Michelle Kahn

Room 5.04, Level 5, The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library/Hlanganani

Michelle Kahn is a lecturer in the Department of Knowledge and Information Stewardship with responsibilities including teaching and supervising students in the Postgraduate Diploma and Masters programmes. She holds a BA (Honours) in English Language and Literature, Postgraduate Diploma in Library and Information Science and an MPhil degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Cape Town. She is currently a PhD candidate conducting research in the area of research data management (RDM).

She teaches courses on information resources (production of knowledge, collection development, information retrieval, reference services, and information literacy), research librarianship (including topics of scholarly communication, research impact (bibliometrics & altmetrics), performance evaluation, and digital humanities) and in RDM.

Research publications

Oosthuizen, C. & Kahn, M. 2022. The research support needs of emerging researchers employed at the Education Faculty of a University of Technology. Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the SLA Academic Division. 12(1): 54-83.

Samupwa, A.N. & Kahn, M. 2022. Research data management practices at the University of Namibia: Moving towards adoption. International Journal of Digital Curation. 16(1). DOI: 10.2218/ijdc.v16i1.769.

Kerchhoff, G., Kahn, M. & Nassimbeni, M. 2019. A 20-year evaluation of PLAAS research outputs: Impact on the scholarly domain and in social media. South African Journal of Science. 115(7/8). DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2019/5655.

Raju, J., Mfengu, A., