A boon for the legal fraternity – fast, easy online searches to cut valuable man hours, and boost outputs
Sabinet is South Africa’s first supplier of online Gazettes and has been in the online information industry for 27 years.
Sabinet has released its Retrospective Government Gazettes Archive, a new product that will give the legal sector fast [...]

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PACLIG 2010 –TELLING YOUR STORY COMPETITION
PACLIG, in association with the 2010 Calendar Sponsors is proud to announce a single Grant to enable a PACLIG 2010 paid up member to attend the 12th LIASA Annual Conference at the ST Georges Hotel from 27 September to 1 October 2010.
The competition:
Do you have a story to tell …….? [...]

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 LIASA Representative Council and the Executive Committee would like to extend its gratitude and appreciation to University of Alberta for recognizing and honoring Kay Raseroka, the First African IFLA President in this manner. We are proud of Kay’s achievement and take this opportunity to congratulate her on behalf of the entire LIS profession in South [...]

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LIASA participated in World Book Day celebrations on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 April in Bloemfontein by invitation from the NLSA.
The Centre for the Book unit of the National Library of SA organised a two-day event in Bloemfontein.   A Door-to-Door campaign was held in
Botshabelo on Thursday where CFB staff distributed a total of 3000 books [...]

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Four months after the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act 51 of 2008 was passed in Parliament, various industry stakeholders have analysed the possible effects of the act and commented accordingly.

To view the discussions, visit the following sites:
Gray Area: IPR Bill Regulations promulgated – the death knell for open science in [...]

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By Professor Ndawonde
Pietermaritzburg – South Africa needs to strategically position libraries as partners in education to encourage a reading culture and a nation of critical thinkers.
According to the Minister of Arts and Culture Pallo Jordan, libraries are vital in eradicating illiteracy and inculcating a mindset of lifelong learning.
“Let us commit ourselves [...]

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The Media Education Foundation has acquired the rights to The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians through Film, and is bringing out the film on DVD.
They are now taking orders from both US and international customers through their web site at http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=138
The DVD is available for colleges and universities, as well as public libraries, high [...]

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One of the lesser known prizes within the book publishing industry, has to be the Diagram Prize, or as it is also known the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year. What started out as a bit of humour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1978, developed into an annual favourite with nominations [...]

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