4. RESOURCES

4.1 Human Resources

4.1.1  Staffing

Since the resignation of the Asst Director: Library ICT in September 2015, and the closure of the recruitment process by June the following year,  the Library ICT staff comprising a website manager and three IT Technicians have been managing all aspects of the day to day work in this challenging portfolio.  The line management function has been temporarily assigned to the Deputy Director who sees to planning, prioritisation, communication, reporting and development. In view of the additional demands, the four staff are receiving acting allowances funded from the vacant Asst Director position.   This cluster of jobs is long overdue for job evaluation, having missed out on the previous round of library job evaluations in 2009.
 

4.1.2 Training and Development

Designing Assessments to Measure Student Outcomes:  Shehaamah Mohamed successfully completed a 3 week online course developed by the American Asociation of Colleges for Teacher Education.  She has applied this knowledge in her work with librarians to incorporate aspects of assessments into all forms of library training.
Ex Libris: Alma functional training:  10-11 August and 8 September (UWC)
 
Conferences
2nd Apereo Africa Conference (Cape Town)   9-10 May ( A Fullard)
 LIASA 18th annual conference (Gauteng)  2-6 October (S Mohamed)
Colloquium on Multimodal Pedagogies (UWC) 7-8 August (A Fullard)
Workshops
Digital Skills Framework: Validation workshop (UWC, CoLab for eInclusion )  15 February (A Fullard) 
Open Refine workshop, UCT, 4 May (A Nqotole, M Snyders, T Bici, G Louw, K Cook, B Simon)   
Figshare workshop, UCT,  3 July (M Snyers; A Fullard)
In Repositories we Trust, CSIR, 5 December (A Nqotole; M Snyders)
Teaching tools for the Digital Age, UWC, 13 September (E Solomon; S Mohamed; D Bowers; B Simon)
Communications and Marketing workshop, UWC), 15 November (A Fullard; G Louw)
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
 
A Fullard conducted a session on Literature Review for the PG Diploma in T&L module, Research for Enhancing Teaching and Learning, Stellenbosch University, 19 February  
A Fullard 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  A Fullard 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.    
A Fullard 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.
 
A Fullard peer reviewed an article on information literacy instruction for the South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science
A Fullard is cited as Expert Reviewer for the LIS Competency Index in SA published by UWC Open Monograph Press.