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S A Library Week will be
celebrated during the week of 17 to 22 March 2008, with
the theme "From local to global @ your library".
The theme has been inspired by the story of Neal
Petersen, the South African yachtsman who was the first
black man to sail solo around the world, who says that
he would not be where he is today without libraries.
Growing up as a young boy on the Cape Flats, he
discovered sailing and the art of navigation through
books in his local public library and from there truly
went from local to global through his library.
Libraries bridge the world and are places of
opportunity, as Neal testifies. Libraries are about more
than having access to information; it is about what one
does with that information and where it can take one.
Imagine a young boy discovering books about sailing; a
university student doing research; an academic finding
the latest research through resources made available by
the library; the budding entrepreneur getting guidance
on how to set a business up; the young schoolgirl
locating information for her research, or an unemployed
person posting his/her curriculum vitae (cv) on to
websites using the computer provided by the public
library or emailing in response to an advertisement he
read in the newspaper at his library.
Libraries are also about reading and encouraging a
culture of reading, enabling one to explore the world
and to broaden one’ s horizons … "going from local to
global". Think about the internationally published
writers who started out by attending writing workshops
at their public library; there are the literacy classes
run by libraries. What of the steel trunk and container
libraries of Biblionef taking books to the rural areas?
What about the project by the National Library of South
Africa to publish and disseminate more books in
indigenous languages? The examples are endless.
As the Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Pallo Jordan
reminded us in his keynote speech at the Opening
Ceremony of the IFLA/World Library and Information
Congress, the eighth clause of the Freedom Charter says
“The doors of learning and culture shall be opened” and
continues “All the cultural treasures of mankind shall
be open to all, by free exchange of books, ideas and
contact with other lands”. And where better than @ your
library where one can go from local to global through
books, internet and other electronic and digital media?
Libraries are indeed places which allow people to go
beyond themselves; that bridge the world and provide
opportunities to access to a world of information and
other cultures.
LIASA welcomes all its members and libraries across
South Africa to join in celebrating SA Library Week 2008
through giving unique expression to its theme "From
local to global @ your library".
The national launch of SA
Library Week 2008 will be hosted by Mpumalanga. It takes
place on Saturday 15th March 2008 at
the Kruger National Park.
Source: LIASA
Web Page
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Besoek
aan Egipte in Februarie 2008 |
Op Robert Moropa se
aandrang het drie lede van die e-Diens (Ria
Groenewald, Ina Smith en Heila Pienaar) in Februarie
die Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) in Alexandrië,
Egipte besoek om meer van digitisering en ander e-inisiatiewe
te leer. Ria het ook 'n besoek aan die Egiptiese
Nasionale Argiewe en Biblioteek in Kaïro gereël. Na
die amptelike besoek het ons op 'n Nylvaart gegaan
waartydens ons Egiptiese tempels en grafkelders
besoek het en sommer 'n paar lewenslesse ook geleer
het!! Terugvoer oor die besoek aan Egipte sal tydens
verskeie geleenthede geskied.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
(BA) in Alexandrië, Egipte
Taha Hussein Biblioteek
vir swaksiendes
Sohair Wastawy (Hoofbibliotekaris BA), Heila
Pienaar, Ina Smith, Ria Groenewald
Daar was pret ook - Ina verbeel haar die kameel
is 'n perd
Contributed by Heila Pienaar
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Clubmed@Hotazel |
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After a
month of suffering without aircon and promises that the
situation will improve, the staff of the Medical Library
planned a “Beach Party” on the 15th
February. With a few props, holiday outfits, lolly pops
and ice lollies for the students, we put some humour
back into a very hot and sticky situation.
The Faculty of Health Sciences provided
15 fans to keep staff and students alive till the
reparations to the aircon system has been done. We hope
that by the time the Newsletter is published we will be
cool girls and guys and no longer hot and bothered.
 
Contributed by Magriet Lee
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Special Collections welcomes two new
staff members |
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Special
Collections welcomes two new staff members who have
been with us since the beginning of February 2008.
Heidi Visser who needs no introduction helps at the
information desk in the mornings and is also involved in
collection management projects.
Anja
Jacobs, a masters student in Historical and Heritage
Studies is at the information desk in the afternoons.
She also assists with projects like the evaluation and
physical maintenance of the old Africana Collection.
