News from the Mission
SLA President Conducts Workshops for South African Special Librarians
September 4, 2007
Special Libraries Association President Rebecca Vargha conducted two workshops on competencies for South African special librarians in the 21st century, at the U.S. Consulate in Cape Town on August 28 and the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria on August 30.
The workshops, which were highly interactive, drew about 20 librarians in Cape Town and 40 in Pretoria. The intention is for the American Library's workshop partners — the Library and Information Association of South Africa Special Libraries Interest Group (LiSLIG), the SLA Sub-Sahara Africa Chapter, and the Special Libraries and Information Services Group (SLIS) — to develop a set of competencies for South African special librarians, based on the workshops and the SLA document, Competencies for Information Professionals of the 21st Century.
Following the Pretoria workshop, Rebecca visited the new National Library of South Africa building, as well as the Constitutional Court, Brenthurst and Anglo-American libraries.