{"id":213,"date":"2013-10-18T06:27:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T05:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/?p=213"},"modified":"2013-10-18T06:27:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T05:27:39","slug":"masters-program-in-information-technology-for-university-librarians-and-lis-faculty-in-sub-saharan-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/2013\/10\/18\/masters-program-in-information-technology-for-university-librarians-and-lis-faculty-in-sub-saharan-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Master&#8217;s program in information technology for university librarians and LIS faculty in Sub-Saharan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applications for the fourth intake of this exciting Master\u2019s program in Information Technology for university librarians and LIS faculty in <b>Sub-Saharan Africa<\/b> are now open.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to establish a Master\u2019s program in IT for university librarians in Sub-Saharan Africa working in an IT environment and LIS faculty at LIS Schools in Sub-Saharan Africa. There are two types of intake, namely funded and non-funded. Prospective students can apply for either the funded or the non-funded intake, depending on their country of origin.<\/p>\n<p>For funding criteria and financial issues, information on the programme content, selection criteria, application procedures, important dates, etc., please see <a href=\"http:\/\/web.up.ac.za\/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=14080&amp;sub=1&amp;parentid=1066&amp;subid=1089&amp;ipklookid=7\">http:\/\/web.up.ac.za\/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=14080&amp;sub=1&amp;parentid=1066&amp;subid=1089&amp;ipklookid=7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The program is a two-year coursework Master\u2019s with a number of coursework modules and a mini-dissertation of limited scope.<\/p>\n<p>The program makes use of a blended learning methodology &#8211; technology-mediated distance education as well as on-site, face-to-face lectures. Lecturing will take place in Pretoria, South Africa, as well as in the USA at the Universities of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Wisconsin-Milwaukee and in Uganda at the Makerere University.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for the 2014 intake close on <strong>31 October 2013<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications for the fourth intake of this exciting Master\u2019s program in Information Technology for university librarians and LIS faculty in Sub-Saharan Africa are now open. The Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to establish a Master\u2019s program in IT for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}