Digital, mobile applications that serve as a "library in your pocket" represent a groundbreaking advancement in South Africa's mission to elevate literacy rates and enhance our youth's...
International Journal of Library and Information Science, Vol. 10(3), pp. 35-40., 2018. This article presents a brief historical review of the appearance of mobile libraries and then continues to define the phenomenon on the basis of two of its distinct features: library services and mobility, which both concern institutional Mobile Libraries and non-institutional mobile libraries.
With our Mobile Library Units we are trying to generate a passion for reading among the disadvantaged schools and communities of South Africa. We approach large companies and …
Pretoria, South Africa [email protected] JACQUELINE A. FOURIE Former lecturer, Department of Information Science University of South Africa Pretoria, South Africa jackie.j.fourie@gmail ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to report on a small study that investigated the availability of library and information resources in rural schools ...
Case studies are drawn from South Africa and Zimbabwe. 3.2 South Africa. South Africa is one of the economies with higher technological levels relative to others in Southern Africa. The country has a mobile internet penetration rate of 78.8% but the high cost of ICT products and services is a major drawback faced by users (Jere & Aruleab, 2022 ...
Public libraries in South Africa need to find ways of involving communities beyond the "suggestion box" method, where users are asked to make comments but the final decision lies with library ...
have stocked libraries. In order to support literacy in South Africa and to address the deficit of infrastructure to provide reading books to rural schools, SAPESI and other partners2 …
They use five categories as indicators of the literate health of nations: libraries, newspapers, education inputs and outputs, computer availability. "This multidimensional …
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Msunduzi Public Library, South Africa. Courtesy of AfLIA. This week (14-20 March 2022) is South African Library Week.In 2001, the Library and Information Association of South Africa established Library Week for all types of libraries in South Africa to market their services and create awareness of the important role that libraries play in a democracy.
For many children, Help A Child South Africa's Mobile Library is their gateway to exploration and imagination. It provides them with the opportunity to escape into different worlds, learn about …
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Welcome to the Unisa Library mobile services guide. In this guide you will find information on mobile resources and applications (apps) to help you with your study and research.. Use the tabs on top to find information on …
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Evolve ILS and it's mobile app are used in libraries of varying sizes, from 10,000 to 200,000 holdings. The Evolve Library Management System is a state-of-the-art integrated library system that saves you time and money while making it easy to manage your entire library collection and circulation. Designed for use in public, school, academic and ...
A mobile library service provided to remote schools by one provincial department of education is a successful initiative to improve library service as well as literacy levels and a reading...
Konica Minolta South Africa's Mobile Library visits various schools across Gauteng every year, ensuring learners have the opportunity to touch the pages of beautiful books filled with quirky illustrations and new words to discover.
Container-based CSI initiatives in South Africa. Many container-based schools and libraries already exist across South Africa. Mandela Day container library project. The Mandela Day Library Project is an ongoing initiative that sets up container-based libraries for underprivileged or under-resourced schools. Since its launch, it has opened 75 ...
They use five categories as indicators of the literate health of nations: libraries, newspapers, education inputs and outputs, computer availability. "This multidimensional approach to literacy...
According to the National Library of South Africa's Directory of Public and Community Libraries in South Africa (2012: 68), there were ninety-four public and community libraries in the five districts of Limpopo Province at the time of collecting data for this study. For researchers to reach the targeted libraries, a convenience sampling method ...
There are nine Library and/or Information Schools in several provinces in South Africa. Qualifications can be obtained through full-time, part-time or distance education. Support staff or library assistants without formal training fill non-professional positions. They perform important routine and support tasks in library and information services.
The Ekufundzeni mobile library has served as a model for the provision of library services to disadvantaged schools. Based on the Ekufundzeni model more and more mobile libraries are starting operation in South Africa in the following ways:
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This trend is a topic commonly studied by researchers for other types of library as in South Africa The mobile termination rate glide path led to a decline in voice tariffs As voice revenue ... Books on wheels VVOB in South Africa. The Mobile Library Service has been jointly operated since 2007 by the non profit organisation the South African ...
A mobile library is a library housed in a vehicle that travels to locations to provide library services. It aims to serve communities that lack a public library. The mobile library vehicle, typically a specially converted van, bus, or truck, contains a variety of reading materials like books, newspapers, and magazines, which people can borrow ...
SAPESI is a South African NPO that has jointly overseen the "South Africa Mobile Library Project" with the South African Department of Education since the project's launch in 2005. Previously, the organization acted as an intermediary between the South African Department of Education and a Japanese NGO which used to send mobile libraries ...
South Africa Mobile Library Project provides free and easy access to the books for children especially in remote areas. Aiming for equity of primary education in South Africa, Sony supports NPO, South Africa Primary Education Support …
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School library policy development in South Africa seems to be a series of missed opportunities and even though the process has been ongoing since 1997, no policy has been formally approved as yet. Nevertheless, some provinces such as KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Free State have developed and endorsed
A library is, at its best, a liberatory space - a place where members of a community can select books that will expand their knowledge, deepen their understanding,
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RESEARCH ARTICLES . Adoption and use of social media in academic libraries in South Africa . Benford Rabatseta I; Jan R. Maluleka II; Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha III. I Senior Librarian in Library and Information Services at the North-West University, South Africa, brabatseta@gmail ORCID: 0000-0002-7698-2819 II Associate Professor, Department of …
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Mobile technology; Mobile technology usefulness; Universities of technology; South Africa; Citation. Matumba, M. and Rajkoomar, M. (2024), "Academic librarians' perceptions of mobile technology's usefulness in library service delivery at universities of technology in South Africa", Digital Library Perspectives, Vol. 40 No. 1, pp. 131-147.
Similarly, the term "school librarian" is used generically to denote anyone who is in charge of the school library programmes. Most school librarians in South Africa are in fact "teacher-librarians" as they are expected to do subject and classroom teaching as well. Department of Education. 1999. South African school library survey 1999.
Focuses on reasons for forming consortia and types, ranging from highly decentralised to highly centralised. Literature on consortia is mostly reported in four sources. Highlights the formation of the International Association of Library Consortia in 1997. ... Information and Communication Technology in Academic Libraries of South Africa ...
4.4. emergence of mobile health (mHealth) initiatives in South Africa 4.5. Building digital health capacity 5. Digital Health Vision 5.1. Vision 5.2. Mission 5.3. Architecture of the strategy ... South Africa has fully embraced the potential of digital health technologies to improve the quality and coverage of healthcare, increase access to ...
mobile device t Authors: Takalani M.M. Mamafha1 Patrick Ngulube2 ... and Information Services in South Africa, South African Public Library and Information Services Bill 2012, as well as ... among libraries in South Africa that should have certain types of ATs to enable PwVI to equally access and use library resources and services as their ...
The African Library Project (ALP) has created and improved over 3,000 small libraries across 13 countries in Sub Saharan Africa. We are currently active in Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Uganda, Malawi, and Kenya (left-to-right from the map, yellow highlighted countries).
1. Benford Rabatseta is Senior Librarian in Library and Information Services at the North-West University, South Africa 2. Jan R. Maluleka is Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa 3. Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha is Research Professor, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa