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During a LIASA Strategic

Planning session in De-

cember 2010, Member-

ship was identified as one of

six strategic directions on how

to grow and develop the Asso-

ciation. With this in mind the

Office Staff have been working

non-stop to populate the Mem-

bership Database with informa-

tion of new and renewed

members, but sadly also to re-

move the names of lapsed

members from LIASAOnline

and from distribution lists for

LIASA-in-Touch and the official

quarterly journal.

A newly developed member-ship campaign with specificfocus on recruitment andretention will be introduced tobranches in the near future.Please inform the MembershipAdministrator of any changes

in your personal and/or contactdetails.

Other developments:� The purchasing of a card

printer for the printing ofmembership cards with amore professional look isbeing investigated.

� A BulkSms system has beentested effectively from theOffice. The system will allowfor short and quickmessaging to members onurgent matters.I would like to thank

Hannelie and Louise, as well asAnnamarie in the CiCD Office,for always being willing toassist with various tasks,enquiries and requests forinformation. Your efficientassistance is much appreciated!

Martha de Waal, National Secretary

LIASA-in-Touch: Published quarterly by the Library and Information Association of South Africa.

Opinions expressed herein arenot necessarily those of LIASA orthe Editorial Staff.

Acknowledgments: Photographs:LIASA members or otherwise specified

Copyright statement: © 2001: Library and Information Association of South Africa.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system, ortransmitted, in any form or byany means, including electronic,magnetic or other means, withoutprior written permission of the copyright holder.

Editor & News & Advertisements:

Marié Roux

Library and Information ServiceStellenbosch UniversityTel: (021) 808-2623Fax: (021) 808-3723E-mail: [email protected]

Proof reading: Lyn Steyn

Design to print: Muhdni Grimwood

LIASA office: LIASA House, 228Proes Str., PretoriaFax: (012) 323-1033Telephone: (012) 328-2010Website: www.liasa.org.za

Ms Hannelie Brink

(Office Manager): [email protected](012) 323-4912

Ms Louise Coetzee (Membership)[email protected](012) 328-2010

Ms Annemarie Goosen: (CiCD Project Co-ordinator):[email protected](012) 324-6096

EXCO and Representative Council members

� From the President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3� Membership news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3� “Dynamic Leadership for LIS” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5� Metro Communities Library Competition – 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . 5

South African Library Week� The Launch of South African Library Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6� @ Northern Cape’s National Institute of Higher Education . . . 6� SA Library Week 2011 Winners! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7� Mpumalanga Launch on 17 March 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7� Arthur Blaxall visit to the SA Library for the Blind during . . . . . 7� The LIASA Gauteng North Branch experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8� @ Nokeng Tsa Taemane Municipality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9� Howard College Libraries celebrate National Library Week . . 10� NLSA Cape Town campus celebrates Library Week . . . . . . . 11� Makana Municipality in Grahamstown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11� Walter Sisulu University @ Ibika Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11� Free State libraries celebrate Library Week! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12� Emfuleni LIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12� @ Lourier Park Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13� eThekwini Municipality Library Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13� University of Limpopo celebrates SALW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14� African language novelist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15� A multi-talented artist at CPUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15� Library Week celebrations in Rustenburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15� Library Week in KwaZulu-Natal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16� Public Library Week @ Observatory Library, Western Cape . 16� @ Kuruman Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

General Interest� Anatomy of a librarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17� Finance Minister opens innovative Research Commons SU . 18� Spreading Awareness & not TB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18� Residensia Community Library fun run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18� LISLIG Free State: Information Service on Higher Education 19� SLAM Poetry Competition @ Florida Park High School . . . . . 19� CPUT Libraries creating the gift of love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21� CENTRE OF HOPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21� People page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22� School Librarians graduate at UWC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3Volume 12 • Issue 2 JUNE 2011

From the P res ident

Read in your

language @

your library”.

This issue is dedi-

cated to the South

African Library

Week celebrations

held across the

country during the

week of 19-26

March 2011. Con-

gratulations to all, I believe we have again

managed to send out a strong message to

the public and stakeholders about the role

of libraries in our communities. It is critical

to demonstrate that libraries contribute

significantly to the development agenda of

the country. On 27th of May I participated

in the celebrations of World Book Day in

Bloemfontein held by the Free State

Department of Education. The final round

of a “Spelling Bee” was the focus and

the young learners displayed exceptional

abilities.

“Strategic Directions 2010-2014” waswork shopped with the RepresentativeCouncil in February and adopted. This planis now used to focus all the activities ofLIASA towards our vision of being a“Dynamic Association of Excellence forLIS” and providing leadership for theprofession.

One of the Key Strategic Areas ismembership retention and recruitmentwhich would ensure the growth andstrengthening of the Association. AMembership Campaign was developedwith the slogan “LIASA members areLeaders”. This will run from 1 June to 15September 2011 and has some excitingincentives – see information elsewhere in

this issue. As individual members you canparticipate and win exciting prizes, while atthe same time making sure that theAssociation’s representation and voicegrows stronger. There are also incentivesto Branches who shows significant growthin their membership.

The 2011 Membership Campaign wasofficially launched on 9 June, kicking offwith a meeting in East London on 9 June.The meeting was attended by 70 persons,consisting of LIASA members, librarypractitioners from the Eastern Cape, Headsof Departments and Institutions. The nextprovince where this Campaign will berolled out will be Mpumalanga, coincidingwith a visit by the President to the Branch.

The past few months have been busyand LIASA was represented and partic-ipated on a number of important initiativeswith critical stakeholders. We were invitedto participate in a DAC ConsultativeConference, a Breakfast meeting with theDAC Minister, a Conference of the ETDPSETA, and a workshop of the Bill andMelinda Gates Global Libraries programme.

One very important event that tookplace was the African Libraries Summit,organised and hosted by UNISA in collabo-ration with IFLA. This summit took placefrom 11-13 May in Muldersdrift and wasattended by leaders in the Library andinformation services (LIS) field from over25 countries across Africa and Europe andAsia. To quote Dr Buhle Mbambo-Thata:“The African Library Summit has madehistory as the first of its kind on thecontinent. It created a platform for debateand conversation on the future of Africanlibrarianship. Discussions and ideas arealready underway on the formation of

African library associations, collaborationon the continent that embodies the visionof library leaders and practitioners as wemove into the 21st century and rethink thefuture of libraries”. We are looking forwardto the outcomes from the summit. Twocommittees have been formed, one toinvestigate the formation of a ContinentalBody of Library Associations and anotherto start planning for the next summit.

The IFLA World Library and InformationConferences takes place from 13-18 Augustin Puerto Rico. LIASA will once againsupport one young librarian through the“Ellen Tise Leadership Grant” to attend theConference as part of our leadershipdevelopment agenda. Congratulations toJulia Mvunelwa who was selected toreceive the grant. Please let the LIASAoffice know if you will be attending theIFLA as various vendors would like toinvite South African delegates to theirevents in San Juan.

As we are nearing the middle of 2011,we are preparing for Conference 2011. I would like to invite you to attend theConference in East London from 3-7October. The programme promises to be relevant and exciting. A first draft of the programme will be available by the 8th of July. More information on ourinvited and keynote speakers will also be communicated in the very near future.Watch the website and LIASAOnline forupdates. The Eastern Cape Branchmembers are looking forward to hosting you!

Naomi [email protected]

Membership statistics from and including 19th May 2011

Renewed New Paid up Non- renewed Total

Foreign 6 1 7 4 11

Eastern Cape 71 19 90 127 217

Free State 72 12 84 77 161

Gauteng North 169 41 210 184 394

Gauteng South 180 32 212 151 363

KwaZulu Natal 121 28 149 95 244

Limpopo 45 6 51 57 108

Mpumalanga 15 7 22 79 101

North West 58 12 70 36 106

Northern Cape 30 5 35 18 53

Western Cape 205 33 238 154 392

TOTAL 972 196 1168 982 2150

“LIASA members are leaders”Members are requested to renew theirmembership before the conference (3-7October 2011) and stand a chance to wingreat prizes!

