South Africa must shift from consumption to investment

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says South Africa’s economic growth is inadequate, and the government must shift from a culture of consumption to investment. He was addressing the public on South Africa’s national development imperatives whilst ensuring fiscal sustainability – challenges and choices – at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) on Thursday, 25 April 2013

Securing library information system: Vulnerabilities and threats

Threats and vulnerabilities in computers and networks are common nowadays since computers are widely used by the public. The risks of computer threats and vulnerabilities are high since most computers are connected to the internet. Library Information Systems is also vulnerable to attack since it is a public access institution. Majority of users are naive when it comes to computer and network securities. Some breaches in Library Information System are intentional and some are unintentional. Risks analysis should be done to find the threats and risks in designing the Library Information System. Threats are made possible due to lack of proper procedures, software flaws and policies. The administrators should anticipate all the possible attacks and their mitigation techniques. In this paper, we will try to address various issues arise from this vulnerabilities and threats. We will also describe how we can reduce and overcome this vulnerabilities and threats

Higher Education Library Information Network (HELIN), Inc. BYLAWS, amended 19 February 2010

These Bylaws are based upon the HELIN Agreement for Integrated Library and Information Services for The Higher Education Library Information Network (HELIN), Inc. (hereinafter referred to as HELIN or the HELIN Library Consortium), and the HELIN Policy Governance Manual. Those documents represent authoritative and binding obligations and expectations on the part of all parties, and these Bylaws are an extension of those documents. It is acknowledged by all parties that the HELIN Agreement for Integrated Library and Information Services and the HELIN Policy Governance Manual are the ultimate authority in any question relating to the governance or functioning of the consortium, and in no event may Bylaws be created which violate, supersede, or compromise the language and terms of those documents. Revised 19 February 201

Bibliographic Control Within Lithuanian Integrated Library Information System

After the restoration of Lithuania’s sovereignty, bibliographic control of Lithuanian documents was immediately initiated, and this function was assigned to the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania in 1992 under the Resolution of the Lithuanian Government. This article discusses reorganization of bibliographic control in accordance with recommendations of international organizations for national bibliographic agencies and overviews organization of bibliographic control within the Lithuanian Integrated Library Information System (LIBIS)

Is the World After All Just a Dream?

DocPerform is a multi and interdisciplinary research project based at City, University of London. Led by members of the Department of Library & Information Science, it comprises scholars and practitioners from the fields of performing arts and library & information science. The project concerns conceptual, methodological and technological innovations in the documentation of performance, and the extent to which performance may itself be considered to be a document. The collection of papers in this special issue of Proceedings from the Document Academy are selected from the second DocPerform Symposium, held at City, University of London, 6–7 November 2017. This editorial introduces those papers and provides disciplinary and historical context for DocPerform

2008 Allis (Accessing Lancashire Library & Information Services) Staff Development Group Conference [conference review]

My accomplished friend, recently appointed to an important new job, described to me her ‘creeping impostor syndrome’. She related how she’s never had the luxury of feeling more than six paces away from the full public exposure of her (imagined) inadequacy. As someone who struggled with literacy at school and who went to university relatively late, I recognise the fraud disorder. In my case I’m expecting the ‘rumble letter’ to arrive in any day; my distinguished friend is prepared for two burly security men to appear in order to escort her from the premises. Judged ‘kim-kind-but-dim’ as a child I am inevitably drawn to debate on the support and engagement of non-traditional and dificult to reach library users. My emotional investment in the subject can make that involvement hard; I am transported back to bewildered youth. As such the Allis staff development group conference on the theme of Engaging your Community, with its presentations on engaging the Traveller community, the ethnic community and a prison community, contracted to be a moving affair; and so it proved. Delegates represented a range of library sectors, public, health, prison, further and higher education. We began by thinking about our own ideas of community and who in particular we felt we needed to work to reach. Over 60% of learners at my university are part-time and, as such, non-traditional. I’m keen to ensure that students juggling a raft of domestic and academic demands, (and probably an impostor syndrome to boot) recognise and feel able to access the library and information support that I’m here to provide. My colleagues spoke about the need to connect with teenage customers, prison oficers, foreign nationals, young adults, offcampus and overseas students, Travellers, the elderly and users with mental health, mobility or access problems

Communication Standards for Online Interchange of Library Information

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An International Prospectus for Library & Information Professionals: Development, Leadership and Resources for Evolving Patron Needs

The roles of library and information professionals must change and evolve to: 1. accommodate needs of tech-savvy patrons; 2. thrive in the Commons & Library 2.0; 3. provide integrated, just-in-time services; 4. constantly update and enhance technology; 5. design appropriate library spaces for research and productivity; 6.adapt to new models of scholarly communication and publication, especially: the Open Archives Initiative and digital repositories; 7. remain abreast of national and interanational academic and legislative initiatives affecting the provision of information services and resources. Professionals will need to collaborate in: 1. Formal & informal networks – regional, national, and international; and; 2. Library staff development initiatives – regional, national, international Professionals will need to use libraries as laboratories for ongoing, lifelong training and education of patrons and of all library staff ( internal patrons ): the library is the framework in which Information Research Literacy is the curriculum . Professionals will need to remain aware of trends and challenges in their regions, the EU, the US and North America, of models which might provide inspiration and support: 1. Top Technology Trends; 2. New paradigms of professionalism; 3. Knowledge-creation and knowledge consumption; 4. The shifting balance of the physical library with the virtual-digital librar