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Amelia Breytenbach
Information & Metadata Specialist
Department of Library Services
University of Pretoria
Amelia Breytenbach is an information and metadata
specialist at the University of Pretoria Department of
Library Services, specializing in metadata and e-books.
She holds a BBibl degree (1980) from the University of
Pretoria. Her working experience covers a period of 27
years and includes: cataloguing and classification of
information resources with special interest in
e-information resources, metadata applications and the
building of information portals and folksonomies. Key
responsibilities in her current position regarding
metadata are: metadata specialist for UPSpace (the
institutional repository of the University of
Pretoria), implementing the Dublin Core metadata
tagging strategy in UPSpace, quality control of the
metadata in UPSpace, internal and external metadata
training, advice on all issues and decisions regarding
metadata in UPSpace, monitoring and communicating new
metadata developments and applications and the
development, digitization and metadata tagging of
historical information resources for establishing a
National Veterinary Repository for the Faculty of
Veterinary Science. She is author and co-author of
several papers presented at various conferences,
workshops and training sessions and completed two online
workshops on metadata and taxonomies.
E-mail:
amelia.breytenbach@up.ac.za
Tel.: +27 12 529 8391
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Leonard Daniels
ICT Systems Administrator
Department of Library Services
University of PretoriaE-mail:
leonard.daniels@up.ac.za
Tel.: +27 12 420 2802
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Hettie
Groenewald
Information Specialist: Engineering, Built
Environment & Information Technology
Department of Library Services
University of Pretoria
Holding a BA (HED) and B Bibl (Hons) degree from the
University of Pretoria, Hettie has been employed as
Information Specialist in the Library for the Built
Environment and some Engineering Departments.
The implementation of the digital institutional
repository created an opportunity for her to become
involved in the archiving of valuable research material
and research outputs, such as the digitization of frail
research material in collaboration with the Department
of Architecture.
Since 2002, various presentations at conferences have
been made in this regard.
E-mail:
hettie.groenewald@up.ac.za
Tel.: +27 12 420 3876
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Jacob Mothutsi
UP Copyright Officer
Department of Library Services
University of PretoriaE-mail:
jacob.mothutsi@up.ac.za
Tel.: +27 12 420 5452
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Siphethile Muswelanto
CSIR Institutional Repository Practitioner
CSIR
Siphethile Muswelanto, graduated at the University of
Johannesburg. Is now working at the CSIR as the CSIR
Institutional Repository Practitioner. Is keen in being
part of new developments, upholding best practices and
participating actively in relevant projects within the
repository community.E-mail:
SMuswelanto@csir.co.za
Tel.: +27 12 841 2023
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Marguerite Nel
Information Specialist: Veterinary Science
Department of Library Services
University of Pretoria
Involved in book and journal ordering and cataloguing;
Information services for private veterinary
practitioners and metadata editor.
Qualifications:
B.Consumer Science, University of Pretoria
(1991)
B.Inf (Library and information science),
University of South Africa (UNISA)
(2004)
Currently busy with
BIS (Hons) Information
Science at the University of Pretoria
Conference papers delivered:
E-journal collections: facilitating health information
access at the University
of Pretoria’s Veterinary Science Library
– 9th European Conference of Medical and
Health Libraries, Santander, Spain,
20 – 25 September 2004
Harnessing
information resources: collection management at the
Veterinary Science Library,
University of Pretoria
- Poster
- 5th International Conference of Animal Health
Information Specialists University of Pretoria ,
Onderstepoort, 4 - 7 July 2005
Disasters and
diseases in Africa : information support for animal and
human health
- Tertia Coetzee,
Antoinette Lourens, Marguerite Nel, Erica vd Westhuizen
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73rd
Annual World Library and Information Congress and
Council ,
Durban, South Africa,
19-23 August 2007
Thinking out loud:
Creativity in the Library
environment
Barbara Kellermann,
Antoinette Lourens & Marguerite Nel –
3rd National Conference Of
The Health Information Community Of South Africa (HICSA)
Onderstepoort,
Pretoria,
Gauteng, 24 & 25 November 2008.
