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Ninth Southern African Online Information Meeting

CSIR Conference Centre, Meiring Naudé Road, Pretoria
3- 5 June 2008

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WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE 2008 

08:00 – 9:00  Registration

09:00 – 09:05 Welcome

09:05 – 10:00 Keynote Speaker: Prof Derek Law, University of Strathclyde

      Changing Users: Have They or Should we? See abstract

10:00 – 10:30 Tea & Exhibition 

10:30 – 10:50 B de Kock, G Ehlers & H Kriel, University of Pretoria

      “Teleporting” from Boring to Cool See abstract

10:50 – 11:10 Katinka van Straaten, ATD Tech-Know Link

      Training End Users in the Mining Industry See abstract

11:10 – 11:30 Glenda Myers & Devind Peter, University of the Witwatersrand Health Sciences Library

      The Training Monster See abstract

11:30 – 11:50 Charlie Maphuntshane Molepo, Universal Knowledge Software

      Changing Roles of Libraries and Librarians with Emphasis on the Technology

      See abstract

      

11:50 – 12:10 Martie van Deventer (CSIR) & Heila Pienaar (University of Pretoria)

      Getting Executive Buy-In: The Value of Technology Demonstrators See abstract

12:10 – 12:30 Louise Temkin (Accenture)

       (Topic to be Confirmed) 

12:30 - 13:30 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSSION BOX LUNCHES

Topics:

1. Patent Searching Support Group (Facilitor: Louise Mitchell)
2. End User Training: Best Practice
3. Institutional Repositories
4. EBLIP (Evidence Based Library and Information Practice)
5. Life after Graduation: the Gap between Theory and Practice
6. Mentoring
7. Library 2.0
8. Budget for small libraries
9. Automated Help Desk
10. Federated Search Engines
11. Designing new libraries

Delegates to Book for ONE Preferred Topic ONLY, with a Second Choice in Case of Over-subscription.  

13:30 – 14:00 Exhibition 

14:00 – 14:20 Ansie Martinek, Cement & Concrete Institute

      Don’t Throw the Baby out with the Bathwater: A Case Study Regarding a News Alerting

      Service in the Engineering Industry. See abstract

14:20 – 14:40 Hamilton Mphidi, Sasol Technology Knowledge Optimization

      Establishing an Online Reference Service

14:40 – 15:00 Dianne Kruger, Rand Merchant Bank

      How do You Make a Computer Think Like a Human? A Case Study Regarding a

      Clippings Service in the Banking Industry See abstract

15:00 – 15:30 Tea 

15:30 – 15:50 Siphethile Muswelanto, CSIR

      Life after Graduation Day: The Reality of the Information Industry See abstract

15:50 - 16:10 Tania McAnearney, Attorney and Freelance Writer

      The Legal Practice Bill and its Impact on the Profession See abstract

16:10 – 16:30 Ana Kabalu, Southern African Legal Information Institute

      Content Management See abstract