Ms Susan Myburgh

Welcome to Sue Myburgh's Homepage at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.

Sue's expertise in the area of Information Management has been wide and varied, covering theory and praxis across five continents (Southern Africa, North America, Australia, Europe and South-East Asia) for over two decades. She has published widely in the areas of knowledge management, records management, strategic information management, and gender and technology. Her most recent book is "The new information professional: how to thrive in the information age doing what you love", published by Chandos, Oxford, 2005.

Her PhD, "Defining information: the site of struggle" examines the professional and social implications of diverse interpretations of the concept of information, with particular reference to the work of Information Professionals.

On her sabbatical during 2007, Sue undertook several research projects, including progressing the notion of the teaching/researc nexus; a project examining how universities can become community knowledge centres, particularly for disadvantaged groups (with the Centre for Community Informatics); a community informatics project, and a curriculum development project at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. After this, she travelled to the University of Parma, Italy, to give a keynote address at a conference, and discuss collaboration on EU Erasmus Mundi Masters in Digital Library Learning. She currently has a particular interest in Web 2.0 uses.

She is also in the process of writing two books, both of which are to be published during 2009.

School of Communication, Information and New Media

• The creation of knowledge and knowledge structures
• Human Information Behaviour and information retrieval
• Knowledge representation, including analysis and organisation of information, indexing and abstracting, and information architecture and design.
• Transformative effects of information, (not technology) particularly with regard to social and economic development.
• Social networking and its applications

BA(UNISA)

HDLIS (UCT)

B.Bibl (Hons) (UNISA)

MSc (Inf. Sci.) (Simmons)

M.I.T. (AIIM)

Certificate in Industrial Design (Cape Technikon)

PhD (2007)(UniSA)

• Transformative effects of information for development
• Social networking and its applications
• Identification and resolution of information needs

Books

Please note: My married name was Bleimschein

Myburgh, Sue. (2005). The new information professional: how to thrive in the Information Age doing what you love to do. Oxford: Chandos Publishers. (Invited publication).

Bleimschein, Sue. (1986). Computer applications in information systems : proceedings of a workshop held on 26-27 November 1985. Compiled and edited by Sue Bleimschein. Cape Town : UCT, 1986. ISBN 0-7992-1041-2. (UCT School of Librarianship continuing education series ; no. 1)

Bleimschein, Sue. Bibliographic description : a workbook. Cape Town : UCT, 1987. ISBN 0-7992-1107-9.

Bleimschein, Sue. Bibliographic description : a workbook. 2nd ed., edited by Karen de Jager. Cape Town : UCT, 1989. ISBN 0-7992-1191-5

Chapters in Books

Myburgh, Sue. (February 1998). ¡§The clash of the Titans, or, It¡¦s not over until the fat lady sings¡¨ In: Information Imagineering. Ed. by Pat Ensor, Mark Wolffe. Chicago : American Library Association.

Myburgh, Sue. (1997) "Records Management" In: Introduction to Information Management in Australia, for the Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University.

Myburgh, Sue. (1997) "Corporate Information Resource Management." In: Introduction to Information Management in Australia, for the Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University.

Myburgh, Sue. (1997) "Archives" In: Introduction to Information Management in Australia, for the Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University.

Myburgh, Sue. "Women on the Internet : female participation in discussion groups". In: Women and computing : proceedings on a one-day conference held by the Centre for Gender Studies, University of South Australia, April 1994.

Journal articles Refereed 1. Myburgh, Sue. (2000). Education for Library and information science: a means to an end, not an end in itself. In: Singapore Journal of Library and Information Science. Dec. 2000. 2. Myburgh, Sue. (2000). The convergence of information technology and information management.. In: Information Management Journal, April 2000. 3. Myburgh, Sue. (1999). ¡§Information systems and records management¡¨. In: Records and information management report. Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing.  2003. International Ambassador for ARMA. Attended meetings of the Member Relations Committee in Kansas City; met with senior Archivists, and academics from the University of Geneva; held discussions on collaboration with the Vice-Chancellor and Deans at the University of Malta, and representatives of the National Library Board and Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore; designed and participated in International Day at ARMA International Annual Conference.  Representative for the University of South Australia for the World Summit on the Information Society (United Nations and ITU).  Consulted regularly by the National Research Foundation, South Africa, with regard to assessing applicants for research standing in the international research community  Track Chair. 2002 Informing Science and IT education (InSITE) Conference. 19 – 22 June, 2002. Cork, Ireland. Information and Communications Theory.  Hosted a visit from Professor Archie Dick, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of South Africa, to discuss areas of mutual interest, in particular curriculum design in Knowledge Management, July 2001.  Member of the panel which reviewed the outstanding PhD dissertations in Information Science of 2000/2001 for the UMI Dissertation Award, a prize given by the American Society for Information Science and Technology.  Held meetings with representatives of the National Library Board of Singapore over a period of six months (2001) to establish links with training and education programs offered by the University.  Established working links with Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore, to upgrade their diplomates' qualifications to degrees at this University.  Member of South African Network of Skills Abroad, University of Cape Town [Online]. http://www.uct.ac.za/org/sansa  Member, Advisory Committee, Records Management Policy and Practice, State Records of South Australia. .  Member, Records Management Standards Reference Group. Records Management Association of Australia (RMAA). (1996).  Negotiated student sponsorship for fee-paying courses, and book prizes, with Advanced Data Integration and Tower Software.  Developed of AUSDOC Records Management Scholarship for the Graduate Diploma in Information Studies (Corporate Information and Records Management.)  Developed of employment register for records management students and graduates, at Brambles Records Management (now Recall).  Developed of employment opportunities for Internet/Multimedia students with VIANET.  Involvement with Women in Leadership programme.

