After much consideration it was decided to use OCLC’s CONTENTdm digital collection management software for the African Online Journal Archive project. CONTENTdm is scalable and offers all the necessary tools for us to make this project a success.
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Merle Ruff is the newest face at Sabinet’s Centurion office, she has been appointed to co-ordinate the establishment of an African Online Journal Archive.
She has been involved in the structure and management of information in a wide range of organizations in the public, private, academic and government sectors.
Merle has coordinated open access digital projects that [...]

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Johann Pienaar, Portfolio Manager for the Western Cape Region, recently went on his third trip to Lagos in Nigeria to train new users for the NetLibrary product at the University of Lagos.
Although Johan’s trip had a hectic start, the training went smoothly and our clients in Nigeria are happy and satisfied with our services.
Lagos University

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Sabinet has finalised the Z39.50 target configuration of our databases. The adjusted configuration information has been submitted to Ex Libris, Innovative Interfaces, TDNet and SyrsiDynix and the changes should reflect in subsequent knowledge base updates. However, should you wish to effect the changes in the configuration immediately, please refer to our support page or e-mail [...]

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3G vodafone card, originally uploaded by koke.
Vodacom was rated the top telecoms provider in the survey, followed by MTN and Neotel. Sentech was rated the worst telecoms provider in South Africa.
The seven providers were rated as follows by the surveyed consumers (from best to worst):
1. Vodacom
2. MTN
3. Neotel
4. Telkom
5. Cell C
6. iBurst
7. Sentech
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Debian, arguably the most important Linux distribution, is readying to celebrate its 15th birthday on August 16.
While a respected and widely-used Linux distribution in its own right, Debian has, over the 15 years, also been widely used as the base for numerous other Linux distributions, including the popular Ubuntu distribution created by South African [...]

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Pierre Malan speaking to one of our clients
Our team of Gerhard Kemp (Managing Director), Pierre Malan (Client Services Director), Rosalind Hattingh (Director Product Management) and Helena Theron (Portfolio Manager) presented at the various meetings.

The subjects covered included Sabinet finances, our markets, latest products and services, new developments and related matters.
Posing for the camera

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