E-mail:
marguerite.nel@up.ac.za
Tel.: +27 12 529 8474
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Kabelo Nzima
Information Specialist: Health Sciences
Department of Library Services
University of Pretoria
Kabelo Nzima is an
Information Specialist at the Basic Medical Sciences
Library. She got her degree in Information Science at
UP. Her job includes doing literature searches, creating
and updating ClickUP pages and being responsible for
information
literacy training of undergraduate and postgraduate
students. She
is also an IT coordinator for her faculty library and is
a reviewer for certain collections on UPSpace. In the
past two years she moved from being a part time junior
information assistant (Shelver) in the Study Collection
and working at the Circulation Desk to being an
Information Specialist. Her qualifications, combined
with an interest and passion in Marketing and
Communication has created the opportunity to act as a
presenter in promoting UPSpace services.
E-mail:
kabelo.nzima@up.ac.za
Tel.: +27 12 319 2422
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Dr Heila Pienaar
Deputy Director: eInformation Strategy & eResearch
Enablement
Department of Library Services
University of Pretoria
Dr Heila Pienaar is Deputy Director:
e-Information Strategy & e-Research Enablement in the
Department of Library Services at the University of
Pretoria. Her research focuses on e-information strategy
formulation, digital library implementation, virtual
research environments and data curation.
View Curriculum Vitae
E-mail:
heila.pienaar@up.ac.za
Tel.: +27 12 420 2020
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Ivy Segoe
Information Specialist: Economic & Management Sciences
Department of Library Services
University of Pretoria
Ivy Segoe holds a B BIBL (University of Pretoria) and a
Postgraduate diploma in Information Management
(University of Johannesburg). She has been an
information specialist since 2007 and has been actively
involved in the marketing of the institutional
repository to various faculties at the University of
Pretoria. As an information specialist, Ivy is working
towards taking more roles in collecting, describing,
preserving and providing stewardship for digital
information.E-mail:
ivy.segoe@up.ac.za
Tel.: +27 12 420 4714
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Ina Smith
Digital Repository Manager & E-Application Specialist
Department of Library Services
University of Pretoria
Ina Smith is currently an E-Application Specialist and
manager of the open access digital research repository
of the University of Pretoria (UPSpace). She holds a
Master's Degree in Computer-Integrated Education, as
well as an Honors Degree in Library and Information
Science. She started her career as a secondary school
teacher in 1992. From 1993 - 2001 she was a cataloguer
at the former Pretoria Onderwyskollege, and from 2002 -
2004 an information specialist at the library of the
University of Pretoria. Her main areas of interest
include the following: Information and Knowledge
Management, Institutional Repositories, Archiving and
Preservation, Federated Search Engines and Link
Resolvers, E-learning (online learning), and
Instructional Design. She acted as consultant for UNISA
and CSIR during the implementation of their
institutional repositories, and frequently delivers
papers at conferences.
View Curriculum Vitae
E-mail:
ina.smith@up.ac.za
Tel.: +27 12 420 3082
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Christelle Steyn
Library Web Manager
Department of Library Services
University of Pretoria
Christelle Steyn
is currently the Library Web Manager at the University
of Pretoria. She holds a BA: Information Science
Degree. Christelle started her career as Library
Information Assistant in 1998. From 2000 - 2007 she was
a Health Information Specialist at the Health Sciences
Library of the University of Pretoria. She is co-author
of two articles published in 2007 and she has presented
papers / posters / workshops, at various conferences.
E-mail:
christelle.steyn@up.ac.za
Tel.: +27 12 420 3791
Fax:
086
634 4665
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Wynand van der Walt
Product Coordinator:
Library Products
Wynand van der Walt’s career spans nearly two decades
during which he has worked at public, commercial,
provincial library services and an academic library.
He is
currently employed as a product manager at Sabinet and
CONTENTdm® is one of the products within his portfolio.
Wynand has a keen interest in institutional repository
developments and was the project leader of the ETD
project at the University of the Western Cape.
E-mail:
wynand@sabinet.co.za
Tel.: +27 12 643 9618
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Dr Martie van Deventer
has started her career in 1979 as a teacher but soon
progressed to library and information science. She was
appointed as subject librarian for education at the
University of Johannesburg (then RAU) during 1986
transferring to the Chamber of Mines Research
Organisation (COMRO) in August 1989. The Research
Organisation merged with the Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research (CSIR) in 1994 and she has been with
the CSIR ever since.
Her current position is that of Portfolio Manager:
virtual research environment enablement, library and
special projects. These include the responsibility to
develop and maintain an institutional repository as well
as to establish sound digital curation practices at
organisational level.
Her publications include the following:
National and international refereed publications - 3
Conference papers (refereed) - 3
Conference papers (not refereed) - 17
Internal reports - 5
Contract reports for clients - 9
E-mail:
mvandeve@csir.co.za
Tel.: +27 12 841 3278
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