UWI Mona DLIS 40th Anniversary Conference & Gathering of Graduates

Conference Name:  The University of the West Indies, Mona  Department of Library and Information Studies 40th Anniversary  Conference & Gathering of Graduates


Sponsoring Institution:

The University of the West Indies, Mona
Department of Library and Information Studies


Title: "From Search to Discovery: Reimagining the Library and Information Landscape"


Location: Mona Visitors’ Lodge & Conference Centre, 
UWI, Mona Campus, Kingston 7

Date: October 4-6, 2012 


URL: http://myspot.mona.uwi.edu/dlis/sites/drupal-dev.uwimona.edu.jm.dlis/files/uploads/CALL%20FOR%20PAPER%20&%20POSTER%20PROPOSALS[1].pdf

Abstract:
The University of the West Indies, Mona Department of Library and Information Studies puts on its 40th anniversary conference and gathering of the graduates. The call for papers and poster presentations is out and the deadline closes July 31, 2012. The conference calls for presentations on the library and information landscape but also asks for researchers to relate the topic to the Caribbean.


Excerpt:

"The theme asks participants to envision how the changing information
environment is impacting the role and functions of libraries, librarians, as
well as library and information science education and research and
information users. Further, persons are asked to relate this change to the
current situation in the Caribbean."

The Seaga Collection Preview at UWI Mona

Author: Kimone Thompson
Title: The wait is still on for the tantalising Seaga collection
Source: Jamaica Observer
Date published: Sunday, May 03, 2009
URL: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20090502T220000-0500_150667_OBS_THE_WAIT_IS_STILL_ON_FOR_THE_TANTALISING_SEAGA_COLLECTION_.asp
Abstract:

Article provides information about a special collection being established at the Main Library of the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI). The collection will contain information about Jamaica's social and political history compiled by Seaga based on his experiences and involvement in Jamaica's politics and society. The article also makes mention of perceptions of several dignitaries of the contribution that Seaga has made to Jamaica, as one of the longest serving politician and public figure and their reaction to the preview of the collection.

Excerpt:

The University of the West Indies (UWI) which houses the collection, staged a whet-the-appetite launch last Thursday at the Main Library on the Mona Campus at which benefactors like Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, Maurice Facey, and government ministers Mike Henry and Andrew Holness, among other dignitaries, came to give their blessing.

Already described as the "most extensive" collection of Jamaica's social and political history in one location, the body of works comprises a compilation of 27 speeches made by Seaga in the past four years titled Revelations: beyond Political Boundaries; a book titled The Grenada Intervention: the Inside Story; Seaga's autobiography in two volumes; a digitised collection of papers and recordings and a compilation of macroeconomic data from 1950 to 2007.

The collection - catalogued under the UWI's West Indian Collection, and undertaken with funds raised by the institution's development and endowment fund - was put together by Seaga who was made a Distinguished Fellow in the UWI School of Graduate Studies and Research in 2005.

UWI Mona Campus Opens New Postgraduate Learning Commons

Notice:
The following is a record of an event that took place on Thursday February 5, 2009. While I was present at the event, and am capable of providing further information/details, seeing that I have no formal training in journalism, I prefer to report the facts that have been documented elsewhere. My personal belief is that journalism is a profession and that those who are trained to report events should do the job. However, news will not always be discovered by the journalist. As such, as a citizen journalist I provide the sources of information, whereby the real journalists and researchers can investigate the actual facts.

Event: The Opening of the New Postgraduate Learning Commons at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Main Library.

Location:The Mezzanine Floor of the Main Library of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica, W.I.

Source: University of the West Indies, Mona Campus

URL: http://www.mona.uwi.edu/notices/2009/pglc.pdf

Abstract:
The Principal Prof. Gordon Shirley, opened the Library's new
Postgraduate Learning Commons (PGLC) on Thursday February 5, 2009. The ribbon was cut by the Vice Chancellor Prof. Nigel Harris and one of the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, now Honorary Distinguished Fellow, Hon. Edward Seaga.

The PGLC room will be open to postgraduates from Friday February 6, 2009.

The University of the West Indies honours Library Professor

The University had a week long celebration in which Professor Emeritus Daphne Douglas, former professor and Head of the Department of Library and Information Studies was honoured.

Professor Emeritus Daphne Douglas is Jamaica's first female professor. She was also Head of Department for the Library and Information Studies School from 1976 -1980 and 1982 – 1993.