In many organisations, information governance (IG) is implemented in fragmented silos
and does not add value. After realising this, South African Council for Social Service
Professions (SACSSP), embarked on digital ...
Many archival scholars in South Africa and elsewhere lament of archives repositories that continue to reflect the activities of colonial masters, while excluding the memories of the previously marginalised. This is also ...
Academic libraries provide print and electronic resources for their users. Librarians
have to market and train their users in how to access electronic resources (e resources). The purpose of this study was to examine the ...
The study investigated the way in which theories of subject analysis facilitate the creation of effective geographic subject metadata for ETDs. The subject analysis practices of metadata creators, who contribute geographic ...
The impact of information and communication technology on higher education has changed the approaches to service provision in academic libraries, including the ways in which information users find and use information with ...
Many academic libraries struggle to effectively promote their services and products (Gyimah 2011:44; Ramasodi, 2009:45; Waithaka 2013:15). This has negative consequences, such as low user and patronage rates and a decline ...
The objective of this study was to explore the information needs of students using the UNISA Ekurhuleni Regional Service Centre Library by employing a qualitative method of inquiry. A total number of thirty two students ...
Electronic resources (e-resources) have brought many benefits and challenges in the way people access, retrieve and store information. At the University of Venda (UNIVEN), e-resources are there to be accessed and used by ...
Shigwedha, Johannes Jane Omma Ndishishi(2020-01-20)
Academic libraries are now using electronic resources to fulfil the information needs of their clients. The study was carried out at the University of Namibia and was aimed at investigating access and use of electronic ...
Public libraries are a vital asset in any society and have become institutions of knowledge in communities. Residents, schools without libraries, small businesses and non-profit organisations make use of public libraries ...
Records management is a practice that can no longer be ignored or sidelined from other business activities, since it has become the heart in which the success of most activities lie and upon which accountability for ...
In the year 2000, the South African government passed the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) to give effect to the constitutional right to access information held by a public body. A year later, in 2001, PAIA ...
The study investigated the management of medical records in the Primary Health Care services (PHCs) of Diepsloot. The study investigated the regulatory framework, records infrastructure, records security, records management ...
The purpose of this research was to identify critical factors necessary for the implementation of a trusted repository for managing research data. A research data survey was conducted with 36 Information professionals at ...
Records are essential to the efficient administration of municipalities and more critical to the facilitation of good governance, transparency and accountability. Despite this, the records management processes of many ...
As Mobile ICT usage surges, there is a case for making sense of how it contributes to
innovation. This study sought to determine Mobile ICT's contribution to the dynamic
capabilities of informal traders in Windhoek. ...
Artificial intelligence technology is used in organisations to increase operational efficiencies and effectiveness. In a similar fashion, it can be used to manage records effectively and efficiently because artificial ...
Visual artists operating in indigenous communities of practice in the arts and crafts sector in Zimbabwe have relegated their indigenous modes of expression by adopting contemporary forms that lack a flare of Zimbabwean ...
In the nursing profession, knowledge retention is aimed at retaining ownership and recognising the importance of critical nursing knowledge across all healthcare organisations. In Philadelphia Hospital, like many other ...
Conditional grants have changed the public library space by giving the South African society free access to knowledge and information that assist in improving the socio-economic situation of individuals using public libraries ...