Prof Bothma is professor emeritus / contract professor and the former Head of the Department of Information Science (1 October 1995 - 30 June 2016). He joined the University of Pretoria in 1991 and became Head of Department in October 1995. He was appointed as chairperson of the School of Information Technology on 1 September 2008 and served two terms, until his retirement on 30 June 2016. He holds a C1 rating from the National Research Foundation (2009 - 2014, 2015 - 2020). In 2009 he was recognised by the University of Pretoria as an exceptional academic achiever, a three-year award (2010 - 2012), and again in 2012 (2013 - 2015). His teaching and research focus on information organization and retrieval (including aspects of information literacy and technologies for e-dictionaries), web development and electronic publishing, as well as on curriculum development. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications and has presented many papers at local and international conferences. He was a member of the SeLA research initiative, initiated by Prof Ulrich Heid of the Institut fur Informationswissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie at the University of Hildesheim in Germany (funded by DAAD, 2011-2015), as well as a collaborator of CentLex at Aarhus University in Denmark, specifically with Professors Henning Bergenholtz and Sven Tarp.  He is joint editor-in-chief of Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies (since 2015; member of the editorial board from 1997-2014) and a member of the editorial boards of SAJLIS and the International Review of Information Ethics (and formerly also of Online Information Review, New Review of Information Networking and Education for Information). He is member of LIASA and the IFLA Standing Committee for Library Theory and Research (since 2015) (and formerly of the Standing Committee for Knowledge Management (two terms, 2005 - 2013, also as the web manager until 2009), as well as an associate of the IFLA/FAIFE committee. He is the editor and co-author of the IFLA/FAIFE World Report 2007 on freedom of access to information and freedom of expression, as well as the IFLA World Report 2010.  

 Library and Information Science Education