Nothing for nothing

"I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. They never pauperize. They reach the aspiring and open to these chief treasures of the world -- those stored up in books. A taste for reading drives out lower tastes." ~ Andrew Carnegie

Greetings from the late-comer. I'm Lara Skelly, the subject librarian for Economics at UCT. I'm currently doing my Masters exploring the Librarians' Axiom: the idea that library usage goes up during an economic recession. I'm looking forward to meeting all the new faces on Sunday. It looks like it will be a very interesting two weeks.

Carine

Hi
Ek sien baie uit na die 2 weke by Mont Fleur - dit gaan baie verrykend wees.
Ek kyk net of alles werk en of ek nog die regte toeganskodes het.
Carine Tymbios

Library Academy

Hi,

I'm Ester de Broize, Faculty Librarian at UJ. I'm excited and apprehensive at the same time about the Library Academy, but looking forward to the two weeks in Stellenbosch and learning alot of new things.

See you all on Sunday.

LIASA Blog for Higher Education

Not sure how many of you are members of LIASA , our national library association, so you may not be aware that the Higher Education Libraries Interest Group has a listserv (open to all HE librarians, not necessarily LIASA members).

It's a network that has been set up so that Higher Education Librarians can share relevant HE information with each other, alerting to useful resources, including papers, blog postings, announcements on other listservs - the "Did you see this?" type postings. And yes, as it is a LIASA listserv, there are some LIASA-related postings as well.

The list is moderated.

You're very welcome to sign up or check out the blog (basically posts that are now being archived) or the official listserv archive. (And please share this information with your colleagues as well. )

Wits Medical Library at the Faculty Health Sciences Research Day 2010

On 22 Septermber 2010 Wits Faculty of Health Sciences had its Biennial Research Day and Postgrad Expo, the Wits Health Sciences Library (WHSL) also participated in this event. The 2010 library theme was “Fishing for Research Information”.

Hi, I am new to the RLC Library Academy

Hi all, I am one of the new RLC Library Academy participants for the upcoming October library academy. I am from Stellenbosch University and am involved on the IT management side of library operations. I am looking forward to the academy to learn more about how academy and research libraries can support researchers and the research life cycle. From my more technological perspective I am especially keen to try and establish which role technology can play in this part. Looking forward to meeting the rest of you, and learning more about researchers, and research support.

Exciting News!

The Carnegie funded Research Commons at Rhodes University in Grahamstown was officially opened today by the RU Vice-Chancellor Dr Saleem Badat! Doors open to postgraduate students and staff on Monday the 6th of September 2010. I am looking forward to the October Academy, and of course meeting with the presenters and participants for what I hear is a truly enriching experience. Aluta Continua all librarians and researchers, especially in South Africa!

Greetings

Hi everyone

I am glad to be part of this team. I am looking forward to meet you all.

I am a Subject Librarian for Management Studies in UKZN, Westville campus.

C U there!!!

Dear Colleagues

It is with great anticipation and genuine interest in meeting you all that I look forward to October. See you all in Stellenbosch!

Greetings to the October RLC librarians

I feel so privileged to be part of the October research librarians and am very much looking forward to meeting you all at Mont Fleur. I went to look at the place when I was on holiday in August and I can tell you that it really is something to look forward to.

Kind regards

Sunette