Buhle Mbambo-Thata

Biography

Dr Buhle Mbambo-Thata is the Director Resources Development of the African Library and Information Association and Institutions (AfLIA) . Prior to that she was Executive Director of Library Services at the University of South Africa from 2006  until December 2016. She served as University Librarian at the University of Zimbabwe from 2001 until 2006. 

She serves as member of  the Board of Directors of the National Library of South Africa,  Council on Research Libraries CLIR and African Journals Online (AJOL).

Dr Mbambo-Thata has served as Governing Board member of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).  She was a member of the Strategic Advisory Network of the Global Libraries Programme of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She has previously served on various committee affiliations including the Library Network of the Association of Commonwealth Libraries, the E-Knowledge Society for Women in Southern Africa (of which she was chairperson), the advisory committees of EIFL Found.net, 2004-2007; the Gender in Africa Information Network 1996-2001 and the Access to Learning Award of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Her research interests are in women and ICT, ICT applications in libraries.

She is passionate about Library development  generally, and in Africa in particular.