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South African Library Week 2010 (SALW 2010)
SALW2010 will be celebrated from 22 - 27 March 2010 with the theme: "Reading changes lives". SALW2010 will be launched on Saturday 20 March at the National Library of South Africa to coincide with the date of the promulgation of the first public library in South Africa in 1818.
Annual LIASA Conference
The 12th Annual LIASA Conference will take place from 27 September to 1 October 2010 in Gauteng with the theme: "Libraries driving access to Knowledge".


Raising R1 million for LIASA. The President's challenge.


President's challenge: Raise R1 million for LIASA
The LIASA President’s challenge to all LIASA members...

In this present economic climate we need to look at ways to become self sustaining.

Presently we generate funds from membership, grants and some very loyal sponsors.

However the annual membership fees, currently R 350.00 for the individual full member, mainly goes towards the operational costs. Membership fees alone will not sustain our Association into the future! We have to look at additional ways to generate funds hence the challenge from our President Rachel More to raise R1 Million for LIASA during her term of office.

The President kicked off this campaign with a donation of R1000, so it is up to the members to add the zero’s we need to reach the target of a million.



Information on new Draft Bill & Provincial Workshops
Investigation into developing a new community libraries act to provide for norms and standards for service delivery in public community libraries:
 
11th Annual LIASA Conference
Theme: Library and Information Services on the Move LIASA Tenth Annual Conference 2008

28 September - 2 October 2009
Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein
Contact:

Grants sponsored by the Department of Arts and Culture.
 
LIASA Librarian of the Year 2009

LIASA is proud to announce the LIASA Librarian of the Year of 2009

Ms Busi Dlamini walked off with the prestigious award and R30,000.00 in cash.

In second place was Ms Nohra Moerat who won R20,000.00

The third place went to Ms Raspby Ramugondo who received a prize of R10,000.00

Read more about the other Branch Winners

LIASA Acknowledges with gratitude the sponsors of this award, UKS, EBSCO and Sabinet.

 
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LIASA INDABA
LIASA has achieved many successes over the last decade and decided to review the performance of LIASA in the first decade and focus on the development of a clear vision for LIASA (with an achievement focus) and the role of the profession on the National Agenda.

The Representative Council has therefore hosted an Indaba on 30 January 2009 and invited key role players to participate in this important event...
 
LIASA Annual Report: October 2008 to September 2009
LIASA has achieved many successes over the last decade, but also faced some challenges. These include a declining membership, members' apathy, lack of growth in Branches and Interest Groups, financial problems and lack of capacity in the LIASA National Office.

To address these challenges the President and Representative Council adopted a theme for their term of office, namely: "Repositioning LIASA for growth and development".
 
WSIS: The World Summit on the Information Society
World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005 IFLA and the WSIS: http://www.ifla.org/III/wsis.html

International Telecommunication Union (ITU): http://www.itu.int/wsis/

Alexandria Manifesto on libraries: the Information Society in Action
 
LIASA - CiCD
21st Century Communication on the Web

LIASA - CiCD, with a grant received from Carnegie Corporation of New York, is proud to offer this intensive two-day workshop, specially designed to give library and information practitioners a wealth of valuable information and practical skills to use in improving the way you communicate, serve your customers and use and understand Web 2.0. Winter Seminar

LIASA and CiCD hosted a 3 day Winter Seminar from 29 June to 1 July 2009. This seminar took place at NLSA. Each of the 3 days were dedicated to a specific sector or topic of importance for Academic and Public Libraries. Some of the presentations can be viewed, when you click on the link on the Seminar program.

For the presentations click here...

Leadership & Management Workshop

LIASA, in conjunction with CBM Training, is proud to offer this intensive two-day course, specially designed to give managers, supervisors and leaders a wealth of valuable information and practical skills for use in improving the way they manage others.
 
 
The LIASA National Office Contact details
LIASA House
228 Proes Street
Pretoria
(On the NLSA premises, the NLSA Annexe on the corner of Proes and Andries Streets)

LIASA National Office: 012 328 2010
Office Manager: 012 323 4912
CICD Office: 012 324 6096
Fax: 012 323 1033

Library and Information Association of South Africa
LIASA House
P O Box 1598
Pretoria
0001
 
Report on the Conditional Grant for public/community libraries
The Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Z Pallo Jordan, announced in 2007 the National Treasury's allocation of a conditional grant to the Department of Arts and Culture for the period 2007 to 2010.

 
LIASA-in-Touch
LIASA-in-Touch: December 2009 December issue of LIASA-in-Touch on its way to members.

Read more...
 
New Executive Committee takes office at 10th LIASA Conference
President: Rachel More
President-Elect: Naomi Haasbroek
Secretary: Judy Henning
Treasurer: Karin Kitching
Public Relations Officer: Rebecca Senyolo
 
Additional members: Nazeem Hardy
Robert Moropa
Ujala Satgoor
Flippie van der Walt

Congratulations and best wishes to the new team.
 







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