LIASA Executive will Launch the 2011Membership Campaign entitled “LIASAmembers are leaders” on Thursday 9 June2011 at 12:00 at the East London Museum.

Membership ManagementLIASA National office is still experiencingproblems with manual membershipregistrations. It has been difficult toreconcile the amounts paid with themember. For easy management of yourmembership please ensure that the depositslip is filled in properly. The example (asshown) will assist members to ensure thattheir membership is recorded efficiently inthe system

Raspby Ramugondo

Membership NewsMembership statistics up to19/05/2011

Early Bird Normal One day Late & on site Late & on site One day

–> 15 Aug 16/8 – 23/9 15/6 – 23/9 24/9 – 07/10 24/9 – 07/10LIASA Paid-up members R4 200 R5 500 R1 300 R6 700 R2 700 Non-members R6 200 R7 900 R1 800 R9 100 R3 100 Students, pensioners, etc R2 800 R3 100 R1 100 R4 300 R2 200 Attendance of the Gala dinner only R450 per person


LIASA Conference 2011

“Dynamic Leadership for LIS”LIASA 13th Annual Conference, 3–7 Oct 2011, East London ICC

To empower individual libraries and to

highlight the programmes initiated

by libraries for the benefit of their

communities, Sabinet Chairperson’s Fund

held a Metro Communities Library Compe-

tition from 01 January 2010– 31 January

2011. Community libraries from Tshwane,

Ekurhuleni and City of Johannesburg were

requested to participate.

The criteria for the judging were:� to provide a brief description of the

library� to describe outreach programmes

initiated by the library� to record outcome of the programmes

e.g. statistics, newspaper clips andphotos

� to outline involvement of the friends ofthe library or user committee

� to list strategiesfor marketing thelibrary

� to motivate howthe prize moneywill be spent

JudgingThe initial judgingwas done by thevarious metros andthey were requestedto submit their bestthree entries toSabinet. Wereceived thefollowing entries forthe final judging:� Tshwane :

Mamelodi WestLibrary, LytteltonLibrary andNellmapiusLibrary

� City ofJohannesburg :Ennerdale Libraryand LindenLibrary

� Ekurhuleni :Tembisa WestLibraryLibrary

executives, libraryco-ordinators(functional heads),librarians, judgesand Sabinet management attended thefunction. Wendy Sibeko shared herexperience as a judge and mentionedsome of the concerns we have with not

receiving a fair response. Sanet Vos (LegalProduct Manager at Sabinet) announcedthe winners and Rosalind Hattingh(Managing Director of Sabinet) did the

honours and congratulated the winners.Shamila Ramjawan thanked the judges fortheir superb work and time spent on thejudging. The vote of thanks was conveyedby Pierre Malan (Sales Director at Sabinet).In their speeches, both Ros and Pierrereiterated how important and passionateall at Sabinet are about developing thecommunities.

The regional winners received R10 000each :� Tshwane – Lyttelton Library� City of Johannesburg – Ennerdale Ext. 9

Library and Linden Library shared theprize money

� Ekurhuleni – Tembisa West LibraryA consolation prize of R1 000 was given

to the libraries (all from Tshwane) thatentered the competition.

The overallwinner wasLYTTELTONLIBRARY, whoreceived anadditional R20000.The prize money isto be used for thedevelopment of thelibrary and is not forpersonal use. Whenasked what shewould do with theprize money, MartieEls from LytteltonLibrary replied thatshe is thinking ofinvesting in fournew computers forthe children’ssection, vernacularbooks for both adultand childrensections, a televisionand DVD player aswell as subscribingto at least oneSunday newspaper.

Well done toBekuyise Golimpi(Functional Head),Martie Els and herteam at LytteltonLibrary. Martie, yourdreams havedefinitely come trueand your library

deserves the first prize!

Shamila RamjawanSabinet Marketing Communications Manager

Metro Communities Library Competition – 2011

Ms Wendy Sibeko (Gauteng Libraries), Dr Martie van Deventer (CSIR), Ms Winnie Mangotla (National Archives)and observers from Sabinet : Tanya Botha and Shamila Ramjawan.

Martie Els of the winning library: Lyttelton Library

Mr Matthews Mphaka (Tembisa West Library), Mr David Raolane (Ennerdale Ext. 9 Library), Ms Wendy Pote(Linden Library), Ms Suzan Malatji (Mamelodi West Library), Ms Jostina Mehlape (Nellmapius Library),

Ms Martie Els (Lyttelton Library) & Ms Rosalind Hattingh (Sabinet – MD)

Attendees at the awards ceremony


SALW 2011

The Centre for the Book, an arm of the

National Library of South Africa, was

the venue for this year’s national

launch of South African Library Week. The

launch took place on Saturday, 19 March

2011. The theme for this year’s Library

Week was “Read in your language @ your

library”. In 2007, LIASA signed on as a sig-

natory to the World Campaign for Libraries

during the IFLA Conference in Durban.

Since that time it had been the intention of

LIASA to have the “@ your library” slogan

(The signature to the world campaign)

translated into all 11 official languages,

and this year, with the aid of the Language

Unit of the Department of Arts & Culture,

this idea had finally been realized [See the

insert box for the complete set of transla-

tions].

The choice of theme for 2011 took intoconsideration the imperatives of DAC, theSA Government, and the library sector andstrove to position LIASA to pursue its goalof placing libraries at the forefront of SA’sdevelopment as a nation. We all know thatresearch has shown that access to readingmaterials in the mother tongue during thefirst years of development assists in thedevelopment of literacy levels and thedevelopment of a reading nation and thatpublishing in indigenous languages hasnot enjoyed priority during SA’s transitionto a democracy. LIASA believes thatlibraries should bring pressure to bear onthe publishing industry to view publishingin these languages as more than just abusiness venture. LIASA however cannotdo this alone and as part of the launchchose to partner with the SA BookDevelopment Council and The Centre forthe Book, institutions and organisations

working towards providing books inindigenous languages as well as theencouragement for authors to write inthese languages.

The welcome was done by the NationalLibrarian; Mr. John Tsebe. The keynotespeaker at the event was Dr. JosephPhaahla, Deputy Minister for Arts &Culture. The Minister welcomed andcommended the theme chosen by LIASAand indicated that it spoke toGovernment’s imperatives. He furthermoreindicated that this particular theme shouldcontinue beyond Library Week 2011 since itdoes not end after this event and shouldbe an issue that needs to be addressedcontinuously.

The message was echoed by the otherspeakers which included the LIASAPresident, Ms. Naomi Haasbroek; theDirector of the SA Book DevelopmentCouncil (SABDC), Ms. Elitha van der Sandt;and, Head of the Centre for the Book, Mr.Mandla Matyumza. The LIASA Presidentspoke on the history of South AfricanLibrary Week, the importance of reading inone’s own language and the role thatlibraries play in this regard. Ms. Van derSandt spoke about the work of the SABDC,National Book Week plans for 2011 and therole that libraries can play in entrenchingthis event. Mr. Matyumza spoke on the roleof the Centre for the Book, their projectsand the need to have materials available inall official languages. These speakers werealso joined by 2 high school learners whovolunteer for Equal Education and spokeabout the need for libraries in their schoolsas well as the impact of the lack of thisfacility has on them as learners.

The formal event was followed by

storytelling on the steps of the NationalLibrary. The original idea was to have theevent in the Company Gardens but thishad to be abandoned due to the noisecreated by another event in the samespace. One of the local public librarians,Fasia Adams and author, SindiweMangona, entertained those who came tolisten to their stories. An impromptu storyby Tanya Barben ended off the event.

The entire event was covered by one ofthe local community radio stations, Radio786, who also did a follow up on theimpact of Library Week on Friday, 25March, when they interviewed the LIASAPresident and Bellville Library’s ChiefLibrarian, Christelle Lubbe.

Our gratitude is expressed towards thefollowing sponsors:� The DAC Language Unit for the

translations provided for the LibraryWeek theme;

� SABINET, UKS, Red Pepper Books andthe SA Library for the Blind forsponsoring the Library Week poster;

� The LIASA Western Cape Branch forsponsoring the catering;

� The Centre for the Book for the use ofthe venue;

� The National Library (Cape Town campus)staff and Centre for the Book staff whovolunteered their time on the day;

� The National Library for providingattendees copies of the reprinted AfricanClassics; and

� Muhdni Grimwood, for the poster andpromotional material design work andprinting.

