Arrival and Opening
The One Monthresidential
continuing professional development (CPD) programme, a funded programme made possible by
the Carnegie Corporation of New York and hosted by
the prestigious Department of Information Science, University
of Pretoria
4th
Edition commenced
on a good Note on Saturday 23rd May, 2015.
Participants
from 5 sub-Saharan Africa countries namely: Ghana,
Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda arrived O.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa
on the the early hours on Saturday 23rd of May. Then there we had about 1 hour
trip to Pretoria where we were checked in to the Protea Hotel Manor.
Registration and
Registration began by 15.00 handled by Carnegie CPD Programme
Administrator Joan De La Haye. We were giving programme files and we all
signed commitment letters.
The Carnage
CPD management Team lead by Prof Bothma,
the Head of the Department of Information Science warmly welcome us
with Dinner by 17.30 -18.00 at at Protea Hotel Manor. The event was anchored
by Dr. Marline Holmner.
Carnegie
CPD programme central objective is to enhance librarians' ICT skills for
research enablement in African universities
The
Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, was awarded a grant
by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to offer eight four-week residential
continuing professional development (CPD) programmes for qualified librarians
from Sub-Saharan Africa, for the period 2014 – 2016.
The
aims of the programme are to:
·
Empower the next generation of library and information
professionals within Sub-Saharan African countries with hands-on skills to
apply current and emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs);
·
Build capacity amongst library and information services (LIS)
professionals to support and enable researchers.
The one month CPD programme themes
- Setting the context: Libraries, ICTs and research
- Leadership and innovation
- Advanced Information literacy and advanced information retrieval
- Social media for research discoverability in an academic environment
- Mobile technology and mobility
- Managing and organising information
- Personal Information Management
- Open Scholarship and Open Science (OS/S) – Publishing
- Open Scholarship and Open Science – Institutional Repositories.
- Open Scholarship and Open Science – Understanding and using research data management
- Digitisation
- Evaluating website architecture
- Cloud services and storage
- Virtual research environment
- The next generation librarian
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