Posted on March 24, 2021
Professor Archie Dick’s, former head of department of Information Science, influential work on book and reading culture is renowned. His book, The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Culture published in 2012, was again used to demonstrate the command Prof Dick has in...
Posted on March 11, 2021
Associate professors Marlene Holmner (package coordinator for the BIS Information Science degree) and Beth le Roux (package coordinator for the BIS Publishing degree) presented a paper titled Embracing online education during the COVID19 pandemic: a case study of the Department of Information...
Posted on March 10, 2021
Thanks to Exxaro, one of the top five coal producers in South Africa and a constituent of the JSE’s Top 40 index, and the initiative and hard work of Prof. Ronny Webber-Youngman and Mr Jannie Maritz from the Department of Mining Engineering, as well as Mr Koos de Beer from the Department of...
Posted on February 26, 2021
Two professors in the Department of Information Science, Archie Dick and Elizabeth le Roux, published books in Cambridge University Press’s Elements in Book and Publishing Culture series towards the end of 2020. The series presents new research on print and reading cultures in Africa, from...
Posted on February 26, 2021
Marlene Holmner, associate professor and package coordinator for the undergraduate Information Science degree, presented a paper alongside colleagues Gorrety Maria Juma from Ndejje University Library, and Sarah Nakaziba from Aga Khan University, titled Building strong academic libraries and...
Posted on February 26, 2021
Two staff members of the Department of Information Science receive NRF ratings.
Posted on February 25, 2021
The Department of Information Science, of the University of Pretoria, was selected to host the annual ISIC conference, for 2020. As COVID-19 brought about immediate change to our daily behaviour, the conference could no longer be hosted as it had traditionally been done before. Thus, the...
Posted on February 01, 2020
The Department of Information Science, in collaboration with DIRISA, SADiLaR and NeDICC, hosted the CODATA-RDA Research Data Summer School from 13-24 January 2020 at the University of Pretoria. The CODATA-RDA Research Data Summer School is widely represented, with international directors from the...
Posted on January 27, 2020
The University of Pretoria’s Department of Information Science in collaboration with the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA), South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) and Network of Data and Information Curation Communities (NeDICC) presented a...
Posted on July 25, 2018
Heidi Julien is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Library & Information Studies at the University at Buffalo. Her research and teaching interests focus on digital literacy and information behaviour. She has served as editor of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science...
Posted on March 14, 2018
On 13 March 2018, the Department of Information Science in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology welcomed Professor Olívia Pestana from the University of Porto in Portugal.
Posted on October 02, 2015
Dr Janet Harrison from the University of Loughborough (UK) visits the University of Pretoria
Posted on June 29, 2015
The evolution of information has brought its own set of challenges and ethical questions, such as questions about ownership, privacy, the ‘digital divide’ and e-waste.
Posted on May 11, 2015
Professor Theo Bothma attends conferences in Germany and Spain!
Posted on April 23, 2015
Dr Beth le Roux, co-ordinator of the publishing studies course, is publishing a book based on her PhD called The Social History of University Presses in Apartheid South Africa.
Posted on April 23, 2015
The Print Culture and colonisation in Africa conference will be held on 28 and 29 May 2015 in Cape Town in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University and with funding from the British Academy.
Posted on April 23, 2015
In order to communicate what the BIS Multimedia degree is all about, a new Information Site was created for the University of Pretoria’s website.
Posted on April 23, 2015
The Multimedia Department has acquired a powerful PC to be able to work with the Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (ORDK 2) in order to do experiments with regards to virtual reality and more specifically, virtual environments.
Posted on April 23, 2015
March 18-19 was dedicated to the South African Book Development Council (SABDC) Digital Summit for 2015 held at the National Library of South Africa in Pretoria
Posted on June 12, 2014
A team of four multimedia students from the University of Pretoria, who call themselves the Super Sea Dragons, won the SA national finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup.
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