Prof MA Dikotla

Qualifications

• PhD (UFH)
• MINF; BInf (Hons)
• BInf (UL)
• PGDHE (DUT)

Currently teaching

• Information Technology in Organisation and Retrieval of Information (HAI4802)
• Practical portfolio( AIS3705)
• Post graduate supervision

Fields of academic interests

• Records management
• Information and Knowledge management
• School and public libraries
• Teaching and learning
• Information organisation
• Information access and information retrieval
• Information for development

Books

Marutha NS and  Dikotla MA,2022 . Mixed-Method Approach Operational Paradoxes in Social Science Research: Views From the Authors. In Handbook of Research on Mixed Methods Research in Information Science. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8844-4.ch013

Journal articles

• Dikotla,MA and Ledwaba L,2023. The influence of organisational culture on knowledge sharing in some municipalities in Limpopo, South Africa. Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies 40 (4):17 pages . https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-659X/11471.
•  Dikotla,MA and Mokgolo MM,2023. Nature and Patterns of Newspaper Coverage of Poor Records Management and its Impact on the Provision of Government Services in South Africa, Mousion, Vol. 40 No. 3 (2022): Special Issue
•  Lund, Brady; Dikotla, Maoka; Mahlatji, Matlala; Wang, Ting; and Esther Abosede, Awojobi,2023. "Cultural Competency in Universities and Library Services: Definition and Review" (2023). Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal). 7544. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/7544
•  AL Legodi & MA Dikotla,2022. E-docket system for improved administration and justice delivery in selected Limpopo province police stations. Journal of the South African Society of Archivists 55, 27-40
•  Mokgolo, M.M. & Dikotla,M.A., 2022. Relationship between situational determinants of teachers’ perceptions of organisational politics and job satisfaction, South African Journal of Education DOI: 10.15700/saje.v42ns1a2127
•  Mokgolo, M.M. & Dikotla,M.A., 2021, ‘The management of disciplinary cases in the South African public service post-2009 to the 2018 era’.  Africa’s Public Service Delivery and Performance Review(1),a525.https://doi.org/10.4102/apsdpr.v9i1.52
•  Bopape, ST Dikotla, M.A, Mahlatji, M.R, Ntsala NJ and Makgahlela, LA. 2017. Identifying the information needs of public library and information services users in Limpopo province. SA Jnl Libs & Info Sci 2017, 83(1).
•  Bopape, ST Dikotla, M.A, Mahlatji, M.R, Ntsala NJ and Makgahlela, LA. 2021. Public and Community Libraries in Limpopo Province, South Africa: Prospects and Challenges. SA Jnl Libs & Info Sci Vol 87, No 1 (2021).
•  Khanya A.I and Dikotla M.A,2021. Digitalisation of library services as a magnifying factor in improving public library services in Limpopo. Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
•  Dikotla, M.A. (2021), "Remodelling public sector knowledge management system using key knowledge management processes", Collection and Curation,Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/CC-06-2020-0016
•  Dikotla, M.A, Ledwaba,LA and Ntsala MJ 2020. Accessibility of Health Information provided by the Clinics in the   Capricorn Region in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal).
• Ledwaba,L,Dikotla,MA and Mahlatji MR,2020. Teaching and learning of cataloguing and classification in higher education: a case study: Innovation : journal of appropriate librarianship and information work in Southern Africa Vol. 2020, No. 60
• Dikotla, M.A, 2019.Knowledge sharing in selected municipalities of Limpopo Province. South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, Vol 85, No 1.
• Bopape, ST Dikotla, M.A, Mahlatji, M.R, Ntsala NJ and Makgahlela, LA. 2017. Identifying the information needs of public library and information services users in Limpopo province. SA Jnl Libs & Info Sci 2017, 83(1).
• Dikotla, M.A., Mahlatji, M.R., Makgahlela, L.A., & Africa, S. (2014). Knowledge management for the improvement of service delivery in South Africa’s municipalities. Journal of Public Administration, 49(3), 847–859.

Paper presentations

• Dikotla, MA, Muswede,T and Mahlatji MR. 2020. Ubuntu, western modernity and the quest for Afrikanisation: the fate of undocumented wisdom, IPADA,2020.
• Dikotla MA & Mahlatji MR. 2016. Knowledge sharing as a means of enhancing performance at universities. IPADA conference, Mokopane.
• Dikotla MA and Makgahlela L.A 2015. Administration of public libraries in South Africa: challenges and prospects. UL, spring lecture.
• Dikotla M.A. & Ledwaba L. 2013. Learning at university: the international students’ experience at the University of Limpopo. Paper presented at Spring Lectures Conference, University of Limpopo, 10-12 September 2013.
• Dikotla,MA, Makgahlela L and Mahlatji MR 2012. The role of Indigenous communication in development of rural communities: Paper presented at National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo,Zimbabwe.
• Dikotla, M.A 2010. The link between LIS schools and job market in South Africa: paper presented at Southern Online User Group conference, CSIR 04 August 2010.
• Ntsala, MJ and Dikotla, MA (2009).Indigenous knowledge in the institutions of higher learning: paper presented at University of Limpopo Turfloop campus Spring lectures.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

Former Chairperson,PRO and secretary Library and Information Association of South Africa(LIASA)-Limpopo branch

Projects

Storytelling as part of community engagement in the department of Information Science.