{"id":5228,"date":"2024-04-23T21:41:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T21:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2024-04-23T21:43:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T21:43:48","slug":"2024-scecsal-conference-mombasa-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/2024\/04\/23\/2024-scecsal-conference-mombasa-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 SCECSAL Conference, Mombasa, Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"break-words \"><span dir=\"ltr\">Our director Prof. <a id=\"ember261\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/clara-chu-lis\/\">Clara Chu<\/a> gave the Keynote address at the <a href=\"https:\/\/kenyalibraryassociation.or.ke\/scecsal-xxvi\/\">SCECSAL<\/a> ( Standing Conference of Eastern, Central &amp; Southern African Library &amp; Information Associations) conference on April 22, 2024. Her keynote was titled: &#8220;<em>Our Libraries and Our Communities in the Digital Era: Re-imagining Services with Intention.<\/em>&#8221; The conference was hosted by the Kenya Library Association whose chair person is an alumnus of the Mortenson Center, Prof. Peter Gatiti. He is the Associate vice-provost and University Librarian at\u00a0 the Aga Khan University (AKU).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5229 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/04\/SCECSAL1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/04\/SCECSAL1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/04\/SCECSAL1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/04\/SCECSAL1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/04\/SCECSAL1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5230\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/04\/SCECSAL2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/04\/SCECSAL2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/04\/SCECSAL2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/04\/SCECSAL2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/04\/SCECSAL2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Our director Prof. Clara Chu gave the Keynote address at the SCECSAL ( Standing Conference of Eastern, Central &amp; Southern African Library &amp; Information Associations) conference on April 22, 2024. Her keynote was titled: &#8220;Our Libraries and Our Communities in the Digital Era: Re-imagining Services with Intention.&#8221; The conference was hosted by the Kenya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,23,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-news","category-media-coverage","category-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5236,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions\/5236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}