ACURIL 45 AND SURINAMESE STARS
ACURIL 2015 DISTINGUISHES AUTHORS, ARTISTS & LIBRARIANS
JOIN US in the Most Exciting Continuing Education Event of the Year: ACURIL 2015 SURINAME
ANDRE LOOR (RIP) (Historian)
CYNTHIA MC LEOD (Author)
MARVIS NOORDWIJK (Musician)
EWIN DE VRIES (Painter)
De Vries was born in Paramaribo and studied in the Netherlands, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague 1950-1953 and the National Academy of Art, Amsterdam 1957-1960. His work has since been displayed at the Stedelijk Museum and he made the Nationaal Monument Slavernijverleden in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. De Vries has also exhibited a great deal in Jamaica; there he became acquainted with the work of Barrington Watson, whose erotically charged paintings match his own in tone. Erwin de Vries was decorated in 2010 by the Government.
LOES POLAK-ENSBERG (RIP) (Librarian)
CARMEN OTTENVANGER-FAZAL ALIKHAN (Librarian)
After the independence of Suriname in 1975, Carmen Ottevanger-Fazal Alikhan was motivated to start a library training for library assistants in Suriname. As the director of the public library CCS, she managed many library training until 1990.
INE TSAI-MEU-CHONG(Librarian)
The first librarian who represented Suriname in the ACURIL Executive Council (Caracas), studied law at the Anton de Kom University of Suriname.
Ine Tsai Meu Chong was the first director of the University library and managed librarianship for more than thirty years. Worth mentioning is her contribution to the introduction of ICT in libraries in Suriname; promotion of the library software CDS-ISIS, CD-ROMs, cybertheek and the first step towards the use of the Internet on the university.
She also was aware of the need of qualified library assistants. She started in the eighties the first library training school for library managers.
Collaborative Continuing Education: Learn, Act and Inspire: Professional and Personal Development Opportunities for Lifelong Learning in Libraries, Archives and Museums in the Caribbean.
SUB-THEMES
Sub-Theme I
Assessing and identifying professional and personal learning needs and opportunities
Updating old skills and learning new ones. The advancement in the career ladder of information professionals rethinking and reinventing learning.
Keynote speaker: Harold Koning Ph.D., MSW, M.Ed., C.Ht. Life, Career, Wellness Coaching. Founder of Dynamic Wellness Strategies
Sub-Theme II
Collaborative Learning for All: Developing and Implementing a Professional/Personal Learning Plan
Refurbishing and acquiring new competencies and cultural heritage through transdisciplinary collaboration that focuses on opportunities for knowledge workers to work in teams, communities, and organizations that encompass multiple ways of knowing and collaborating.
Keynote speaker: Prof. Fay Durrant, Department of Library and Information, Studies University of the West Indies, Mona
Sub-Theme III
Evaluating Learning Outcomes and Search for New Opportunities of Continuous Learning and Performance
Improving social, professional and personal abilities (self-awareness, self-knowledge) for the joy of learning and a better quality of life.
Keynote speaker: Eric L. Block MS, MA, “Leadership and Development Consultant and Founder and President of the Block International Group (BIG)
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