Nazeem HardyLIASA National PRO

Launch of the South African Library Week 2011

The National Institute of

Higher Education (Northern

Cape) Library and Informa-

tion Services (LIS) joined the rest

of the country in celebrating Na-

tional Library Week 2011. An ex-

hibition with books and

educational readers in the four

main languages of the Northern

Cape Province together with cul-

tural items were put on display.

The LIS also hosted Mr. LenThompson on 22 March 2011,visiting from the UK, and authorof the book “A Rough Diamondin South Africa” published in2008. Mr. Thompson, havingworked for a number of years inthe local diamond and goldindustry, promised that for everybook sold, he would donate £1to a local AIDS orphanage inKimberley. This was thus the mainintention of his visit to South Africa andalso to connect up with previous contacts.The LIS Manager had also assisted theauthor with research for his work in hercapacity as Archivist of De BeersConsolidated Mines.

The NIHE (NC) and indeed all the peopleof the Northern Cape Province are excited

about the intention to establish a newuniversity in the province with theanticipated institution to develop from theNIHE (NC). With the proposed newuniversity let us take the opportunity toreflect on the important role that academiclibraries play.

The basic function of an academiclibrary is to provide access to information

in all its formats and this meansthat the LIS should be used as adynamic instrument forexplaining and expanding thehorizons of knowledge.Academic libraries are critical forthe well being of an academicinstitution because all learningrevolves around the library. Itexists to feed and nourish theintellect of students and staffand invites all those who enterits portals to participate fully inits intellectual and cultural life.While the lecturer is the primemotivator to student learning,the library is strategicallypositioned to contribute to thatmotivation by providing aconducive environment forindependent learning and thedevelopment of an inquisitive

mind. Reading helps develop criticalthinking and encourages debate, thusknowledge changes lives – to know yourrights means you can stand up foryourself, make the right choices and soparticipate fully in a democratic society.Ingrid Henrici Library & Information Services Manager NIHE (NC)

SALW at Northern Cape’s National Institute of Higher Education

Mr. Len Thompson in front of the exhibition table


SALW 2011

Mpumalanga South African Library Week Launch on 17 March 2011

Steve Tshwete Local Municipality Gerald Sekoto Library Week Display “Read inyour language@ your library

Guest Speaker Robert Pearce with Mrs Shirley Xulu, Manager of the Steve TshweteMunicipal Library and her staff

With “pomp and ceremony” CPUT

Libraries concluded SA Library

Week with a prize giving event!

The “Read in your language @ your library”competition was well received by studentsacross the campuses.

The competition consisted of a question-naire asked in various languages, e.g. Zuluand French, which then had to be answeredin another language, e.g. Xhosa or Afrikaans.The other element to the competition askedstudents to do a poster/artwork around theword “Language” in the different languages.

Marketing & Promotions departmentsourced sponsorship and put together 12prizes, (6 for questionnaire & 6 for artwork/poster). These were USB flash drives,thermal mugs, lunch bags, CPUT brandedleather folders, leather briefcase, organictoothpaste, CPUT branded pens & waterbottles.

The “pomp and ceremony” was held onTuesday, 12 April 2011 with CPUT Libraries,Cape Town campus branch manager, MrSulaiman Majal welcoming everyone anddrawing on the importance of celebrations

with regards to SA Library Week.Ms Regina Sikhosana thanked all the

contestants and with the assistance ofJudy Ruiters and Nazreen Carlsen congrat-ulated and handed over the prizes to eachwinner.The ceremony was concluded withscones & tea and a photo shoot! We wouldlike to thank our sponsors Van Schaiks(Cape Town Campus), ESKOM, CPUTStudent Affairs, Logitech and Nature Freshfor their generous support.

Estelle Kriger

SA Library Week 2011 Winners at CPUT

Friday 25 March 2011 saw the South

African Library for the Blind celebrat-

ing South African Library Week with

the Grade 10 and 11 learners of Arthur

Blaxall School for the Blind in Pietermar-

itzburg. The day’s festivities were focused

on encouraging reading and the use of the

school library. To do this, the SALB de-

signed two games for the learners to enjoy

and to remind them how much fun can be

had reading books.

Four SALB staff members enjoyed a twohour programme with the Arthur Blaxalllearners discussing the benefits of beingwell read and having fun playing the twoeducational games - “Spot the Mistake”and “Speed reading”. The very brightlearners of Arthur Blaxall made forinteresting sports with the winning teamsreceiving fun prizes and everyone enjoyinga delicious doughnut and juice, kindlydonated by South Gate Super Spar inPietermaritzburg.

Rounding off a great day, Mr Maharaj, ateacher at Arthur Blaxall was presentedwith a donation of three complete brailletitles from the SALB, to be enjoyed by allthe learners and serve as a reminder of thecelebrations and achievements of SouthAfrican Library Week 2011.

The Library was unfortunately only able

twenty-one schools received a SouthAfrican Library Week pack in the hopesthat they will develop a culture of readingamongst the youth of South Africa as wellas encourage the use of public and schoollibraries. Each school received threeappropriate braille titles to be kept in theschool library, as well as the two gamesdesigned for South African Library Weekwith instructions on how to play.

Thank you to the Arthur Blaxall Schoolfor the Blind in Pietermaritzburg for theirwillingness to participate in the festivitiesof South African Library Week 2011!

Louise Wolmarans

Arthur Blaxall visit to the SA Library for the Blind during SALW 2011

Group of Gr 10 and 11 learners who participated inthe SALW celebrations

Donations of three Braille titles Learners participating in groups

to visit one of the twenty-one schools thatcater for the print handicapped but all


SALW 2011

What a busy week it was! It was

buzzing in all libraries big and

small, all types of libraries across

South Africa were celebrating. It was time

to market library and information services

to users, civil society, stake holders and

the community at large. This period pro-

vided LIASA with the opportunity to pro-

mote awareness that libraries contribute

to nation building, economic development

and the improvement of the quality of life

of all the users. This week is called South

African Library Week and is celebrated

annually all over South Africa with a

dedicated theme for each

year. This year’s theme was

“Read in your language @

your library”.

The week was celebratedin various ways in differentlibraries. The launch was heldin Cape Town on the 20thMarch 2011. Much advertisingwas done to alert members ofthe events that were taking place daily;we saw the posters, the websitemessages, e-mails that were sent viaLIASA online and daily updates thatwere posted on Facebook.

The Gauteng North Branch also joinedin the celebration. Members wereprepared for the much awaited and longcommunicated event, programmes wereplanned, invitations were sent out andusers were also ready to dive in andexplore the services.

Library Week activitiesOn the 22nd and 23rd March at theNational Library of South Africa, classicbooks were displayed in the Foyer of theNLSA Auditorium. The board and staffmembers were invited to pick one of theclassics to read. The purpose of thisactivity was to encourage reading inmembers’ languages. On the next day allthe members who picked books theprevious day shared with the audience abrief book review in the Auditorium.

On the 23rd March Eldoraignecommunity library invited schools in theEldoraigne vicinity for readingprogrammes. Learners mingled andnetworked with learners from otherschools, had fun painting each other’sfaces, shared interesting books and lifeexperience. Alkantrant community libraryalso had a Library week promotion to allusers on the 23rd.

Nokeng tsa Taemane Municipality’s fivelibraries namely Reyton, Refilwe, Cullinan,Onverwacht and Steve Bikoville library alsohad big celebrations, Learners from the

surrounding schools, politicians, teachersand members of the community attendedthe events in big numbers.

Learners entertained the crowd withpoems, dance and singing. The guestspeaker at Reyton Library was the PROfrom LIASA Gauteng North Branch - MsMmakgoshi Reetseng. She spoke about thehistory of Library week, why it should becelebrated. She encouraged Librarians tolive the theme by providing resourcesconducive to go with the theme. She alsomarketed LIASA by telling the audience the

benefits of being a member.She donated

10 indigenous language books to ReytonLibrary.

