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Dear GAELIC friends
Welcome to our first edition of GAELIC Notes for 2006. We hope everyone had a relaxing festive season and that the new year brings you good health, success and happiness.
Remember to send us your news, notices and nosey notes for next month's newsletter - by 6 March please! We are always looking for articles to place in our "Notable" section, where members are welcome to write about their professional or personal experiences. Have a look at this month's article written by "Little Girl".
With best wishes from
The GAELIC Office
FOTIM Planning
At a strategic planning exercise held on 31 January in which the Executive Committees of FOTIM and GAELIC participated, GAELIC was once again described as a great success and FOTIM's priority project. Together with VUMA! and the FOTIM/Associated Colleges of the South academic collaboration projects, it will receive priority attention over the next several years, focusing in the first instance on bridging the digital divide between member libraries. FOTIM as a whole has clarified its vision as becoming an essential partner to its members and other role players in the Higher Education sector, adding value and providing tangible benefit to HE in the region and beyond.
Diversity on Campus
Following a successful workshop held last year, at the request of the University of Johannesburg Library and Information Centre, FOTIM organised 4 workshops for the entire library staff. The workshop offers an orientation to valuing diversity in the workplace, and delegates develop skills to interact successfully in the workplace with diverse individuals and groups. This is especially valuable to consolidate the different campuses making up the newly-merged University of Johannesburg. The workshops are facilitated by the very accomplished Karen Redelinghuys, Employment Equity Manager at Tshwane University of Technology. For further information on FOTIM's Diversity Workshops please contact jenny@fotim.ac.za
The FOTIM QA conference committee is once again bubbling with energy. Our 2nd FOTIM International Quality Assurance Conference will take place from 20 to 22 June 2006 in Pretoria. Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Mission (Im)possible will focus on two parallel themes:
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Quality Assurance in Higher Educatin with the sub-themes: Institutional Audits, Programme Reviews, Community Engagement
Quality Assurance and Quality Management in Higher Education Libraries
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Information Today is inviting proposals for presentations at Internet Librarian International 2006, to be held at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in London, UK, 16-17 October 2006. They are looking for a mix of papers for conference sessions, workshops, and short tutorials, with the emphasis on the practical rather than theoretical.
The ASAIB Conference on Africana: from Papyrus to Metadata will take place at the Military Museum, Johannesburg on 11 and 12 May 2006.
Emerald Group Publishing Limited is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the Emerald Research Fund Awards 2005-2006.
The 9th International Symposium on Electronic Theses & Dissertations ETD 2006: unlocking access will be held in Quebec, Canada 7-10 June 2006.
The 8th International Bielefeld Conference 2006 Academic Library & Information Services: new paradigms for the digital age will be held from 7-9 February 2006, Bielefeld, Germany
A conference on Community Informatics for Developing Countries will be hosted by The Information Society Institute, Cape Town, 31 August - 2 September 2006. The Information Society Institute is an initiative of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
Calling Reference and Information Services Librarians
The 2005 e-Proceedings of the 7th annual VRD Conference held in Burlinggame, CA 14-15 November 2005 are available online. They include presentations, papers, bibliographies, handouts and other resources
In addition, the online proceedings from previous VRD Conferences - 2002, 2003, 2004 are available.
For an update on news and events at eIFL.net - have a look at the January/February 2006 newsletter.
Robert Pearce Head of Client Services, together with Elvis Saal (Dept Afrikaans), C R Fredericks (School of Teacher Education) and Clinton Patrick (ABET) published an article in Communicatio vol 31 (3) 2005 entitled : The persuasive effects of Tsotsitaal in HIV/AIDS material.
Robert's main contribution was to translate some of the English text about HIV/AIDS into Tsotsitaal using Prof Louis Molamu's Tsotsitaal: A dictionary of the language of Sophiatown that was published in 2003 by Unisa Press.
Well done we are very proud of you!
A former colleague from the GAELIC region, Ms Ellen Tise, has been appointed as Senior Director for Library and Information Services at the University of Stellenbosch from January 2006. Previously, Ellen worked in the Library Services at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg before she took up a post as the University Librarian at the University of Western Cape in 2001. The GAELIC Consortium wishes Ellen success in her new and challenging position. The contact e-mail is: etise@sun.ac.za
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GAELIC has been active member of the name authority program, NACO, which forms part of the LC Program for Cooperative Cataloguing (PCC) whereby authority records can be shared internationally.
NACO PARTICIPATION
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
QUOTE OF NOTE
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Hi there everybody, my name is 'Little Girl'. I joined the staff of Interlibrary Loans at Wits University in January 1996. Initially I was...
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