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Title
Mrs.
Firstname
Tiragalo
Middlename
Josephine
Lastname
Masibi
Position
Librarian
Department
Office
LG22
Phone
355 5156
Professional Qualifications

MA (Archives and Records Management), PGDE, BA (English).

Brief Biography

Mrs Tiragalo Josephine Masibi is a Librarian at the University of Botswana Library. She has over five years of experience in library and information services. She is an active member of professional associations including Botswana Library Association and Records and Information Association of Botswana, where she advocates for social transformative and universal access to information services, facilities, and resources. Tiragalo  is also fully engaged in research and scholarship on breaking barriers to universal access to information, inclusive  and representative archives’/librarianship and archival representation in Botswana.

Research Areas

Archival Representation, Inclusive Representative Archives, Universal access to information.

Selected Publications

Masibi, T.J. (2020. Accessibility of Library and Information Services: Experiences of a University Library, in Disability is not Inability, Chapter 25, Amanze, J.N. and Nkomazana, F. (Ed), Mzuni Press, Malawi.

Masibi, T.J., Mnjama, N. and Sebina, P.M. (2019). Minority and majority representation in archives: a literature review. presented at the 2019 DLIS 3rd Biennial conference on Information and Knowledge management held in Gaborone, 16-19 April 2019.

Masibi, T.J (2018) Marketing and Promotion of academic library resources and services in Shanghai: A learning curve for Botswana Libraries. Presented at the Botswana Library Association Conference held in Gaborone, 17-21 September 2018.

Kootshabe, T.J. and Mnjama, N. (2014) Preservation of government records in Botswana. In the Journal of the South African Society of Archivists, Vol. 47, 2014.

Kootshabe, T.J. and Ndabambi, I. (2010) Whistle-blowing and Records Management: the key to accountability and good governance. 

In pursuit of academic excellence