School of Social Sciences

Francis Garaba

Francis Garaba

Francis Garaba

Associate Professor

DisciplineInformation Studies

Email garaba@ukzn.ac.za

Contact Number 033-260-5321

CampusPietermaritzburg Campus

Office Address Office 318, New Arts Building

Last Updated 7 months ago

Degrees held

  • BA HONOURS (History), UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE, 1992
  • Masters (Information Studies), UKZN, 2005
  • PhD, UKZN, 2010

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

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

Community Involvement

  • Teaching and Learning Committee, 2016-2021
  • Innovation: journal of Appropriate Librarianship and Information Work in Southern Africa (Journal editorship – 2024-)
  • ERS Committee member 2022-
  • Mousaion (Reviewer)
  • Information Development (Reviewer)
  • Journal of the South African Society of Archivists (Reviewer and board member)
  • ESARBICA Journal (Reviewer)
  • IGI Global (Reviewer)
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Teaching Expertise

  • Records and archives management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Librarianship

Student Supervision