A slide presentation of the libraryprogrammes that took place from 1 July2010 up to February 2011 was done. Theattendees were all given one bag and apen branded “I LOVE MY LIBRARY”.

On the 24th March Tshwane CommunityLibrary and Information Services (TCLIS)celebrated the main event of the NationalLibrary Week @ Es’kia MphahleleCommunity. The library boasted a big

display of about 50 books and 150pamphlets in the City’s most spokenlanguages which are: English, Afrikaans,Isizulu, Northern Sotho, Setswana andXitsonga. Attendance of the programmewas supported by New Dawn High School,Mahlasedi Manasa Primary School,Language Services department of City ofTshwane, PANSALB, MMC of ourdepartment, representatives from GDE,librarians, other stake holders and thepublic at large. About 170 learners and 100VIP guests attended the celebration.

The speaker for this event was DrThokoane who spoke about theImportance of Reading and therole that the Department ofEducation and the LIS sectorcan play in making SouthAfrica an Information Society.

MMC of Sports, Recreation,Arts and Culture - Mr KhorombiDau bragged about the supportthat libraries are receiving fromthe City of TshwaneMunicipality in his keynoteaddress. He went on to sharethe annual programme in place

to support the development ofreading in your own language,poetry and the general use of thelibrary. Opportunities that he raisedwill be fully exploited and

supported by the Gauteng North branch.Ms Segametsi Molawa from LIASA was theprogramme director for the event.

The audience was entertained by: Sepedidance group, Isizulu dance group, Setswanadance group, and children reading in theirown languages. Jan De Jager, librarian atMountain View Community Library, alsoread a story to the audience.

Donations� Reyton Library received a donation of

classic books on the 23rd March� Books were donated to Motheong

Primary School at their Evening StoryTelling on the 24th March.

� New Dawn High School received bookson the 24th March just before theystarted their walk to Es’kia Mphahlelelibrary to perform a Tswana dance to theaudience attending the SALW launch.

� Books were donated by members at theFirst LIASA Gauteng North Branchmeeting to support children in the SteveBiko Hospital’s Oncology section.All these events were advertised on

LIASA Gauteng North Branch’s facebookpage to make members aware. The BranchExecutive Committee members gave the

At the University of Pretoria lapel pins were handedout to raise awareness of SALW

South African Library Weekthe LIASA Gauteng North Branch experience

Puppet show at Glenstantia library continued on next page


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events their support by attending andparticipating.

The benefits of library week can be

increased by early planning for the events.As popular as the events are, there isalways room for improvement.

Together we can achieve more!

Mmakgoshi Prescilla Reetseng

Our Municipality has five libraries.

The Library week celebrations were

observed in all the libraries.

Rayton LibraryThe main Library celebra-tion was held in RaytonLibrary and it was inte-grated with the FarewellFunction of Marthie Stry-dom the Libraries Super-visor who is now onpension. She served Ray-

ton Library for 30 years.The guest speaker was the PRO from

LIASA Tshwane branch (Ms MmakgoshiReentseng). Her presentation wasexceptional, addressing issues on libraryweek, where it comes from, why librariesare celebrating the theme for 2011 ”READIN YOUR LANGUAGE @ YOUR LIBRARY”and she marketed LIASA by telling theaudience about LIASA and its benefits. She

offered 10 booksin indigenouslanguages toRayton Library asa gift.

Entertainmentwas by RefilweLibraryprogrammegroup andSedibeng primaryschool learners. Aslide presentation

of the libraries

Library Week celebration @ Nokeng Tsa Taemane Municipality

Dancers from Sedibeng Primary Learners reading in the 11 official languages Cullinan Library

celebration. All who attended were given abag and a pen.

Cullinan, Onverwacht and SteveBikoville librariesThese libraries had no formal events butbags and pens were distributed to thelibrary clients.

Rayton PL display Cullinana PL display

Library users in Steve Bikoville Library Winners of the Draw with the Library assistant

programmes from 1 July 2010 to February2011 was done. Refreshments were providedto all and everyone received a bag and a penbranded “I LOVE MY LIBRARY”.

Refilwe LibraryLearners from Primary schools in Refilweand the library users attended the

Ms Reentseng handing over the books

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South African

Library Week

was celebrated

with much success

at Howard College

Libraries, University

of KwaZulu Natal.

In observing thenational theme Read inyour language @yourlibrary, a display ofmaterials published bythe UKZN Press waspresented in the foyerof EG Malherbe Library,focusing on a variety ofmaterials published inindigenous Africanlanguages. The display included renownedstory teller and performer Gcina Mhlope’sSama Award winning Audio CD Songs andStories of Africa, which also received thePanSALB awards for translation fromEnglish into isiZulu Umcelo NezindabaZase-Afrika and Xhosa Umcelo NeentsomiZase-Afrika. Sharing the same award wasWilliam Ndabayakhe Zulu for his autobi-ography published by UKZN Press, LiyozeLine Nangakithi, an isiZulu adaptation ofhis English autobiography, Spring WillCome.

Both authors have been recognized forthe important role they play in promotingindigenous languages in South Africa.These publications, along with others,

attracted much interest, helping to drawattention to the importance of access toreading materials in the 11 South Africanofficial languages in addition to thepromotion of writing and publishing inthese languages.

The programme of South AfricanLibrary Week events at Howard CollegeLibraries commenced with an inspiring talkby Dr. Lungile Bhengu Baloyi who, drawingwords from her book African Midwife:Change beyond form, conveyed a positivemessage of personal responsibility and anattitude of healing through expression.

This message was further extended byOfficer Jeff Mkhize, representing WestvillePrison Correctional Services, who

emphasized our respon-sibility to society as hegratefully accepted alarge donation of booksfrom Howard CollegeLibraries.

UKZN library userstook advantage of theannual “amnesty”period that allowed anexemption of fines to beconceded for all latereturns during the week.Several researchdatabase presentationsand videos providedpractical assistance tostudents and academic

staff throughout the week culminating in abook sale of discarded items in a variety ofsubjects. The sale attracted a number ofinterested and eager members of theUniversity community.

In celebration of the country’s literacytradition, Howard College Librariesconfirmed its role within a democratic andmultilingual society, reminding both staffand students, as well as the widercommunity, of its invaluable resources,while marketing libraries as a foundationfor the development of a reading andlearning culture in South Africa.Andrea VorsterPrincipal Librarian, Eleanor Bonnar Music LibraryHoward College Libraries, University KwaZulu Natal

Howard College Libraries celebrate National Library Week

Staff sporting Celebrate Library Week 2011 shirts


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The Information Services staff at the Cape

Town campus mounted a fascinating ex-

hibition in the Red Space, to celebrate this

year’s theme of “Read in your language @ your

library.”

Selected items from the historic Cape Towncampus collections on display include books

and articles in all 11 official languages, plus unique language textsfeaturing Khoi-San, and Arabic Afrikaans.

As the first and oldest library in South Africa (established in1818), the Cape Town campus of the NLSA holds one of the richestcollections of published material in many languages, collected overthe centuries. Tours were run by Najwa Hendrickse, PrincipalLibrarian: Reference, Cape Town, and her staff throughout theweek, and many groups of fascinated and enthusiastic public tookthe opportunity to have a tour, and a talk on the exhibition. Manystayed on to read from the books placed in the public areas, on acomfy couch, and experienced the sheer pleasure of reading intheir language @ their Library.

Kim Baker, NLSA Cape Town campus

NLSA Cape Town campus celebrates Library Week

Walter Sisulu University @ Ibika Campus Makana Municipality in Grahamstown

Display illutstrating the theme. Standing is the Programme director of the event,Ward Cllr May, Makana Senior Librarian. Both are librarians from Department ofEducation Cacadu District, Retired Librarian of Makana Municipality (Meg Hartzen-berg) and Regional Librarian Mrs Ketile who linked the local event to the district

Lungisa Antoni winner of Brainteaser

Athenkosi Tokwe winnerof Scrabble competiton

The information librarians displayed all the different language books at the entranceof the library for users to be able see and read at their own language of their choice

DoE Librarian Viwe Pikoli,with puzzle winner, EnricoFillis, Kuyasa Special School


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The Development Services Division of

the Free State Provincial Library and

Information Service shared their plans

for Library Week 2011 in the previous issue

of LIASA-in-Touch. SA Library Week was

celebrated from 19-26 March 2011 using

the theme READ IN ALL LANGUAGES @

YOUR LIBRARY! As this theme is quite

broad in scope, plans allowed librarians to

organise a range of activities, as long as

they made sure that the emphasis is on the

fact that Free State public libraries stock

material in a variety of languages, and thus

enable any individual who can read text in

these languages to do so. The Division de-

cided to continue with the fun activities

they started with last year.

