Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Information Technology
Department of Information Science
Selected Highlights from Research Findings
The research foci in the Department of Information Science are knowledge management, information processes, the meta-context of information, and book and publishing studies. Contributions were made with research on corruption, libraries and building a new South Africa, knowledge management in law firms in Botswana, the information behaviour of consulting engineers in South Africa, the role of emotion in the information behaviour of health care professionals, the demands, challenges and excitement of scholarly information work, the development of a framework, the use of social networking tools for innovative service delivery at the University of Pretoria library, digital libraries and archiving knowledge, implementing a common library system for the Lesotho consortium, perspectives from systems librarians on the implementation and performance of the Innopac library consortium, the impact of policy changes in the education sector on the development of the book publishing industry in Kenya, and the quantification of the publishing history of South African children’s literature in English. The department was also responsible for the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)/Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) world report on access to information and freedom of expression. The report was designed as an interactive, customisable electronic publication. A system to enable this was developed for the IFLA.
Contact person: Prof TJD Bothma.
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