Adoption of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for Librarians’ Professional Development in Africa

Librarian development is the process of constantly strengthening professional attainment, broadening academic knowledge, and enhancing skills. This chapter explores how Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), can be used as continuing professional development of a librarian. This chapter narrates how MOOCs may offer a librarian an opportunity to upgrade their skills or further their education. It explains the benefits and challenges of the adoption of MOOCs for continuing professional development in developing countries and how this can be applied in developing economies. The major benefits of MOOCs to librarians are to help in professional and personal learning, but most librarians who wish to experience progressive career-development are yet to ascertain this fact. The chapter concludes that librarians have the opportunity to leverage this technology to improve their relevant professional skills in the 21st century. It is also established that the adoption and use of MOOCs among professional librarians in Africa is low as in advanced countries

The Reflection of Popular Culture on Calendar Photos

In the consumer society, brands communicate with consumers by subjects and practices of popular culture. Photography is used as an effective medium in this process. This study that was made within the framework of consumer society and global brands aimed to analyze Lavazza calendar photos that were published between 1993-2012 in the context of popular culture. These photos were analyzed by taking into consideration non-verbal communication means (appearance, manner, activity, props, and settings) enumerated by Dyer. The findings show that non-verbal means of communication have changed in terms of popular culture according to the years in Lavazza's calendar photographs