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Janet Teresa Zambri


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Janet Teresa Zambri
University of the Witwatersrand,
Inter Library Loans
Wartenweiler Library

Janet Teresa Zambri is the Head of Interlibrary Loans at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa a position she has held since 1994.


She has held leadership positions in Interlending committees in the Academic environment as well as the Interlending arena holding portfolios of Chairperson for the Gaelic Document Supply Workgroup (a regional Academic consortium of libraries in Gauteng, South Africa) and subsequent Focus Group Leader of the Interlending and Document Supply and Support Services Workgroups within Gaelic, Chairperson of the LIASA Interlending Interest Group,

She is a member of Sabinet Online Information Resources Committee, and has served on other library related committees over the years.

Most recently she has been involved in establishing and facilitating workshops for Support Services Library staff within the Gaelic consortium which address library skills and personal development.

She has presented papers at National and International library conferences.

Emerald has published an article by her titled "Developments in South African document supply: the experience of the University of the Witwatersrand." in the Interlending and Document Supply Journal, vol. 34 No. 2 2006 [DOI 10.1108/0264160610669778]

Abstract

Document delivery forms one of the cornerstones for research support within an academic community. One of the challenges document delivery staff has had to face in the past has been locating and retrieving difficult to obtain material for their users. This paper looks at the importance of research and document delivery within the academic context. It discusses the impact of policy decisions and the role they can play in accessing of this vital material. Current South African practice of dissemination of completed theses and dissertations in hard copy format as well as the digitally available material is presented. Trends within the digital dissertation international arena are discussed. The lessons learnt from South African colleagues, and pitfalls to be avoided are highlighted The paper enters into the debate of free or restricted access to digital research work and gives recommendations to the author's parent organization, which may have value for other organizations entering a similar debate. (156 words
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