The Free State libraries received theirpromotional packages and everything wentvery well. Approximately 9738 childrenand 509 adults in 83 libraries participated.We have reached a total of 10 247 peoplethrough Library Week and this was how:

FEZILE DABI DISTRICT

Qalabotjha Public Library

The children of the community ofQalabotjha visited the public library, wherethey enjoyed having their faces painted,participating in stick-craft activities andhelping to make a beautiful library train forthe children’s section.

LEJWELEPUTSWA DISTRICT

Odendaalsrus Public LibraryLibrary Week is playing an important role ininforming the whole community about theimportance of reading. When the libraryworkers asked children why they read theresponse usually was: “Because my mom/teacher said that we must read, but we donot like it.” Children need to love reading –only then will they see what books canmean to them. Books can let you travel bytrain without buying a ticket; good booksare an investment that can enrich manylives. The library workers put up a bookdisplay to celebrate Library Week.

MOTHEO DISTRICT

Trevor Barlow Public LibraryAbout 39 Grade-R learners from JoeSolomon Primary School came to the

library and enjoyed face- and finger-painting activities with their three teachers.Rachel Morgan read Die grommende,brommende beer by Sean Taylor to thechildren, and library assistant ElizabethFrancis read aloud Martie Preller’s bookPerfectly me, which is illustrated by IanLusted. The learners and the teachers werethen treated to hot dogs, juice and chips.

THABO MOFUTSANYANA DISTRICT

Dealesville Public Library

The library workers decided to visit thecrèches and primary schools to present thevarious activities on their premises. Thisidea was very successful. The childrenenjoyed most of the activities, especiallythe face painting.

XHARIEP DISTRICT

Zastron Public Library

During Library Week young library usersmade clay objects and enjoyed lollipopsafterwards. On 25 March learners fromZastron Hoërskool visited the library for astory hour and afterwards made some clayfigurines based on the stories they hadheard. They also got to know exactly whata giraffe looks like by cutting and colouringin stand-up pictures of a giraffe. AdriFenwick and Amelia Nketsi assisted thelearners. On 24 March, children fromSamuel Johnson Secondary School madesome lovely craft sticks during their visit tothe Zastron Public Library.

Itumeleng Rammile

Free State libraries celebrate Library Week!

The children loved working on the images for the library train

Odendaalsrus PL: The book display for Library Weekwas strategically placed where everyone could see it

Trevor Barlow PL: The children listened attentively toElizabeth Francis

Kids had their faces painted before doing other activities

Children from Samuel Johnson Secondary Schoolwith their beautifully decorated craft sticks

Emfuleni LIS

Vereeniging Library: Children from different primaryschools listened to story telling (Jackal and Wolf)

The Emfuleni Library and InformationServices celebrated National Library weekat different Libraries. Celebrations tookplace from 19 – 26 March 2011 with thetheme “Read in your Language @ your Library”. This annual campaign is meantto encourage all citizens to read and takepart in library activities.


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� 14 March – Saucy Sally Day Care Centrevisit the Library for a Sotho story and ahandcraft activity. 27 Children playedwith the clay and made butterflies withfinger painting.

� 18 March – 7Teenagers madesome crafty sticksfor the ProvincialCompetition.

� 23 March – 25Adults of theLourier ParkCommunityattended afunction in theHall to celebrateLibrary Week. Atree (Karee) wasplanted.

� A drama groupperformed a playfor them toemphasise theimportance ofbooks andlibraries, a Sotho

story was read to them by alibrarian and they eachreceived a businessmagazine to inspire them.

� 25 March – Sponge paintingwith the girls of LourierPark. 5 young girls learn tosponge paint.

� 28 March – 9 boys made atrain for the children’ssection.

� 30 March – 33children’s faceswere painted andthey enjoyed thisvery much, somuch we did itagain on Fridaythe 1st of April.

� For Library Weekthe children couldcome and readevery day for theLibrarian and staffin their ownlanguage:

All Libraries within eThekwini cele-

brated South African Library Week

by hosting a number of activities

planned throughout the week.

The main event was held at theBotanic Gardens on the 24th March 2011.In total 270 learners from six schoolsattended the celebration.

The learners were treated to a host ofactivities namely:a) Storytelling by local authors and

Librarians b) Magic showc) Sing alongd) Skit by DUT students

e) Painting of Postersf) Face Paintingg) Traditional games e.g. Mlabalabah) Computer gamesi) Recital of Poems

Each learner was also given a goodiebag which contained a book written bylocal author, juice bottle and “I love mylibrary badge”. Lunch and fruit wereprovided for the learners and educators.The event was well received by bothlearners and educators and above all, thelearners were encouraged to read anduse their local library.

Library week programme 14 – 30 March 2011 @ Lourier Park Library

eThekwini Municipality Library Services celebrates SALW

Vanderbijlpark LibraryKids from Pre-Schools attended a Puppetshow and storytelling in different Languages Mokete Motsoari

Netty Human presenting the puppet show


The UL library invited the

university community and

stakeholders to come cel-

ebrate library week by promot-

ing their career opportunities,

languages and culture to coin-

cide with the theme: Reading

in your language @ your li-

brary. The invitation was also

for the purpose of coming to

learn more about the library, as

well as to be inspired by the

planned activities and perform-

ances, and to share ideas with

fellow colleagues.

The UL Library Week wasofficially opened by Prof AbbeyNgoepe on behalf of theDeputy Vice Chancellor. Heappreciated the efforts madeby library staff in preparationfor the event and recognisedthe importance of SA LibraryWeek. The keynote addresswas given by ProfMokgoatsana where hestressed the importance ofreading in mother tongue forbasic learning and the dangerof not learning an additionallanguage. He rendered hisspeech in Sepedi and English.

Throughout the week thelibrary focused on various waysthat could be introduced tomake the learning of languages

more interesting. There weredemonstrations such as ABETreading in Sepedi, indigenousgames such as morabaraba,diketo, kgati, dinonwane andpoetry recitals by students fromPerforming Arts Centre. Rapmusic and Indian music werealso performed. A children’sreading club video was alsoplayed. All these activities keptthe audience entertained and

informed. It was veryinteresting to see how we canrevive interest for indigenouslanguages through variousways that can capture theinterest of all age groups.

A representative from the

Disabled Students Unitmentioned that they haverecorded audio books indifferent languages availablefor the blind which include theConstitution, the Bible, etc. Sheappealed to librarians andstudents to volunteer to help inreading out books and othermaterials for recordingpurposes. An idea aboutopening a community readingclub in the surroundingtownship was highlighted by alecturer from the PerformingArts Centre.

Ms M M MolaudiLibrarian, Technical ServicesUniversity of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus)

University of Limpopo celebrates SALWSALW 2011


SALW 2011

To celebrate South African

Library Week (19 – 26

March 2011) the Market-

ing and promotions team of

CPUT libraries, arranged pre-

sentations to take place at the

Cape Town and Bellville cam-

puses. The theme for SA

Library Week this year was

“Read in your language @ your

library”.

On 31 March 2011 SiviweBangani, Faculty Librarian forEngineering and an Africannovelist gave a presentation onhis writing at the Bellvillecampus.

In 2007 Bangani publishedhis book Iimbuso zikaGawulayo(Many faces of HIV/Aids). Hesays he became interested inwriting a Xhosa novel when hewas employed as a subjectlibrarian in the Faculty ofHumanities at University ofCape Town in 2003. He realized

how neglected the Africanlanguages are especially post -1994. He considers himself tobe a “language activist”, andfor that reason he decided towrite a Xhosa novel, to play apart in reviving Africanlanguage books.

