Degrees held
- BA Hons, University of Zimbabwe
- MIS, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)
- PhD (UKZN)
Research Interests
Records and archives management in national liberation movements, schools and colleges, churches and sports associations.
Teaching Interests
Records and archives management, information management and Librarianship.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- Garaba, F. 2016. User perceptions about archives at the Lutheran Theological Institute Library, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. J. Lib. Arch. & Inf. Sc. 26 (1):73-84.
- Garaba, F. 2015. Dodos in the archives: rebranding the archival profession to meet the challenges of the 21st century within ESARBICA. Archives and Records: the Journal of the Archives and Records Association 36 (2):216-225.
- Garaba, F. 2015. Disembodied archives: the disconnectedness of records and archives management practices within the Pietermaritzburg Cluster of Theological Libraries, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Verbum et Ecclesia 36 (1), Art. #1357, 1-20.
- Garaba, F. 2015. Tabernacles of memory revisited: an assessment of the oral history projects in institutional repositories in the Pietermaritzburg Cluster of Theological Libraries (PCTL), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Information Development 32 (5): 1387-1401.
- Garaba, F. 2014. Preparing collections for digitization: the case of religious archives in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Verbum et Ecclesia 35 (1) Art.# 1319:1-5.
- Garaba, F. 2014. Religious archives in the East and Southern Africa Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA): their importance and the need for a national framework. ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives 33:45-56.
- Garaba, F. and Zaverdinos, A. 2014. The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in South Africa: an introduction to its archival resources held at the Lutheran Theological Institute (LTI) Library, and the challenges facing this archive (Part 1 & 2). Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology 42 (1-2):5-28 & 29-37.
- Garaba,F. 2014. From obscurity to frontline: striving for transformation for archives and the archival profession from an advocacy perspective for the Pietermaritzburg Cluster of Theological Libraries (PCTL) in South Africa. ATLANTI: review for modern archival theory and practice 24 (1):259-263.
- Garaba, F. 2013. Capturing the broad spectrum of human experience: some suggestions on the adoption of the hybrid model as an appraisal methodology. ATLANTI: review for modern archival theory and practice 23 (1):185-193.
- Garaba, F. 2013. Collection stewardship constrained by resources: the management of religious archives in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal region. Verbum et Ecclesia 34 (1) Art. # 788:1-11.
- Garaba, F. 2013. The FIFA goals landmark controversy: a case for records keeping in international sports management. ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives 32:76-79.
- Garaba, F. 2012. Availing the liberation struggle heritage to the public: some reflections on the use of Web 2.0 technologies in archives within ESARBICA. Information Development 28 (1): 22-31.
- Garaba, F. 2012. The incunabula of African intellectualism and civilization: some reflections on the preservation of the Timbuktu manuscripts. Journal of the South African Society of Archivists 45: 95-102.
- Garaba, F. 2012. Towards public domain management of liberation struggle heritage records in Eastern and Southern Africa. African Journal of Libraries, Archives and Information Science 22 (2):133-142.
- Garaba, F., Stilwell, C. and Ngulube, P. 2011. The microfilm of the new millennium: the digitization of the liberation struggle heritage in east and southern Africa. Innovation: journal of appropriate librarianship and information work in Southern Africa 42: 33-53.
- Garaba, F. An endangered resource: the preservation of liberation struggle archives in east and southern Africa. Africa Research & Documentation 15: 25-36.
- Garaba, F. 2011. Provenance, identification, restitution and management of the liberation struggle heritage in the ESARBICA region. Journal of the South African Society of Archivists 44: 26-42.
- Garaba, F. and Ngulube, P. 2010. Moving with the times in search of permanence: the digitization of “liberation struggle” archives in southern Africa. Historia 55 (2):163 -181.
- Garaba, F. and Ngulube, P. 2008. A framework for an investigation into the management of former national liberation movements’ records and archives by national and private archival institutions in eastern and southern Africa. ESARBICA Journal 27:147-17.
- Garaba, F. 2007. The state of archival appraisal practices in the ESARBICA region. African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science 17 (1):59-63.
- Garaba, F. 2012. From condemnation to best practices in archival theory and practice worldwide: the Brisbane ICA 2012 Conference in retrospect. ICA Newsletter Flash 25: 1-25.
Lectures Presented
- Pockets of excellence and mediocrity: the state of archives in South Africa, 1994 -2016. Lecture presented at the International Institute for Archival Science of Trieste (Italy) and Maribor (Slovenia) “IIAS”, 26th IIAS conference, 27 October 2016.
Awards and Honors
- Canon Collins Scholar 2004-2009