#InTheSpotlight with Prof Daisy Selematsela, Executive Director, Unisa Library

Prof Selematsela is a recent recipient of the Knowledge Management Leadership Award 2016 conferred by the Global Knowledge Management Congress in association with the World Education Congress Global Awards, held in Mumbai India, and is Professor of Practice of Information and Knowledge Management at the University of Johannesburg. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Social Science), University of Limpopo, a Postgraduate Diploma in Information Science, a Master of Information Science (M. Inf.) and a D Litt et Phil degree in Information Science and Knowledge Management from the University of Johannesburg. She also holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Resource Service for Women in Higher Education (HERS): University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business Leadership and Bryn Mawr College: Philadelphia, USA (31st Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education).She serves on a number of scientific bodies and was an editorial board member of the CODATA Data Science Journal and is a reviewer of several programmes. She also serves on the boards of several organisations, including the National Library of South Africa(NLSA), the Council for Library and Information Services (NCLIS), the Council of the National Archives of South Africa, the Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA). Prof Selematsela is an Executive Board member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Member of the South African Bureau of Standards Knowledge Management Technical Committee - SABS TC 170 - Stakeholder Engagement 2015.