ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN INDEXERS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS (ASAIB)

ASAIB AGM 25 NOVEMBER 2011

Please join us for the annual ASAIB AGM to be held this year at 10am at

Bella Rosa Farm

123 Lourens Drive Beaulieu Kyalami Gauteng

Our speaker will be Dr Jackie Kalley Senior Librarian and Publications Officer at the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA)

The title of Jackie’s talk will be "The Making and breaking of an editor". Jackie and Sheenagh Harris, in conjunction with Otterley Press, have recently published Veld, Vlei and Rose Gardens, inspiration from South African gardeners. Jackie will talk about her experiences of editing and creating the index for this beautiful publication.

We look forward to seeing as many of our members as possible at this annual function.

Please RSVP to :

Amanda Simpson by 20 November 2011 http://ww.bellarosafarm.co.za

amandaindexing@gmail.com

079 053 0429

Course and Workshop on Academic Citations and Bibliographic Referencing

ASAIB ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN INDEXERS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS
and ACHIEVER ASSOCIATES

present  a One-day Course and Workshop on Academic Citations and Bibliographic Referencing Johannesburg, 12 November, 2011
Are you confused about the different academic referencing styles in use in South Africa?
Do you know how to apply a specific reference style to an academic text according to the required style guide when editing work for an academic journal or writing a dissertation or  thesis?
What do APA, Chicago, MLA and Harvard mean to you?
If you need to answer any of these questions, why not join us for a full day workshop on 12 November at Old Edwardians Club, Lower Houghton, JohannesburgIf you are an academic editor, a Masters or Doctoral Student or Supervisor, or a writer or editor of journal articles, this workshop will benefit you.
l articles, this workshop will benefit you.
The workshop presenters are Marlene Burger and Jenny de Wet. Marlene is the ASAIB Chair, lecturer at Unisa in Cataloguing, Classification, Indexing, Bibliography and Archival Science and author of Bibliographic style and reference techniques (2010) and Jenny, who has an MA in Information Science, is an ASAIB member, an ex-lecturer and an ASAIB indexing award-winner.

The workshop will be held from 08:30 to 16:00 on Saturday, 12th November 2011. Tea and coffee will be served at registration, followed by snacks and teas and a full lunch at noon.

The early bird workshop registration fee is R500 if paid before 4 November and the late registration charge will be R525.

Send your reservations to:      burgem@unisa.ac.za
Tel 012 4296585 Cell 0824826703
Fax 012 4298520 (mark for attention: M Burger)

Payment to be made on confirmation of booking
Account name: ASAIB, Nedbank (Branch Sandown 193305)
Savings account 2933069393, Reference: Your name + Bibliography

ASAIB CONFERENCE 13 MAY 2011

A photographic view of the 2011 ASAIB Conference on The Why's and Wherefores of Indexing,held at the Ditsong Military Museum, Saxonwold, Johannesburg.

ASAIB Conference on the Why's and Wherefores of Indexing

Ditsong Military Museum, Saxonwold, Johannesburg

ALERT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

ASAIB has great pleasure in inviting you to take part in the conference on the why's and the wherefores of indexing.

Three panels each made up of three panellists and each with a keynote speaker will discuss the following:
1. What? This panel will focus on indexing the sciences and arts
2. Wherefore? This panel will focus on marketing, the business side of indexing and freelance indexing.
3. This is IT. A comparison will be made between the different types of databases that an indexer could encounter when indexing a database.

Summaries of prospective papers should be submitted in MS Word to Marlene Burger at burgem@unisa.ac.za before 18 March 2011

ASAIB AWARD

The ASAIB 201 Award for best index and/or bibliography published during 2009 and 2010 will be made at the conference. Send your entries to Marlene Burger before 12 April 2011.

GENERAL

The programme will be communicated as soon as possible.
Conference fees: R650 (Early Bird - registered and paid before 16 March 2011)
R750 full conference fee.
Retired indexing professionals: R350.
The registration form is available on the ASAIB Webpage
A Map to the venue and information on accommodation

ENQUIRIES

Marlene Burger: burgem@unisa.ac.za +27124296585
Madely du Preez: preezm@unisa.ac.za +274296792
Karin McGuirk: mcguik@unisa.ac.za +27124296313

ASAIB AGM 2010 and ASAIB Conference 2011

The ASAIB AGM was held on 12 November and hosted at Ruther Glen Cottage, 18 Wallace Street, Waverley, Johannesburg. The morning was well attended. The AGM took the form of a picnic in Shelagh Harris' beautiful rose garden. Delegates brought their own chairs and picnic baskets.

Our speaker, Louise Matschke, Curriculum Specialist at the Johannesburg Zoo, talked about the nature of zoos. She explained why zoos are important, how zoos contribute to conservation and provide a habitat to urban wildlife. Louise also touched on Biomimicry, a new and very exciting bio-engineering field.

Arline Burger was the photographer of the morning. See the photos of this memorable morning.

CONFERENCE 2011
Following the AGM, the ASAIB Exco convened for their monthly meeting to plan for the 2011 ASAIB Conference on The why's (wise) and the Wherefores?

Venue: DItsong Military Museum, Saxonwold, Johannesburg
Date: 13 May 2011

Three panels each made up of three pannellists and each with a keynote speaker will discuss the following:

What? This panel will focus on indexing the sciences and arts
Wherefore? This panel will focus on marketing, the business side of indexing and freelance indexing.
This is IT. A comparison will be made between the different types of databases that an indexer could encounter when indexing a database.

Summaries of prospective papers should be submitted to Marlene Burger at burgem@unisa.ac.za before 18 March 2011.

ASAIB AWARD

The ASAIB 2011 Award for best index and/or bibliography published during 2009 and 2010 will be made at the conference. Send your entries off to Marlene Burger before 12 April 2011.

General

The programme, registration form, fees, map, etc will be communicated as soon as possible. Information on accommodation in the area will also be provided.

ENQUIRIES

Marlene Burger burgem@unisa.ac.za 012 4296585
Madely du Preez preezm@unisa.ac.za 012 4296792

2011 ProLISSA Conference

Progress in Library and Information Science in Southern Africa

Sixth biennial DISSAnet Conference
University of South Africa (UNISA)
9-11 March 2011
9 March 2011: Doctoral Forum
10-11 March 2011: Conference

Preliminary Programme

Unisa Storytelling Festival and Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children

Announcement and call for papers

6-8 October 2010

Organised by the Department of Information Science of the University of South Africa and the Children's Literature Research Unit of the Department

University of South Africa, Pretoria

We welcome:
1. Abstracts (of not more than 250 words) that address particular issues regarding reading promotion for children and storytelling to children.
2. Proposals for workshops on storytelling and reading promotion for children. Please indicate the cost involved.
3. Names of storytellers who can be approached to participate in the Storytelling Festival.

Due date for abstracts:
15 July 2010. Notification of acceptance will be made within one week.

The programme, information on accommodation, registration fee, as well as the registration form will be published at a later stage on the webpage: http://www.unisa.ac.za/dept/infosc

Mail abstracts and direct enquiries to:

Prof Thomas van der Walt, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, PO Box 392, 0003 Pretoria, South Africa

Fax: +27 12 4293792

email: vdwaltb@unisa.ac.za