Knotted stomachs! Wish the presentations can be over and done with!
Theme:
The way ahead
– Kay Raseroka spoke from the heart to my heart – I am a librarian and I make a difference. Re-invent African Librarianship.
-Puleng Kekana painted a picture of Liraries in SA as seen by the DAC. Serious issues have been adressed – DAC know what is going on and trying to solve problems. Also good to see successes.
-Christine Stilwell pointed the way forward for libraries in SA with a Delphi study done at UKZN. 9 recommendations were made eg. Holistic approach, funding, ICT infrastructure, education and training, culture of reading, role for LIASA, social exclussion, new direction – “new language”, distribute access to information. Made us realise the power of LIS professionals. Workshopped main issues.
The afternoon was a great success and all the groups performed well. It was very interesting to hear what each one had to say and questionnes were asked and answered. The panel of distinguished “judges” kept us on our toes.
The gala dinner was a proper closure to a memorable two weeks. Thanks to each and everyone who made this a great experience
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Thursday 16 July
Program:
Monica Hammes (Assistant Director: Quality assurance and Open Scholarship, UPLS)
Quality Assurance: It is important in any organisation. Someone should take responsibility for this – client have a right to quality service.
Hilda Kriel (Deputy Director: Client services & Operations, UPLS)
Client Services: Needs analysis.
Ria Groenewald (Digitisation Co-Ordinator, UPLS)
Digitisation: State of the art equipment!
Heila Pienaar (Deputy Director:E-strategy and E-research enablement, UPLS)
Instituional repositories, research & e-research: We do it on a much more subdued scale.
Could we visit UP to actually see all this?
Carol Slater (Director UKZN Provincial Library Services)Provincial Library Perspective
Karlien de Klerk (Deputy Manager: Library services nelson Mandela Bay)Metropolitan library perspectives
It was great to get an idea of what everyone is doing. “…nobody told me that…”
We work in an ever changing environment – it is never boring
Dinner speaker: Ellen Tise (Senior Director US, IFLA President elect)
Inspirational. Opportunies come your way - grab it. Kay Raseroka joined us for dinner
Wednesday 15 July
Speechless
Program:
Sean Moodley (Trustee: Desmond Tutu Diversity Trust)
Multi-Culturalism and the diverse workplace
Thought provoking statements – I do not always agree, but it made me think about a very important aspect of our society and workplace.
Visit to Constitutional Hill, Court and Library
Emotional! Symbolic elements. Great Artworks. Impressive tour guide. Pity the library was not open. I am so moved by all the experiences today!
People do terrible things to each other - I still choose to believe that there is good in all of us.
Program:
Sean Moodley (Trustee: Desmond Tutu Diversity Trust)
Multi-Culturalism and the diverse workplace
Thought provoking statements – I do not always agree, but it made me think about a very important aspect of our society and workplace.
Visit to Constitutional Hill, Court and Library
Emotional! Symbolic elements. Great Artworks. Impressive tour guide. Pity the library was not open. I am so moved by all the experiences today!
People do terrible things to each other - I still choose to believe that there is good in all of us.
Tuesday 14 July
Ronel Rensburg (Dept. of Marketing and Communication Marketing, UP)
Marketing, Branding & effective communication
This full morning session deals with a topic all librarians need to take note of. Marketing or our profession, our services and ourselves is very important and should be done at every opportunity. Definitions and theory are mixed with real life examples and put into context of libraries. The 21 steps in setting up a campaign or programme is discussed and the applied by the 5 groups within a library setting.
Karin Kitching (US Embassy)
Advocacy – locating libraries on the radar screen
Defines Advocacy and give ideas on how the library can advocate their profession and services.
Robert Moropa Talks about the implementation of leadership and advocacy in his library in a higher educaton environment.
Rene Schoombee Talks about taking opportunities and advocates being a librarian and promoting Public/School library services. She is passionate about what she does. Librarian of the year 2007.
Dinner Speaker: Dr. Raymond L Brown (Political counselor, US Embassy)Encounter of pres. Barack Obama’s rise to fame and politics in the US. Had to put on my American ears to be able to understand what he was saying.
Marketing, Branding & effective communication
This full morning session deals with a topic all librarians need to take note of. Marketing or our profession, our services and ourselves is very important and should be done at every opportunity. Definitions and theory are mixed with real life examples and put into context of libraries. The 21 steps in setting up a campaign or programme is discussed and the applied by the 5 groups within a library setting.
Karin Kitching (US Embassy)
Advocacy – locating libraries on the radar screen
Defines Advocacy and give ideas on how the library can advocate their profession and services.
Robert Moropa Talks about the implementation of leadership and advocacy in his library in a higher educaton environment.
Rene Schoombee Talks about taking opportunities and advocates being a librarian and promoting Public/School library services. She is passionate about what she does. Librarian of the year 2007.