Conference proceedings and presentations Refereed 1. Myburgh, Sue (2000). "The answer is blowing in the memes: Einstein as a postmodernist" 2. Myburgh, Sue. (2000). ¡§Postmodernism, Ranganathan and Knowledge management¡¨. 2000 IRMA International Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2000. 3. Myburgh, Sue. (1998) The New Information Professional : is IT convergent or divergent?. International Conference of the FID (Federation Internationale du Documentation) in Jaipur and New Delhi, India, October 1998. 4. Myburgh, Sue. (July, 1998). ¡§The needle in the haystack or using the spade : women¡¦s information-seeking behaviour on the Internet¡¨. Winds of Change Conference - Women in Higher Education. University of Technology, Sydney, July 13 - 17, 1998. 5. Myburgh, Sue. (1998) "Data, information, document, records and knowledge management : is IT convergent or divergent?" Paper presented at the 9th International Information Resources Management Conference, Boston, May 17 - 20 1998. Extract published in refereed proceedings 6. Myburgh, Sue. (1997) What you see is what you get : Cyberchix and Mondobabes. Presented at Women, Work and Computerization Conference of the International Federation of Information Processors, Bonn, Germany. May 1997. Extract published in refereed proceedings. 7. Myburgh, Sue. (1996) "The Virtual Academic : how cybercommunication can change your life¡¨ presented at the Information Technology in Tertiary Education Conference, University of Cape Town, South Africa, April 1996. (Published on the Web). Non-refereed 1. Myburgh, Sue. (2000). Knowledge Management and corporate librarians¡¨ An invited presentation to the Special Libraries Association, Adelaide. 2. Myburgh, Sue. (2000). ¡§Knowledge Management: a lack of consensus¡¨. ALIA Information Science Section 1-day conference on Knowledge management. 3. Myburgh, Sue.(2000). Presentation on Knowledge Management to Graduate public relations students. 4. Myburgh, Sue. Chair of the Panel on Knowledge Management at the 2000 IRMA International Conference in Anchorage, Alaska. 5. Myburgh, Sue. ¡§Information Overload¡¨. Society for Credit Management Annual Conference, Hahndorf, October 1999. 6. Myburgh, Sue. (1999). ¡§Dealing with information anxiety¡¨. Invited presentation at the Attorney-General¡¦s Office, Adelaide. 7. Myburgh, Sue. (1999). [Invited speaker]. ¡§Cutting the hype surround IT in education¡¨. Presentation to St Michael¡¦s school, Adelaide. August. 8. Myburgh, Sue. (1999). [Invited speaker] ¡§Preparation of a functional specification for electronic documents and records¡¨. Presented at the Records Management Association of Australian Conference, Electronic document Management: making it happen. Adelaide, 1999. 9. Myburgh, Sue. (1998). ¡§Women and dealing with information overload¡¨. Presented to Women of the 21st Century, at the Lion Hotel, North Adelaide. 10. Myburgh, Sue. (1998). [Invited Keynote speaker] ¡§IT and the changing academic workplace¡¨, presented to the staff and community of the University of Southern Queensland, 7 October 1998 11. Myburgh, Sue. [Invited keynote speaker] (1998). ¡§The social impacts of information technology¡¨. Presentation to be given to EduationAu and EdNa, at Mawson Lakes, 4 August, 1998. 12. Myburgh, Sue. (1997) ¡§Women, Creativity and the (In)formation Age¡¨. Presented at the Women, Creativity and the (In)formation Age conference, April 17-18, 1997, Adelaide. 13. Myburgh, Sue. (1997) ¡§Wotz IT all about?¡¨ Presented at the Women, Creativity and the (In)formation Age conference, April 17-18, 1997, Adelaide. 14. Myburgh, Sue. (June 1997). ¡§Uses of technology in education and society¡¨. Four hour seminar for DECS senior management, The Orphanage 15. Myburgh, Sue. (1997) ¡§Information Technology, Education and Women¡¨. Presented at the Women in DECS Summer School, Hahndorf, January 1997. 16. Myburgh, Sue. (1996) [Invited keynote speaker] ¡§The nature and problems of electronic publishing.¡¨ Paper presented to the Serials Special Interest Group, South African Institute of Library and Information Science, Cape Town, April 1996. 17. Myburgh, Sue (1996) [Invited keynote speaker] (1996). ¡§Women and educational technology¡¨ Presented at a 2 day Conference of the South Australian Institute of Teachers, Adelaide, Friday 8 November. 18. Myburgh, Sue. (1996) [Invited] ¡§What you see is what you get : women on the Internet.