“Violence Against Library Materials”
It was a quiet afternoon when all of a sudden the alarm went off. All eyes were fixed on two Grade 10 learners who looked surprised, but not worried. The […]
People as Sources of Information
People are the most readily available source of information in a community. They can give us important information about many issues which cannot be found anywhere else (Goosen et al., […]
Building and Sustaining a Knowledge-Sharing Culture
Information and knowledge can be found in research papers, reports and manuals, databases, and more importantly, in people. There are two types of knowledge: explicit and tacit. On the one […]
Reference Librarianship/Work
Reference work or reference librarianship is the personal assistance given by librarians to individual readers in pursuit of information. Evaluation and selection of materials, current awareness services, and dissemination of […]
Legal Deposit
Every time, when users (who are mostly students) are doing their research at the library and cannot find what they are looking for, I tell them to bring their research […]
Libraries: how they Nurture Children
In operant conditioning, subjects (school learners in this case) learn by doing something, they can get a specific result that they desire. If they act in a certain way (i.e. […]
Namibia’s progress towards Information/Knowledge Society status
In 2004, the Government of the Republic of Namibia launched a document that will see the country as an industrialised nation. This document is known as Namibia Vision 2030 and […]
