INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
ISSN 0850-9891 NEWSLETTER AFRICA SECTION N° 32 December 2007
CONTENTS IFLA FRICA NEWS
IFLA 2008, QUEBEC South Africa plays a role in IFLA leadership
WLIC IN DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA 1. African Professional Participates in Large Numbers
NEWS 1. South Africa Plays a Major Role in IFLA Leadership 2. IFLA Regional Office for Africa Moves to Pretoria 3. Africa Section Elects new Officers 4. IFLA Language Centres Created Ellen Ramona Tise
AFRICA FOCUS AT WLIC 2007 After hosting a world class IFLA Congrex 2007, South Africa plays a pivotal role in IFLA leadership. Ellen ANNOUNCEMENTS Ramona Tise, President Elect of IFLA is Senior Director of 1.Call for Projects Stellenbosch University Library and Information Services, 2. Call for Papers South Africa. She begins her two-year term as President Elect in 2007-2009 succeeding Claudia Lux as President in August 2009 for a two-year term as President, 2009- 2011. We wish her well. IFLA 2008, QUEBEC
WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS & 74TH IFLA GENERAL CONFERENCE AND COUNCIL, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA, 10-14 AUGUST 2008 Africa Section will have an open session at the coming IFLA 74TH Congrex in Quebec. The theme is:
“Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for African Libraries”
Find all the details on the Call for Paper on this event
WLIC IN DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
African Professional Participates in Large Numbers Professor Peter Lor, General Secretary of IFLA
In the LIS environment we speak of “lack of access” being Professor Peter Lor, General Secretary is another the challenge in service provision. The Library and leadership figure in IFLA who began office in 2005. He is Information workers in Africa always had lack of access in former National Librarian of South Africa after retiring to attending IFLA Congrex. 2007 Africa hosts WLIC in become Professor Extraordinary at the University of Durban and 1606 African delegates attended. South Africa Pretoria, South Africa. the host country had 1212 representation which includes day visitors. It was good to see the African professional This is an illustration of local association like LIASA, community participate at IFLA in such numbers. encouragement to its members to “think locally but act globally” LIASA has tirelessly encouraged its members to Congratulations to colleagues who took time off to be in actively participate in the profession and this is one of the Durban. It is hoped that they will share the experience and payoffs. knowledge gained with fellow colleagues who could not attend but chose to man office. We hope that Africa The African professional community is looking forward to enjoyed itself and saw the need for Africa’s active learn from these experiences and envisage sustaining the participation in IFLA. Africa Region needs all your visibility of the continent in IFLA. continued support for its sustainability.
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s25/index.htm IFLA Regional Office for Africa moves to Pretoria. IFLA Africa Section Elects new Officers After 22 years as Regional Manager of the IFLA Regional Office for Africa, Henri Senne retired at the end of 2007. Dr. Buhle Mbamba-Thata, Executive Director of UNISA The University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, won the Library and Information Services, welcomes the African bid to host the IFLA Regional Office for Africa. UNISA will professional community as your Chairperson of Africa be the IFLA African Region host for the next three years. Section. She was elected Chair of the section in Durban, The office is manned by Ms Lindy Nhlapo as Regional August 2007 during the IFLA Congrex. Her contacts are: Manager.
