Presentation at ASSAF - SA IR CoP

Last week on Wednesday I had the privelege to speak at the meeting of the South African Institutional Repository Managers Community of Practice. For more information on the CoP, use the following link http://hdl.handle.net/2263/16637

Attached herewith a group photo of the organizers and speakers [Louise van Heerden, Adele van der Merwe,Hettie Groenewald, Ria Groenewald, Zweli Ndayi and Susan Veldsman), ]. 

This is a link to a very interesting blog.It's about JPEG2000.Feel free to check it out:
http://jpeg2000wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/

New Monitors

Earlier this week, our office got a few new monitors. Not only that, but the monitors are 27" LED monitors. What did we do with the old monitors? Simple, use them with the new monitors! Now we can work, while we work.See photos below.

“Academic possibilities of tablet devices such as an iPad”

On the 28^th October 2011, Ria Groenewald and Maritz Visser from the Digitisation office attended a workshop at the University of Pretoria Conference hall. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the academic application of tablets and to identify possible difficulties in the implementation thereof.

In attendance were representatives from the various faculties in UP. Ria and Maritz were trying to get the attendees to understand the obstacles presented by firewalls and how they hinder users when trying to gain access to resources through the tablets.

Maritz demonstrated some applications which can be useful to lecturers and how they can use those applications. The attendees were pleased with Maritz and Ria’s presentations and will hopefully use what they learned.

There might be a follow-up workshop same time next year, hopefully by then majority of the staff will be in possession of Tablets to foster a great debate on their use in the academic environment. 

Left: Maritz Visser

Right: Ria Groenewald