I was up early and enjoyed the early morning 'gym' session. We had to be ready earlier in order for us to take the trip to the Merensky Library. We were welcomed by Ujala and she took us on a tour through the library. The most exciting part was to visit their new Research Commoms, which will officially open Monday 14 November 2011. We were the first Carnegie Library Leaders to have a presentation in the newly build Carnegie Library Auditorium. It is a stunning place and is equipped with all possible technological devices for conference venues.
We attended two session one on Quality assurance and the other on The strategic organisation in practice presented by Christa North (Head: Quality unit, UP) and Dr Heila Pienaar (Deputy Director: e-Information strategy and e-Research enablement, UPLS), respectively. We visit their digitisation section as well as the reference section. We were treated with a lovely lunch at Burgundy's after our visit to the UP Museum. The bus then depart to The National Library of South Africa.
We were welcomed by Ms Rachel More (Deputy National Librarian) and a tour guide was assigned to us for the rest of the afternoon. The building is really a state of the art attraction. We visited each department and the most exciting one to me was the binding section. This is where books are cleaned, repaired and rebind. They also fulfill the binding of all types of magazines, parliamentary gazettes and journals.Our last stop was the Liasa office. We were welcomed by a very lovely lady, Hannelie Brink (Liasa: Office Manager). They even had gift packs for each one of us. This made me feel special.
Even though we were so exhausted when we got back to the hotel we still had our group discussion after dinner. I believe that we have dedicated and committed people in our group and I just love the synergy between us. I got to bed 23h50.
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