Dinner Speaker: Dr. Raymond L Brown (Political counselor, US Embassy)Encounter of pres. Barack Obama’s rise to fame and politics in the US. Had to put on my American ears to be able to understand what he was saying.
Monday, 13 July
The best of times and the worst of times…
Program:
Peter Tobin (GIBS)
Using narratives to grow organizational capital.
This was a pleasant discussion (we participated) with appropriate examples of what a narrative (story) is, how to compile a narrative, how to use it to develop human capital (knowledge) and at the very end a Narrative implementation checklist was given – see handout of slides.
Marietjie Schutte (UP)
Back to planet earth with over a hundred slides on Knowledge management. I will read this again – it looks logical and systematic. If you have a good quality information system in place it can be used for your Knowledge Management initiative. Technology is used as a tool for KM. After an hour of putting Trust into perspective I am convinced knowledge transfer cannot take place without it. I am so thankful for the tea break and brandy cakes….
Judy Sandrock Fostering communities of practice Now I know – heard this buzzword on several occasions and did not comprehend what this is. Read her book: Art of managing knowledge - a practical guide. You need to form communities of practice in your organization in order to extract the tacid knowledge from employees – should be groups that form spontaneously with a leader who is passionate about a specific subject, a facilitator willing to learn about the subject and about 3 core members who also have an interest and passion for the subject. In smaller groups where TRUST is high sharing can take place – keep track (archive) the knowledge gathered for future use. Communities of practice have a shelf life and will dissolve once the common goal have been met.
Ann de Boer
HBDI
Nothing can prepare you for this session – not even the questionnaires we had to complete before the start of this academy….I cannot possibly sum up all of the learning that was done in 3 hours - in a fun and interactive way. We got to know ourselves and our colleagues much better and understand that it takes all sorts of personalities to get the job done. In our group of 20 are mostly green and red people. I am as emotional as they come (especially under duress) and need to work a lot on my blue! and less on my green personality – yellow is sufficiently present. Leaders should be well developed in all four sectors of the brain. This was as much fun as Pomoja.
Dinner speaker: Premilla Hamid gave an inspiring encounter of her rise to being General Manager: Public Affairs of Anglo American SA. You should always try your best and set the bar higher than expected and take all staff member along. Be yourself! You can do anything if you apply yourself to it – take the opportunities!
Program:
Peter Tobin (GIBS)
Using narratives to grow organizational capital.
This was a pleasant discussion (we participated) with appropriate examples of what a narrative (story) is, how to compile a narrative, how to use it to develop human capital (knowledge) and at the very end a Narrative implementation checklist was given – see handout of slides.
Marietjie Schutte (UP)
Back to planet earth with over a hundred slides on Knowledge management. I will read this again – it looks logical and systematic. If you have a good quality information system in place it can be used for your Knowledge Management initiative. Technology is used as a tool for KM. After an hour of putting Trust into perspective I am convinced knowledge transfer cannot take place without it. I am so thankful for the tea break and brandy cakes….
Judy Sandrock Fostering communities of practice Now I know – heard this buzzword on several occasions and did not comprehend what this is. Read her book: Art of managing knowledge - a practical guide. You need to form communities of practice in your organization in order to extract the tacid knowledge from employees – should be groups that form spontaneously with a leader who is passionate about a specific subject, a facilitator willing to learn about the subject and about 3 core members who also have an interest and passion for the subject. In smaller groups where TRUST is high sharing can take place – keep track (archive) the knowledge gathered for future use. Communities of practice have a shelf life and will dissolve once the common goal have been met.
Ann de Boer
HBDI
Nothing can prepare you for this session – not even the questionnaires we had to complete before the start of this academy….I cannot possibly sum up all of the learning that was done in 3 hours - in a fun and interactive way. We got to know ourselves and our colleagues much better and understand that it takes all sorts of personalities to get the job done. In our group of 20 are mostly green and red people. I am as emotional as they come (especially under duress) and need to work a lot on my blue! and less on my green personality – yellow is sufficiently present. Leaders should be well developed in all four sectors of the brain. This was as much fun as Pomoja.
Dinner speaker: Premilla Hamid gave an inspiring encounter of her rise to being General Manager: Public Affairs of Anglo American SA. You should always try your best and set the bar higher than expected and take all staff member along. Be yourself! You can do anything if you apply yourself to it – take the opportunities!
Sunday 12 July
Glorious day to be outside. Do washing and organize all the paper in my academy bag. Go through program and see what needs to be done. Try to update my blog – but decided to type it all in word en then copy and paste to the blog as the network connection is not stable in our room. Group discussion in the evening – we are doing so well. We have different strengths in our group and I suspect we are having fun putting our assignment together.
Saturday 11 July
Group work on the morning menu for Assignment 3. We got our act together and want to do as much as possible – we realise there is very little time during the week.
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