The IFLA Office in Pretoria is a permanent representative of IFLA/HQ in Africa. Its role is to promote IFLA, support IFLA's Africa Section and liaise with IFLA/HQ. Other responsibilities include: • active membership recruitment • co-organising regional IFLA events in cooperation with other IFLA professional units (Sections and Core Activities)
• Information dissemination Dr. Buhle Mbamba-Thata • more effective communication • representing IFLA to give it more visibility amongst UNISA Library Services the African professional community P.O. Box 392 Pretoria 0003 South Africa
Or, mobile: +27 727328072 Landline: +27 12 429 3844 Fax: +27 12 4293807 email: [email protected] Website: www.unisa.ac.za
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Lindy Nhlapo, Regional Manager for Africa Region
The Regional Manager is responsible for, amongst other things: • membership recruitment • source funding Dr. James O Daniel, FNLA, CLN • information dissemination about IFLA in the
region Dr James Daniels is Librarian of the National • organise communication between IFLA/HQ and Mathematical Centre in Nigeria. He is the elected the region (newsletter + listserves) Secretary of IFLA: Africa Section. Dr. Daniel was elected • give support and assist African IFLA members as Secretary in Durban, August 2007He has been involved with election procedures with IFLA’s governing structures for a long period of time It is an honour for the University of South Africa to host and he brings with him a lot of expertise. He is the and provide an officer for the Africa Region. President, West African Library Association (WALA) The Regional Manager can be reached on: Chairman, Librarians, Registration Council of Nigeria
(LRCN) IFLA Regional Office in Africa IFLA Standing Committee Member of Africa Section 2005- UNISA Library Services 2009 P.O. Box 392 Immediate Past President,Nigerian Library Association Pretoria 0003 (NLA) and a Fellow of the NLA South Africa He is contactable at:
PMB 118 Garki GPO, Abuja,Nigeria, 900001 Landline: +2711 471 2826 Mobile: +234-(0)-8033116409, Mobile: +27 727145125 +234-(0)-8076796603 [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.nmcabuja.org Website: www.unisa.ac.za [email protected]
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s25/index.htm Susan Scheepers and Maureen Brassel (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa) IFLA Language Centres Created • , Forging Global Partnerships: Intercontinental Collaborative Initiatives between LIS Programs IFLA has signed agreement to open three language Edwin-Michael Cortez (University of Tennessee, centres. The purpose of the language centres is to further Knoxville, USA), Johannes Brits (University of the work of IFLA in those language areas. The Arabic Wisconsin, Milwaukee USA), Kendra Albright language Office is hosted by the Alexandrina Library, in (Sheffield University, UK), Issac Kinongo-Bukenya Alexandrina Egypt. The French Language office is hosted by the University of (Makerere University) and Nitza Hernandez Anta Diop, in Dakar Senegal. The Russian Language (University of Puerto Rico) Office is hosted by National Library of Russia in Moscow. • Integration of ICTs in Library and Information Science Education in sub-Saharan Africa Mabel K. Minishi-Majanja (University of South Africa, UNISA, South Africa) Africa Focus at WLIC 2007 in South Africa • Collections as Connectors: the story of Sir George Grey's libraries in South Africa and New Zealand In reminiscence at Africa Region’s participation in WLIC JocelynCuming (National Library of New Zealand, 2007, visit the following items on the programme. These Wellington, New Zealand) are presentation by Africans and/or about Africa • Digitization and conversion of catalogues: cooperation for the development of local process Extracted from the Programme Brigitte Lion (Jouve Digital Cultural Heritage, Paris, France) Abderrahim Ameur (Division de la Friday 17 August Promotion et du Traitement du Fonds 15.00 – 18.00 documentaire, National Library Morroco) 2. Regional Activities (Div VIII). Coordinating Board • Archives of Anti-Colonial Resistance and the Meeting. Liberation Struggle Project (identification, gathering and repatriation of Namibian historical material, including surviving oral evidence at the Saturday 18 August National Archives of Namibia where they are 65. 18.00-19.00 Caucus : Africa, Asia & Oceania and Latin preserved and made accessible to the public America & Caribbean through research and education)
