaret Kenyon who was the University Librarian at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape.
STANSA Technical Committee:
Standards South Africa has invited GAELIC to nominate a representative to a national technical committee called STANZA TC-46. We are pleased to announce that Dr Hester Marais has been nominated to act in this capacity...
COSALC
The COSALC AGM took place on 3 August 2005. The agenda and documentation...
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"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education" - Mark Twain
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Find out what makes Heidi Visser tick……
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