Ms Boitumelo Masilo has resigned and will leave us at the end of October to take up another position at the Sol Plaatje University.
Boitumelo joined the NWU LIS in October 2017 as Faculty Librarian, Information Services at Mahikeng. In this position she supported students, researchers and academic staff in the faculties of Humanities, Law and Theology. She was active in many projects of the library. She has a passion for reading and was co-founder of the Bokamoso literature club at Mahikeng Campus Library. She was very involved in marketing and outreach initiatives. She co-authored 3 papers which were published in accredited journals, and contributed to the LIASA-In-Touch magazine on a regular basis.
Boitumelo, your presence and contributions will be missed – we wish you all the best in your new position!
Library Management wishes to express sincere gratitude to Ms Carine Basson for her contribution in coordinating work in the sections for Information Resources department in the last three months. This is very much appreciated. Since the contract ended in August, Mr Benford Rabtseta assumes the same responsibilities in acting capacity in the interim.
Maria Lesele was appointed as Faculty Librarian (Vanderbijlpark) from 1 July 2020.
Mr. Lizwi Njani was appointed as Business Analyst in the Library Systems section. He has already started on 1 April 2020. Lizwi is not new to the NWU, as he has been working as a Developer at IT Business Systems Development and Support since 2018.
Carine Basson takes over the reigns to act as Manager: Information Resources from 1 June 2020 until the position is permanently filled. We are grateful that Carine will keep operations going. She is currently based at Potchefstroom campus. As Senior Librarian: Electronic Resource Management and Periodicals her role cuts across the 3 campuses, particularly in e-Resources. We wish Carine success during this period.
Ms. Manare Tshenye has resigned on 31 May 2020 after she has served the NWU LIS for almost 30 years. She started her career at Mafikeng Campus Library in 1990 as Cataloguing Librarian. Over the years she has served in the positions of Head of Periodicals, Head of Cataloguing, Manager Information Resources and acting Director, Mafikeng Campus Library. After the restructuring in 2017, she was appointed as Senior Manager Campus Operations at Mafikeng Library. During this period she was part of the Executive Committee of the LIS.
Mr Katlego Chiya has resigned and will leave us at the end of May to take up another position at the University of the Western Cape. Katlego joined the NWU LIS in February 2015 as Assistant Librarian, Information Services at Vanderbijlpark. In June 2019 he was appointed as Faculty Librarian in Potchefstroom. In this position he supported students, researchers and academic staff in the subject areas of History & Ancient Culture, Political studies, Public Management & Governance, Social Anthropology and Sociology. He supported with EndNote queries and training sessions and also assisted in downloading the revised NWU Harvard style into EndNote.
Ms Maniza Ndwande retired on 30 April after she has served the LIS for 39 years. Maniza was a qualified Librarian and Archivist with a B Tech (Archival Studies), an Honours in Information Science (Unisa) as well as an MBA (UNW).