Ellen Ndeshi Nanhila (University of Namibia, Sunday 19 August: Namibia) 13.45 – 15.45 TBA 73. National Libraries • Andrew Kaniki (National Research Foundation, 75. Division IV, Bibliographic Control Pretoria, South Africa) 76.Law Libraries South African Liberation Struggle Living Archive 77. SC I Africa • Collection • From beer halls and maternity wards to public Clemence Petit-Perrot, Craig Matthew (DOXA library: the story of Naivasha and Karatina Productions, Cape Town, South Africa) and Dale Community libraries, Kenya Peters (Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA), Irene Muthoni Kibandi (Kenya National Library University of Kwa Zulu Natal, Durban, South Service, Nairobi, Kenya) Africa) • Bibliographic Control in South Africa • Archives Sonores du Gabon pour une Ina Fourie and Marlene Burger (University of Numerisation Durable du Fonds Pepper Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa) Franck Renaud (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en • Introduction Sciences Sociales, Paris, Institut de Recherche Amanda Barratt (University of Cape Town, South pour le Developpement , Bondy, France) Africa) • Building Science Information Fluency In African • Primary Legal Sources Universities: How Libraries And Researchers Are South African Legal Information Institute, Benefiting From Improved Access To Science Braamfontein, South Africa Scholarship • Cecilie Butenschoen Mariri (Southern and Eastern Barbara Aronson (WHO, Geneva Switzerland), Regional Centre for Women's Law, Harare, Gracian Chimwanza(ITOCA, Harare, Zimbabwe), Zimbabwe ) Tandi Edda Lwoga (Sokoine National Agricultural • SC I Africa * Library, Morogoro, Tanzania), Olivia Vent (Cornell University, USA) • Developing leadership skills Monday 20 August Ujala Satgoor (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa) 08.30-10.30: 83 Division VIII of Regional Activities with Education 10.45 – 12.45 and Training (1) 92 Art Libraries 84 Preservation and Conservation Core Activity 87 Science and Technology 13.45 – 15.45 88 New Professionals • Spiral Training: Information Literacy Skills • The Art Africa project in Biblioteca de Arte Development Fundaçao Galouse Gulbenkian http://www.ifla.org/VII/s25/index.htm Ana Barata (Biblioteca de Arte Fundaçao Library of South Africa's recent experience Galouse Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal) Douwe Drijfhout (National Library of South Africa, • Navigating the Bookscape: Artists' Books and South Africa) the Digital Interface • Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP). David Paton (University of Johannesburg, Newspapers: recent developments and progress Doornfontein, South Africa) Dorothy C. Woodson (Yale University, New Haven, USA) 96-1 Document Delivery and Resources Sharing Section (1) Tuesday 21 August 97 Government Libraries 8.30-10.30 107 FAIFE with Health and Biosciences Libraries • Lifting the curtain on unfilled Interlibrary Loan 108 -1 Genealogy and Local History with Audiovisual Requests and Multimedia (1) Janet Teresa Zambri (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and Heidi Visser 110 Geography and Map Libraries (University of Pretoria, South Africa) 111 E-Learning • South African Government Library Services and the Batho Pele principles: how do the 11 (eleven) • The Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa official languages impact on service delivery? Zackie Achmat (Treatment Action Campaign, T.F. Constable (University of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa) Pretoria, South Africa) • Overview and information issues concerning the HIV/AIDS situation in Africa 16.00 – 18.00 Kingo Mchombu and Chiku Mchombu (University 101 Africa of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia) 102 Library and Research Services for Parliaments • HIV/AIDS Information Seeking and Healthcare 103 Newspapers Communications in Sub-Saharan Africa Kendra Albright (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK) • Meeting the challenge of "local content" in African public library services: a national library initiative • African oral genealogy: collecting and preserving Linus Ikpaahindi (National Library of Nigeria, yesterday for tomorrow Abuja, Nigeria) and John Agada (Emporia State Osei-Agyemang Bonsu (Ghana), Co-author: University, Emporia, USA) Melvin P. Thatcher (Genealogical Society of Utah, • Supporting the information needs of small and Salt Lake City, USA) micro businesses: a South African case study • The politics of resources and conflicts in Africa: a Peter Underwood (University of Cape Town, hydro and geoinformatic analysis of selected Rondebosch, South Africa) regions • Quelles alternatives pour les bibliothèques Peter Ocholla and Kalvin Govender (University of scientifiques africaines face aux défis du XXIe Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa) siècle? Nafissatou Bakhoum (Bibliothèque de l'Ifan, • From libraries to e-learning centres: a South Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal) African library experience • Developing a reading culture among the rural Vivian Agyei (Tshwane University of Technology, masses of Mwambo, Zomba District, Malawi: a Pretoria, South Africa) concept for the 21st Century and beyond 10.45 – 12.45 Francis Fyson Chamba Kachala (Chancellor • "It was another Alexandria": an Oral Narrative College Library, Zomba, Malawi) ILS: towards an of a Cosmopolitan City alternative qualification model for information and Sahar Hamouda (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, libraries in the African context Alexandria, Egypt) Jaya Raju (Durban University of Technology,