¡¨ Presented at the LETA Conference, Women in Technology Strand in Adelaide, October 1996. (Paper available on the Web). 19. Myburgh, Sue [Invited]. (1996) ¡§Are multimedia games patriarchal, or are women technophobic?¡¨, presented at the WIFT (Women in Film and Television) conference, Taking the byte, 29 October, Ngapartji Centre, Rundle Street, Adelaide. 20. Myburgh, Sue. (1997) "Career development and education for the modern records manager", (1996) presented at the Workshop on Electronic Records, 8-9 July, Adelaide. 21. Myburgh, Sue (1996) [Invited keynote speaker] "Women and educational technology" Presented at a 2 day Conference of the South Australian Institute of Teachers, Adelaide, Friday 8 November. 22. Myburgh, Sue. (1996) [Invited keynote speaker] "Developing educational programmes in Records Management". Presented at the Recfind Users' Group, State Records, 25 September 1996. (Full written paper, non-refereed conference proceedings) 23. Myburgh, Sue. [Invited] (1996). ¡§Taking the hype out of hypermedia¡¨ Catholic Education Office, 27 September, 1996. 24. Myburgh, Sue. (1996). ¡§Career development and education for the modern records manager¡¨, presented at the Workshop on Electronic Records, 8-9 July, 1996. Adelaide. 25. Myburgh, Sue. (1996) ¡§Women and technology¡¨, at DECS, The Orphanage, 17 September 1996 26. Myburgh, Sue. (1996) "Geekgirl or Cyberfrau? : understanding of women on the Internet . Presented at the 6th International Women's Congress in Adelaide, April 1996; 27. Myburgh, Sue. (1995) [Invited] "Market research on the Internet" Paper presented at the Marketing and Advertising on the Internet Conference, Sebel Townhouse, Sydney, 13-14 November 1995. (Published on the Internet) 28. Myburgh, Sue. (1995) [Invited] "Commerce in Cyberspace" Paper presented at the Information Access Superhighway Conference, Darling Harbour, Sydney, 20 November 1995. (Published on the Internet) 29. Myburgh, Sue. (1995) (Workshop leader) "Children and the Information Superhighway". Paper presented to Child Psychiatrists at the Women and Children's Hospital, 20 October 1995. 30. Myburgh, Sue. (1995) [Invited] (Keynote speaker) "Potential of Information Technology for the Women's Switchboard." Paper delivered at the Planning Day for the Women's Switchboard staff, 5 July 1995. 31. Myburgh, Sue. (1995) [Invited] (Keynote speaker) Marketing on the Internet. A presentation made to the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research, 31 August 1995. 32. Myburgh, Sue. (1995) [Invited] (Keynote speaker). "Information technology and human relationships." Paper delivered at a one day seminar held in Adelaide on 20 September, 1995 by MFP Australia and Relationships Australia. 33. Myburgh, Sue. (1995) "Women and the Internet : a matter of confidence?" Paper presented at the Centre for Gender Studies, Adelaide University, 5 May 1995. 34. Bleimschein, Sue. (1987) "Electronic mail and electronic publishing". Presented to the Special Libraries Interest Group, October 1987. 35. Bleimschein, Sue. (1986) "Introduction to the use of information technology. At: Computer applications in information systems Cape Town : UCT, 1986 36. Bleimschein, Sue. (1986) "Applications of telecommunications and networking" In: Computer applications in information systems...1986. 37. Bleimschein, Sue. (1987) "Cataloguing works issued by Corporate Bodies". Presented at the Workshop on AACR2, May 1987. 38. Bleimschein, Sue. (1987) "Electronic mail and electronic publishing" Presented to the Special Libraries Group, October 1987. 39. Bleimschein, Sue. (1987) "Cataloguing of series and serials." Paper presented at a meeting of the Cataloguing Interest Group, Cape Town, 1987. 40. Bleimschein, Sue. (1986) "Microcomputer applications in small libraries". Paper presented at the South African Defence Force Library Conference, Silvermine, April 1986. 41. Bleimschein, Sue. (1986) "The management of change". Paper presented at the seminar "Management of change in Information professions" in May 1986 42. Bleimschein, Sue. (1986) "Cataloguing and information retrieval for Special Librarians". Paper presented at a meeting of the Special Libraries Association, Cape Town, April 1986.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Librarianship

• Information and society: transformative effects of information
• Social networking and Library/Web 2.0
• Human information behaviour
• Advanced information seeking on the Internet
• Strategic Information Management, Knowledge Management