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IGBIS-in-Touch
Volume 13 Issue 1 (2019)
Newsletter of the
Interest Group for Bibliographic Standards
In this issue … Note from the editor
Message from the outgoing IGBIS Chair
IGBIS hand-over meeting, Oct. 2018
The new IGBIS Executive Committee
NACO Name Authority Training
RDA Board Meeting in London, May 2018
Images from the 2018 IGBIS Workshop
IGBIS on Facebook!
Recently retired cataloguing practitioners
Note from the Editor
Welcome to the first IGBIS-in-Touch for
2019.
The goal is to inform, to motivate, and to
create a sense of community amongst IGBIS
members. The newsletter will provide a
platform for cataloguing and metadata
professionals to share best practices and
innovative ideas, to promote the value and
critical importance of cataloguing librarians
within our institutions.
Enjoy the read!
Please share …
your feedback and suggestions on
how to improve the newsletter
your individual stories, institutional
projects and snippets of interest.
-- Martha de Waal, on behalf of the IGBIS
Executive Committee (2018-2020)
Save the date
Annual IGBIS Event
29-30 August 2019
Venue: Leriba Hotel, Centurion, Pretoria
Further information will be circulated soon
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Message from the outgoing IGBIS Chair
At the end of November 2018, the newly
elected IGBIS National Committee took
over, and it is time to reflect on the
activities of the 2015-2018 Committee.
IGBIS presented an online course,
Technical Introduction to DDC from 1
September to 2 October 2015 on the
LIASA Academy platform. It was the first
time that an online cataloguing course
was made available in South Africa. It was
presented in four modules and each
module had its own assessment. Eighty-
one people registered and the average for the course was 63.9%. Cataloguers from South
Africa, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe participated. It was well received, and only 2.5% of
the participants indicated in their course evaluations that they did not learn something new.
During 2016, IGBIS again presented an online course. This time it covered Library of Congress
Subject Headings and 55 people participated. An interesting fact from the course evaluation
survey is that there is a significant change in the work experience of the course participants.
IGBIS previously created training opportunities for the experienced cataloguer, but 47% of the
participants in the course have less than 10 years cataloguing experience and 17.5% have
between 11- and 20-years’ experience. Fifteen percent of the participants were not
cataloguers, or cataloguing is just one part of their job responsibilities.
Due to popular demand, the Committee presented a Seminar entitled Resource description
and discoverability: trends and challenges in 2017. Twenty-seven librarians attended the
seminar and seven speakers presented papers on challenges and opportunities facing
cataloguers. The Committee decided on a green approach towards making the papers
available. There were no handouts; instead, the papers were made available electronically on
the LIASA Website.
The 2018 IGBIS event was entitled Resource description: unlocking developing trends and
smart technologies and was held on 16-17 August 2018. There were 99 attendees, including
four librarians from Botswana. Eleven speakers presented 13 papers. The presenters were
experts in their fields and there was good interaction between attendees and speakers. For
the second year running, 5 young professionals had the opportunity to present papers for the
first time. The LIASA Executive Committee applauded this initiative.
To the 2015-2018 Committee, a big thank you. Most committees fail, not because of lack of
desire, but because of lack of commitment. Thank you for your commitment and dedication
during the past four years. It was a good four years.
To the new committee: thank you for making time in your busy schedules to be a member of
the Committee. All of the best for your term of office!
-- Dr Hester Marais (IGBIS Chair, 2015-2018)
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IGBIS hand-over meeting, October 2018
On a late October afternoon during 2018, outgoing and incoming committee members of
IGBIS, gathered at Sabinet, Centurion for a hand-over event. Some incoming members
previously served on the Committee, some faces were familiar, while others were completely
new – but everyone had the potential to serve a successful term.
Outgoing and incoming IGBIS Committee members.
