in-house training: 15 March: Gmail training given by CIECT for Library staff to support their use of gmail. Staff were also shown how to incorporate a professional institutional signature.
4.1.3 Professional Contributions
Publication: Fullard, Allison. (2016). Using the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy to foster teaching and learning partnerships.
South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, 82(2): 46-56.
http://dx.doi.org/10.7553/82-2-1627
Conducted a session on Literature Review for the PG Diploma in T&L module, Research for Enhancing Teaching and Learning, Stellenbosch University, 19 February
Allison Fullard, Deputy Director, presented at the February meeting of the Network of Data and Information Curation Community of practice (NeDICC), a national group including academic libraries and research councils. The talk focused on the initiatives undertaken by the library to promote research data management at UWC since 2015.
Between February and April I contributed to the University in the Digital Era project run by Dr Leona Craffert, contributing readings and assisting with the design of the framework for change at UWC.
The Deputy Director conducted desk research to source publications by Desmond Tutu, the former Chancellor of UWC. An extended bibliography was prepared and shared with the Director: Institutional Advancement. Over 20 publications were purchased by the library and copies of research articles and grey literature were sourced online or obtained through interlibrary loan.
Peer reviewed an article on information literacy instruction for the South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science
Listed as Expert Reviewer for the LIS Competency Index in SA published by UWC Open Monograph Press.