Durban, South Africa) 12.00-14.00 • Effective partnerships in parliamentary libraries and research services: a strategic intervention for Poster Session Presentations survival in the 21st century • Serving African Studies in Germany: Old Innocent Rugambwa (Parliament of Uganda, Africana Collections Online Kampala, Uganda) Presenter: Hartmut Bergenthum • Is parliament the right place for research and • From analogue to digital: mapping the development conversion of Etv audio-visual archives from a John Agama (Parliament of Ghana, Accra, Ghana) tape-based library to a digital archive system • Initiatives in Kenya for digitizing, indexing and Presenter: Lynn Johnson and Nohra Moerat preserving newspapers • Information Literacy with Regards to the use of Pamela Howard-Reguindin (U.S. Library of Legal Resources: case study of third year Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya) undergraduate law studies University of Cape • Strategies for increased access to older Town and University of Jos, Nigeria newspapers: the experience of Makarere Presenter: Victoria James Lawal – TBC University Africana / Special Collection Section The Integrated Library System (ILS); a coup Margaret Nakiganda (Makerere University Library, • (d' état)? Kampala, Uganda) Presenter: Anette Lessing Alternative solutions for storing, archiving and • Are We Masters, Detectives or Partners? preserving newspaper collections: the National • Research Librarians Using Technology to http://www.ifla.org/VII/s25/index.htm Diagnose Plagiarism Kathleen Heugh (Human Sciences Research Presenter: Pauline D. Manaka Council, Cape Town, South Africa) • Communal Knowledge Commons • Rendering a children's library services in a Empowering informal Communities in SA multicultural - multilingual community Cities Florence Mdluli (Alexandra 3rd Avenue Children's Presenter: Lazarus Matizirofa Library, Johannesburg, South Africa) • African Library architecture: a celebration of • Creating and marketing a WOW-library innovation and utility Kathy Kunneke (University of South Africa, Presenter: Buhle Mbambo-Thata Pretoria, South Africa) • Bridging the Digital Divide with Free Internet Resources - A Model for Academic Libraries 16.00 – 18.00 Presenter: Elsie A. Okobi Women's Reading Clubs in Malawi • Knowledge Management Presenter: Robert Sarjant • Interventions community libraries can embark on to promote HIV/AIDS awareness • DISA workflow: Knowledge management in Presenter: René Schoombee digital library operations Dale Peters (University of KwaZulu-Natal, • Development of Sustainable Libraries in Northeastern Nigeria South Africa) Presenter: Martha Speirs Plettner • Archiving of Digital Libraries: Towards Online Storage • The Naked Librarian Magdy Nagi (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt) Presenter: Christelle Steyn • "Adapt or die": Energizing library staff and Sharing Knowledge - African and German • academics through the development of digital Librarians Stand Together repositories Presenters: Ulla Wester & Flippie van der Walt Ina Smith and Heila Pienaar (University of Taking libraries to the people: making use of • Pretoria, South Africa) container libraries and steel trunks Presenter: Jean Williams Wednesday 22 August 8.30 – 10.30 13.45 – 15.45 128 Division III 118 – 1 Reading with Public and School Libraries and 129 Management of Library Associations with Resources Centres (1) Continuing Professional Development and Workplace 119 Government Information and Official Publications Learning (1) 120 Agricultural Libraries 131 Statistics and Evaluation 121 Libraries Services to Multicultural Populations 132 Library Theory and Research with Libraries for Children and Young Adults 122 – 1 Management and Marketing with Metropolitan Libraries (1) • A theoretical paper: Public Libraries Addressing Social Inclusion: How we may think... Literacy to support healthy living: CODE's • Ina Fourie (University of Pretoria, South Africa) experience with HIV/AIDS issues • Cooperation Across Continents: Case of Library Sean Maddox (CODE, Ottawa, Canada), Elisabeth and Information Association of South Africa and Sequira (Associaçao Progresso, Maputo, Finnish Library Associations Mozambique) and Gray Nyali (National Library MArjatta Lahti (Finnish Library Association, Services, Lilongwe, Malawi) Finland) and Tommy Matthee (LIASA, South Impact of e-governemtn on management and use • Africa) of government information in Kenya • The fast track in library evaluation: the South Nerisa Kamar and Millicent Ongo'ndo (Egerton African experience in higher education libraries University, Njoro, Kenya) Joyce