Part II: Other Academy Thoughts, 17 - 21 Sept. 2007

The Academy continues to comprehensively address the South African research environment. At the same time, quite a few challenges are coming to the fore: there are no immediate practical answers on how best to integrate the library into the researcher's workflow; initially, unreliable computing frustrated the great "blogging" experience; and academics still have to give thought to embracing the librarian in their quest to improve the quality of research. It appears that putting in place structures to smoothen the integration of the librarian into the research process may not happen in the immediate future. The practical use of the wealth of knowledge coming from the Academy will depend on the creativity of the librarians.