Back row: Lindi Wiltz, Alwill Westcott, Tina Coetzer, Dimakatso Malungane, Hester Marais,
Martha de Waal. Front row: Tienie de Klerk, Zenkosi Majola, Soretha du Plessis
The outgoing Committee left the newcomers a proud inheritance. The new Committee is
determined to follow the example of our predecessors. As a coherent group, we are aware of
significant changes taking place in the professional field of describing information resources
in a modern digital/electronic metadata environment. As a committed team, we take hands
while facing these professional challenges to manage IGBIS in a professional manner while
being assured of the outgoing Committee’s availability and support in our new task.
As professional practitioners in the field of information management, we are aware of the skill
enhancing opportunities provided by the official body, LIASA. Our aim is to utilise LIASA’s
professional development system to the benefit of our members. The trend was set during a
meeting in December 2018, where the new Committee informally discussed content and
possible ways and means to keep our members’ professional knowledge and expertise
updated in the future.
Let us move forward together on this professional path!
-- Tienie de Klerk (IGBIS Chair, 2018-2020)
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Meet the IGBIS Executive Committee, 2018-2020
Tienie de Klerk – Chair
After Matriculation in the late 1970’s, I enrolled for
academic and professional qualifications at the
Potchefstroom Campus of the current North-West
University, and the University of Pretoria. My professional
experience started during 1984 as a media-teacher at a
primary school in Pretoria, and future employers include
the State Library/National Library of South Africa, Unisa’s
Department of Information Science and the HSRC’s
Information Service. My professional practice concerns
information management, specifically resource
description as information organisation function. Due to
the nature of this metadata branch of the profession, I was
involved in various information, documentation and
resource description standards forums. A forum to learn
and broaden one’s knowledge and experience regarding quality description of information
resources, is IGBIS, of which I was sometimes an ordinary member, and at other times a
committee member. Professional development of practitioners is close to my heart, as was
illustrated in the topic addressed in my Master’s dissertation. Professionally, I view information
management functions within information provision organisations, as an endeavour to meet
the information needs of citizens. The record - inclusive of its recorded knowledge, plays an
important role in any such information service delivery.
Zenkosi Majola – Secretary
I am employed as a Cataloguer at the University of South
Africa (UNISA). I hold a B.Bibl (Hons) qualification and is
currently studying towards a Master of Arts in Information
Science at UNISA.
My career path began in 2002, serving the academic
community in different capacities as subject librarian,
cataloguer, and information literacy trainer / information
librarian. I worked at University of KwaZulu-Natal,
Durban University of Technology and Tshwane
University of Technology. I am involved in in various
library sub-committees as a library representative, i.e. the
Library Committee, Marketing Committee, Information Services Committee, Information
Literacy Training Committee and the Research Committee. I am a dedicated person who
strives to provide quality service to the community I am serving and abide by the ethics and
the code of conduct of the organization.
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Tina Coetzer – Treasurer
I studied B.Bibl at the North-West University between 1998
and 2001. While working as a law librarian at the University of
Pretoria Law Library between 2002 and 2007, I completed two
Honours degrees - one in Information Science and one in
History. I started working at Sabinet in 2007 as a Web
Information Specialist, and then joined the Metadata
Department in the same organisation in 2010 where I am
working to this day as a Legal Product Editor, specifically for
provincial and municipal legislation. I am especially fond of
cataloguing and classification and try to stay ahead of
developments in the sector, but also love my daily work with
metadata and updating databases – organising information to
make it easily accessible is my passion as a librarian. I am
married to an IT specialist, and we have two children, a boy
and a girl in primary school. I live in Centurion and enjoy my regular Adventure Boot camp
sessions, hiking and, of course, reading.
Martha de Waal – Public Relations Officer
I hold a B.Bibl from the University of Pretoria, started my
career in 1977 at the then State Library, and is currently
coordinating cataloguing activities in the Department of
Library Services at the University of Pretoria.
