Day 1 : Thursday, 6 November SESSION 1 Chair: Ms Ellen Tise
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Welcome and Opening
| Prof Arnold van Zyl (SU: Vice-Rector Research)
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Keynote address
| Mr Chip Nilges (Vice President for Business Development at OCLC)
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SESSION 2 Chair: Prof Stephen Mutula
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Commercial supply and demand metrics and librarianship – courtship or affair?
| Mr Steyn Heckroodt (SU Business School - General Management, Competitive Management for Entrepreneurs)
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Supply and Demand in Academic Library and Information Service Environment:Business Case – Academic Libraries in the Knowledge Management Value Chain
| Mr Sej Motau ( Chairperson Sabinet Board of Directors)
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Meeting Changing Demands - The Effect on the Supply Side
| Ms Diane Man & Robert Jacobs (Swets)
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Discussion |
SESSION 3 Session Chair: Dr Judy Henning
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The free flow of free information? Open access challenges facing academic libraries in Africa
| Prof Johannes Britz (Dean & Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
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Supply-Demand Gaps in Meeting Research Needs in a Networked Environment: Challenges and Opportunities for Academic Libraries
| Prof Stephen Mutula (Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Studies, University of Botswana)
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Does easy access translate to easy papers?: Teaching and doing research in an increasingly information-rich environment
| Prof Erick Strauss (SU lecturer and researcher, Biochemistry Dept)
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Library Unplugged: Welcome to the Age of Information Ubiquity
| Mr Kobus Ehlers (SU student and part-time lecturer, Dept Information Science)
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Day 2 : Friday, 7 November SESSION 4 Session Chair: Prof Johannes Britz
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Research needs and research support: the changing and challenging role of the academic librarian
| Ms Cyrill Walters (Librarian at UCT and IFLA/OCLC fellow)
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Libraries on the move / Libraries on the go - shifting barriers, going places, sharing spaces
| Dr Heila Pienaar (Deputy Director, e-Information Strategy & e-Research enablement, Library Services, UP)
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Academic libraries in transition: the paradox implicit in the quest for a SU library of the future
| Dr Reggie Raju, Mss Mimi Seyffert, Joanne Arendse & Mr Wouter Klapwijk
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SESSION 5 Session Chair: Ms Ellen Tise
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Panel Discussion
| Mr Chip Nilges, Prof Johannes Britz, Prof Stephen Mutula, Dr Heila Pienaar, Mr Kobus Ehlers
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Closure and summation
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