Western Cape Librarian of the Year for 2012

We are so pleased to announce that Theresa Denton has been named LIASA Western Cape Librarian of the Year for 2012.

Theresa is the Senior Librarian at Rocklands Library, and she is passionate about libraries and believes that libraries can become an active role player in changing communities.   Theresa lives out this passion for her community and her library.   The sustainable partnerships that she has established with various organisations within her community demonstrates this.  These organisations range from the Community Care Organisation; "Hands off our children" NGO; to the Carnation Ward at G F Jooste Hospital; to the Rocklands Primary "Siyafunda Community Project".  There is an early childhood development forum and she established sustainable literacy and reading programmes in the library and surrounding schools.

To empower the women in her community, she started an Adult Matric group, which met regularly in the library where they were provided with question papers, memos, support and motivational talks.  over the years , more than 20 women, older than 30, have been helped through their matric -  and this included having  matric ball to celebrate the achievement.  What is absolutely fantastic is that most of the matriculants are actively either working in libraries, or establishing school libraries in the area or studying further for their library degrees!  What a wonderful inspiration!

What makes this even more inspiring, is the road that Theresa took to get here -  having walked a similar walk to these women she inspired.  With finishing her matric at night school, and then completing her studies at UWC; and then getting offered a junior lectureship,  but opting instead to take up a post as a librarian at Rocklands.  Academia's loss is public libraries' gain!

Under her leadership, Rocklands has scooped four provincial awards over the last five years from the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sports.  These were for  "Most Involved Community Library", "Best Children's Services", "Best Youth Services" and "Best Public Library".  One of her nominees remarked that she hoped that this time, Theresa would win an award for herself, for inspiring us all.        A real role model and example for us all!

Congratulations Theresa!   She now goes forward to represent the Western Cape at the national leg of the LIASA Librarian of the Year.

Kind regards
Ingrid Thomson

Election Results for the Western Cape LIASA Branch and Interest Groups

Here are the results of the Elections for the Incoming Branch Executive Committee as well as for those interest groups:-

Branch Executive Committee

Chair:   Ingrid Thomson,  UCT Libraries

Chair-Elect:  Samantha Bennett,  University of  Stellenbosch Library

Secretary:  Najma Patel,  City of Cape Town Libraries

Treasurer:  Sue Hardy,  City of Cape Town Libraries

PRO:   Elmarie Waltman, City of Cape Town Libraries

Additional Member:   Mercia Sias,  Drakenstein Libraries

Additional Member:   Yusuf Ras,  University of Stellenbosch Library

Additional Member: Dairmaid Wessels,  City of Cape Town Libraries

Additional Member:  Laddy McKechnie,  National Library of South Africa

PACLIG

Chair:  Linda Ntaka

Chair Elect:  Samantha Christians

PRO:  Christelle Lubbe

Secretary:  Jacinta Avontuur

Treasurer:  Lormarcia Zwaan

Membership:  Pearl Sojola

Additional Member:  Rika Odendaal

Additional Member:  Mogamat Anwa Adriaanse

WCHELIG

Chair:  Rene Reagon, University of Stellenbosch Library

Chair Elect:  Susanne Noll,  UCT Libraries

Treasurer:  Lynn Kleinveldt,  CPUT

PRO:  Busi Khangala,  UCT Libraries

Secretary:  Alfred Nqotole, UNISA

Additional Member:  Siviwe Bangani, CPUT

Two members to be co-opted, one from UWC and one representing the FET College Sector

LiSLIG

Chair:  Alison Garlick, Independent

Secretary:  Susan Dyamond, US Consulate General

Treasurer:  Margie Struthers, Centre for Conflict Resolution

Additional Member:  Zuthobeke Mvakade, SA Astronomical Observatory

Additional Member:  Shireen Davis-Evans, SA Astronomical Observatory

SLYSIG

Chair:  Theresa de Young, Western Cape Education Department

Chair Elect:  Gillian Kerchhoff, Disa Primary School
Secretary:  Marianne Elliott, False Bay College

Treasurer:  Fatima McCallum, False Bay College
PRO:  Fadeela Davids,  Independent
Additional Member:  Faith Lawrence, Western Cape Education Department
Additional Member:  Loyiso Mkula, Samora Machel Primary School
Additional Member:  Sandy Zinn, UWC Library School

