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Dr Naresh Sentoo and 3rd year students at the
Careers Planning Day at the DIT, 9 October 2003
Professor Malcolm Wallis (centre), Dean of
Commerce, being shown our IT laboratory by Mrs Wendy Gordon (Head of
Department) and Dr Naresh Sentoo.
Experiential Learning 2003:
Sthandiwe Nyawose with Librarian
Thandeka Mapamulo at the Workers' College Resource Centre.
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The iMEM Centre is the research and development unit of the Department of Library and
Information Studies at the Durban Institute of Technology (DIT), South Africa.
Its mission is to provide the resources and training to build ICT
(Information and Communication Technology) capacity in South Africa.
First and foremost, iMEM aims
to bridge the digital divide and increase the competitiveness of South
Africans in the Information Age.
iMEM research and development activities build on a twelve-year
track-record of success in the training of undergraduate information
workers (librarians) with a strong emphasis on information technology. Our
students have a good grounding in on-line and CD-ROM information retrieval
and database design as well as multi-media within a library environment.
In addition to their technological training, an emphasis on community
information needs and outreach, together with regular exposure to local
and rural libraries (through experiential training placements) produces
graduates with a good grasp of grassroots community concerns and needs.
We believe that skill in the creation of
well-structured, accessible electronic information sources is the
lifeblood of an emerging information society, so our projects seek to devise digital infrastructures to support various
knowledge centred applications, ranging from community information
networks and literary and cultural webs, to virtual classrooms.
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