Munyoro, Isaiah; Dick, Archie L.(Archlib Information Service, 2015-04)
This article focuses on the performance of
Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary Constituency
Information Centres (PCICs) in disseminating
parliament generated information and providing
a platform for public participation.
Questionnaires ...
The two African Library Summits are reviewed. Sources for the review are analyses of plenary presentations and discussions, formal feedback from the drill-down session coordinators, and personal observation.
Dick, Archie L.(Historical Association of South Africa, 2004-11)
Women and women's organizations exploited available opportunities and spaces to assert themselves in South African public life in the early-twentieth century. Their educational interventions combined a special concern with ...
A charter cannot transform library and information services without political champions, public pressure,
norms and standards, legislation, and a transformed mind-set.
This article compares the information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures, the levels of access, and the electronic resources usage patterns at two academic libraries in Kenya. The focus is on the use by ...
United Nations agencies and civil society organisations (CSOs) are working
as development partners (DPs) with parliaments across the globe. They are
engaged in activities to strengthen parliaments in both developed and ...
Social media can test how firmly entrenched Internet freedom is in established
democracies through a comparison with countries with an authoritarian track
record. The method is to evaluate the use of social media in ...
Hierdie artikel ondersoek die leeskulture van vroeë Kaapse gewone lesers (slawe, vryswartes,
en arbeiders ná vrystelling in 1838) met die oog daarop om aan te toon hoe hulle
geletterdheidspraktyke gebruik het om hulself ...
Through their brave actions, information heroes have assured access to information in times of social conflict,
revolution, and war. They deserve to be recognized, and their achievements remembered.
Information history, a promising new area of research, will benefit from a transnational perspective that makes
it sensitive to the idea of place and that complicates issues of national information development ...
Lottering, Francois Barnardus; Dick, Archie L.(AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-09-12)
BACKGROUND: A striking feature of the knowledge management (KM) literature is that the
standard list of KM processes either subsumes or overlooks the process of knowledge seeking.
Knowledge seeking is manifestly ...
This article presents a proposed model for framing the policies of Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) libraries. The authors draw on a focused literature review across various disciplines as well as empirical evidence ...
This article reviews the responses of librarians to crises in the ‘old’ and ‘new’ South Africa. It draws on primary and secondary sources to tell the stories of librarians during personal, political and professional crises. ...
PURPOSE : The paper explores library cooperation in Zimbabwe and gathers views from librarians on the need for a library consortium model to underpin national development. This study aims to investigate the development of ...
As the number of library schools in sub-Saharan Africa declines, new opportunities for LIS education have
emerged. The University of Pretoria’s Carnegie-funded Masters degree, with a special focus on information technology
and ...
Public dialogue can widen the knowledge base for decision making to make public policy
and programmes more effective and accountable, in line with citizens’ priorities. Audience
research can enhance the relevance of a ...
Comments posted on the website of the Library and Information Association of South
Africa regarding the destruction of a library in Timbuktu are analyzed to reveal how
we talk about the preservation and destruction of ...
With few exceptions, the study of intellectual traditions in South Africa generally ignores their material traces. The embodiment of ideas and languages in books, pamphlets, newspapers and other media does, however, matter. ...
Oyieke, Lilian I.; Dick, Archie L.; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2013-12)
David Cameron’s announcement during the 2011 riots across cities in the United Kingdom to consider shutting down social media shocked the international information community. It raised questions of how firmly entrenched ...