He delivered his presen-tation in Xhosa and translatedto English at various intervals.One was able to see themessage he was conveyingwas well received, as peoplewho attended could relate tothe topic and also gavefeedback. Bangani emphasizedthe importance of the differentlanguages. On arrival theattendees (students and staff)received promotional librarygift bags. They also got anopportunity to liaise withBangani afterward, whileenjoying a light lunch.

Judy Ruiters

CPUT’s Cape Town Cam-

pus Libraries hosted a

presentation to celebrate

South African Library Week. Dr

Gregory Pastoll, a mechanical

engineer lecturer, was invited

by Marketing and Promotions

to share his “diverse interests”

on 30 March 2011; Pastoll

showcased his literary work in-

cluding one of the plays he has

written and his artworks.

Pastoll wowed his audiencewith his diversity in the artsand his amazing talent andbrilliance. The artwork wasexhibited and he read four ofhis short storiesto the delight ofall present. Pastoll shared thefascinating stories behind someof his paintings allowing us tosee art in the same light as theartist. Some of the paintings

that he presented were “In themirror”; “Cellist and cat”; “Theblue horses” and “SeparateUniverses”.

Pastoll believes that we allhave the ability to do whateverwe wish if we are determinedand put our minds to it,referring to making full use ofboth our left and right brain.

After the presentation guestswere treated to Library Weekgift bags which were made bythe Marketing and PromotionsDepartment of the Library.Everyone who attended thepresentation enjoyed it.According to Judy Ruiters, “Ihad a fantastic time; Greg is sotalented and charismatic. It wasa real treat attending thepresentation.”

Nazreen Carlsen

Talk by African language novelist A multi-talented artist at CPUTAuthor Siviwe Bangani with other CPUT Library staff Dr Gregory Pastoll, second from right

René

Schoombee,

Information Fa-

cilitator at Laerskool

Rustenburg and

LIASA North West

Branch Chair, cele-

brated Library Week

in style at the school

where she is a librar-

ian. They started off

with a show for the

little ones of Rusten-

burg. The ever popu-

lar Wielie Walie characters

visited and spoiled the children

to an hour of story fun!

René also included thecommunity of Rustenburg inthe Library Week celebrationsby organising the VoetsporeEvent. Johan Badenhorst, wellknown for his travelprogrammes on TV, entertainedthe guests with his travelstories. Johan also presentedRené with his brand new book:Voetspore, Casablanca tot dieKaap, which will be launched atthe KKNK festival soon.

René Schoombee

Johan Badenhorst (Voetspore), René Schoombee and Carl Swart (4 x 4 Megaworld)

Library Week celebrations inRustenburg


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Public Library Week @ Observatory Library, Western Cape

�Rosemary’s display

�The three library bears

�Crouching Bear, Hidden kiddies

�S’bu, babies and their nannies

The KZN branch launched SALW at the

Mangosuthu University of Technology

in Umlazi. The event was well re-

ceived and attended by both LIS workers

and students. The programme included

Dr Bhengu-Baloyi (author of African

Midwives), traditional Zulu dancers and

student poets. The usual support of the

local booksellers added a special flavour to

the event. As a branch we wish to acknowl-

edge Best Books, Exclusive Books, Logans

Bookshop, Rainbow Academic Books,

Sherwood Books,Van Schaik Bookstore

and Vuga Books. The various events

received publicity both in the local

newspapers and radio stations.

Malvern Primary School embraced thetheme of SALW by hosting a postercompetition. Prizes were sponsored byBest Books and Rainbow Books. They havealso embarked on revamping the school

library and established readingprogrammes to promote a reading culture.Featured below is the principal, Mr Pillaywith the winners of the poster competition.

Umlazi West Library – Durban hostedLibrary Open Days which were filled withvarious interesting activities such as luckydraws, ‘Did you know’ Quiz Competition,African Story time, “guess the weight ofbooks” contest, poetry recitals in Zulu,Community gardening and Face Painting.This was a huge success and has instilled a new energy in the community.

US Consulate lunchIn an attempt to maintain continued rela-tions between LIASA and the US Embassy,the KZN branch executive committeeshared a lunch with the United States Consulate General in Durban. Hosting theexecutive committee were Jill Derderian

(Consul General), Steven Kerchoff (Regional Information officer), and ThulaHlongwane (American Library Director).

Durban School wins prestigious literarycompetitionA team of four 12 year olds from ManorGardens Primary School walked awayproud winners of the SA National Final of the Kids Lit Quiz. This National LiteraryCompetition tests the literary knowledge of children aged 10 – 13.

They will be facing off against otherteams from USA, UK, Canada and NewZealand for the World Title on July 19th in Hamilton.

The South African team that won thisyear is a government school. LIASA-KZNwishes them well and are confident thatthey will do us proud.

David Thomas

Library Week in KwaZulu-Natal

Wielie Walie Pre-school

Volume 12 • Issue 2 JUNE 2011

SALW 2011

Besoek aan Kleuterskole en Dagsorgsentrums byBankhara/Bodulong

Winners of Premiers Reading Competition2011: Zanel du Plessis, Ms Mariana Venter (Senior librarian) en Ariecha Kruger

Die Senior biblioteka-

resse Mev Mariana Ven-

ter en bibliotekaresse

Mev Errion Moagi het die

kleuterskole en dagsorg-sen-

trum besoek as deel van Ku-

ruman biblioteek se

uitbreidingswerk en biblio-

teekweekvieringe.

Daar bestaan ongelooflikebehoeftes by hierdiesentrums en kleuterskole.Twee van die kleuterskoleontvang toelaes vanMaatskaplike dienstewaarmee twee etes per dagvoorsien word. Die skole vrawel skoolgeld, van so min asR30 per maand maar wat baieswak deur die ouers betaalword. Die personeel byhierdie skole is regtig

toegewyd, want sommigemaande werk hulle sonder dathulle enige salarisse ontvang.

Hoewel die middele byhierdie skole maar min is,doen die onderwysers enopvoeders regtig hul bes. Diebibliotekaresses het dieonderwyseresse uitgenooi omdie biblioteke in hul nabyeomgewing te besoek en danook boeke uit te neem wat hulin hul klaskamers kan gebruik.

Hierdie skooltjies het ´ngroot behoefte aan speelgoed,skêre, vetkryte, inkleurboeke,werkboeke, telrame enboublokkies.

Kontak Mev M Venter by tel053 7129396 vir verderebesonderhede.

19 March 2011: Visit to WielieWalie Pre-school to read to thechildren who drew pictures ofthe stories. Prizes wereawarded.

23 March 2011: Visit to pre-schools and day care centre inBankhara-Bodulong – deliveryof magazines and scrap paper

to encourage teachers to visitlibraries.

22 March – 25 March 2011:Distribution of colouring-inpictures to readers visiting thelibrary – Prizes were awarded.

22 March – 25 March 2011: A quiz on Kuruman libraryPrizes were awarded.

Kuruman Library Week events


Genera l I n te res t

The Minister of Finance, Mr Pravin

Gordhan, officially opened the newly

established Research Commons, a

state of the art facility for masters and doc-

toral students, academics and researchers

at Stellenbosch University, Monday (9

May). Prof Russel Botman, Rector and

Vice-Chancellor welcomed invited guests

to the Research Commons situated in the

JS Gericke Library.

“The Research Commons is comparableto some of the best in the world andcreates an innovative and creativeenvironment, offering high level researchsupport, such as professional informationservices, consultation and collaborationopportunities, workshops and presen-tations and research discourse activities,”says Ms Ellen Tise, Senior Director of theSU’s Library and Information Service.

The purpose of the Research Commons

is therefore to enhance the Library’s contri-bution to accelerating post-graduatethrough-put and increasing researchoutput by providing an environmentconducive for research exchange andproduction and scholastic debate, andoffering services which directly supportresearch endeavours of post-graduatestudents and researchers.

The facility boasts a well-designedlounge area for use, amongst others, as afacility for researchers to engage indiscourse and collaborative research. Thisis complemented by state of the art seminarrooms, video conferencing facilities andcarousel computer workstations.

