Experience

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  Dept National School of Government

  • Pretoria

  • Library Manager

    • Jul 2013 - Present
    • Pretoria

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  Statistics South Africa

  • South Africa

  • Senior Librarian

    • Dec 2000 - Present
    • South Africa

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  Institute for Security Studies: Human Security for Africa

  • South Africa

  • Information Officer

    • Mar 2000 - Present
    • South Africa

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  Department of Justice

  • South Africa

  • Senior Librarian

    • Apr 1997 - Present
    • South Africa

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  Department of Water Affairs

  • Chief Librarian

    • May 2007 - Jun 2013

    Responsible for the overall management and development of library services, collections, budget and staff,Plans schedules on-going workload assignment, sets and adjusts work to be accomplished by Subordinates and prepares schedule for work completion. Provide information feedback and periodically evaluates employee performance. Provide guidance to library users on how to access information resources, including books, electronic journals and electronic database. Develop and maintain library policies and guidelines, write procedures for circulation and use of library resources. Enforce library rules and take appropriate action in case of misbehavior.Management of library budget and reporting to the library committee on financial matters. Identification of client’s needs and establishment of relevant database access and do library website intranet maintenance. Facilitate access to information and ensure that the DWAF library effectively serves as the centre for quality assurance information. Prepare daily information search and attending general enquiries directing users to appropriate sources of information, Prepare library news letter, weekly and monthly report. Oversee procurement procedures and manage subscriptions liase with service providers to keep current with relevant publications, Motivates clientele of fully utilize programs and services. Handles loose-leaf updates of all legal materials to be updated, ensure compliance with copyright Act. Manage the training and development needs of library personnel. Attending monthly management meeting and act as a secretary for library committee. Provide strategic direction and promotion of library services in the regions and promote image of the library both within and outside, liaison with other institution, and departmental libraries within public service and enhance delivery.

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  Univesity of Witwatersrand

  • Information Specialist

    • Feb 2002 - Apr 2006

    Managing the School of Accountancy GHR Edmunds Resource Centre independently, Cataloguing, classifying of all resource centre materials using the database Indexer. Research information collection for both Lecturers & Postgraduate Students on electronic database resources & other useful internet search engines. Prepare daily information search and attending general enquiries directing students to appropriate sources of information. Research information collection for both Postgraduate Students and Lectures on databases such as DataStream, ProQuest, ScienceDirect, JSTOR, EBSCO, Sabinet, Dialog, Lexis Nexis, and Juta Stat. Administration and management of journal subscriptions and online database memberships and liaison with relevant vendors selecting and purchasing of books. Maintaining resource center web page and prepare readings article for Honours/Masters Students and answering detailed information enquiries working to agreed deadlines using reference material & Internet. Arranging inter-library loan for materials not available in the Resource Center and filling loose-leafupdates and provides current awareness of new developments in relevant areas.Identifying emerging issues of interest to the students with subject areas and liaising with other Lecturers working in the same subject area. Coordinate booklist and books exhibitions with different publishers and building a Compiling weekly librarynews letter and guiding students and provide training for new lectures and Postgraduates students in using the universities electronic database resources systems. Attending workshops, conferences and liaison with other Universities school of Accountancy, corporate and special libraries to ensure appropriate access to learning resources.