Contract Senior Lecturer

Academic qualifications

• PhD Information Science, Pretoria (2016). Study leader: Prof A.S.A. du Toit. Trends in Digital Scholarship Curation in Public  and Private Higher Education Institutions in Southern Africa: A sociotechnical approach towards sustainability. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63181
• M.Ed ICT in Education (Cum Laude), UJ (2020). Study leader: Prof D van der Westhuizen. The Uptake of Teaching with Technology in a Southern African Higher Education Institution
• M Informationis, RAU/UJ (1996). Study leader: Prof A.S.A. du Toit. The Management of Information as a Resource in Local Government
• Hons. B. Bibl, UNISA (1990)
• B.Bibl RAU/University of Johannesburg (1987)
• BA Social Sciences (Psychology, Communication) RAU/UJ (1985)

• ABET Diploma (SALT)
• Certified BlackBoard Facilitator level 2
• Coaching and Mentorship
• Labour Relations for Employers (TELO)
• Local Government Finance (UNISA)
• Local Government Management (UJ)
• Research Ethics certificate (BC Compliant)

Research Interest

• Bibliometrics
• Digital exclusion
• Digital libraries
• Digital research and learning commons
• Educational technology
• Information and knowledge management
• Information ethics
• Institutional repositories
• Meta-literacy
• Open access, openness and open education resources
• Research data management
• Research ethics
• Research supervision
• Scholarship curation and scholarship publication

Researcher ID profile

• Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brenda-Van-Wyk-2
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=zctAp2YAAAAJ&hl=en
• LinkedIn: https://za.linkedin.com/in/brenda-van-wyk-48539048
• OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3898-7042
• UPSpace: https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/63181

• The Independent Institute of Education (IIE) – Deputy Dean Research and Postgraduate Studies,

• The Independent Institute of Education (IIE) – Head: Library and Information Services

• University of Zululand – Deputy Director: Library and Information Services

• Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipalities – Ekurhuleni Corporate Manager – Bibliographic and Technical positions

• Roodepoort City Libraries – Head: Branch & Depot Libraries & ABET School
• Training and Development Experience

• Manage the Adult Basic Education and training programme, IEB examination and ABET school

• Information literacy training
• Digital literacy training
• Information specialist training
• Referencing and plagiarism prevention workshops and tutorials

• Academic writing and research workshops and writing clinics
• Postgraduate supervisor training
• Research ethics training
• Research proposal short learning programmes
• Research publishing workshops
• Education Management and Governance Experience
  • Chaired Ethics committees
  • Chaired Library Committee
  • Chaired Research and Postgraduate Committee
  • Faculty Boards member
  • Senate member at the IIE
• Academic and Teaching Experience

• Contract lecturer Multi-Cultural Libraries, UJ/ RAU

• Part-time Lecturer Readership for Semi-literates, information literacy TechSA
• Part-time Lecturer School librarianship, Introduction to Computers, Collection Development, UNIZULU

Examination, Moderation and Supervision

Research Associate/Fellowship

• Research Fellow, UNISA

• Research Associate, JET Education
• Researcher in project: COVID-19 impact on schools in SA – UNESCO Research Report

Curriculum and Programme Development

• Introduction to Knowledge Management (NQF 7)
• Introduction to Ethic: Information and Digital Ethics (NQF 7)

• School Librarianship for the Postgraduate Diploma, NQF 8

• Collection Development and maintenance (NQF 7)

Research Projects

• International research project
  • The Independent Institute of Education & Somaiya Vidyavihar University India
  • Represent The IIE in in a joint research project on Industry 4.0, in the SA environment

• Universities in France, Brazil, Iran and South Africa:
• Managing embargoes of  research scholarship publication– a  comparative study

• SA project of JET Education Services; Researcher for the project: The impact of COVID-19 on SA schooling

Editorial Boards

• The Independent Journal of Teaching and Learning (IJTL) (Managing Editor of the international DHET accredited journal) https://ijtl.iie.ac.za/?_ga=2.156179251.903822261.1641881280-905061721.1628494655

Upcoming Publications and Events – Accepted manuscripts and chapters to be published

• Postgraduate research during Covid19 in a South African Higher Education: Inequality,
• Ethics and Requirements for a Reimagined Future. B van Wyk, Q Dawood. DUT Book Chapter (Accepted)
• Navigating Knowledge Support to the New Phygital Student in the African Higher Education Learning Ecosystem. B van Wyk. IGI Book Chapter (Accepted).