SSIG

Chair:  Lizel Johnson, University of Stellenbosch Library

Secretary:  VACANT

Treasurer:  Andrid Pieters

Additional Member:  William Wiese, Drakenstein Library

Additional Member:  Anolette Manuel, Drakenstein Library

Additional Member:  Laddy McKechnie, National Library of South Africa

ICTLIG

Chair:   Nikki Crowster, CHEC  (until after Conference)

Secretary:  VACANT

Treasurer:  VACANT

Additional Member: Lynn Johnson, e-tv

Additional Member:  Allegra Louw, UCT Libraries

A call for further nominations for various vacant portfolios will be circulated after the LIASA Conference at the end of September.

Kind regards

Ingrid Thomson

Chair:  Western Cape LIASA

 

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Chair's Report to the AGM 2012

A warm welcome to the branch Annual General Meeting.   

Thank you for taking time out this morning to attend the respective Interest Group AGMs and then staying for the branch AGM.          Judging by the LIASAOnline listserv postings about AGMs elsewhere in the country,   quite a number of branches are holding their AGMs this morning,  but also their interest groups.     Western Cape led the way with this last year!     The idea was to enable members to take time out on one morning, attend their primary interest group business meeting and then the branch AGM,   and take the opportunity to do some good networking and sharing.      The only interest group not able to meet today is SLYSIG as their membership is mostly teachers -  and according to WC Department of Education regulations, meetings need to happen after hours, so their meeting happened on Wednesday.  

 This is also an election year for national, branch and interest groups.    A little later in the proceedings, we will hand over to Nazeem Hardy, who is the Electoral Officer for the Western Cape to take us through the proceedings and announce the new incoming BEC as well as the results of the elections for the interest groups.

The current BEC has continued unchanged since the AGM last year.       

EVENTS

The Western Cape Branch has had an exciting and busy year thus far, with the branch and the active interest groups offering opportunities for ongoing professional education and development.     We had some great plans for events, which didn’t happen for a variety of reasons, but which we hope the new incoming BEC will take up.     Nevertheless, there were quite a number of opportunities which very quickly became oversubscribed .     Within hours of an event being posted on the listserv,  we had to put up “Fully Booked” “Sold out” signs.     It certainly seemed that members had to move quickly to secure spaces to avoid disappointment.

• Our successful end of the year Recruitment Breakfast which has become a tradition on the Western Cape LIASA calendar.    The special guest was author,  S E Partridge,  prize winning author of youth titles.    We probably all went back to our libraries to check that we had the books!  I know I did!   The venue was  Durbanville Hills Winery.    

•  LIASA, in conjunction with US Embassy American Libraries, offered a  range of  free workshops on Consumer Health Information, across the country during SA Library Week.    Visiting  University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library Librarians Cynthia Vaughn and Martha Earl presented workshops at the MRC and at UCT’s Health Science Library. 

•      SSIG took the  Customer Care Workshop to Worcester which was also “sold out”.    A Dewey       Decimal Workshop was held a few weeks ago,  and that proved to be very popular.   There were     50+ attendees at a workshop. 

 

•  E-books was the topic of the two sessions run by LiSLIG this year.  Again, both times “Sold Out”.  Interestingly,  the second workshop was indeed over tea, at a restaurant.

• WCHELIG organised a workshop on “Thinking about Teaching and Learning” which was presented by   Prof Jeff Jawitz from the Higher & Adult Education Studies and Development Unit (HAESDU) and Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) at UCT.      The workshop was fully booked within hours of the notification going out to members.       This was the second time this workshop had been offered.     WCHELIG also organised a colloquium on Information Literacy Practices  which was also very well attended.

• PACLIG held a workshop on creating a Reading Programme.    Plus held a very exciting  competition asking librarians how they see themselves.  The winner was announced at their AGM earlier on. 

• SLYSIG (School Libraries and Youth Services Interest Group) Western  Cape hosted a two-day  workshop on School Library Management for teachers and other individuals  working in school libraries within the Western Cape.   There were over 100 attendees. 

MEMBERSHIP

As of 16 August 2012, we have 297 signed up members.      At last year’s AGM, our paid-up members stood at 261 members.    