I have been a passionate cataloguer for almost 30 years. I
witnessed many changes and ongoing developments in the
area of bibliographic control and resource description. I
worked with evolving standards, different integrated library
management systems, as well as the new generation library
services platform. I value my ongoing contribution to the
South African cataloguing community and participation in a
number of initiatives over many years. These include the Sabinet Online Standards
Committee, Input Standards and Quality Control Workgroups (2003-2008); the MARC21
Holdings Format Working Group (2006); the RDA-SA Steering Committee (2012-2014); the
Sabinet Advisory Board: Metadata and Cataloguing Focus Group (2015 to date); as well as
my continued involvement in the LIASA Interest Group for Bibliographic Standards.
On an international level, I participated in the Fifth IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International
Cataloguing Code (IME ICC5), as Co-leader for the Serial Workgroup (2007); as well as the.
IFLA Cataloguing Section’s ISBD Review Group, by contributing bibliographic record
examples in the 11 South African official languages, for inclusion in the Consolidated ISBD
edition, published in 2008.
I am a loyal and enthusiastic advocate for LIASA since its inception in 1997 and proudly served
in national, branch and interest group structures in different positions over many years.
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Alwill Westcott – Additional member
I studied B.Bibl at the University of Pretoria between 1997
and 2000. Following my studies, I had the opportunity to
travel to the Netherlands and become an intern at the Zuid-
Afrika Huis in Amsterdam, which houses a collection of
Afrikaans literature and other heritage objects, in a beautiful
old house on one of the famous canals. This was a special
time for me as I have always enjoyed reading up on history
and historical sites and had always wanted to travel to
Europe. When I returned from Amsterdam, I started working
at one of my favourite bookshops in Brooklyn, Pretoria,
where I was responsible for the ordering and receiving of books, until early 2006 when I had
the opportunity to join the FLISD cataloguing project at the National Library of South Africa
(NLSA). I was with the project until 2008 when I was accepted to a permanent position in the
Acquisitions section of the NLSA. In 2018, I said a sad goodbye to Acquisitions after working
there for 10 years, and I joined SANB, as a cataloguer responsible for Name Authorities
Control. I truly enjoy cataloguing as it indulges my curiosity about the world in general and
about trends and developments in the library industry in particular. I live in Waverley and enjoy
reading, walking the dogs and spending time with friends and family.
Soretha du Plessis – Additional member
I completed my National Diploma in Library and
Information Studies at the then Technikon Pretoria (now
TUT) in 1991 and thereafter embarked on acquiring my
Higher Diploma in Library and Information Studies at the
same institution in 1994. During my third year of diploma
studies I worked as a library assistant in the Cataloging
and Classification Department at the then Transvaal
Provincial Library Services and joined the then State
Library after completion of my diploma. During my 8 years
of employment at the State Library, I spend time
cataloguing in the Joint Cataloging Department, doing Interlending at the International
Interlending Department and as a cataloguer in the Foreign Official Publications Department.
From the State Library I ventured into the system’s side of libraries and joined UKS where for
17 years I was involved in training, project management and customer service amongst other
things. I joined Sabinet as Product Specialist in March 2017, where part of my tasks include
training of customers on our cataloguing platform, as well as manipulating cataloguing data
for data loads during implementation projects.
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NACO Name Authority Training, National Library of South Africa
Starting on 28th of January 2019, a 5-day NACO (Name Authority Cooperative Program of
the PCC) Training course took place at the National Library of South Africa. This course, as
presented by Dr Hester Marais of UNISA, was aimed at familiarizing cataloguers with the
principles and rules underlying authority work, to enable them to participate in the creation
of authority records.
Colleagues from the NLSA (Alwill Westcott, Irma Nel, Marinda Wilkinson, Zandele Mthethwa
and Vusiwe Gwane), University of Pretoria (Mercia Moreana, Raesibe Kekana and Marinda
Maritz) and UNISA (Zenkosi Majola and Dimakatso Malungane), represented their institutions.
--Submitted by Marietjie de Beer
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“Original cataloguing is still valued, especially for rare and institutional
material, such as theses, and the skills that go with it are seen as
capable of making necessary contributions to the overall research
discovery effort.”