Papers presented at recent Conferences

• Managing digital scholarship towards becoming a learning organisation.; Dr B van Wyk, T Mofana, & S Simelane. The 22^nd European Conference of Knowledge Management (ECKM), 1-3 September 2021.
• The Uptake of Teaching with Technology at a Southern African distance Higher Education Institution. Dr B van Wyk. Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA), 3-5 August 2021
• Keynote Address: The Four Pillars of Digitised African Content. UKS African Continent - Digitisation Conference. September 2021.
• Emergency Remote Learning Strategies. Dr G Mooney, Dr B van Wyk, Dr W Engelbrecht. Council of Higher Education (CHE) Colloquium, 2021
• Online group supervision as pedagogy under emergency conditions: optimising online collaboration towards self-directed learning in a South African HEI; NOMSA Dec 2021
• Views on postgraduate scholarly production and publishing resulting from online group supervision: Affordances and challenges, B van Wyk, SHRE Dec 2021

• Knowledge Management, Institutional Repositories and Knowledge Capital, Dr B van Wyk, & T Mofana. Knowledge Management South Africa (KMSA) 2020
• Emergency Remote Learning during pandemic times. Dr B van Wyk. The European Conference on eLearning (ECEL) 2020, Berlin Germany 5-6 October 2020
• A Library and Information Service (LIS) Crisis-driven innovation strategy. Dr B van Wyk. The International Association of Technical University Libraries (IATUL), 2020, Innsbruck, Austria,

• The Changing Landscape of New Literacies Towards Sustainable Development, NWU, Dr B van Wyk. International Conference of Information Literacy (ICIL) September 2019

• Learn 3.0 Meets Library 3.0: A Case Study, Dr B van Wyk & H. Geldenhuys. The 13^th International Conference on eLearning (ICEL), 5-6 June 2018
• Work -integrated learning and the role of LIS, A pilot study, Munich, Germany. Dr B van Wyk & L Webster. The International Association of Technical University Libraries (IATUL) 2018. LIS and WPL

• Honing a Digital Solution for a Digital Generation. Dr B van Wyk & I Kadzenga. Information Science DLIS International Conference, 2017, University of Zululand.
• A sociotechnical exploration into factors impacting web visibility of digital scholarship. Dr B van Wyk & Prof A.S.A du Toit. Science DLIS International Conference, 2017, University of Zululand.

• Breaking the Mould: A Case Study of a Digital Learning Commons Implementation Project. B van Wyk & I Kadzenga. Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Information Associations in Africa (SCECSAL), Swaziland, April 2016.
• How Visible Are We Really? Research Visibility and Discoverability Factors. Dr B van Wyk & Prof A.S.A du Toit. The 12^th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics, COLLNET (WIS), Nancy, France, 16 -17 December 2016.

• A Knowledge Management Approach to Sustainable Scholarship Curation. B van Wyk. Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), New Delhi, India 6-8 November 2015.

• Management of Institutional Repositories in Southern Africa – A comparative study B van Wyk. The UK Group for Archives and Libraries in Africa - SCOLMA, Oxford University, UK, 25- 26 June 2012 Information and content.
• Implementing a Research Repository: A Case Study: B van Wyk & Prof J Mostert, International Electronic Dissertation and Theses (ETD) Conference, 12-14 September 2012 Lima, Peru.

• Information Science, DLIS International Conference, 2011, University of Zululand, Information management Issues and Challenges in the Establishment of a Successful IR. B van Wyk.

• Information Science - DLIS International Conference, 2010, University of Zululand, Institutional Repositories: Enhanced Access to Information, B van Wyk.
• Information Science, DLIS, The University of Botswana 2010, International Conference, African Digital Scholarship, University of Botswana, Institutional Repositories – Critical Success Factors, B van Wyk.

