The Technological Education Institutes (TEI) in Greece and their libraries

The legal framework for the foundation of the Technological Education Institutes (TEI) in Greece is presented. A short history of the education of the librarians in Greece and some general information about all the Institutes and their libraries is given. Data for the organisation, automation and personnel of the libraries are presented

From library skills to information literacy

The application of new technologies and the acquisition of new sources and methods of information dissemination, as well as the provision of libraries services, requires the special education of the users in order to take advantage of these sources and services. In this paper, an investigation of the Greek academic libraries and their user education sessions is attempted. This research aims to explore the user education sessions offered by the libraries, with special regards to the education, the type of user education sessions and their contents. For the collection of the elements, the questionnaire method is selected. The current situation as much as it concerns the libraries and the applied teaching methods at the Greek education institutions, is presented

From reluctant slavery to a black flood: Black workers, mass production and cultural formation in South Africa's metalworks

African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 2 August 1982In the first chapter of this thesis the problem of the transition from absolute to relative surplus-value extraction, of the changes in the social relations of production that bring about the mass production of commodities in South Africa's Metalworks, was discussed in some detail. There it was shown that South Africa's bonded accumulation and reproduction of capital, militated against such a transition: The local Metalworks, subordinate on the one hand to an international division of labour, on the other, to the needs of the local mining industry, faltered in all their efforts to effect this transition. Furthermore, through a discussion of the economic role of the South African State it was emphasised that the first pockets of mass producing Metalworks, like Iscor and the African Metals Corporation were created through State or para-statal corporations. This entailed a vast reorganisation of the industry by the late 19 30s. Finally, despite the favourable conditions for growth engendered by the Union's 'war effort', the dominance of these new relations of production was shown to be tenuous and a continued juxtaposition of jobbing and mass forms of production defined the morphology of the industry by the 1950s. The second chapter of the thesis addressed itself to the transition itself, located in the era after 1964 and consolidated by the crisis years of the mid-nineteen-seventies. Primarily through a rapid concentration and centralisation of the industry but also through the sudden large scale involvement of Mining Houses and Transnational Corporations, the 'universal worker' of machinofacture is created. The absolute increase of operative African workers turn from a quantitative flood to a qualitative presence. This present chapter is an attempt to examine the contradictory implications of this presence, in the words of the author M. Dikobe a generation 'that is surprising the world, fast very fast', in its combativity and political consciousness (1)

The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: ethnicity, populism and worker culture in Natal’s labour movement

Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The Making of Class, 9-14 February, 198

Histologically diagnosed cancers in South Africa, 1988

The National Cancer Registry (NCR) collects information on cancer diagnoses via a nation-wide network of public and private pathology laboratories. In 1988, 45 570 new laboratory-diagnosed cancer cases were reported to the NCR. Minimal age-standardised registration rates for black, white, coloured and Asian males were 112,2, 229,9, 192,2 and 91,6/100 000, respectively, and those for females 107,2,201,3 148,1 and 118,0. About 40% of cancers in females and 31,3% in males occurred in potentially economically active adults aged 15 - 54 years. The top five cancers in males were: (i) basal cell skin cancer; (ii) cancer of the prostate gland; (iii) cancer of the oesophagus; (iv) lung cancer; and (v) squamous cell skin cancer. In females they were: (i) cancer of the cervix; (ii) breast cancer; (iii) basal cell skin cancer; (iv) squamous cell skin cancer; and (v) cancer of the oesophagus. Despite under-reporting, a nwnber of cancers, especially those of the oesophagus and cervix in blacks and skin cancers in whites, rank among the highest in the world. Moreover, 40,4% of the cancers in adult males (15 - 64 years) and 15,2% of those in adult females were associated with tobacco use. It is recommended that: (i) regional cancer registries be set up in a number of regions to provide information on the true burden of cancer and to monitor interventions; (ii) a national screening programme for cancer of the cervix be established; (iii) detailed studies on lifestyle and dietary causes, especially of cancers related to tobacco consumption and cancers of the oesophagus, cervix and skin, be undertaken; and (iv) the impact of HIV on virus-related cancers be monitored