The impetus for the creation of theResearch Commons was partial fundingfrom the Carnegie Corporation of New Yorkwhich forms part of its Research LibrariesConsortium initiative in South Africa, and,

of which the Stellenbosch UniversityLibrary and Information Service is amember.

“This invigorating and contemporaryresearch space will play a significant rolein contributing to the University’s vision ofa world-class research university,” ProfBotman added. “The Research Commonsas well as the recently launched LearningCommons, a contemporary and high-techlearning space for undergraduate students,form part of SU’s HOPE Project – acampus-wide initiative through which theUniversity is using its academic excellenceand cutting-edge scientific research to findsolutions to some of the most pressingchallenges facing South Africa, the rest ofthe continent and the world at large.”

Sonika LamprechtPublished in Stellenbosch University Newsblog.

With March

being Tu-

berculosis

Awareness Month

and 24 March 2011

being World TB day,

Cape Peninsula Uni-

versity of Technol-

ogy Libraries

arranged presenta-

tions at the Cape

Town and Granger

Bay Campusesto

create more aware-

ness about TB. On 9

March 2011, Ursula

Poggenpoel Smith

from the TB/HIV

Care Association, a non-profit organisa-

tion, educated students about the TB germ

and its link to HIV.

Very basic terms were used by thepresenter. Poggenpoel Smith explainedohow TB is spread, the recovery process ofa patient and how the medication and itsside effects impact on a patient’s immunesystem if they are HIV positive. Thepowerpoint presentation was very graphicand one was able to see what the HIV viruslooks like.

Spreading Awareness & not TB

Workstation area Part of the lounge at the Research Commons

Finance Minister opens the innovative Research Commons at Stellenbosch University

Working Wheels

Phot

ogra

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by A

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Jor

daan

Pick ‘n Pay’s Fresh Living magazine’s

April edition did a feature about people

who work in a mobile environment

and one of the jobs featured was that of

staff who work on the City’s Mobile Library

Service. Above is a copy of that insert

which featured Librarian, Nazli Pandit.

The TB/HIV Care Association is specif-ically focused on the challenges associatedwith undiagnosed and untreated TB / HIVand STIs. They aim to address thesechallenges to decrease morbidity andmortality, to decrease transmission andalso improve clinical response. PoggenpoelSmith says, “I have been doing this for 33years now, and I absolutely love my joband what I’m doing.”

Suzanne Hessels, an exchange studentdoing her Masters in Medical Anthropologyat University of Western Cape, who attend-ed the presentation at the Cape TownCampus, saw the experience as an oppor-tunity to obtain relevant information in herfield of study.

Judy Ruiters


Genera l I n te res t

On 23 February 2011 LiSLIG Free

State visited the Information Serv-

ice on Higher Education (ISHE) as

part of its branch activities for the first

term. ISHE is a resource centre specialising

in the collection of information on higher

education. The two Information Officers,

Elrita Grimsley and Limpho Seoka gave us

a hearty welcome with tea/coffee and

apple tart and then told us more about

their work:

The information overload and constantneed for new information in highereducation places an enormous burden onthe shoulders of academics and studentsin higher education who are trying to keepabreast of new developments, trends andinnovations.

The aim of the ISHE is to facilitateresearch and development in highereducation and it renders a non-profitservice to the higher education community.The service recognizes the individual useras someone special and strives to providean efficient service.

The Information Service on HigherEducation is a support service to addressthe information needs of the followinggroups:� Students studying in the field of higher

education and further education at the

Centre for Higher Education andDevelopment Studies at the Universityof the Free State.

� Lecturers and researchers at the samecentre who are involved with teachingand learning in higher education, e-learning, staff development, accessstudies and community-service learning.

� Personnel of the University of the FreeState.

� Academics and policy-makers of otherinstitutions.The collection comprises monographs,

unpublished research documents andreports, government publications, theses,dissertations, journals and newsletters

Elrita Grimsley, Erna Mostert, Limpho Seoka

The Information Service on Higher Education (ISHE) LISLIG Free State’s visit at the University of the Free State

(national and international).Information is computerised according

to a thesaurus that was developed morethan 25 years ago and is still growingaccording to new developments in the fieldof higher education.

The service is available on weekdaysfrom 7:45 to 16:30.

Requests for information can be madeby visiting the information centre, via atelephone call, fax or by e-mail. Replies aremade via the same routes.

Searches for information are done onthe ISHE database, the World Wide Web,various electronic databases, as well asvarious open-access repositories.

Printed information can be borrowedfrom the information centre andphotocopies can also be made.

Contact details are:• Elrita Grimsley: [email protected]• Limpho Seoka: [email protected]• Tel: 27-(0)51-4012588• Fax: 27-(0)51-4446357• Benito Khotseng Building, Room 211

Internal Post Box 7University of the Free StateP O Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300

Erna Mostert (Chair LiSLIG FS)Elrita Grimsley and Limpho Seoka

Residensia Library fun runHosted in celebration of World book andFreedom day on Friday 29 April 2011.

All community members, including thesenior citizens, were invited to participatein the event. It was aimed at raising anawareness of the importance of books aswell as to encourage our people to cultivatethe culture of reading and empowerthemselves in the new democratic societythrough exercising to free their minds.

It was also meant to highlight successfulservice delivery by Emfuleni Libraries.

As part of the City’s Library Week

celebrations, City of Johannesburg

Library and Information Services

hosted the Slam Poetry Competition at

Florida Park High on the 23 March 2011.

The competition is part of the AfricanLiterary Development Programme thatfocuses, among other things, on givinglearners and young people outside schoolan opportunity to showcase their literarycapabilities, enhance their literaryknowledge and interact with establishedwriters, young and old. Slam poetry is agenre of poetry performed live before anaudience in a competitive environment. Itappeals to young people because it allowsfreedom of expression and creativity, andhas the capacity to evoke strong emotionslike anger, excitement and happiness.During a slam poetry session contestantsare judged on originality, creativity,spontaneity and personality in theirperformances. Slam poetry, now in its thirdyear running, has proven to be a hugeattraction for young people.

Facilitating and judging the competition

was poet and writer Yandisa Molebalwa.She speaks five different South Africanlanguages and has recently launched herdebut Isizulu poetry compilation titledUbuthle Bendalo. The second facilitatorand judge was South African prolificnovelist, poet laureate, acclaimed linguistand grammarian, literati extraordinaire,

renowned actor and academic Mohlouoa“Morena” Ntsasa. Apart from determiningthe winning slam poets, they entertainedthe audience and encouraged the youngpoets to pursue their different talents.

Maryna Moolman

SLAM Poetry Competition @ Florida Park High School


CPUT Cape Town Campus came

alive on February 14, 2011 to cele-

brate Valentine’s Day. Stalls were

put up to create the 2011 Valentine’s

Day Market celebration and the Market-

ing and Promotions department of

CPUT Libraries contributed to the spirit

by creating little Valentine’s gifts.

Each of the three Cape Town Campusstaff members made their own gift,resulting in three fantastic Valentine’sgift ideas. Estelle Kriger, head of thedepartment, made 15 crackers whileJudy Ruiters and Nazreen Carlsen, thePublic Relations interns, presentedheart-shaped bags and Valentine giftboxes respectively.

As an extra personal touch Kriger,Ruiters and Carlsen decorated anddistributed heart-shaped lollipops to thestudents of all 9 campuses. Thelollipops were mailed to the other 8campuses from the Cape Town Campus.The students received the free gift attheir libraries help/information desk.

Cape Town Campus librarian, HarrietSolomon said: “I gave the free gift tothe students who returned their bookson time, all students were extremelygrateful and thanked me. They wereexcited to be receiving a free gift andthe lollipops went very quickly.”

Tygerberg Campus librarian, VeliswaTshetsha said; “The lollipops were asuccess, the students were eager andappreciative. The students requestedmore and I handed them out to all thefamiliar faces.”All the gifts were wellreceived at the market day andweresold out within an hour. The freelollipops were of course a success. Allstudents who received one appreciatedthe gesture. It was our aim to makestudents feel loved and appreciated bytheir CPUT Libraries, and also to bring afeeling of the joy and fun of student life.