LIASA has a couple of membership campaigns on the go which you would have seen in the LIASA-in-Touch and on both the Western Cape listserv and LIASAOnline.             

Campaign No 1:      And if the branch increases its membership by 25% (based on the 2011 stats), then the branch gets a reward.    The Western Cape 2011 stats was 274.    25% of that is 69 new members.  (well 68,5 ….).    We are currently at  297 and the target (if we are to get a reward) is 343.     46 more members.     The closing date for this is 15^th September.

 Any prize money that the branch wins (no matter where and for what)  is ploughed back into subsidies and sponsorship for continuing education programmes and workshops  -  such as the School Library Management Workshop,  "Librarians as Teachers" Workshop, "E-books Over Tea"  and the "Dewey Decimal Workshop".    

If you as a member, recruit 10 new members, then you stand a chance of winning some prizes.

Campaign No 2 is the Winter Campaign where, if you recruit 2 new individual members,  you’ll get 25% discount on your membership fees for 2013.   The new recruits must join for this year and again in 2013 for the discount to be applied.

Campaign No 3 is our own campaign.   We know how popular the end of the year recruitment breakfast is , so we have come up with an offer that the first 10 Western Cape members to recruit 5 new members (or get lapsed members to renew) for this year -  2012  -  get to go to the breakfast for free, as a thank you.    Our deadline is also 15^th September.

The BEC considers that all events held in the Western Cape are , in fact, recruitment opportunities.

FINANCES

Sue Hardy, our treasurer, will present a financial statement during her report.   The financial statement has been audited, but Sue will talk to this. 

 

LIBRARIAN OF THE YEAR

Christelle Lubbe  was named 2^nd  place runner up in the national Librarian of the Year competition in 2011.    The prize, generously donated by Ebsco , was R20 000  which she used to become a 2013 Summer Associate at the Mortensen Center for International Programmes at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.  She will be sharing her experiences with us shortly. 

We will also be announcing the Western Cape Branch Librarian of the Year for 2012 this morning. 

THANK YOU

Our thanks need to go to our sponsors and supporters, not just at this event, but all our events over the past year.     We acknowledge and thank our institutions for their support which has ranged from financial sponsorship for events to providing venues for meetings and training.         

One of the strengths of the Western Cape branch is the number of active interest groups we have -  without them, it would be very difficult for the branch to provide the range of opportunities to members.     We acknowledge and thank the interest groups and the committee members for their enthusiasm and commitment to LIASA, and to serving the LIS sector in the Western Cape.  

I would like to say thank you to a fantastic team -  “the Win Team” .   The spirit of co-operation, camaderie, friendship and  professionalism is alive and kicking!   You are truly awesome!     These are  indeed “LIASA members who are Leaders! “               

A special mention needs to be made of those BEC members who are stepping down.    Julian Schroeder who has served on the BEC,   first as treasurer and then as Vice Chair;  Lulama Langeni,  PRO and Dr Reggie Raju,  the branch’s Second Representative.     We would like to thank them for their services,  support, professionalism -  shining examples of LIASA Members who are Leaders!  And just because they no longer serve on the BEC,  they will still remain active members of the branch and organisation.      

We would also like to acknowledge  our President, Naomi Haasbroek, whose term of office comes to an end at Conference.    It is going to be strange not to have Naomi around, serving LIASA in some capacity -  whether in the branch or at national.    LIASA, in my mind, is synomous with Naomi.   The two are really intertwined.       The incoming President has big shoes to fill!     

Naomi -  in honour of LIASA’s 15^th birthday,  we would like to hand over this birthday card signed by LIASA members here at the AGM.   

ANNOUNCEMENTS

•  Please diarise 28^th November 2012 for the End-of-Year Recruitment Breakfast.  The venue will be Anura Vineyards.      Details  will be made available a little closer to the time.

