Theo Bothma

Prof Bothma is professor and Head of the Department of Information Science. He joined the University of Pretoria in 1991 and became Head of Department in October 1995. He was appointed as chairperson of the School of Information Technology on 1 September 2008 for a period of four years. His teaching and research focus on information organization and retrieval (including aspects of information literacy, databases for indigenous knowledge and cross-language information retrieval), web development and electronic publishing, as well as on curriculum development. He is the author and co-author of a number of publications and has presented many papers at local and international conferences. He has chaired a number of local conferences, inter alia on Hypermedia (Hypermedia 92, 94, 96), Publishing (1995) and Information Science (ProLISSA 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006). He has been a member of the programme or organizing committee of various local and international conferences; these include four C