Jaya Raju

Jaya Raju is a professor and Head of the Department of Knowledge and Information Stewardship at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Information Studies (University of KwaZulu-Natal) and is an NRF rated researcher. Her area of research is Library and/or Information Science (LIS) education and its epistemological implications for the discipline as well as for professional practice, particularly in the African developing context. She was Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science (2012–2018); serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of several journals, such as the African Journal of Libraries, Archives and Information Science, International Journal of Information, Diversity & Inclusion, Open Information Science, Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies and the African Journal of Communication & Information Science. She is co-editor of the ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Book Series on LIS education and research and the International Insights Column of College & Research Libraries News. She also serves as Subject Chair (LIS and multi-disciplinary journals) on the Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board, an international group of scientists and researchers representing major scientific disciplines and tasked with evaluating journals applying for inclusion on the Scopus indexing list.