Developing a Culture of Reading Among Public Library Staff
| dc.audience | Audience::Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section | |
| dc.conference.date | 12–14 August 2015 | |
| dc.conference.place | City of Cape Town, South Africa | |
| dc.conference.sessionType | Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section | |
| dc.conference.title | Taking Charge of your LIS Career: Personal Strategies, Institutional Programs, Strong Libraries | |
| dc.conference.venue | Milnerton Public Library | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hardy, Nazeem | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hastings, Jenny | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-24T09:17:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-24T09:17:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This file provides a template for writing papers for the 2016 IFLA conference. Full papers should be no longer than 4000 words. For your paper to be accepted it must be formatted as a Microsoft Word file (.doc or .rtf), 10 MB or less in size, including pictures & diagrams and should be written in compliance with these instructions. An abstract with 100-300 words should appear on the first page, after the name(s) of the author(s) and the contact information of the corresponding author(s). In a chapter titled "Abstract:" (without chapter number. It should be a summary of your paper, single-spaced, with Times New Roman font, 11-point size and italics (assuming the paper is written with Latin-script). Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic), Chinese (Simplified Chinese) and Russian language scripts should use the layout of this template and choose suitable fonts and font sizes. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cape Town. Library and Information Services Department. 2010. Building a reading culture within LIS: Report to LMT August 2010. Unpublished internal report Cape Town. Library and Information Services Department. 2011. Report: Culture of Reading feedback session November 2011.Unpublished internal report. Cape Town. Library and Information Services Department. 2011. Staff reading survey 2011.Unpublished internal report. Cape Town. Library and Information Services Department. 2014. LIS staff reading survey follow-up report 2014. Unpublished internal report. Cunningham, AE and Stanovich, KE. 2001. What Reading Does for the Mind. Journal of Direct Instruction, vol. 1(2): 137–149. Mahala, Siphiwo. 2010. Cultivating the culture of reading: an imperative for nation-building. Cape Librarian, May/June 2010 Rajaratnam, Raneetha. 2013. For the Love of Reading! New Strategies to Engage the Next Generation of Readers. IFLA WLIC 2013. Retrieved at http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/71 on 13/03/2015 Raju, Reggie and Raju, Jaya. 2010. The public library as a critical institution in South Africa’s democracy: a reflection. LIBRES Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal, 20 (1) March. South Africa. Department of Arts and Culture (DAC). 2009. The Library and Information Services (LIS) Transformation Charter July 2009 6th Draft. Accessed at http://www.liasa.org.za/sites/default/files/publications/LIS_transformation_charter_July2009.pdf on 13/03/2015 | |
| dc.identifier.relatedurl | https://www.ifla.org/past-wlic/2015/ifla81/satellite-meetings.html | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6774 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
| dc.rights.accessRights | open access | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject.keyword | Skills development | |
| dc.subject.keyword | reading skills | |
| dc.title | Developing a Culture of Reading Among Public Library Staff | en |
| dc.type | Article | |
| ifla.Unit | Section:Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section | |
| ifla.oPubId | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1917/ |
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