UP Institutional Repository Manager & E-Application Specialist
Department of Library Services
University of Pretoria

Tel.: +27 12 420 3082
Fax: +27 12 362 5100
E-mail: ina.smith@up.ac.za

Ina Smith is currently an E-Application Specialist and manager of the open access digital research repository of the University of Pretoria (UPSpace).  She holds a Master's Degree in Computer-Integrated Education, as well as an Honors Degree in Library and Information Science. She started her career as a secondary school teacher in 1992. From 1993 - 2001 she was a cataloguer at the former Pretoria Onderwyskollege, and from 2002 - 2004 an information specialist at the library of the University of Pretoria. Her main areas of interest include the following: Information and Knowledge Management, Institutional Repositories, Archiving and Preservation, Federated Search Engines and Link Resolvers, E-learning (online learning), Instructional Design, Open Access to research and open source software. She acted as consultant for various institutions (incl UNISA) during the implementation of their institutional repositories, and frequently delivers workshops and papers at conferences.