All too soon the last day dawned upon us. Rene Schoombee, Rachel More and Robert Moropa presented the last presentations on Library advocacy. I was particularly interested in these presentations as our group had decided on this theme for our Partnership Project. The following words of Rachel More (current president of LIASA) struck a cord with me: “We are all library advocates as we are sitting here and we need to advocate for free access to information. This is what librarianship is all about.”
Lucille Webster introduced our Partnership Project to the rest of the audience: The Library Advocates (our new name) will each identify a disadvantaged school in their area, target a specific class and introduce those children to the career of librarianship during South African Library Week. What an exciting project – my head is reeling with possibilities!
Like I said during the closing when prompted by Susan Schnuer: these few days at the Leadership Institute challenged me to think out of the box, provided an opportunity to peek into and gain insight in other people’s boxes and provided me with so many interesting and exciting ideas for our project that I have difficulty containing them in a box!
Thanks to the organizers and presenters for this wonderful learning experience – I can truly say that I have not only raised my self-awareness, but believe that I have built lifelong friendships during these few days. Above all I can truly say that I have applied all 6 of the principles of the Leadership Institute: broadening of my horizons, self-awareness, acknowledgement of diversity, networking, sharing of skills and last but not least, I had lots of fun!
Lucille Webster introduced our Partnership Project to the rest of the audience: The Library Advocates (our new name) will each identify a disadvantaged school in their area, target a specific class and introduce those children to the career of librarianship during South African Library Week. What an exciting project – my head is reeling with possibilities!
Like I said during the closing when prompted by Susan Schnuer: these few days at the Leadership Institute challenged me to think out of the box, provided an opportunity to peek into and gain insight in other people’s boxes and provided me with so many interesting and exciting ideas for our project that I have difficulty containing them in a box!
Thanks to the organizers and presenters for this wonderful learning experience – I can truly say that I have not only raised my self-awareness, but believe that I have built lifelong friendships during these few days. Above all I can truly say that I have applied all 6 of the principles of the Leadership Institute: broadening of my horizons, self-awareness, acknowledgement of diversity, networking, sharing of skills and last but not least, I had lots of fun!
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Thanks Elsabe for such comprehensive feedback! It is fun working with blogs if it serves the purpose. Well done!
Ina
You obviously had a good experience. I am looking forward to seeing how the group's advocacy plan is going to develop.
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