Introducing myself

Hello everyone!

My name is Thandiwe Menze. I am at present employed as Assistant Librarian in the Faculty of Pharmacy at Rhodes University since May 2008. I began my career as a library assistant in the Johannesburg Public Library Services.

I am honoured to have been selected to participate in the Research Library Academy. I look forward to taking part in the Academy and meeting all of you in person.

Bye for now.

Introduction

Hi everybody!

I'm Marié Roux from Stellenbosch University. I'm responsible for Management Information and Quality Assurance. Another responsibility here at the Library and Information Service includes the publications portfolio on the Marketing Committee, which I really enjoy. I have a passion for the "wellbeing" of clients although I don't work with clients directly at the moment.

Previously I worked for quite a while at our Interlibrary Loans department as well as part-time at the Information Services department.

I'm also quite involved with LIASA and am editor of their magazine LIASA-in-Touch. In the Western Cape I'm also editor of the Western Cape News, the newsletter of the LIASA Western Cape Branch.

One of my other interests are languages and I completed a masters degree in Afrikaans and Dutch literature in 2007.

I'm really looking forward to see how we are going to implement better research support at our library and are excited about the Academy coming up soon. And with that to meet all of you!

See you soon
Marié

Introducing myself

Hi there!

I'm Naomi Visser, one of three Faculty Librarians for Arts and Social Sciences at the JS Gericke Library, Stellenbosch University. My specific responsibilities are African Languages, General Linguistics, English, Modern Foreign Languages (German, French, Mandarin), Social Work and Information Science. I started my career as a teacher (definitely not my cuppa tea!), moved to Parow Public Library as children's librarian and then to Stellenbosch University where I found my niche in information service. But I'm not just a librarian. A few years ago I did the Postgraduate Diploma in Translation and now I also do freelance translation and editing. And I am a wife and a mother of two sons (19 and 16).

Looking forward to meeting you all in person

Naomi Visser

Introduction

Hi everyone
I am Debbie Martindale, Circulation Supervisor at Rhodes Library. I moved to this position from Inter-Libraray Loans in 1999. Having started working in the library in 1988, I have been in the Public Services Division, and love working with various people.
I am excited about being a part of the academy, and look forward to learning new skills. I am really keen to become involved in the world of research, even though it is daunting at times when I think about it all. I look forward to meeting you all in April

Introducing myself (Part 2 !!)

Thanks to Wynand, I can add a photo of myself!!
Regards,
Sue Rionda

Introduction

Hi everyone

I'm Jill Otto, currently the Law Faculty librarian at Rhodes University and I've been in this position for almost 5 years. Prior to this, I was the Inter-library Loans supervisor and in Circulation before that. I returned to librarianship in 2002 after a 15 year "break" during which I spent some years teaching.

I'm delighted to be selected for the Academy programme and look forward to the new experiences this will bring, and meeting new people at the Academy.

Introduction

Hi everyone

I'm Linda Cartwright, Acquisitions Librarian at Rhodes University Library for the past 17 (!) years. My previous experience was as a cataloguer (also at Rhodes), preceded by three years in the library at the Ministry of Agriculture in Harare, so most of my working life has been spent in Technical Services.

This is, however, about to change as I will be moving to User Services when the first phase of our wonderful improved and extended library opens its doors in a few weeks time.

The challenges of the Academy are coming at just the right time to help prepare me for the demands of this new job and I am looking forward to meeting all of you and working together.

See you in April in beautiful Stellenbosch!

Linda

Introducing myself

Hi!

I’m Santie de Jongh. I’ve been working as archivist/special collections librarian at the Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS) at the Stellenbosch University Music Library since August 2005, and have been appointed permanently since the beginning of 2009. I take great pleasure in the variety that my working environment offers: interaction with staff and students, sorting collections, involvement in exciting projects, etc.

Although I’m expecting a challenging time ahead, I’m still looking forward to the new adventure of acquiring further skills at the Library Academy and to interact with fellow librarians from different library backgrounds and disciplines. I am privileged to be on this programme and am looking forward to meet everyone!

Introducing myself

Hi

I'm Tertia Coetsee. Information Specialist at the lovely campus of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Onderstepoort, University of Pretoria. The Jotello F. Soga Library is a branch library of Merensky. My departments are Paraclinical Sciences (Veterinary Pharmacology and Veterinary Pathology), Veterinary Tropical Diseases, UP Biomedical Research and the Phytomedicine Programme.

I started to work (many moons ago) as a Research Officer at Sasol in the Research Department. From there I moved to being a Subject Reference librarian at the old Vaal Triangle Technikon (Schools of Art and Information Technology). I am now employed by the University of Pretoria for the past 16 years. (Did someone mention being part of the furniture?)

I am looking foreward to meet everyone, and being part of this exciting opportunity!

