Michiel E Moll

The Mahout on the elephant: how the knowledge management practices of the Wellington Campus Library enriches CPUT Libraries

Michiel E. Moll et al. — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:23:33 PDT

The importance of knowledge management in institutions is widely acknowledged. However, the influence of progressive knowledge management practices in one branch of the organization on the organization as a whole is the theme of this paper. The MJL Olivier Library (Wellington campus library) of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) is one of nine branches, with Cape Town and Bellville being the largest. However the knowledge management practices of Wellington with particular reference to knowledge creation, knowledge sharing and knowledge capturing leads to Wellington being seen as an “innovation champion” (Glynn, 1996) within the CPUT Academic Information Services (AIS). Some of the effects this has had on the AIS as a whole show the advantages of even a small section being encouraged to form a Community of Practice with positive knowledge management practices.

Looking Back to Move Forward: a Case Study of CPUT’s Digital Knowlege

Petro Coreejes-Brink et al. — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:23:32 PDT

Using a digitised archive as a resource for heritage research

Reaching Out, Reaching in: Building a Multi-resource Network

Michiel E. Moll et al. — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:23:31 PDT

CPUT Libraries and community engagement

The elephant's graveyard

Michiel Moll — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:23:30 PDT

A story describing the setting up of a repository onsite, versus a hosted option.

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Michiel E. Moll — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:50:56 PDT

Information literacy in the new curriculum

Michiel E. Moll — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:09:22 PDT

South Africa has undergone major changes in the school curriculum. At the same time, international emphasis on the importance of Information Literacy has found reflections locally in many calls for the development of school libraries (e.g. Arnold, 2002: 178), but has remained a problem in the actual implementation. This is also reflected in initial teacher training which has moved Information Literacy to a skill of the teacher, rather than an essential part of the curriculum that they have to teach.

This paper first looks briefly at the changes in national curricula in South Africa, and then at the current curriculum, with emphasis on the place of Information Literacy concepts within the curriculum as a whole, and then within each Learning Area. An intervention with education students is then described in which an attempt was made to look at their understanding of the role of Information Literacy and, finally, a few recommendations are made with regard to how this reflects on schools and school libraries.

Swallowing an elephant

Michiel E. Moll — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:17:06 PDT

Predating the major higher education mergers, the Cape Technikon Library Service was faced with the incorporation of the Mowbray College of Education and Boland College of Education libraries in 2000. The actual stock of these two libraries was larger than that of the Technikon, and in addition, an institution that had a monolithic library structure was suddenly faced with coping with a more dispersed structure. Both Mowbray and Boland College (which was at Wellington, some 65 km away) were functioning libraries and the challenges were therefore to maintain functionality while changing and to keep the best from each library while creating a single library service. This presentation discusses the lessons learned from both the perspective of the college libraries, as well as the Cape Technikon libraries, in handling both the human component of the merger, as well as the unique challenges of the collections and of service alignment.

Enhanced User Experiences through Relationship Management

Michiel E. Moll — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:50:01 PDT

Within libraries the need to be able to relate clearly to the customer and their needs is paramount. Although Customer Relationship management software does exist, fundamentals underlying the philosophy need to be in place first. For this librarians need to use three principles that are expressed as: 1. Be yourself, 2: Integrate as a team, 3: Go boldly!.