Position: Head of Department

Faculty of Arts
Qualifications:   PhD (UWC)

Tel:  +27 (21) 959 2437 
Fax: +27 (21) 959 3659
Email: Ngmomoti@uwc.ac.za
 

Biography

Dr Momoti started her career in the academic library sector in 1986 as Special Collections and Archives Librarian for 13 years. She established a Library and Information Management Consultancy firm in 2000, providing training workshops on Library & Information Management services, desktop research, and Information Management support services, such as stock-taking, cataloguing and weeding of library resources.

Dr Momoti joined public sector service in 2001 and held several Senior Management positions in IT, Knowledge and Information Management as well as libraries and archives. Dr Momoti served in various capacities within the public sector including project manager for the Enterprise Content Management project at the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (North-West Province 2011-2012); University Archivist at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and University of the Western Cape. Before joining the SAMRC as Divisional Manager: Knowledge & Information Management in 2019, Dr Momoti was the Director of the Western Cape Provincial Archives (2014-2018). From 2019 until taking up full-time appointment as a lecturer, Dr Momoti was a part-time lecturer at the University of the Western Cape, teaching Knowledge Management to M.LIS students.

Publications

Momoti, N., & King, L. (2021). A Model to Foster Records Use in Evidence-Based Decision-Making: Neither Restricted by Time nor Space. Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies, 39(4).

Momoti, N., & Marutha, N. S. (2021). Whoever Controls the Past, Controls the Future: Archives and Records Management Practitioners’ Response to COVID-19 Pandemic in South Africa. Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies, 39(4).

Momoti, N.G., 2021. A model to foster the use of records for evidence-based decision-making by senior managers in western cape governmental bodies, South Africa. https://etd.uwc.ac.za/handle/11394/8118

Momoti, N and King, L. 2019. A records management model for an intelligent university: the case of the University of the Western Cape. Journal of the Society of Archivists 52, pp.80-94. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/jsasa/article/view/189858

Momoti, N.G.2017. Records management for an intelligent university: the case of the University of the Western Cape (Masters dissertation, University of the Western Cape). https://etd.uwc.ac.za/handle/11394/6191

Conference Papers

Momoti, N. 2020. Digitization of records: best practice for governmental bodies. Webinar presentation, Northern Cape Records Management Forum, 17-18 November 2020.

Momoti, N.G. 2018. Use of records for evidence-based decision making in the public sector. Paper presented at an Annual Conference of the South African Society of Archivists, Hotel Osner, East London, 3-5 July.

Momoti, N.G. 2017. A records management model for an intelligent university. Paper presented at an Annual Conference of the South African Society of Archivists, Sanlam Conference Centre, Cape Town, 4-6 July.

Momoti, NG. 2015. Enterprise content management in the public sector. Paper presented at an Annual Conference of the South African Society of Archivists, Limpopo Provincial Archives, Polokwane, 7-9 July.

Momoti, NG. 2013. The strategic implementation of enterprise content management for effective records management in the South African public sector. Paper presented at the 6th Annual PDESA Knowledge, Archives and Records Management Conference, Breakwater Lodge, Cape Town, 6-7 November.

Momoti, NG. 2006. Cooperation between Information Management and ICT professionals. Paper presented at the Marcus Evans Information Management Conference, Brynston, Johannesburg

Lecturer

Faculty of Arts
Qualifications:   BSc Hons LIS (NUST); MLIS (UWC); PhD (UWC)

Tel:         +27 (21) 959 2437
Fax:        +27 (21) 959 3659
Email:    Rmmabweazara@uwc.ac.za

Bio
Dr Mabweazara joined the Department as a full-time Lecturer in January 2020. She was a runner-up for the 3MT® doctoral thesis competition held at UWC in 2018. Moira’s research interests and expertise are partly built on the foundations of her PhD. She has a keen interest in the impact of digital technologies (including social media) on academic libraries in Africa as well as trends in higher education and a range of aspects around scholarly communication. She co-published some of her research in peer-reviewed journals and is currently developing research papers based on her PhD. Moira teaches a range of undergraduate modules, including History of Information Services; Information Literacy, and Collection Management. She previously taught the following modules: Serial Publications and Bibliographic Control as well as Information Sources and Services.

Publications
Mabweazara, R.M. & Zinn, S. 2020. Expectations of Academics from the 21st century Academic Library: Experiences from Zimbabwe.  African Journal of Library,Archives and Information Science, 30(2):99-111.

Mabweazara, R.M and; Zinn, S. 2016. Assessing the appropriation of social media by academic librarians in South Africa and Zimbabwe. South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, 82(1): 1-12.