The Annual Peter Underwood Book Prize for Academic Research Achievement established

Posted on September 06, 2021

The Department of Information Science has established the annual Peter Underwood book prize for academic research achievement. The first book prize giving took place on 18 August 2021.

Department of Information Science personnel present at Flexible Futures Conference 2021

Posted on September 01, 2021

Department of Information Science personnel from the Multimedia and Publishing sub-programmes presented at Flexible Futures 2021. The Flexible Futures conference is organized by the University of Pretoria to re-imagine teaching and learning in higher education. The virtual conference took place...

Head of Department of Information Science presents “Meet the Author Series”

Posted on August 20, 2021

Head of Department of Information Science, Prof. Ina Fourie, presented at the “Meet the Author Series” hosted by ASIS&T (Association for Information Science and Technology) Webinars, on her recently published book Autoethnography for Librarians and Information Scientists, on 12...

Two professors co-edited a new collection, "Print Culture in Southern Africa"

Posted on August 19, 2021

Prof. Archie Dick and Beth le Roux are two of the co-editors of a new collection on Print Culture in Southern Africa, recently published by Routledge. The chapters included in this book were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies, but have been reissued...

Two professors attend SHARP Conference 2021

Posted on August 19, 2021

Prof. Archie Dick and Beth le Roux were both involved in the virtual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), hosted by Münster University, from 26-30 July 2021.

Department of Information Science research associate presented with Weizenbaum Award for 2020

Posted on July 26, 2021

Professor Rafael Capurro, research associate at the Department of Information Science, has been presented with the Weizenbaum Award for 2020.

Extraordinary Professor Archie Dick talks to Chai FM on stolen books at the University of Johannesburg

Posted on July 20, 2021

Professor Archie Dick was hosted by Chai FM and interviewed by Charisse Zeibert, to share his knowledge on the discovery of stolen books at the University of Johannesburg library by notorious and acclaimed University of Pretoria Professor van Vleeshauer.

Information Science Department staff co-authored interactive textbook, Navigating Information Literacy in a Digital World, has been renewed and updated in its 6th edition

Posted on July 20, 2021

Professor Theo Bothma, Dr Erica Cosijn, Professor Ina Fourie and Dr Cecilia Penzhorn, all current or past faculty members in the Department of Information Science, co-authored an interactive digital textbook titled Navigating Information Literacy in a Digital World. It first appeared in 2006 as a...