Library & Information Services

A facilitated snapshot of library strengths and risks — useful for Senate papers, executive forums, or annual strategy refresh.

• Leadership / executive workshop format
• Teaching, research support, spaces, and culture lenses
• Prioritisation for next-cycle investments
• Short written summary

Evidence snapshot across print, electronic, and usage signals — informing acquisitions, withdrawals, and licence negotiations.

• Collection and usage indicators framed for executives
• Subject / faculty pinch-points surfaced
• Affordable action themes (collaboration, sharing, targeted buys)
• Briefing compatible with institutional reporting cycles

Policies, workflows, and roles for compliant, researcher-friendly RDM — bridging ICT, legal, ethics, and faculty expectations.

• Service blueprint (tiers, intake, escalation)
• Policy and guideline scaffolding
• Training and advocacy hooks
• Phased rollout aligned to capacity

Repository, publishing pathways, and incentives aligned to NRF signals and institutional research goals — pragmatic for South African budgets.

• OA models and embargo realism
• Repository governance and staffing implications
• Researcher communications plan
• Metrics executives can monitor

Programme-led vision for informal learning, collaboration zones, and hybrid Library-as-place — linking pedagogy, estates, and student success.

• Space programme and zoning concepts
• Stakeholder engagement with faculties and SRC interfaces
• Phasing tied to capex and refurbishment windows
• Principles architects and estates teams can brief against

Risk-based roadmap for safeguarding digitised and born-digital collections — proportionate to your scale and ICT partnerships.

• Collection profiling and risk tiers
• Storage, fixity, and migration principles
• Governance between library, ICT, and archives
• Phased investment narrative for executives