Becoming otherwise: two thousand and ten reasons to live in a small town

Includes bibliographical referencesThe past few decades have seen a 'cultural turn' in urban planning, and public art has become an important component within urban design strategies. Accordingly, public art is most commonly encountered in the urban literature as commissioned public sculptures. Simultaneously operating are a range of critical, subversive, and experimental practices that interact with the public space of cities in a myriad of ways. Although these other types of public art projects may have been engaged in the fields of Fine Art and Cultural Studies, this has been predominantly in the global North and they have yet to enter Urban Studies in the global South in any comprehensive way. Through an analysis of three examples from the Visual Arts Network South Africa's 'Two Thousand and Ten Reasons to Live in a Small Town', this thesis argues that experimental, inclusionary and less object-oriented forms of public art offers useful lessons for Urban Studies. The research presented in this thesis involved a qualitative study of: The Domino Effect which followed a participatory process to develop a domino tournament in the Western Cape town of Hermon; Living within History, a performative collage project which explored the local museum archive in the town of Dundee in KwaZulu-Natal; and Dlala Indima which was a graffiti-led Hip-hop project in the rural township of Phakamisa in the Eastern Cape. Each involved affective engagements with the vastly unequal contexts typical of South African public spaces. Although there is an increasing recognition that affect plays an important role in understanding and designing the urban, it is still largely assumed that citizenship is enacted according to rational criteria. The public art of 'Two Thousand and Ten Reason s to Live in a Small Town' demonstrated that affect impacts on how people can access complex spatial issues and perform citizenship. Furthermore, as part of a larger epistemological project of 'southerning' urban theory, this thesis therefore argues that intersecting conceptual threads from three bodies of literature: public space, public art and public pedagogy, is important. More specifically, it demonstrates that public art can harness an affective rationality that may foster alternative ways of knowing and acting in/on the urban, thereby offering public art as a unique pedagogy for exploring and deepening cityness

Tobacco smoking question on death notification forms in Australia (with notes about e-cigarettes).

This is a proposal to insert a question on the tobacco smoking status of the deceased on death notification forms. This is based on evidence from 25 years of overseas and local experience. This simple insertion will provide accurate and enduring data on the evolution of the smoking epidemic in Australia. Version 4 Update 11 July

The voice and gesture in South Africa's revolution: a study of worker gatherings and performance-genres in Natal

Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: Structure and Experience in the Making of Apartheid, 6-10 February, 199

Disorganising the unorganised: The 'Black Flood' and the Registered Metal Union responses, Part I, the 1960s, of South African 'development'

African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented May 1981This paper arises out of a combination of two factors: firstly, it is out of a dissatisfaction with a reality presented to us of late by a number of articles and more voluminous affairs like books about the role of white-skinned people in the racial division of labour, and through that, South African society as a whole. Secondly, out of a feeling that the ever-recurrent debate about 'inter-racial solidarity' and the South African working classes has been spirited away by some theoretical formulations that like the best of imported machinery started producing a mass of realities that obfuscate rather than clarify real issues that the labour movement is facing at present. (2) Unlike Demag machinery though, the results of the former, produced a reality that in most cases does not exist. These two factors will increasingly become clear as the narrative unfords and need not detain us here. What needs to detain us here though is the plot of the ensuing argument. In the first two parts of this paper, the story of the shifts in the T.U.C.S.A. as concerns African unionisation and their affiliation, disaffiliation acrobatics that characterised much of the 1960s is told. It finally traces two divergent responses vis-a-vis the registered union movement. The one, spearheaded by what have been called 'craft-diluted' unions, the other by 'industrial unions'. The third part, concerns an exploration of the material complexities that characterise the 'craft-diluted' unions with a specific focus on the actual transformations in the metal industry in South Africa throughout the 1960s. The fourth part looks at the unions themselves and how they respond to their new-found reality, not at the point of leadership but rather at the actions and passivities of their respective ranks and files. The fifth part analyses what has been discussed so far in the light of the current debates about the class determination of the white wage-earning classes. The paper closes with the 1972 T.U.C.S.A. Conference and the clear polarisation/accommodatiorithat exists in strategy between registered unions: a year before Potgieter's Zulus took to the streets, their rags barely covering their bottoms but for completely different reasons than he gives or to use Nelson's bad metaphor, the year his Black-worker-Christ resurrects himself despite the washing of the hands of Pontius Pilate (read; colonial administrator; read: registered union movement).(3) The second part, or the second paper, at the moment in preparation, will be tracing the process to the present