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INFORMATION DISSEMINATIONUSA, JULY
(Left to right) Librarian Edda Tandi
Lwoga with Sokoine National
Agricultural Library in Tanzania, Dr.
Mohamed Jalloh with the Hôpital
Général de Grand Yoff in Senegal and
ITOCA Trainer Gracian Chimwaza
hold a ceremonial copy of the HINARI
2015 Strategy Plan.
At a press conference at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, HINARI leadership announced a new strategy plan. Attendees included representatives of HINARI partners — comprising publishers, WHO, the United Nations Environment Programme and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization — and invited HINARI users from developing nations. News included that the HINARI/OARE/AGORA program is extended until 2015, and Microsoft is coming on board as the newest technical partner in the HOA initiative — which Elsevier has supported since its founding. 
LIBRARY PERFORMANCE MEASURES
MALAYSIA & THAILAND, AUGUST
Speakers and Elsevier colleagues bask in a job well
done in Kuala Lumpur.
At Library Connect Seminars in Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, the theme was Library
Performance Measures and presenters spoke about new ways of measuring and reporting library performance. Three presenters hailed from the University of Newcastle, Australia: Debbie Booth discussed “Research Quality Framework: Bibliometrics and the Library”; Vicki Picasso discussed “Repositories, Metrics and Impact on Library Services”; and Lisa Cotter discussed “Evidence-Based Librarianship: A Measured Approach to Library Service.” The session in Thailand also featured Professor Peter Haddawy from the Asian Institute of Technology who spoke on using citation analysis as a form of measuring research performance. Thai and Malaysian librarians in attendance were unanimous! 100% agreed that this year's seminar topic was relevant. Chiang Mai University Librarian Kingthong Sirimongkol summed up the collective appreciation by saying, “Hope we will continue to have [such a] useful seminar next year and forever!”
WEB 2.0
AUSTRALIA, AUGUST
(Left to right) NLB Singapore
Manager of Strategic
Programming Wan Wee Pin,
Yarra Plenty Online Services
Coordinator Lynette Lewis
and Elsevier Library
Relations Director Daviess
Menefe
More than 100 librarians attended the recent Library Connect Seminars held in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney and focusing on Web 2.0. Providing the Australian perspective and explaining how they’re implementing Web 2.0 technologies in their libraries were Christine Mackenzie and Lynette Lewis from Yarra Plenty Regional Public Library and Kate Sinclair from Flinders University Library. Additional speakers included Elsevier’s Library Relations Director Daviess Menefee and Singapore’s National Library Board Manager of Strategic Programming Wan Wee Pin. To get the gist of comments those two shared in Australia, see their articles in this issue. Appreciative feedback abounded, including from Michelle Noble from Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Melbourne who said that she “learnt a lot and is excited about new ideas and possibilities” for her library.
IN-PERSON OUTREACH
SOUTH AFRICA, AUGUST
Elsevier Account Manager Ramy
Hassanien (on the left) enjoys
speaking with an attendee during
IFLA in Durban.
At the Elsevier booth at the IFLA Conference in Durban, eBooks and Scopus generated lots of buzz. Visitors answering questions about Elsevier eBooks or Scopus entered drawings for prizes including electronic picture frames and iPods. The drawings were a huge hit and generated a large crowd every day! Many conference-goers got into the action and also sported Scopus pins as part of the “Wear the Pin to Win” daily drawings. Additionally, HINARI/ OARE/AGORA drew positive attention and sparked much discussion.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
THE NETHERLANDS, AUGUST
University of Oporto Librarian
Tiago Sousa Fernandes (on
the left) and Elsevier Customer
Marketing Events Coordinator
Alberto Rodriguez- Zapata
take five during the Elsevier
beach volleyball tournament.
Elsevier sponsorship helped these librarians attend this year’s TICER summer school: Tiago Sousa Fernandes with Portugal’s University of Oporto and Elif Aytek Gurses with Turkey’s TUBITAK – ULAKBIM in Ankara. TICER (Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources) is affiliated with the University of Tilburg and ranks among the most prestigious European continuing education programs for librarians and LIS faculty. TICER’s renowned annual International Summer School on the Digital Library was first held in 1996. The weekend after this year’s TICER course in Tilburg, Tiago kindly joined the EMEA team during the Elsevier beach volleyball tournament. His skills helped the team come out in second place!
