Ms Shivanthi Weerasinghe (right), President of the Sri Lanka Library Association presenting a certificate of attendance to Ms Nellie Somers.UKZN Librarian Presents Paper in Sri Lanka
Ms Nellie Somers, UKZN Special Collection Preservation Conservation Librarian and LIASA KZN Branch Librarian of the Year in 2012, was among 27 librarians who presented their research papers on the stated theme: “Challenges for Information Professionals and Library and Information Science Services in the 21st Century”, at the 2015 International Conference on Library and Information Science (ICLIS) organised by the Sri Lanka Library Association in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Somers’s paper, titled: “Challenges of Digital Scanning of Photograph Collections in South Africa”, focused on copyright and ownership and the challenges librarians faced as custodians of intellectual property when scanning photographs in the digital era.
The Conference brought together delegates from various university libraries in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and South Africa.
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