Ingrid Thomson
Chair:  2010 - 2012

Incoming Branch Executive Committee and Interest Groups for 2012 - 2014

Here are the results of the Elections for the Incoming Branch Executive Committee as well as for those interest groups:-

 

Branch Executive Committee

Chair:   Ingrid Thomson,  UCT Libraries

Chair-Elect:  Samantha Bennett,  University of  Stellenbosch Library

Secretary:  Najma Patel,  City of Cape Town Libraries

Treasurer:  Sue Hardy,  City of Cape Town Libraries

PRO:   Elmarie Waltman, City of Cape Town Libraries

Additional Member:   Mercia Sias,  Drakenstein Libraries

Additional Member:   Yusuf Ras,  University of Stellenbosch Library

Additional Member: Dairmaid Wessels,  City of Cape Town Libraries

Additional Member:  Laddy McKechnie,  National Library of South Africa

 

PACLIG

Chair:  Linda Ntaka

Chair Elect:  Samantha Christians

PRO:  Christelle Lubbe

Secretary:  Jacinta Avontuur

Treasurer:  Lormarcia Zwaan

Membership:  Pearl Sojola

Additional Member:  Rika Odendaal

Additional Member:  Mogamat Anwa Adriaanse

 

WCHELIG

Chair:  Rene Reagon, University of Stellenbosch Library

Chair Elect:  Susanne Noll,  UCT Libraries

Treasurer:  Lynn Kleinveldt,  CPUT

PRO:  Busi Khangala,  UCT Libraries

Secretary:  Alfred Nqotole, UNISA

Additional Member:  Siviwe Bangani, CPUT

Two members to be co-opted, one from UWC and one representing the FET College Sector

 

LiSLIG

Chair:  Alison Garlick, Independent

Secretary:  Susan Dyamond, US Consulate General

Treasurer:  Margie Struthers, Centre for Conflict Resolution

Additional Member:  Zuthobeke Mvakade, SA Astronomical Observatory

Additional Member:  Shireen Davis-Evans, SA Astronomical Observatory

 

SLYSIG

Chair:  Theresa de Young, Western Cape Education Department

Chair Elect:  Gillian Kerchhoff, Disa Primary School
Secretary:  Marianne Elliott, False Bay College

Treasurer:  Fatima McCallum, False Bay College
PRO:  Fadeela Davids,  Independent
Additional Member:  Faith Lawrence, Western Cape Education Department
Additional Member:  Loyiso Mkula, Samora Machel Primary School
Additional Member:  Sandy Zinn, UWC Library School

 

SSIG

Chair:  Lizel Johnson, University of Stellenbosch Library

Secretary:  VACANT

Treasurer:  Andrid Pieters

Additional Member:  William Wiese, Drakenstein Library

Additional Member:  Anolette Manuel, Drakenstein Library

Additional Member:  Laddy McKechnie, National Library of South Africa

 

ICTLIG

Chair:   Nikki Crowster, CHEC  (until after Conference)

Secretary:  VACANT

Treasurer:  VACANT

Additional Member: Lynn Johnson, e-tv

Additional Member:  Allegra Louw, UCT Libraries

 

 

A call for further nominations for various vacant portfolios will be circulated after the LIASA Conference at the end of September.

Theresa Denton - Western Cape Librarian of the Year 2012

Theresa Denton has been named LIASA Western Cape Librarian of the Year for 2012.

Theresa is the Senior Librarian at Rocklands Library, and she is passionate about libraries and believes that libraries can become an active role player in changing communities.   Theresa lives out this passion for her community and her library.   The sustainable partnerships that she has established with various organisations within her community demonstrates this.  These organisations range from the Community Care Organisation; "Hands off our children" NGO; to the Carnation Ward at G F Jooste Hospital; to the Rocklands Primary "Siyafunda Community Project".  There is an early childhood development forum and she established sustainable literacy and reading programmes in the library and surrounding schools.

To empower the women in her community, she started an Adult Matric group, which met regularly in the library where they were provided with question papers, memos, support and motivational talks.  Over the years , more than 20 women, older than 30, have been helped through their matric -  and this included having a matric ball to celebrate the achievement.  What is absolutely fantastic is that most of the matriculants are actively either working in libraries, or establishing school libraries in the area or studying further for their library degrees!  What a wonderful inspiration!

When accepting the award at the Branch AGM on Friday 24th August 2012,  Theresa acknowledged the influence of librarians on her when she was growing up.     The light of librarianship has been passed on to her,  and in turn,  she is passing this on to others.   A true role model! 

