Photographs of the two days available on Flickr
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Programme |
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| Wednesday 2 November | |
| 14:00-16:00 |
Workshop: Research Data Management and the library and information professions Dr Andrew Cox, Senior Lecturer, Information School, University of Sheffield, UK
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Thursday 3 November |
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08:00– 09:00 |
Registration |
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OPENING SESSION (Chair: Ellen Tise) |
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09:00- 09:10 |
Welcome Ellen Tise, Senior Director: Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University |
| 09:10 - 09:20 |
Opening Prof Eugene Cloete, Vice-Rector Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies, Stellenbosch University |
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09:20-10:00 |
Keynote address: How to be ‘future-fit’ and manage complexity & uncertainty Tanja Hichert, Managing Director, Hichert & Associates; Scenario planning practitioner and facilitator of strategic conversations
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10:00-10:10 |
Discussion |
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10:10-10:30 |
Refreshments |
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SESSION 1 Digital Innovation shaping the future of libraries |
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| 10:30-10:50 |
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence Prof Bruce Watson, Chairman of the Department of Information Science, Co-director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research Information Science, Stellenbosch University
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10:55-11:15 |
Libraries and the wicked challenge of Research Data Management Dr Andrew Cox, Senior Lecturer, Information School, University of Sheffield, UK |
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11:20-11:40 |
#bigdata16 Heidi van Niekerk, Healthcare Data Specialist / PhD student in Information Science, Stellenbosch University
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11:45-12:05 |
Digital Humanities and South African academic libraries Prof Justus Roux, Convenor for the Steering Committee of the Association for Digital Humanities in South Africa
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| 12:10-12:30 |
Relevance ranking methods for mega indexes of scholarly materials Dr Tamar Sadeh, Director of Discovery Strategy, Ex Libris, Israel
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12:30-13:00 |
Discussion |
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13:00-13:45 |
Lunch break |
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SESSION 2 Collaboration and partnerships driving academic libraries (Chair: Mark Frier) |
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| 13:45-14:05 |
Librarians as partners in research at the University of Pretoria Lindiwe Soyizwapi, Deputy Director: Client Services, University of Pretoria Library Sunette Steynberg (co-presenter), Information Specialist, Research Commons, University of Pretoria Library
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| 14:10-14:30 |
Research Data Management services at Cape Peninsula University of Technology Dr Elisha Chiware, Director, Library, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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14:35-14:55 |
Establishing a knowledge region in the Western Cape Anita Nel, CEO of INNOVUS and Senior Director: Innovation and Business Development, Stellenbosch University
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| 15:00-15:10 | Discussion |
| 15:10-15:30 | Refreshments |
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SESSION 2: Collaboration and partnerships driving academic libraries (cont.) |
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| 15:30-15:50 |
Regional partnerships: How to turn good ideas into reality Kate Robinson, University Librarian, University of Bath, UK
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| 15:55-16:15 |
SANLiC and library collaboration in South Africa Nora Buchanan, Licencing Manager, South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC)
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| 16:20-16:40 |
The research library in the life of the user: Looking at directions from an OCLC perspective (video presentation) Lorcan Dempsey, Chief Strategist and Vice President, Membership and Research, OCLC Mary Sauer-Games (co-presenter), Vice President of Product Management, OCLC
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| 16:40-17:00 | Discussion |
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19:00 |
SYMPOSIUM DINNER sponsored by EBSCO |
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Friday 4 November |
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SESSION 3 The user experience (Chair: Maryke Hunter-Husselmann) |
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| 08:00-08:30 |
Registration |
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08:30-09:00 |
Researchers' use of social media and altmetrics in South Africa Dr Marinus Swanepoel, Librarian, University of Lethbridge Library, Canada
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09:00-09:30 |
Defining Web 3.0 for the library of the future: The next mind shift Prof Riaan Rudman, Lecturer, School of Accountancy, Stellenbosch University
[available on request] |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Writing a Masters thesis: Conducting a literature study with modern online tools and services Jean-Louis Leysens, Masters student in Socio-Informatics, Stellenbosch University
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| 10:00-10:30 |
Managing researcher expectations Dr Lara Skelly, Research Manager, Business School, Stellenbosch University
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| 10:30-10:45 | Discussion |
| 10:45-11:00 | Refreshments |
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SESSION 4 New technologies and its adoption by academic libraries (Chair: Laila Vahed) |
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11:00-11:30 |
Makerspaces: A great opportunity to enhance academic libraries Jeroen de Boer, Specialist New Media, Library Service Friesland, Groningen Area, Netherlands
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| 11:30-12:15 |
Panel Discussion |
| CLOSING SESSION (Chair: Ellen Tise) | |
| 12:15-12:45 |
Closing address: Global transformation, reinventing learning and the role of the university in the 21st century Prof Mark Swilling, Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership and Co-Director of the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST), Stellenbosch University |
| 12:45-13:50 | CLOSURE AND VOTE OF THANKS |
| 13:00 | LUNCH |