[Irtalk] Fwd: Enhancing librarians' ICT skills for research enablement in African universities: a Carnegie-funded CPD programme

[Shamprasad Pujar]

Dear Members,

This could be of interest to some of you.

best Regards,

Sham
IGIDR, Mumbai, India
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From: Theo Bothma <theo.bothma at up.ac.za>
Date: Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:53 PM
Subject: [IFLA-L] Enhancing librarians' ICT skills for research enablement
in African universities: a Carnegie-funded CPD programme
To: ifla-l at infoserv.inist.fr
Cc: joan.delahaye at up.ac.za


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*Enhancing librarians’ ICT skills for research enablement in African
universities: a Carnegie-funded CPD programme*



Applications are now open for the second intake of the Carnegie-funded
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme, which is aimed at
enhancing ICT skills for research enablement in African universities.
Academic librarians and LIS faculty in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa,
Tanzania and Uganda are eligible to apply for admission to this programme.



Eight four-week training sessions will take place over a period of three
years. 32 participants will be selected for each intake.



This four-week residential training programme with both practical (70%) and
theoretical (30%) components will cover the following topics:



   1. Setting the context: Libraries, ICTs and research
   2. Leadership and innovation
   3. Information literacy
   4. Social media for research discoverability in an academic environment
   5. Mobile technology and mobility
   6. Managing and organising information
   7. Personal Information Management
   8. Open Scholarship and Open Science (OS/S) – Publishing
   9. Open Scholarship and Open Science - Institutional Repositories
   10. Open Scholarship and Open Science - Understanding and using research
   data management
   11. Digitisation
   12. Evaluating website architecture
   13. Cloud services and storage
   14. Virtual research environments
   15. The next generation librarian



This is a fully funded programme which will take place in Pretoria, South
Africa. The funding covers books and other academic expenditures, flights,
accommodation, and a daily stipend while in Pretoria. All participants are
expected to reside in the accommodation provided in Pretoria for the
duration of the programme.



*Grant exclusions:*

   - Visa applications, personal expenses (for example medicine, laundry,
   phone calls, etc.)
   - ICT equipment such as laptops, modems, internet access top-ups etc.
   - Travel to and from the airport in your home country



*Application for the second intake of 2014 closes on 15th of August 2014.  *No
late applications will be considered. (There will be a third intake in
March 2015, as well as further intakes in 2015 and 2016.)



For additional information on the programme content, eligibility and
selection criteria, application procedures, important dates, etc., please
see:

http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=22719&subid=22719&ipklookid=7.



All correspondence or enquiries: Joan de la Haye at Carnegie-cpd at up.ac.za.


Kind regards



Theo Bothma





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Prof Theo JD Bothma

Head: Department of Information Science

Chair: School of Information Technology



Physical address:

Dept. of Information Science

Information Technology Building 6-73

Hatfield Campus

University of Pretoria

Corner of Lynnwood Road and Roper Street

Hatfield

0083



Postal address:

Dept. of Information Science

University of Pretoria

Private Bag X20
Hatfield
0028

South Africa



Tel +27 (0)12 420-2961

Fax +27 (0)12 362-5181



E-mail theo.bothma at up.ac.za

Web http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=3706



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