News: CCC’s “Beyond the Book” – Specialized Librarianship and KM/Knowledge Services in Africa
Guy St. Clair
GRATITUDE – CONFIDENCE – HOPE The words come from Stephen Kizza, a librarian with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in Kampala, Uganda. In his correspondence and writings, Kizza signs off with a phrase that is both poignant and meaningful to strategic knowledge professionals, particularly those dealing with Africa and KM/knowledge services in the research and business communities of the nations of Africa: ”Look backwards with gratitude, upward with confidence, forward with hope.” Could there be any stronger motivation for us? Could there be any better way to describe our aspirations for our work in Africa? At the recent Special…
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