Gozo (Quality Assurance Subcommittee, Globalisation and small-scale farming in Africa: • South Africa) What role for information centres? • Report from a deviating collaborator: the University L.O. Aina (University of Botswana, Gaborone, of Pretoria's interaction with the emerging Botswana) integrated system of quality assurance in South Indigenous knowledge in Agriculture: A case study • African Higher Education Libraries of the challenges of sharing knowledge of past Monica Hammes (University of Pretoria, Academic generations in a globalised context in Uganda Information Service, Pretoria, South Africa) Diana Akullo (National Agricultural Research • Quality assurance at the University of Cape Town Organization, Entebbe, Uganda) Libraries: Do we make a difference? Impact of globalization on the Information Needs • Joan Rapp (University of Cape Town, of Farmers in Ghana: A Case Study of Small- Rondebosch, South Africa) Scale Poultry Farmers • Institutional Quality Audit: Experience of the Justin Chisenga (Food and Agriculture University of the Witwatersrand Library Organisation, Regional Office for Africa, Accra, Felix Ubogu(University of The Witwatersrand, Ghana) and Clement Entsua-Mensah And Joel Johannesburg, South Africa)and CLARE WALKER Sam (Institute for Scientific and Technological (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Information, Council for Scientific and Industrial South Africa) Research, Accra, Ghana • LIS research in Africa: how much is it worth? A Reading for cognitive development and successful • citation analysis of the literature, 1986-2006 learning: the importance of the mother tongue/s Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha (University of Eastern
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s25/index.htm Africa, Baraton, KwaDlangezwa, South Peter M. Sebina (University of Botswana, Africa/Eldoret, Kenya) Gaborone, Botswana) • Research patterns, trends and challenges in • The right of access to information: Civil society library and information science in South Africa. An and good governance in South Africa analysis of journal research and output from 1993- Albert Arko-Cobbah (University of the Free State, 2006 Bloemfontein, South Africa) Dennis N. Ocholla (University of Zululand, South • Public libraries as sources of information to the Africa and Lyudmilla Ocholla (University of disadvantaged groups in societies: a study of the Zululand, South Africa) information and educational needs of prostitutes in • Library and information science research in Kano, Nigeria Botswana, an analysis of trends and patterns Ghaji Badawi (Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria) Kgomotso H. Moahi (University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana) III. An African information access network for democracy: • Readability as consideration for book selection Panel discussion and Town Hall Meeting criterion in book selection practices in some academic libraries in Nigeria • Bibliographies nationales africaines Godwin Shoki (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Amadou Bekaye Sidibe (Bibliothèque nationale du Nigeria) Mali, Bamako, Mali) • The South African National Bibliography: 1933-to 09.00 – 16.00 date, From isolation to co-operation 134 Education and Training Susan Battison (National Library of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) • The Current Status and Challenges in Library and • Namibia National Bibliography: Strides and Information Sciences (LIS) Education and Training Challenges in Africa Paul Zulu (National Library of Namibia, Windhoek, Dennis N. Ocholla (University of Zululand, South Namibia) Africa) • Out of Africa and Into International Libraries: The • Collaboration amongst LIS Schools in South Africa Role of the Library of Congress Nairobi Office in Theo Bothma (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, building Africana library collections South Africa) and Johannes Britz (University of Pamela Howard-Reguindin (Library of Congress Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, United States) Office Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya) • Creating Needs-Responsive LIS Curricula in • Access to African Published Research: the Africa: A Case Study from Kenya complementary approaches of NISC SA and John Gathegi (Florida State University, African Journals Online Tallahassee, USA) and Peter Mwathi (Department Margaret Crampton (NISC, South Africa) and of Library Studies, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Susan Murray (AJOL, South Africa) Kenya) • The JSTOR African Access Initiative • Linking Teaching and Research in LIS Education Jason Phillips (JSTOR, New York, USA) in Africa • Online Access to Research in the Environment Andrew Kaniki (National Research Foundation, (OARE): UNEP/Yale University New Strategic and Pretoria, South Africa) Capacity Building Tool To Enhance the