Dear HELIG Colleagues
Just a quick update on a few items, keeping you in the
loop. This communique a brief newsletter, and we hope to send one on a monthly
basis.
HELIG membership the highest in years!
HELIG is taking the lead! On 4 March 2016 we had 275
members preferring HELIG as their first choice, and 114 preferring HELIG as
their second IG choice. 389 of a total of 923!!
This makes us so proud!! Visit http://www.liasa-new.org.za/membership-statistics/ for regular updates. Also - PLEASE
encourage more colleagues to join LIASA. The Voters’ Role closes on 31 May
2016. Thank you colleagues for making this possible!! YOU are HELIG!
Thank you to Nikki Crowster for a great infographic to
explain the benefits of LIASA membership!
SALW 2016
So many things can be done around this
year’s theme for SALW: #libraries4lifelonglearning.
Lifelong learning and self-learning are not only important for our users, but
also for ourselves. There is also a strong connection with Open Access (MOOCs,
OERs and more). All libraries received their promotional material way ahead of
time (thank you to LNO!!), which is great. Please support your Branch events,
and help them make a success of all. Click
here for a list of SALW events. If your event is not listed, please do not
hesitate to forward me the event details. Click here for access to the
SALW 2016 web page.
Important election dates
The dates are also available on the
LIASA web calendar, but feel free to click
here for quick access to the election dates. The call for nominations and more
will be done via the liasaonline mailing list. Thank you to Ingrid Thomson –
HELIG Chair-elect – for coordinating the HELIG election process.
LIASA Professional Body Status
The LIASA National Office (LNO)
has started issuing our e-certificates, and some of you might have received sms
notifications already. The others – please be patient. This certificate can be
included as part of your CV, portfolio, but also be printed in colour, framed
and displayed in your office/at home.
FAQs on LIASA Professional Body Status –
click
here.
Also – please start preparing the
following and have it certified. We will soon be expected to upload it in order
to be assigned the appropriate designation, in line with LIASA Professional
Body Status and SAQA requirements:
·
National
Identity Document
·
All formal
qualifications
·
A complete
Curriculum Vitae
Please keep your personal details
current on the LNO Membership Database.
Personalia
Do you have any good news to share e.g.
promotions, awards, and more? Please forward to ina@assaf.org.za so that it can be added to
the Personalia page on
the web. We are delighted when our members are acknowledged for great work
done, and would like to celebrate with you!
Conference
Thank you to all who have managed to
submit proposals for posters/possible presentation at the 17th
Annual LIASA Conference! I had a sneak peak and promise that – should you
plan to attend the conference – it will definitely be worthwhile!! Registration is
now open, and we hope to see all of you in KZN this year!
LIASA mobile web interface
Do yourself a favor and check out the
LIASA web from your mobile device! The web page scales perfectly when displayed
on a mobile phone/tablet, all for your convenience! We hope to soon add a Live
Chat option to the web so that you can ask questions in real time, and get
answers immediately. More info to be shared later.
HELIG Events in 2016
We have put out a call for webinar suggestions, and
the HELIG committee has also come up with a couple of ideas. Each Branch also
have Branch HELIG events planned. Thank you to all for contributing – click
here to view the HELIG events calendar. Information on different events
will be shared closer to the time, but in brief – HELIG National encourages you
attending:
·
RDM
MOOC – to be repeated later this year (presented by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & University of
Edinburgh / Helen Tibbo & Sarah Jones)
·
ICT
Development Capacity Building Workshop (RepCo was asked to identify a
representative from each Branch – please follow up with the Chair of your
Branch if interested)
·
InfoLit
Curriculum Framework for SA HE/Research Crowdsourcing Activity (all HELIG
members can contribute)
·
Webinars on
the following topics: eResearch, Copyright, OA, Licensing, Research needs of PG
students, Publishing tips, IL Strategies & Tips, financial challenges in
libraries. Dates and presenters for these still need to be confirmed.
Annual General Meeting
We would love to meet all of you during
our HELIG AGM this year! Your opinion matters, and if you have anything you
would like to add to the agenda, please send it to the LIASA HELIG Secretary, Paulette
Talliard Email: plt@sun.ac.za . Due date
for agenda items: 15 August 2016.
Thank you to the HELIG Committee –
Ingrid, Paulette, Sanele, Sebina – for all their work, which is completely
voluntary. HELIG is an add on to our very busy normal work schedules, but LIS
is our passion, and as long as we have your support and as long as it helps to
take LIS forward, benefitting our users, we will go the extra mile! Thanks to
you – our members – for supporting all HELIG activities.
Kind regards
Ina
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