– Jenny Warren (Senior Cataloguer, Monash University Library, Victoria,
Australia)
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South African representation at the RDA Board Meeting,
London, 10-11 May 2018
Marietjie de Beer from the National Library of South Africa attended the annual RDA Board
Meeting in London from 10-11 May 2018. In her capacity as the African representative, she
supported the following two issues:
A request that the pricing structure be revised for Africa, as our continent is
particularly susceptible to fluctuating exchange rates, and:
A request for RDA material to be translated in French, as a number of African
countries were previously French colonies.
The RDA Board agreed to look into both these issues.
According to the chair of the RDA Steering Committee, the RDA Toolkit Restructuring and
Redesign Project, also known as the 3R Project, would start the release of a beta version of
the redesigned RDA Toolkit. Following the June 2018 release, corrections, improvements,
and additions have been made to the beta site functionality and content.
For additional information see:
https://alcts.ala.org/news/2018/mw-rda-toolkit-redesign/
https://www.rdatoolkit.org/3RProject
https://www.rdatoolkit.org/translation/french
--Submitted by Marietjie de Beer
(Mrs de Beer attended the most recent RDA Board Meeting in Chicago in early May, and will
certainly report on the outcome in future.)
Ms Marietjie de Beer (centre, front row) with other representatives at the
2018 RDA Board Meeting in London
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Images from the 2018 IGBIS Workshop,
Centurion Lake Hotel, Pretoria
Delegates at the 2018 IGBIS Workshop: unlocking developing trends and
smart technologies in resource description
First time presenters from left to right: Koena Moloto (SMU), Zenkosi Majola (UNISA),
Mmakgoshi Reetseng (SMU), Philangani Sibiya (UNISA, Dept of Information Science) and
Nwabisa Rasana (DUT)
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Delegates from the North West University. From left to right:
Benford Rabatseta, Mietsie Harman, Alta van den Berg, Patience Ndwandwe,
Clement Lebeva, with Suzette Janse van Rensburg in front
University of Pretoria delegates: Mercia Moreana, Lungile Rathepe,
Martha de Waal, Ernest Sefolo, Raesibe Kekana, Pfano Makhera,
Annah Molefe and Marinda Maritz
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IGBIS on Facebook!
Click on this link
https://www.facebook.com/LIASA-IGBIS-530483374443739/
and like our page to become a fan!
The official page launch was in March 2019.
The purpose:
to create and promote a sense of community amongst library professionals working
in cataloguing and metadata environments in all library sectors in South Africa
to inform IGBIS members on local practices and training opportunities but also to
share information on international and developing trends.
To use the page as communication tool for IGBIS matters in addition to the normal
LIASA communication channels.
Positive responses to the IGBIS page:
Ina Viljoen Smith to LIASA IGBIS
March 28 ·
Congratulations LIASA IGBIS!
Pam Mavume to LIASA IGBIS
March 25 ·
All the best IGBIS!
Mshayazafe SG Xaba to LIASA IGBIS
March 19
I am grateful to be part of this LIASA
Interest. I am hoping to learn more and
grow in the industry
MG Mahlatsi Hlophe Mahlatsi to LIASA
IGBIS March 28
Good morning. I am very excited about
this page. It is Sonti IGBIS KZN Chair
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Recently retired cataloguing practitioners
The retirement of professional cataloguers always, result in the loss of expertise and
knowledge gained over many years.
Congratulations Dr Annette Ingram, Ms Gertrud
Meyer and Mrs Louise van Heerden on your recent
retirements!
Dr Annette Ingram and Ms Gertrud Meyer retired
from the Department of Library Services, University
of Pretoria and Ms Louis van Heerden retired from
the National Library of South Africa.
Wishing you the very best for the coming years and
may your new journey be filled with joy!
Dr Annette Ingram, Ms Gertrud Meyer and Mrs Louise van Heerden
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