IFLA 2011: A New Generation of Information professionals

Dill Graduate Pussadee Nonthacumjane presented a paper at the IFLA 2011 Conference.  Her paper was titled Key skills and competencies of a new generation of LIS professionals.  Find more information here:  http://conference.ifla.org/sites/default/files/files/papers/ifla77/97-nonthacumjane-en.pdf Miss Nonthacumjane is part of the teaching staff at the Department of...

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Oslo University College Merger

Oslo University College has merged with Akershus University College.  The new university college is the largest in Norway with more than 15 000 students.  The new name is Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science. Check out the new University here:  http://www.hioa.no/switchlanguage/to/eng

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Carol Kuhltau visiting professor on Dill

Professor II emerita Carol Kuhltau of Rutgers University has spent two weeks giving lectures on Dill this spring. She lectured in the Tallinn classes of Knowledge Management, with specific focus on information use through learning processes, networking and collaboration; individual and social learning; learning and digital libraries; and information literacy as it...

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Dill student presents paper at international research conference

Dydimus Zengenene, a student on Dill 3, has presented a paper at the Zimbabwe Open University International Research Conference in Harare, 16-17th June 2011.  His paper was titled “The Contribution Of Semantic Web Technologies for Distance Learning and Education”.  The paper discusses the semantic web and how it can be applied to improve distance learning...

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Dill student awarded IFLA 1.st prize

Chiara Consonni, a student on Dill 3,  has received the first prize in Library and Information Science Student Paper Award 2010 organised by the International Federation of Library Associations. Her paper was titled: “Non users’ evaluation of digital libraries: A survey at the Università degli studi di Milano”.  Congratulations...

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DILL-4 students visit Digital Preservation conference

DILL-4 students had the pleasure of attending the ‘Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation‘ conference held at the National Library of Estonia (May 23-25, 2011). The conference, organized by the Educopia Institute (US), aimed at proving a forum where national preservation programs could share information with each other in order to begin building...

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