Open Access Week – celebrated internationally during the third week of October – is a highlight on the LIASA calendar. Libraries have always been and still are about providing access to quality information for a better educated nation, which in turn leads to an empowered society with a higher life expectancy. Information needs to be kept open, for people to remain informed and to engage in self- and lifelong-learning, and to empower themselves.
Reaching over 18 000 people and collecting over 2 000 stories from South Africans across the country in just one month, the Nal’ibali storytelling competition, ‘Story Bosso’, has helped drive literacy change in homes and communities throughout the country by reviving the lost era of storytelling. Read more
The Classroom of the Future was a much talked about theme at this years Frankfurt Book Fair. The Fair was open to the public on the last two days and youth, dressed up in their favourite literary or comic book characters flooded into the Fair. The classroom of the future was a key point of interest. The installation portrayed a vision of the future where small groups of children worked together on nine explorative tours in five different subject areas where they created machines out of LEGO, scanned seashells to be printed in 3D, and told their own stories using sound. The whole installation was led by a hybrid textbook of the future, and it is this small detail that is most exciting. Read more
Die wenners van die Rapport Boekpryse en Jan Rabie-Rapportprys vir 2015 is vandag aangekondig. Die wenners is as volg:
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The publishing director of Jonathan Ball Publishers, Jeremy Boraine gives us five reasons why books in SA are so expensive. Read more on Publishing Perspectives.
If you are in France and want a quick read before the busy day ahead, stop at one of the eight short story vending machines. Read more on Publishing Perspectives.
In 1951, Pam and Pauline Joseph, wife and mother of the late Philip Joseph respectively, opened a small secondhand bookshop in King George Street, Johannesburg and called it Exclusive Books. Read more
Svetlana Alexievich was announced as the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. The announcement was made this afternoon in Stockholm by Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius.
Annually On the Dot Pamphlets visits their depots to ensure data quality and operational efficiencies, this year was no different, although this year the team engaged with all depots but selected a number of depots to be visited to ensure that we have provided our clients with the most up-to-date and accurate data set available.
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“At the intersection of content, science, and technology sits Elsevier. The 135-year-old institution has evolved from a science publisher to a information solutions company that leverages technology to help science, health, and technology professionals make groundbreaking discoveries through a suite of products.
Elisa Cool from Contently recently interviewed Elsevier R&D Solutions CMO Sumita Singh on how they have transformed from being a traditional scientific publisher to becoming more of an information technology provider.
“We believe in content. We believe in comprehensive content—good, quality content. But what we do with the content is where we add value for our customers,” she said.
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