12th Annual LIASA Conference

Date:                             27 September À“ 1 October 2010
Venue:                       Saint George Hotel and Convention Centre, Gauteng Province
Theme:                     Libraries driving access to knowledge

The 12th Annual Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) Conference aims to provide opportunities to debate, share and learn from local and international professional colleagues and partners.   All relevant stakeholders and partners are invited to participate in discussions and workshops around the proposed topics:

• Transforming library and information services for the future
• Conditional grants
• World campaign @ your library
• Improved service delivery
• Omnipresent/ubiquitous libraries
• Libraries and 2010
• Libraries À“ learning and teaching
• Information literacy and lifelong learning
• A reading nation
• research and academic excellence
• Knowledge Management and libraries
• Indigenous knowledge management
• Libraries and the millennium development goals
• Mobile technology and libraries
• Access 24/7
• Taking libraries to the people
• The African Copyright and Access to Knowledge Project (ACA2K)
• FAIFE
• Open Access to Knowledge
• Special needs services
• Open Source and libraries
• Digital divide
• E-learning
• E-research

Please contact Ms. Naomi Haasbroek for more information. Email: naomi@tlabs.ac.za