Introduction

Greetings all
I’m Pieter du Plessis, Faculty Librarian for Science at Stellenbosch University. I’ve been a Faculty Librarian since 2002, but have had to move from Economics to Agriculture to Science in the last 3 years. So ja - I’m losing my faculties at an alarming rate. Prior to 2002 I also worked at the Periodicals Desk, Acquisitions Dept, Physics Library, Short Loans and Interlibrary Loans.
One of the great aspects of working in a client service department is to interact with different users who have different needs and different information skills. This keeps me going, because I never know exactly who is going to ask me what and when. This human interaction in our fast changing computer and Internet obsessed environment is the most valued aspect of my job.
I can’t wait to meet everyone and share in your experiences of being part of the Research Academy and also maintaining a straight face back at the day job.
If anyone would like to know more about who I am and what I do – you will have to wait for a face-to-face meeting, because as of yet I don’t have a Facebook/ twitter, etc. profile.

Introducing myself

Hi everyone
I'm Mimi Seyffert and am currently head of Special Collections at Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service. I started working here mere hours after writing my last exam for a B.Bibl. degree back in the day, and have been part of the Special Collections furniture ever since.
I'm passionate about the environment I work in and proud to play a role in the preservation of South African heritage and history and promoting research in these areas. As well as being snugly content in my little treasure trove, I'm also excited by new challenges facing our profession today and view the opportunity of attending the RLC Academy as a real privilege.
I assume most of us are back at work by now and ready to tackle 2010 head-on! Judging by my first one and a half hectic days back at work, it seems as if this one is going to be a challenge.
Good luck to all of you and I look forward to meeting everyone.
PS: Anyone interested are welcome to have a look at my Special Collections Blog, Sidenotes.

Introducing myself

Hi
I am Chrissie Boeyens and I am working at the Merensky Library at the University of Pretoria as e-resources librarian. I am extremely happy to have been granted this opportunity to attend the academy and I am looking forward to learning and contributing.

Introducing myself

Hi there !
My name is Sue Rionda. I am currently the Senior Library Assistant for the Inter-Library Loans department at Rhodes University Library. After completing a postgraduate diploma and honours degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, I started my working life in Zimbabwe, working as the Librarian for the Audit and Accounting Section in the Harare Office of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. In 2003, my husband and I moved to South Africa and settled in Grahamstown. I was able to obtain a temporary post as a librarian in the Cory Library for Historical Research at Rhodes University. When the incumbent returned from maternity leave, I took up a position as Senior Library Assistant at the Circulation Desk in the Main Library before moving to my present post as the Library Assistant in the Inter-Library Loans department. I find my work very fulfilling as I love trying to ensure that my requesters are able to obtain even the most obscure items.
2010 promises to be an exciting year at Rhodes with the expected completion of the Library Extension and Renewal project, the opening of the "New" library and the challenge of providing new and improved services to our users. The Academy then comes at just the right time, providing me with a wonderful opportunity to build on my knowledge of academic librarianship and to develop the skills needed to support Rhodes researchers and library users - skills I hope later to be able to share with my colleagues at Rhodes.
I am looking forward to the Academy in April, to meeting the participants and to learning a great deal.
See you there!!

Sue Rionda
Library Assistant : Inter-Library Loans
Rhodes University Library
Tel. (046) 6038464
E-Mail: s.rionda@ru.ac.za

Academia.edu

Hi,

One good thing about having a family member in the same industry but on a different continent is that we can share sites and other interesting snippets which allow us both to follow library and related trends locally and in Europe. I am sure that some of you might be aware of this already and might even have mentioned this in the blog or elsewhere, but I thought I have to share this especially for those of us embarking on our very own and first research projects soon.



Academia.edu is the latest link supplied to my by my brother (an information specialist in the Netherlands). The application allows a person to look at what is being researched within specific areas of interest, as well as to track the work of those individual researchers whose work you find of interest and/or specific relevance to your own areas of research. The application also allows you to submit papers, articles etc. which you have written. There are currently more than 940 people listing Library Science as a research interest. Worth a look!

W

Intro!

Hi!

I'm Wynand van der Walt and I am currently working at Rhodes University Library Services as the e-resources manager/digital services librarian. I've recently joined Rhodes after having been at Sabinet as a product manager for 2 years, and heading the LICT (Library and Information Communication Technology) section at the University of the Western Cape Library Services for 7 years prior to that.

For me being a librarian is so much more than something I do - but rather a way of living that encapsulates my very reason for being, a position that allows for me to express who I am within an environment which I absolutely love! There is also not a single area of librarianship that does not excite me and as such I have been involved in readership studies, cataloguing, circulation, acquisitions etc.

I am extremely happy to have been granted this opportunity to attend the academy as I have wanted to embark on research for a while now. I believe that all the participants have knowledge and experiences to share and I am looking forward to learning and contributing.

For more information about me and my family, or to see what I enjoy reading, please visit my Facebook profile, or my Linkedin profile:
Wynand Van Der Walt

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