Role of Libraries in Partnership for Development 10.45 – 12.45 Serge Bounda (UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya) 128 – 2 Division III (2) • The DISA Project. Packaging South African 135 Access to Information Network – Africa (ATINA) Heritage as a Continuing Resource: Content, 136 Bibliography Access, Ownership and Ideology 137 Serials and Other Continuing Resources Michele Pickover (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) • Information Literacy in Practice: engaging public library workers in rural South Africa 13.45 – 15.45 Karin de Jajer and Mary Nassimbeni (Centre for Information Literacy, Department of LIS, Cape 128-3 Division III (3) Town, South Africa) 139 – 1 Preservation and Conservation with Rare Books and Manuscripts I. Introducing ATINA • Paired Reading - encouraging reading for • Abraham Azubuike (UNECA Library, Addis Ababa, pleasure at farm schools through peer tutoring Ethiopia), Francis T. Kirkwood (Canadian Library in the Greater Tzaneen area of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada) and Jane Wu Christine Nel (Greater Tzaneen Library (FAO Library, Rome, Italy) Services, South Africa) • Perspectives on African culture and heritage Adama Samassekou (Académie Africaine des II. New horizons for public information access in Africa Langues, Mali) • Memory and national identity • International copyright trends and access to Iaguba Djalo (Bibliotheque publique INEP, knowledge initiatives in Africa Bissau, Guinée-Bissau) Denise Rosemary Nicholson (University of the • Memory and national identity Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) Kay Raseroka (University of Botswana Library • Information management in Africa to undergo a Services, Gaborone, Botswana) change? http://www.ifla.org/VII/s25/index.htm • International Library of African Music. Research & Documentation Centre, Collection and efforts toward preservation and Harare, Zimbabwe) digitization • Development of a Library 2.0 service Diane Thram (International Library of African model for an African library Music, Grahamstown, South Africa) Heila Pienaar and Ina Smith (University of • Manuscript cooperation in Timbuktu Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa) Alexio Motsi (National Archives and Records Service, Pretoria, South Africa) Thursday 23 August • The McGregor Museum's Photographic Collections with a special emphasis on the 8.30 – 10.30 historic negatives 149 Women, Information and Libraries Robert Hart (McGregor Museum, Kimberley, 151 Reference and Information Services South Africa) 152 Statistics and Evaluation • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Boer War in South Africa: Conservation and digitization of an unique photographic collection in University • Access to information as a driver Library Lausanne towards closing of the gender equality Danielle Mincio (Bibiliothèque cantonale et gap: the emerging scene in Kenya universitaire Unithèque, Lausanne, Suisse) (Goal 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women) • Bleek Collection. Overview and preservation efforts. Wambui Wagacha (KIPPRA-Kenya Pippa Skotnes (Michaelis Art School of the Institute for Public Policy Research University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South and Analysis, Kenya) Africa) • The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): gender gap in information, education and library access to 143 Africa Section HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in 144 Library History local communities of Nigeria 145 Cataloguing Adetoun A. Oyelude and Adepeju O. 146 Information Technology Oti (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria) • The factors which influenced the • Inter-continental, intra-continental establishment and development of partnerships: a women's network libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Goal 8 - Developing a global Indra Ranasinghe (University of Kelaniya, partnership for development) Sri Lanka) Michele M. Reid (McDaniel College, • The history of libraries and librarianship in Westminster, USA) and FATIMA South Africa, and their future Darries (Cape Peninsula University of Sebina Levember (Tshwane University of Technology, Cape Town, South Technology, South Africa) Africa) • The mobile libraries of Ngaoundere • Information literacy skills training of (Northern Cameroon): a contested means staff and students in the Unisa Library: of acquiring knowledge challenges and opportunities Rostand Kawe (University of Ngaoundere, Leanne Brown and Mercy Mokgele Cameroon) (University of South Africa Library, • Librarians and readers in the South Pretoria, South Africa) African anti-apartheid struggle • Statistics keeping as a knowledge Archie Dick (University of Pretoria, South management tool within in a law firm: Africa) case of Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs • Library history in Africa; or, Cinderella