At this time when the Book Jol is taking its toll on
normal activities in the unit we really appreciate their
help in ensuing the fluent functioning of Special
Collections.
Contributed by Katrien Malan
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March
book of the month |
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Thabo Mbeki the dream deferred© 2007/ Mark Gevisser
Contributed by Katrien Malan
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| What happens to a dream deferred? This question, from one of President Thabo Mbeki's favourite poems by Langston Hughes, provides the thread for this magisterial new biography. In the long shadow of Nelson Mandela, Mbeki has attempted to forge an identity for himself as the symbol of modern Africa. And yet, as he prepares to leave office in 2009, his legacy remains intensely contested.
This book is both a work of deep scholarship and a gripping, highly readable story. By tracing the path of Mbeki's life, it sheds new light on his political personality and provides unprecedented insight into the dramatic role he has played in South African history.
Mark Gevisser brings to life the voices and places that have made Thabo Mbeki - the frontier of the Eastern Cape; "Swinging Britain" and neo-Stalinist Moscow in the sixties; the frought world of African exile, of fatherhood and family. He tells the story of South Africa's black elite over a turbulent century - from "black Englishmen" to revolutionaries to heads of state - and Mbeki's own transition from doctrinaire communism to economic liberalism. He comes to grips with the current political turmoil by examining the history of a man who has carried, on his shoulders, the collective burden of a country seeking to realise a dream too long deferred.
MARK GEVISSER has been working on Thabo Mbeki: the Dream Deferred since 1999. He was born in Johannesburg in 1964 and educated at Yale. His journalism has appeared in dozens of publications in South Africa and abroad; his celebrated Mail & Guardian political profiles were collected in Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa. Recently he has also been working as a documentary film maker, a museum exhibition designer, heritage consultant television scriptwriter. He lives in Johannesburg and Cape Town. |
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Personalia |
We
have regrettably heard that Fana Mghidi's sister
passed away. We are thinking of Fana and his family
during this difficult time and pray that God may
console and strengthen them.
Contributed by Salomie Stolz
Baie geluk aan Rolf Tönsing
met die huwelik van sy dogter Britta en nuwe skoonseun
Marcus Riby-Smith op Vrydag 22 Februarie 2008.
Contributed by Leonora Wydeman
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What will
the Medical Library be without a pregnancy?
Or even
better - What about two pregnancies in a row?
Popi
Khoza and Janice de Wee of the Pre-Clinical Library are
now running with the tradition. They surprised us with
the good news during 2007 already.
We
therefore didn’t have to search too far for a reason for
a festive occasion early one Friday morning. This feast
was dedicated to Popi alone as we strongly believe that
each person is worthy of having her own feast … (and who
would want to miss out on a second party in any case?)
As you can see there was an abundance of
enthusiasm, presents and lovely food!
 
Congratulations and our best
wishes accompany Popi and her new baby.
And Janice, please don’t surprise us with
a premature birth! Please give us enough time to plan
the second party!
Contributed by Antoinette Kemp |
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AIS Intranet
Newsletter Publication /
Publikasie van die AI Intranet Nuusbrief |
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Indien jy enige kommentaar
of voorstelle oor die nuusbrief het, epos ons asseblief
by
diana.gerritsen@up.ac.za
- ons hoor graag jou opinie.
If you
have any comments or suggestions about our newsletter,
then please mail us on
diana.gerritsen@up.ac.za
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we are very keen to hear your opinions.
To contribute, please e-mail
Diana Gerritsen.
Contributions can be in Afrikaans or English.
Om 'n bydrae te maak e-pos asb. vir
Diana Gerritsen.
Bydraes kan in Afrikaans of Engels wees. |
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month ...
Gebeure dié
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Birthdays this
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Leonora Wydeman |
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Francina Laka |
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DM Raulinga |
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Linda Pretorius |
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MV Mohoroe |
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14 |
Antoinette Kemp |
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16 |
Marinda Maritz |
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Richard Mbokane |
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Billy van Niekerk |
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Anna-Marie Bezuidenhout |
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Thembi Hadebe |
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Anneline vd Gryp |
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Monica Hammes |
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Abel Lebepe |
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Clarisse Venter |
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Hettie Groenewald |
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"A positive
attitude
may not solve all
your problems, but it will
annoy enough
people to make
it worth the
effort"
Herm Albright
(1876 - 1944)
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