Professor Marlene Holmner presents at Research Indaba to probe ways of advancing the LIS field

Posted on April 08, 2022

Marlene Holmner, associate professor and package coordinator for Information Science, presented at the virtual 2022 Research Indaba on 30 March 2022.

Professor Marlene Holmner presents at ASIST Africa Chapter webinar

Posted on March 30, 2022

Professor Marlene Holmner, associated professor at the Department of Information Science and package coordinator of Information Science, presented at the ASIST Africa Chapter online webinar, on Measuring and promoting research output (Bibliometrics and Altmetrics) – the role of the Acdemic...

Prof. Ina Fourie presents at Pearson South Africa’s virtual book launch of Navigating Information Literacy in a Digital World

Posted on March 25, 2022

Professor Ina Fourie, Head of Department of Information Science, presented at Pearson South Africa’s virtual book launch of Navigating Information Literacy in a Digital World.

Ms. Farirai Dube presents poster at iSchool Conference 2022

Posted on March 25, 2022

Ms. Farirai Dube, Assistant Lecturer and Master’s Candidate in the Department of Information Science, presented a poster titled Organisational culture typologies as frameworks to study knowledge sharing practices in tertiary institutions at the iSchool Conference 2022.

Department of Information Science and EXXARO partner in Adopt-a-School program

Posted on March 18, 2022

The Department of Information Science participated in an outreach to Edward Phathudi Comprehensive School in Atteridgeville as part of the Adopt-a-School program initiated by the EBIT Faculty.

Professor Ina Fourie participates in panel discussions at the virtual iSchool Conference

Posted on March 07, 2022

Professor Ina Fourie, Head of Department of Information Science and Chair of the School of Information Technology, participated in two panel discussions at the virtual iSchool Conference in March 2022. The two panel discussions consisted of:

Professor Archie Dick to speak at global conversation on Black Studies and Diasporic Futures

Posted on March 04, 2022

Extraordinary Professor, and former head of department in Information Science, Archie Dick, will be presenting and critically engaging at a global conversation among information scholars on the Sankofa Black Studies and Diasporic Futures on 23 March 2022.

Call for Papers: Archives of Print Culture in Southern Africa

Posted on February 07, 2022

This two-day conference explores the processes and dynamics that have shaped the constitution of archives of Southern African print culture. Focusing on records of authorship, publishing, and readership it considers whose histories have been recorded and whose have been erased; and examines the...