and Information Resource Services-Cape the ICT sisters Town Anthony Olden (Thames Valley University, Khomotso Pete (Edward Nathan UK) Sonnenbergs Information Resource • Co-operative Cataloguing in South Africa Services Cape Town, South Africa) with Special Reference to the Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium 10.45 – 12.45 (GAELIC) 153 Copyright and other Legal Matters Hester Marais (University of South Africa, 155 Division III, Regional Activities with IFLA/ALP Pretoria, South Africa) 158 Division of Education and Research • Implementing Online Catalogues in African Academic Libraries: The Three Country Case Studies: Collaborative Role of International • Kondwani Wella (MALICO, MALAWI) Partners in Improving Access to Valuable Toby Bainton (SCONUL, UK) Research Materials Eve Woodberry (Council of Australia Mary Adwoa Arkorful (University of University Librarians, AUSTRALIA Education, Winneba, Ghana) Intellectual Property Rights and Knowledge for development a case study • • Copyright Laws for Indigenous of SARDC's Virtual Library for Southern Information Africa Charles Batambuze Alferd Gumbwa, Patricia Mamvoto and ChenaI Mufanawenjingo (South African http://www.ifla.org/VII/s25/index.htm • "It Is Our Help" - A Community Library CALL FOR PAPERS In Rural Kwazulu Natal Desmond Snoeks and Dlamini Zimbili WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS & (Family Literacy Project, Durban, 74ND IFLA GENERAL CONFERENCE AND COUNCIL, South Africa) QUEBEC CITY, CANADA, 10-14 AUGUST 2008 • Role of third world libraries in academic institutions in an AFRICA SECTION OPEN SESSION environment of the IT revolution: lessons from the University of Theme: “Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Zimbabwe's ILS training programme African Libraries" Enoch Chipunza (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe) The IFLA Africa Section invites practitioners and academics to submit abstracts for papers to be presented In closing the region had its final meeting at 17.00 – 18.30 at the Africa Open Session of the World Library and on Friday 24 August. It is hoped that the African profession Information Congress to be held in Quebec City 10-14 will sustain its involvement. August 2008. The Africa Section Open Forum will focus on the effect of globalisation of libraries in Africa. Globalisation is seen as providing both an opportunity and ANNOUNCEMENTS a threat to Africa Libraries. In what ways can libraries leverage on globalisation t enhance librarianship in Africa? CALL FOR PROJECTS In what ways is globalisation a challenge to African libraries? Papers that examine practical applications and The IFLA Africa Section is calling for proposals to be original research on the subject are welcome. funded by IFLA: Action for Development through Libraries Programme (ALP) to promote library related activities in The deadline for submission of a detailed, one-page Africa. The proposals should help to implement and abstract (in English or French) and full author details is 15 promote the IFLA three pillars and aspects of the Africa January 2008. Selection of papers will be based on the Section’s strategic plan. abstract.
The deadline for proposal is 30 December, 2007. Follow Other requirements are as follows: the link: http://www.ifla.org to the Africa section Strategic 1. Paper must be original and never been published plan, which also highlights IFLA’s three pillars. Below is the before ALP link to the application guideline and form: 2. Paper should be of 20 pages maximum, double http://www.ifla.org/VI/1/admin/alpform.pdf spaced typing Successful presenters will be notified by 1 March 2008 at 3. Paper should be written in English or French with the latest. an abstract of one page in the same language Please send your proposal to: 4. 20 minutes will be allowed for the delivery of the paper by Power point. Dr Buhle Mbambo-Thata 5. Paper may be submitted by e-mail, fax or post Chair, IFLA Africa Section 6. The author should indicate his/her personal full [email protected] contact address and a summary of his/her curriculum vitae Dr James Daniel Secretary, IFLA Africa Section Successful presenters will be notified by 1 March 2008 at [email protected] the latest. (Please note that all expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., Ms Lindy Nhlapho are the responsibility of the authors of the accepted IFLA Regional Office in Africa papers) [email protected] Please send your abstracts or papers latest by 15 January 2008 to: Birgitta Sandell IFLA/ALP Dr Buhle Mbambo-Thata Uppsala University Library Chair, IFLA Africa Section Box 510, S-751 20 UPPSALA, Sweden [email protected] Tel.: +46 18 471 3990 Fax: +46 18 471 3994 Dr James Daniel E-mail: [email protected] Secretary, IFLA Africa Section [email protected]
Ms Lindy Nhlapho IFLA Regional Office in Africa [email protected]
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