Enhancing librarians’ ICT skills for research enablement in African universities: a Carnegie-funded CPD programme Applications for the third intake of the Carnegie-funded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme, which is aimed at enhancing ICT skills for research enablement in African universities opens on the 1st of November 2014 and closes on the 30th of November 2014. Academic librarians and LIS faculty in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda are eligible to apply for admission to this programme. Eight four-week training sessions will take place over a period of three years. 32 participants will be selected for each intake. This four-week residential training programme with both practical (70%) and theoretical (30%) components will cover the following topics: Setting the context: Libraries, ICTs and research Leadership and innovation Information literacy Social media for research discoverability in an academic environment Mobile technology and mobility Managing and organising information Personal Information Management Open Scholarship and Open Science (OS/S) – Publishing Open Scholarship and Open Science – Institutional Repositories Open Scholarship and Open Science – Understanding and using research data management Digitisation Evaluating website architecture Cloud services and storage Virtual research environments The next generation librarian This is a fully funded programme which will take place in Pretoria, South Africa. The funding covers books and other academic expenditures, flights, accommodation, and a daily stipend while in Pretoria. All participants are expected to reside in the accommodation provided in Pretoria for the duration of the programme. Grant exclusions: Visa applications, personal expenses (for example medicine, laundry, phone calls, etc.) ICT equipment such as laptops, modems, internet access top-ups etc. Travel to and from the airport in your home country Application for the third intake closes on 30th of November 2014. No late applications will be considered. (There will be a fourth intake in May 2015, as well as further intakes in 2015 and 2016.) For additional information on the programme content, eligibility and selection criteria, application procedures, important dates, etc., please see: web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=22719&subid=22719&ipklookid=7. All correspondence or enquiries: Joan de la Haye at [email protected]. Kind regards Theo Bothma
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:46:32 +0000
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