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 * Investor Group 2: University**

The University allocates a certain sum of money annually to the library divided amongst Information Resources, Human Resources, ICT and Operating costs.

Here is a provisional list of their (principal, top management, deans) expectations and information that can be used to make deductions. Please add or comment:

To help the University in attaining good student throughput, including *Information literacy; *Appropriate information resources and appropriate access; *Study space; *Space for group work (physical and virtual); *Intellectual guidance w.r.t. information usage || Student throughput: pass rates, degrees conferred InfoLit sessions (groups and 1-on-1), credit bearing classes and their outcomes Study seats and group facilities Student numbers Gate counts LibStats Evaluation of e-strategy implementation 2006/7 rudimentary value listing availble at [] pp. 42-44 (staff only) ||  || *Intellectual guidance w.r.t. information usage; *Citation information *Emphasis on __focus areas (soon to be announced)__ and China,Latin-America, Africa || Information resources statistic: access and usage Benchmarking Open Access scorecard ([]) Elsevier grants process study [] In future: Research commons statistics ||  || behalf of the university and its students/staff, e.g. provide (access to) information which they cannot do by themselves. ||  ||   || Web site National/international profile Digitization of and open access to unique resources See list below ||  || UP:SAPSE norms Benchmarking Skills/knowledge info ||  || Staff statistics ||  || - personal growth through access to good books for relaxation and development of personal interests ||  ||   ||
 * EXPECTATIONS || AVAILABLE INFORMATION FOR ASSESSMENT || NOTES ||
 * 1.
 * 2. To support/advance research, including
 * Good information resources and appropriate access;
 * Dissemination of own scholarship
 * Contribution to grant proposals
 * 3. To intermediate with the world of information/knowledge on
 * 4. To contribute to the UP brand/image/prestige/reputation || Benchmarking
 * 5. To contribute to community development || Overview of initiatives (being prepared) ||  ||
 * 6. To develop our staff || Staff statistics
 * 7. To be flexible enough to support the University's growth strategy (70000) || UP:SAPSE norms
 * 8. To contribute to students' becoming well rounded people and citizens who can contribute to the wellbeing of society. e.g.
 * List of recent Library accomplishments that contribute to the image and prestige of the University**
 * List of recent Library accomplishments that contribute to the image and prestige of the University**
 * List of recent Library accomplishments that contribute to the image and prestige of the University**
 * List of recent Library accomplishments that contribute to the image and prestige of the University**

A good library and information service adds enormously to the prestige of a university and its brand. However, many additional (not strictly library related) activities also boost the university's prestige. The following is a list of the last 5 years' outstanding accomplishments.

**International and national participation and recognition**
 · World Digital Library participation []  · Participation of Robert Moropa in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's ATLA (Access to Learning Award) Advisory Committee  · Shirley Gilmore requested to plan the establishment of the Trade Policy and Trade Law Library for the Ministry of Trade in Syria as part of the EC Trade Enhancement Programme 2010 <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Elsabé Olivier is appointed board member of the NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations), 2010 [] <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Monica Hammes who started the UP Open Scholarship programme received a leadership award. [] <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">3 Architecture students have received Innovative Learning through ETDs Awards from NDLTD: Jacques Orton (2009), Annemie van den Heever (2007), Rousseau Pienaar (2005). <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">According to the Ranking Web of World Repositories, UPeTD is ranked no 65 and UPSPace no 296 out op the top 800 institutional repositories. <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Providing the National Research Foundation with information relevant to the process of grading researchers in South Africa <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Developed a national online system for the management of university prescribed books in collaboration with Nielsen Bookdata/SAPnet (2008): SATextBooks ([]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Playing a pioneering role in promoting the concept of e-Reserch in SA and making UP visible internationally as a potential e-Research partner <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Playing a leading role nationally and internationally in using e-Tools and e-Skills to create an E-environment for Scholarship <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Heila Pienaar appointed to the national Legal Deposit Committee for the term 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2013 <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Two open access guides for the legal profession in South Africa PULP Guide: Finding legal information in South Africa 2010 by Shirley Gilmore ([]) PULP Guide: Where to publish articles on the law ([]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Isaac Makhetha appointed as a member of the SA Sign Language National Language Body (SASL NLB), a statutory body established in terms of Act 59 of 1995.

** Leadership within the University **
<span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Naming 2 of our faculty libraries after prominent South Africans from the past: Jotello F Soga Library (Veterinary Science) ([|http://uniekevet.blogspot.com]) O R Tambo Law Library ([]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Successful institutional repository giving access to a wide variety of UP outputs and digitized historical documents ([]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Successful open access theses/dissertations repository giving open access to UP postgraduate research since 2000 ([|http://upetd.up.ac.za]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Mandates for compulsory submission of research papers, conference papers, theses and dissertations ([]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Additional units that qualify for government subsidy revealed by the Open Scholarship Programme (2008: 13.83; 2009: 44.25; 2010: 73.82) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Survey of research data management practices at the University of Pretoria, 2010 <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Numerous digitization projects <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reviving of the relationship with the Hans Merensky Trust and digitization of the Merensky papers <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Playing a pioneering role in the development of games as teaching tools <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Playing a leading role in combating plagiarism ([]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Running a copyright clearance office for the university ([])

**Conference / workshop organization**
<span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">5th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS) in 2005 ([]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">e-Book symposium, 7 March 2008 ([]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Thinking outside the Borders Library Leadership Institute, 5-8 November 2008 ([]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">African Digital Scholarship & Curation Conference, 2009 ([]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Two national and and one international workshop(s) on digitizing, web 2, and repositories ([])

Cultural activities
<span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 28.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">UP Book jol as part of the UP centenary in 2008 ([]) <span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 28.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Q&A with Vikas Swarup, 2009

International grants
<span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 19.9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Two grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for Centre of African Library Leadership ( __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[] __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">) Participation in the Carnegie Research Library Consortium ([])