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It's been a busy month at the FOTIM and GAELIC Office with planning for 2006 well underway. Our new website was launched (www.fotim.ac.za) and we will appreciate all comments regarding the new structure. The first FOTIM Newsletter was also distributed this month - please click here to view the first edition and for subscription details
We would like to wish our members and friends a happy festive season and prosperous new year!
With best wishes
From the GAELIC Office.
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GAELIC / SALIT Interlending Project
The investigation into performance levels of interlending and document supply in GAELIC member libraries has been completed and the results have also been distributed to libraries on CD-ROM. A special word of thanks to Heidi Visser and her team for making this project possible, and to the SALI Trust for having made a grant available to conduct a thorough investigation.
GAELIC Survey Results
GAELIC recently conducted a survey to assess the digital status of its libraries, determine a membership profile and surface needs to be addressed by the consortium. Thanks to all the GAELIC members who made the survey possible by taking part in the focus-group interviews.
The survey results were distributed to the libraries on CD-ROM in November 2005.
VUMA - an appeal for content
With a $250 000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, implementation of FOTIM's virtual education site, VUMA, is now underway, The objective of VUMA is to add value to the learner's higher education experience by providing friendly, online access to academic, life skills, and developmental information via a sophisticated website, thereby helping new learners to adapt to the campus environment, to enrich their learning experience and to achieve success in their studies.
Governance structures are being put into place. Members have been identified to serve on Project Teams (Content, Marketing and Communications, Technical and Web), and will be soon be informed of meeting dates etc for next year, when the real work will begin!
Although several possible sites have been identified which could be linked to the VUMA site, we still currently lack actual content.
FOTIM would like to appeal to member institutions for material (including any of their own material and modules, particularly in the areas of life skills, study skills, PC literacy, information literacy, referencing techniques research methodology, etc) which might be useful to add to the site. For more information contact Anke McCallum at anke@fotim.ac.za
FOTIM Gender Conference
The upcoming FOTIM Gender Studies conference is generating interest both here in South Africa and abroad. This promises to be a stimulating and challenging conference, with international speakers adding to the breadth and depth of discussions. There is still time to register for this conference - please spread the word to colleagues who are interested in gender issues and subject librarians responsible for the collection development in these areas. The provisional programme and abstracts are now available on the website.
GAELIC and Friends Marketing Fair
This popular event will once again be held in 2006. Please diarise 11 May. We need GAELIC members to help organise the event - please contact Tanya if you are willing to assist us or have good ideas for the programme.
FOTIM Quality Assurance Conference 2006
The 2006 conference "Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Mission (Im)possible?" will focus on programme reviews, audits (before and after) and QA of community engagement. A special programme component to address Quality Management in Libraries will be compiled by CHELSA. Please diarise 20 - 22 June.
FOTIM Research Conference 2006
Dates to diarise - 6 & 7 September 2006. More details coming soon….
LIASA Conference
The ninth annual LIASA conference will be held on 25 - 29 September 2006 in Pretoria. The theme for 2006 is "Libraries: partners in learning, nation building and development".
Stellenbosch symposium papers
The papers of the symposium "Technology People first: how client-centered are our libraries" are now available on their website.
International E-learning Initiative Moves to the Internet
The new IMARK website has been released, and offers online access to self-paced e-learning modules. Learners can now register and take the modules "Management of Electronic Documents" and "Digitization and Digital Libraries".
Books Online: The Fee versus Free Battle Begins
Now that all the busy book digitizers have done enough to create what anyone would call library-size collections, they have begun to deliver the full text electronically and to reveal how they plan to "monetize" their investments.
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Congratulations to Robert Moropa who became the first recipient of UNISA's Department of Information Science Alumnus of the year award. Robert received the award in recognition for his input in the profession.
NOSEY NOTES
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During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
Fritjof Capra, physicist
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Daniel Mogashoa writes about academic librarianship and what makes him happy...
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