SANLiC 2017 Conference

Ralf is past chair of the SCOAP3 governing council and is currently the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in particle physics and project manager for ‘Open Access 2020’, the Max Planck-initiated Open Access transformation initiative. He also serves on a variety of national and international committees and is a frequent member of the library advisory boards of publishers.

He founded Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) and is its current president. EOS is an international association whose purpose is to persuade the world’s rectors, vice-chancellors and university presidents of the benefits of OA, and to tutor them in how best to achieve it. Bernard Rentier is described by OA guru Stevan Harnad as is the first rector to fully grasp and fully act upon OA.  He will be sharing his leadership insights via a video conference link.

He is also a member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Next Generation Repositories Working Group.  Lazarus has a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree from the University of Cape Town and is currently studying for a doctoral degree looking at the impact of OA publishing as a mode of knowledge production in the South African universities.

Eve’s interest in the disruptive potential of digital media in scholarly publishing goes back to the 1990s, when she was the Director of Wits University Press, helping rebuild  a scholarly list post-apartheid at a time when the internet was in its very early stages. She has subsequently worked as a publishing consultant and researcher, probing the contradictions in research publication policy in South Africa.

Ina is also a consultant for Librarians in the Cloud/Teachers in the Cloud, an Open Access and best practice research training facilitator.

Currently, he serves on the Academic and Research Libraries Standing Committee of IFLA and is the interim chair of the SPARC Africa Working Group. His research area is research librarianship with a specific focus on scholarly communication. He is the co-editor of the first two open access books published by UCT Libraries and has published a number of articles in national and international journals and has written a number chapters in books.

He has been a Librarian for the past 42 years of which 30 years were spent at the University Libraries of NMMU, UNISA, Venda and the Vaal University of Technology. He has published articles and chapters in books on Librarianship and Afrikaans Literature in various countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and South Africa. Since 2007 he has been a member of the South African Academy for Science and Arts. He is an avid musician (guitar and vocals), dramatist and poetry writer.

Emanating from the conclusion of the study and his current duties, Jeremiah has developed an interest in the establishment of digital scholarship services in academic libraries in the developing context. Having been involved in Open projects and the beginnings of SPARC Africa – he is interested in advancing open access on the African continent. Other research interests include open publishing and the successful marketing of academic library services.

Adriana will share insights as a researcher, inspire delegates and remind the conference why, despite the disruption, it is an exciting time in the four billion year history of life on Earth to be alive! Adriana will speak at the gala dinner via a live feed from New York.

His clients have ranged from start-ups, non-profits, schools and universities (both public and private) to small, medium and multinational commercial enterprises.  Louis enjoys the challenge of engaging with complex problems and trying to find simple, effective solutions.  His firm has a strong commitment to social upliftment, conservation and education and assists many non-profit organisations operating in those sectors.   Louis has a passion for learning new things and believes that it is our duty to share our knowledge with others.

He has been in the library profession for 16 years with some years spent at the Universities of Pretoria and Johannesburg. April is a visionary leader, action oriented and a change agent. Strategic management, quality, project management and customer experience in academic libraries are his areas of specialty. He has done research on customer needs, market research and library impact or value in higher education institutions. He believes that any organisation exists to add value and without “value add”; the organisation naturally ceases to exist.

He is an Accredited Labour Mediator, a part-time Senior Commissioner at the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Practitioner with a number of Public and Private Sector Bargaining Councils and Dispute Resolution Agencies. William conducts training and other processes for the CCMA, Bargaining Councils and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in the SADC Region and he is also attached to a number of South African Universities where he lectures and presents courses on Conflict Management, Labour Dispute Resolution and Negotiation and Mediation Skills.

She obtained a BA Library Science degree at UOFS in 1974 and an Information Science honours degree at the University of Stellenbosch in 2001. Her career started in 1975 at the Bloemfontein Public Library. She switched to academic libraries in 1989 and moved to the UK in 2003 where she worked in academic libraries and the Natural History Museum in London.

With the recent implementation of the Library’s Encore Duet Discovery Service this also includes the implementation and accessibility of the library’s e-resources knowledgebase within the EBSCO EDS.  Dorette holds a B.Bibl (Hons) from the University of Pretoria and is a long-standing member of LIASA.

Whilst primarily focused on identity federation, his role at TENET has expanded to include a number of trust and identity services. Prior to joining TENET he was Rhodes University’s IT Operations Manager, and was also involved in the technical operations of the SEALS library consortium.

His interests span the breadth of scholarly publishing from issues relating to access (particularly examining new models for open access), accessibility, and usability of research information. He has worked extensively in the developing world working to implement technical solutions to support capacity building through broader access and visibility of research. At Annual Reviews, he works to advance the organization’s mission to support and advance research communities through a range of innovative programs that seek to maximize the positive impact of science on humanity.

As one of the first participants of the Carnegie Research Library Consortium in 2007 she visited the United States in 2008. This was followed by the creation of a new post in the library and her appointment as Manager: Research Support services. She is currently overseeing the management of the two libraries in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, the two libraries in the Faculty of Science, the Research Commons and Data Management Services. She maintains close collaboration with the Research Office in the field of research performance evaluation and bibliometrics. Her main interest lies within the many opportunities and challenges of research support in libraries and has presented at local and international conferences.

Prior roles include Electronic Resources Librarian (June 2000 to September 2013) and manager of the Commerce Information Services Section (August 2007 to July 2011). Her library career started out in the UCT Health Sciences Library where she occupied various roles between December 1991 and mid-2000. She is a member of the Sabinet Library Products Advisory Committee: Reference and Collection Development and EBSCO’s Asia, Africa and Oceania Academic Advisory Board.

During her more than 20 years working in libraries Joyce has worked as a cataloguer, subject librarian and in library management. She is passionate about libraries and has served on a number of committees in LIS associations both in South Africa and in the United States. The recipient of several awards, Joyce is also a published author and recently collaborated with Professor Franco Frescura to compile the Illustrated Glossary of Southern African Architectural Terms: English – IsiZulu, published by UKZN Press.

Currently he is occupied with tying acquisitions to research output, to provide for better insights into content value. With almost 20 years of international experience in the information industry, Nels has held positions with Munksgaard Intl. Publishers, Blackwell Publishing, Swets and most recently as Chief Commercial Officer for LM Information delivery, before starting his own company.