Day One and Day two of Week 2

This is the week when we look at developing skills for supporting research. There were some good "takeways" (food metaphor again!!)

Karin stressed the importance of knowing about the mechanics of research. And asked whether we were radical librarians who were subject specialists - or at least owned our subjects, reading subject literature and constructing bibliographies. While Colin reminded us that academic librarianship is a specialisation. There was a discussion about the tradition of "scholar-librarianship".

And he asked whether the LIS schools are teaching the right competencies, and what some of the problems within the LIS education sector were:
* too many confusing qualifications * too early as a professional degree * too much "management" * too much technology and too little technosavvy * too little subject knowledge and * too little research experience.

Johann Mouton spoke about knowledge production of SA universities, in some cases, echoing and taking the opposite views of earlier speakers. Real food for thought!!!

And Tuesday's speakers addressed issues related to access to information, intellectual property and research ethics.

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