Professor Marlene Holmner presents keynote address at UNILISA conference 2023

Posted on March 14, 2023

Marlene Holmner, associate professor and package coordinator for Information Science, presented a keynote address at the Third University of South Africa Biennial International Conference on Library and Information Science Research in Africa (UNILISA) on 10 March 2023.

Information Science personnel represent at ASIS&T

Posted on November 04, 2022

Several Information Science personnel have been re-elected or newly elected to form part of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIST&T) association, the leading international Information Science association.

Professor Archie Dick presenting talk on “Decolonising the Academic Library Collection”

Posted on November 04, 2022

Professor Archie Dick, extraordinary professor in the Department of Information Science, will be presenting a talk on the theme “Decolonising the Academic Library Collection” on 15 November 2022.

Information Science personnel presents at LIASA 2022 conference

Posted on October 18, 2022

This year the Library Association of South Africa (LIASA) hosted the Standing Conference of Eastern Central and Southern African Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL) Conference. This conference was also an opportunity to celebrate LIASA’s 25 years of existence.

Dr. Brenda van Wyk presents keynote address at ICIL 2022 conference

Posted on October 18, 2022

Dr. Brenda van Wyk presented a keynote address at the International Conference on Information Literacy (ICIL) 2022.

Professor Ina Fourie participates in ISIC 2022

Posted on October 10, 2022

Prof Ina Fourie, Head of the Department of Information Science, participated in the ISIC2022 (Information Seeking in Context - The Information Behaviour) conference that was held in Berlin from 26 - 29 September 2022.

Professor Peter Lor is bestowed with SALI and LIASA’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted on October 10, 2022

Prof Peter Lor, a research associate in the Department of Information Science, has been bestowed by the South African Library and Information (SALI) Trust and the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA)’s Lifetime Achievement Award. This took place during the...

Multimedia staff publish in Innovate’s Human-centred issue

Posted on October 03, 2022

Isak de Villiers, Dave Ka (both junior research officers) and Annique Smith (lecturer and package coordinator of Multimedia Studies) from the Department of Information Science published an article in Innovate Issue 17 2022.