What makes this story even more inspiring, is the road that Theresa took to get here -  having walked a similar walk to these women she inspired.  With finishing her matric at night school, and then completing her studies at UWC; and then getting offered a junior lectureship,  but opting instead to take up a post as a librarian at Rocklands.  Academia's loss is public libraries' gain!

Under her leadership, Rocklands has scooped four provincial awards over the last five years from the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sports.  These were for  "Most Involved Community Library", "Best Children's Services", "Best Youth Services" and "Best Public Library".  One of her nominees remarked that she hoped that this time, Theresa would win an award for herself, for inspiring us all.        A real role model and example for us all! 

Theresa is a graduate of the Carnegie Library Leadership Academy as well as the Train the Trainer  Programme.

Congratulations Theresa!   She now goes forward to represent the Western Cape at the national leg of the LIASA Librarian of the Year.

SLYSIG Western Cape AGM Reminder

The School Library and Youth Services  Interest Group (SLYSIG) AGM that
will take place on Wednesday 22 August 2012 (14h30 for 15h00) at
Biblionef in Pinelands.

For catering purposes, please R.S.V.P. by Friday 17 August 2012 to
Marianne.elliott@falsebay.org.za if you are planning to attend.

Our guest speaker will be Sandy Zinn (Department of Library &
Information Science UWC) who will speak on her doctoral research
"Converting teachers into agents in information literacy" about
teachers’ roles in teaching information literacy in our schools.

Attached please find the formal invitation with more information as
well as directions to Biblionef.

 

Directions to Biblionef  in the SASNEV building, 4 Central Square, Pinelands (021) 531-0447

From the N1: Go onto the M5. Take Exit 9A (N2, Airport). Take Exit 10 (Pinelands) into Forest Drive. Turn left into Forest Place at the foot of the bridge. Immediately turn right into Central Avenue and drive to the end of the road. Biblionef is housed in the SASNEV building which is on your left.

From the N2 North: Take Exit 10B (Pinelands) into Forest Drive. Turn left into Forest Place at the foot of the bridge. Immediately turn right into Central Avenue and drive to the end of the road. Biblionef is housed in the SASNEV building which is on your left.  

From Cape Town: Take the M3 (Muizenberg). Take the Exit Airport/N2. Take Exit 10 (Pinelands) into Forest Drive. Turn left into Forest Place at the foot of the bridge. Immediately turn right into Central Avenue and drive to the end of the road. Biblionef is housed in the SASNEV building which is on your left

From N2 South: Take Exit 10 (Pinelands) into Forest Drive. Turn left into Forest Place at the foot of the bridge. Immediately turn right into Central Avenue and drive to the end of the road. Biblionef is housed in the SASNEV building which is on your left.

Theresa de Young
Co-ordinator:  School Library Services

ICTLG Western Cape call for nominations 2012-2014

You are invited to nominate LIASA members to serve on the the Western Cape ICTLIG (Information and Communications Technology Library Interest Group). The positions open for elections are Chair, Chair-elect, Secretary, Treasurer and Additional members. Nomination forms are attached together with a document describing the roles and responsibilities of the positions.

Kindly ensure that these forms are completed fully. Nomination forms should be faxed to 021 7637117 (clearly addressed to Nikki Crowster) or scanned and e-mailed to nikki@chec.ac.za by 17 August 2012. Elections will be held at the AGM on 22 August 2012.

Thank you and regards
Nikki
ICTLIG Chair

Date Extension: Fwd: Could you be the Western Cape Librarian of the Year for 2012?

Dear Western Cape LIASA Members

 

The closing date for the branch nominations has been extended to Friday 17th August 2012.   

Kind regards

Ingrid Thomson

 

WCHELIG 2012 call for nominations

You are invited to nominate LIASA members to serve in WCHELIG (Western Cape Higher Education Libraries Interest Group) Committee for the positions of Chair, Chair-elect, Treasurer, Secretary and Additional members.

See attached nomination form and description of the roles and
responsibilities of these positions.

Nomination forms must please be faxed to 021 9337693 or scanned and
e-mailed to Alvina Matthee on alvinam@sun.ac.za by 20 August 2012.

Note that elections will be held at the AGM on 24 August 2012 to be
held at UWC Library Auditorium at 09.00am.

Regards,

Bulelwa Mandubu

WCHELIG Chairperson

021 9592928 (W)