Responsibilities: Director of Cape Peninsula University of Technology Libraries. Oversees the strategic management of libraries on the delivery of its mission, articulating the libraries external environment to the HEI sector nationally and internationally. Also responsible for planning, direction and innovation in order to align CPUT libraries at all levels and to ensure internal effectiveness and efficiency with all CPUT faculties and units.
Published articles
Positioning the technological university library in higher education and human resources development in Africa, Library Management (2010)
Information needs, seeking patterns of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in Namibia (with Archie L. Dick), Information Development (2008)
Reports on an investigation of the business information needs, information seeking patterns and business information...
The use of ICTs in Namibia’s SME sector to access business information services (with Archie L. Dick), The Electronic Library (2008)
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to present current state of the use...
Designing and implementing business information services in the SMME sector in a developing country: the case for Namibia, IFLA Journal (2007)
This article outlines the development and implementation strategies that can be applied in the deployment...
Scientific Content Creation and Dissemination: opportunities for African Universities in Electronic Publishing, Africa Media Review (2007)
Africa has made some strides in accessing the Internet over the last decade or so...
Books
A Manual for Rural Libraries in Zimbabwe (with B Hadebe) (1992)
A Handbook for Teacher Librarians in Zimbabwe (with Kathy Matsika) (1989)
Edited books/Conference proceedings
Information and Communication Technologies in Rural Secondary Schools in Africa, Information and Communication Technologies in Rural Secondary Schools in Africa (2002)
Proceedings of a Workshop held in Harare, Zimbabwe 29th Nov. – 3rd Dec. 1999. (Project...
Thesis
Conference papers
Current status of the collection and use of statistics in academic and public libraries in Africa (with Buhle Mbambo-Thata), Library statistics for the twenty-first century world (2008)
Proceedings of the conference held in Montreal on 18-19 August 2008 reporting on the on...
Harnessing ICTs for the use and preservation of indigenous knowledge systems: a case study of informal traders in Namibia, 74th IFLA General Conference (2008)
Paper presented at the 74th IFLA General Conference, 10-14 August 2008, Quebec Canada.
Training requirements for librarians for the digital age in African university libraries, Pre-IFLA Satellite Meeting (2007)
Paper presented at the IT and Research in African University Libraries: Present and Future Trends....
The future of information access in Zimbabwe, Conference on Information and Creation of Knowledge Societies (2006)
Proceedings of the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium Conference on Information and Creation of Knowledge Societies...
Case Study for training for automation in a library (with R A. MacLeod), Training of Trainers Programme for Information Professionals (1993)
Paper presented at the Training of Trainers Programme for Information Professionals”: a Joint DSE/University of...