GO | School for information trains NAS on accessibility digital information
On 27th july mrs. Rita Tjien Fooh (director National Archives Suriname) signed an contract with UNESCO for the funding of a trainingsprogram ‘Preservation and Access in digital and digitized documentary heritage’. GO opleidingen has been selected by the...
New: Awareness course ‘The importance of information management’
In order to introduce the key elements of information management within a relatively short time, ‘GO opleidingen | School for Information’ and ‘Paul Geerders (P. Geerders Consultancy, Netherlands and Oruga, Panama)’ have developed a promotional...
Information specialists and the block chain
It looks like we, as Information Heroes, will have to deal with ‘blockchain’. If not sooner, then definitely later. So better be prepared, I guess. Here a short and clear explanation of both the terms ‘bit coin’ and ‘block chain’....
Interesting read: LIBRARIES AND THE CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE
Today I read a blog from Lorcan Dempsey on ‘the curse of knowlegde (for libraries)’. He states the following: n summary it is very difficult to unknow something that you already know, and it can be difficult to imagine what it is like not to know it. This...
Last stop: Library Anton de Kom University
The last stop on our 3 week Caribean tour was a short workshop at the Anton de Kom University in Paramaribo, Suriname. During 2015 the Information Specialists of the University Library and their colleagues of organisations like De Surinaamse Bank, Staatsolie and the...
Visiting the National Archives of Suriname
Yesterdag 14th June GO | School for Information visited the National Archives of Suriname to talk about 2 planned educational projcts to be conductend at the end of this year and in 2017. The NAS is in a continous transition and we would like to help them by...
Thank you #Acuril2016Haiti
It was quite an experience to attend Acuril 2016 in Haïti. It was only the 2nd visit to Acuril for GO | School for Information, but we are feeling at home already. We were happy that we could contribute with a sponsorship, 1 presentation and 2 workshops. We learned a...
A true information hero
During #Acuril2016 in Haiti we found many #InformationHeroes. But Lorraine Nero from Trinidad and Tobago won the ‘Headline-competition’ in our workshop on Customer Focused Information Services. By using #’s (hastags) in the headlines for her...
Change is a challenge
As the central theme of Acuril 2016 was ‘Leadership’ we just had to do a workshop on Change management. So as one of the last session of the Acuril conference we were scheduled on thursday 9th june just before the final wrap up. About 20 attendees were...