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...
Any Informationheroes around?
This morning GO | School for Information held a 15′ presentation on Content Curation (or how to be an Information Hero) for close to 100 Informationprofessionals during Acuril 2016 in Haïti. We explained the new rol, skills and importance of the Content Cuartion...
Talking about customer focused information services
Today GO | School for Information conducted the 1s of 3 workshops at Acuril 2016. The topic was ‘Transition to real customer focused information services’. The 30 participants worked on the understanding of their Added Value and it’s importance. The...
Acuril 2016: It has begun
Last night Elizabeth Pierre-Louis Augustin, officially opened Acuril 2016 Haïti. As president of the asscociation she welkomed all the guests, honoured former Haitian Acuril presidents and whished us all a meaningfull congress. The short but effective ceremony was...
Last stop in Aruba: Arubiana
We completed our visit to Aruba with a visit to a department of the Biblioteca Nacional; Arubiana. Here they collect all the publications on Aruba, the former Dutch Antilles and large parts of the Caribbean. Just as in the other places we visited this week we met...
Train-the-trainer program for Archivo Nacional
Back at the beautiful island of Aruba it was time to visit the Archivo Nacional in Oranjestad. In fact this meeting was a sequence to a Skype conversation about 3 years ago. A lot has changed since then, but the need for education still excists. In an animated...
Meeting the people of Biblioteka Publiko Boneiru
Last stop on a rather hectic day was Bonaire. After emailing for nearly a year it was very nice to see the people involved. And again the topic of the meeting was the need of education. It didn’t take much time to agree on a suitable program for the employees of...
GO visits Biblioteca Nacional in Aruba
On May 31st GO | School for Information visited Biblioteca Nacional (the National Library) of Aruba in connection with a first time work visit. We gave a detailed explanation of the many educational possibilities. And we learned about the plans, priorities and...
Over 100 Information specialist trained in MARC21 and RDA
In recent weeks, dozens of Information specialists of the UKB attended courses on MARC21 and RDA. UKB is the collaboration platform of National Library and the university libraries. They have an essential role in scientific information services. At the moment the...