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The Library & Information Services (LIS) Transformation Charter:
School and Youth Services Libraries
National Council for presented by
Library & Information Services Theresa de Young
INEQUAL ITY
BUILD AN INFORMED READING NATION
PROMOTE SOCIAL COHESION
ELIMINATE LITERACY
The Transformation Charterand
School Libraries
Quality education means school libraries for ALL
DAUNTING BACKLOGS
REQUIRE INNOVATION
Why?
“Commit to increase access to high-quality learning
materials”National Guidelines for Library and Information Services
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What willit take
to make it work?
What does the Charter
recommend?
INFRASTRUCTURE
National School Library Policy
National School LIS Unit
based at DBE
Models based on situations
BUDGET
A school LIS funded
from schools’ budget
A LIBRARIAN
Establish School Librarian posts
Mentoring programmes for school librarians
Modules of school librarianship in
teacher education curricula
Information literacy education
in teacher education curricula
TEAM APPROACH
Statutory Status
Remuneration policies
“Produce learners that are able to collect, analyse, organise
and critically evaluate information”
(CAPS)
INFORMATION LITERACY
Literacy & Information
Literacy campaigns and programmes
The Transformation Charterand
TVET colleges
FET COLLEGESPRE – 1994
Re-naming
CHALLENGES
NO RECOGNITION &
NO BUDGET
WIDE VARIATIONS OF LIS PROVISION
FILLING LIBRARY POSTS ARE NOT AN URGENCY
CRITICAL ENOUGH??
X
LIBRARIES ARE SIDE-LINED
OPPORTUNITIES TO
IMPROVE
What does the Charter
recommend?
DHET INTERVENTION
CREATE LIBRARY POSTS
SHOW EVIDENCE OF IMPACT
INTRODUCE NORMS & STANDARDS
PRIORITISE ICT WITHIN THE TVET SECTOR
NATIONAL SITE LICENSES
FUNDING STRATEGIES
POLICY FOR UNIVERSITIES
&TVET COLLEGES
COOPERATION
Thank you
Questions
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