Nazreen Carlsen

Dear Editor

We hereby request your financial assistance towards the establishing of a study area andElectronic classroom to enable underprivileged school children from Montagu to:• study in a quiet environment• receive hands-on training and assistance with information literacy skills - the training

will include teaching on how to do assignments the layout of an school assignmentand the correct way in compiling the list of sources consulted (bibliography)The training facilities are currently also used to present life skills and leadership

workshops to teenagers and women from disadvantaged communities to assist withintheir own communities with social problems and life skills training and development

Equipment neededWe need 10 keyboards, 10 computer mice, 1 dvd player, 1 digital overhead projector and aprinter to enable us to present the skills training and for the children to copy theirassignments.

Resources neededReference books: World Book Encyclopedia, Wereldspektrum, Afrikaans dictionaries,English Dictionaries and Eng/Afr-Afr/Eng bilingual dictionaries and general referencebooks for Secondary school assignments as well as non-fiction material to enhance reading skills.

Infrastructure available• Sound credit records.• Motivated, enthusiastic, skilled staff members assisted by reliable volunteers from our

communities. A highly skilled manager and participating control board consisting ofseven (7) volunteers

• Qualified experienced trainers• 10 computers• Buildings: Very neat and clean • 2 seminar rooms available to establish an Information retrieval centre for school-

children to assist them with their school assignments/homework and to supply astudy room because of the poor circumstances at home.

• Accommodation available for delegates attending our training sessions• A kitchen where we prepare food for 100 children from our poor community twice a

week (after school)• A crèche for Gr R pre-school kids enrolled in an early-childhood development program

Your assistance towards this highly needed facility will be highly appreciated.

With kind regards

Alida CilliersMarketer

Genera l i n te res t

CENTRE OF HOPEwith Compassion and Mercy Ministries & Hadassa Family Ministries

CPUT Libraries creating the gift of love

Contact details:Marketing/Fundraising: Alida Cilliers

Sultana Street MontaguWestern Cape SOUTH AFRICA

P.O. Box 352Robertson, 6705South Africa

Tel/Fax: 023 626 2226 Cell: 082 896 3435 E-mail: [email protected]

A registered non-profitwelfare organization

NPO 062-998

Donations to us are tax deductible


PEOPLE PAGE: NewJob? � Re t i r ing �New Appo in tmen t s �Te l l u s ! !

ON THE MOVEBianca Lawrence has been appointed Librarian at the Cedara Library (KZN Department of Agriculture.) She previouslyworked there as a library assistant for 13years.

Durban University ofTechnology (DUT) hasmade several appoint-ments recently. David

Thomas has recentlybeen appointed to thepost of Training Librar-ian. He brings to thepost his experience as aSubject Librarian which

saw him being involved in teaching Infor-mation Literacy (IL) at the DUT. As TrainingLibrarian, his goal is to promote the inte-gration of IL into the academic programmeof the university. David intends employingvarious teaching and learning strategiesand embracing the online environment.

Mousin Saib and Bongi Mngadi have beenappointed as Subject Librarians while Sandra Achary and Qinisela Chiliza havebeen appointed as a Library assistant andLibrary assistant: After hours, respectively.

David Thomas

Zanele Shabalala has been appointed as anAssistant Librarian at the College of CapeTown.

Dairmaid Wessels has been appointed asDistrict Manager in the City of Cape Town’sLibrary & Information Services Department.Dairmaid is the manager for District 4 andoversees 15 libraries. He started his work-ing career as a Library Aid at the Mead-owridge branch after matriculating in 1990and after 2 years moved to Hanover ParkLibrary as an Assistant Librarian. While inthis position he started studying throughUNISA towards a B. Bibl. After 2 ½ years hemoved to Manenberg Library where he wasafforded the opportunity to be the 2nd incharge. He also completed his degree whileat Manenberg and after 9 years he becamea Senior Librarian at Mamre Library wherehe found himself travelling 150 km everyday to get to work and back home. Hemoved a little closer to home when he wasappointed the Senior at Hout Bay Libraryand even closer when he was appointedPrincipal Librarian at Grassy Park Library,just 5 minutes from his home. Of his careerDairmaid says that he is “grateful for thegreat people I worked with in the past aswell as the present. I think that you shouldembrace what you do, love it and don’t letanything limit you from giving your best.You determine your limits.” Nazeem Hardy

Donald Harrison joinedUKS in April 2011. Hequalified as a librarianat PE Tecnikon in 1992,then spent 10 years as apublic librarian, initiallyon a manual systemand later on the PALSlibrary management

system. In 2001 hebecame a consultant for LibTech,supporting the PALS system. Interestsinclude history, computers, science fictionand squash (the sport, not the vegetable).

IN MEMORIUM

James Sydney Winter, 1939-2010. After graduating from university, Jamesspent all his working life at the Johannes-burg Public Library. He held various seniormanagement positions, such as branch or-ganiser and Assistant City Librarian Refer-ence Libraries. James had an excellentknowledge of authors and books. Hetrained many staff and was a patron of thetheatre both in London and Johannesburg.

David StoneSenior Reference Librarian, City of Johannesburg

Libraries, Sandton Library

The Department of Library & Informa-

tion Science is proud to announce

that 47 of its students have gradu-

ated with an Advanced Certificate in

Education (ACE) in School Librarianship.

These students received fundingthrough the Western Cape EducationDepartment’s (WCED) bursary scheme. TheEducation Library & Information Service(EDULIS) of the WCED was instrumental insecuring the funding for prospective schoollibrarians. The students came from ruraland metropolitan areas in the WesternCape. Courses were offered during normaluniversity term time as well as duringschool holidays to cater for teachers fromfar flung towns.

The only provinces which offeraccredited school librarianship qualifi-cations are the Western Cape (UWC) andKwaZulu Natal (University of KwaZulu Natal& University of Zululand). The UWC schoollibrarianship ACE offers a 21st centurycurriculum incorporating managementprinciples and techniques for schoollibraries, information literacy education,children’s and youth literature and ICTapplications including Web2.0 tools.

The drive to establish school libraries ineach school with a qualified schoollibrarian has been prominent in the media.The Equal Education Movement’s slogan‘one school, one library, one librarian’ hasfound supporters in the newly qualifiedschool librarians who are eager to

implement what they have learned. Three students, who received their

advanced certificates cum laude, needspecial mention: Linda Fodor (Prince AlbertPrimary School), Zukiswa Mdleleni(Yomelela Primary School) and CharleneCarelse (Northpine Primary School).Congratulations and well done!

Here are some comments about theprogramme from our graduates:

Nazeem Davids,

Goodwood College: “Iwant to emphasise howvaluable this coursewas to me as a teacher.So much so that I thinkthat this particularcourse should form partof the teacher trainingcurriculum at all teacher

training institutions. Library andInformation Studies is an essential skill forteachers of all learning areas.”

Myrna Williams,

Dalwelde PrimarySchool: (“A (schoollibrary) media specialistneeds to have excellentcommunication skillswith all age groups.Knowledge aboutplagiarism and

copyright is essential. I

have learned to search the internet, sendand receive e-mails, evaluate web sites,create blogs, as well as strategies toincorporate new teaching methods.”

Faith Bikitsha,

Usasazo High School:The school librarianshipcourse exceeded myexpectations, partic-ularly because of itspracticality andrelevance to myteaching, general

management and library management. I amnow able to select the best books for myschool library and classify them. Thiscourse has made me aware of stayingcurrent in terms of information, and I'mnow smarter and organised. My learnershave benefitted tremendously from mylearning.

It was really not easy to study part timeand I would like to thank all my schoollibrarianship lecturers for their support. Ithas been a fulfilling journey.

In 2011 we will continue to offer theACE programme during school holidays.For further enquiries please [email protected] or fax 0219591287.

Sandy Zinn Coordinator ACE School LibrarianshipLecturer, UWC Dept of Library & Information Science

Send to Ingrid Thomson [email protected] Good quality, high resolution photos are preferred.

School Librarians graduate at the University of the Western Cape

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