World population in graphs

Not strictly library - related (maybe useful for ref queries?)
Have a look at this!    66% of the world's work is done by women but they only earn 10% of its income

Have a look at UCT Librarys Twitter page

When I was at Sabinet last month Caroline Dean of UCT told me UCT Library had started a Twitter account

Some interesting tweets from users and librarians!

SIMPLY_TSHEPHO Tshepho Mamashela

by UCTLibrary

We sure have the coolest and funkiest library.. with my kinda colors.. #UCT #Blessed

tahiyaxo Tahiya Moosa

by UCTLibrary

One of the many reasons we love UCT even our library is tweeting @uctlibrary

 

seburt123 Sarah Burton

by UCTLibrary

Wow uct library even has a lil forrest vibe growing in it #ifyouwanttoknowwhereyourR53500feeswent

 

 

JaneKWhite Jane White

by UCTLibrary

There's an area in UCT library called "The Dungeon" and the classical history section has apparently been moved there. '.

 

ingridthomson Ingrid Thomson

by UCTLibrary

Library tours for parents orientation - almost 450 parents through uct library in a two hours. Exhausted!

 

 

 

Article on copyright education

Good article on resources for copyright education:

http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/10/596.full.pdf


Noni

Why 'Digital Natives' Aren't Necessarily Digital Learners

I remember discussing Twitter with a colleague at an academic conference back in 2009. "We have to start using it," he told me. I asked why. His answer: "The kids are using it."

That argument underscores all that I find wrong with the application of technology in higher education. In recent years, professors have heard much about the virtues and promise of new technologies, painted as the saviors of an irrelevant higher-education system that has grown out of touch with today's learners. It has reached the point that some of us believe there is something wrong with us if we do not adopt these technologies in our teaching. But proponents of the new learning technologies seem to ignore the human side of using them. They seem content simply to shill for hardware and software companies, forgetting that just because we can do something does not mean we should

The humanities and social sciences : commentary

• Journal Title: South African Journal of Science. v. 107 (11/12) 2011
• Authors:  Johann Mouton;
• Abstract:  The publication of two high-level reports on the state of the Humanities in South Africa in recent months is in itself a historic event. If scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) had been concerned about the lack of appreciation and recognition by the government and senior decision-makers in the science system for their fields and disciplines, just the fact that these reports have been commissioned and published should go some way to allaying any fears of their imminent 'demise'. But of course the rationale behind these two studies is to be found in more serious concerns by scholars in these fields: that there are systematic biases in the national science and higher education system which explicitly (and sometimes not so explicitly) constrain, weaken and disadvantage the HSS. These concerns relate to matters of funding, publication support, expenditure on R&D, reward systems and many other key components of these systems.

Major Medical Library Closing Its Doors to Patrons and Moving to Digital Model