Friday 7 November

This morning the group learnt how to create a blog and although I have attended numerous training sessions on blogs before, this was my first attempt at blogging. I loved it, but do realize that it was only because the Leadership Institute Programme provided so much to share.

After tea Monica Hammes introduced us to Library Quality Assurance (“Doing the right things right at an affordable price”); Hilda Kriel taught us more about Client Services (which lies in the extent to which the total activities of a company are brought together as an inter-related and interdependent system) and Ina Smith showcase various Web 2.0 tools . I found the YouTube video The Machine is Us/ing Us particularly interesting as it captures the essence of Web 2.0.

Serials management was presented by Lita Ferguson (responsible for Serials Management at the University of Pretoria) and Philip de Kock from Swets.

The afternoon was concluded by a visit to the prisons at Constitution Hill where a tour guide gave us a vivid insight into the terrible daily living conditions of the prisoners. The beautiful Constitutional Court was deliberately built on this site and is noted for its transparency and theme of “justice under a tree”. I had the pleasure of spending supper in the company of Hilda Kriel, Christelle Steyn, Barbara Ford and Renu Rabilall and we discussed traditional recipes and promised Christelle that we would all contribute to her Recipe blog.

Back at the The Village, Ria Groenewald, Refilwe Matatiele and Farhana Yunnus too turns to visit my and Christelle’s room and we chatted and laughed together until 24:00!