• Institutional Repositories as Gateways to Local Content – a case study, B van Wyk & Prof J Mostert. Library and Information Service (LIS) International Conference, The University of Botswana, 2009, African Digital Scholarship,

• Academic Literacy and E-Research Competencies as Strategic Foci for Online Writing Centres During Pandemic Lockdown, Dr B van Wyk. The Association of Academic Literacy Practitioners, 14-15 October 2021.
• Academic Literacy and E-research competencies as strategic foci for online writing centres during COVID-19 – a case study, Dr B van Wyk . SAAALP 2021, 15 October 2021.
• Transforming Academic Support Services to Accommodate the New Phygital Generation, Dr B van Wyk & T Mofana. LIASA 2021, 27 September 2021
• The role of Academic Libraries during COVID-19, Dr B van Wyk. UNILISA 3 March 2021

• Role players in Engendering 21st Century Skills towards the 4IR and SDG 4.3, Dr B van Wyk & Prof L Jacobs. UNILISA, 6 March 2019.

• Setting sail into uncharted waters: A case study of a digital library – LMS collaboration project, Dr B van Wyk. LIASA, 2017

• Planning and Implementation of Institutional Research Repositories, B van Wyk. LIASA, 2010

• The Changing Role of Universities, B van Wyk. UJ Colloquium, 2009.

Recent Publications in internationally accredited, peer-reviewed academic journals and proceedings

• How a HEI Manages Digital Scholarship in Becoming a Learning Organisation. B van Wyk, S, Simelane, T, Mofana. Conference Proceedings ECKM, 1-3 September 2021.
• Online group supervision as pedagogy under emergency conditions: optimising online collaboration towards self-directed learning in a South African HEI. B van Wyk, Q Dawood. Proceedings; Network of OER and Multi-model Self-directed Learning in Southern Africa (NOMSA) 2021 International Conference.

• Engendering 21^st Century workplace literacy for the hospitality industry: exploring the role of the academic library. 2020, Dr B Van Wyk, Prof L Jacobs, South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science 85 (1), 31-39.
• Emergency Remote Learning in the Times of Covid: A Higher Education Innovation Strategy. Dr Brenda van Wyk, Dr Gillian Mooney, Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on eLearning, 2020, ECEL, 99-507, 9781713820659.

• Learn 3.0 meets library 3.0, B van Wyk, H Geldenhuys, International Conference on e- Learning, 479-XIX ECEL 2019 Proceedings. ISBN: 978-1-5108-9902-5.

• A survey of sustainable curation in research repositories of higher education institutions in Southern Africa. B Van Wyk, ASA Du Toit, African Journal of Library Archives & Information Science. (Internationally accredited). 2016, 21 (2), 107-116, eISSN: 0795-4778.
• Reconsidering a digital learning commons in a distance teaching and learning environment, Dr B Van Wyk, I Kadzenga. South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science 2016, 83 (2), 52-62.

• African Institutional Repositories as Contributors to Global Information, B van Wyk, J Mostert, Mousaion, 2014, 32(1), 98-114.

2012

• Measuring the Sustainability of the African Institutional Repository, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias  Aplicadas (UPC), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/622565.

• Toward Enhanced Access to Africa's Research and Local Content: A Case Study of the Institutional Depository Project, University of Zululand, South Africa. 2011, 139 – 151. B Wyk, J Mostert African Journal of Library Archives & Information Science eISSN: 0795-4778.

Book Chapters

• In: P.K. Jain, Jean-Charles Lamirel and Parveen Babbar Eds. (2018). Trends in Bibliometrics and Scientometric Studies. London, Athena Academic. 9781910390351, 334p.

Dissertations and Theses

• Trends in digital scholarship curation in public and private higher education institutions in southern Africa: A sociotechnical approach towards sustainability. B Van Wyk, Doctoral thesis, University of Pretoria. 2016.
• How Lecturers in a Faculty of Education at a Sub-Saharan Private Online Distance Higher Education Institution Use Digital Technologies for 21st Century Teaching and Learning, Dr B Van Wyk. M.Ed. (Cum Laude), RAU/University of Johannesburg. 2020.
• The Management of Information as a Resource in Local Government. B van Wyk. M Informationis,  RAU/University of Johannesburg. 1996.

Membership

• ASIS&T– Association of Information Science and Technology
• IATUL - International Association of Technical Universities Library Services
• IFLA – International Federation of Library Associations
• KMSA – Knowledge Management South Africa
• LIASA – Library and Information Services Association
• NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
• SAAALP – The Association of Academic Literacy Practitioners
• SAOUG – South African Online User Group
• SARIMA – South African Research Information Association

Interests

• Hiking
• Travel
• Most music genres
• Reading