Day Four and the fun has continued.

Joan has learned how to deal with us; the unruly group we are! But today it was a great surprise to see our tea and coffee in attractive containers. Thanks Joan.
And then, we were treated to a pizza lunch at the Dept of Information Science in the IT Dept. These unexpected treats are very welcome.

 Erin and Werner discussed cloud services issues with the group. It was a great session; very inciteful. I love using Zotero so was quite excited that were going to be working with it. As it turned out, technology slowed down the whole session and together with the Google Group/DropBox exercise, we skimmed the surface of Zotero, which was quite disappointing. I was hoping to learn more about this software.

 We worked in groups for this session which was useful at first as it gave us a chance to work through things together. However, as one person (Krishni) had to invite the group members to the Group posting in which w had to download the articles, I feel particularly uncomfortable with the fact that the lack of time to complete the exercise, now lies solely with Krishni. In addition, we don't get to do the exercise ourselves.

 Dr Pienaar and Dr Henning presented an afternoon of innovation and ICT in libraries. I can't wait to explore some of the platforms and software they spoke about. The 'balance scorecard' group exercise was interesting, even though we did not complete it on time. It was fun, however, for the group to reach a consensus about MakerSpaces; diverse group dynamics can be very enlightening!
Our team did present a strategy that, given time and the right motivation, can be achieved in our own libraries and countries.

 As someone said today, it was a day filled with wonderful ideas and technologies, but a frustrating one because no one really seemed to have the time to get to grips with any of the technologies and activities. This is a huge pity.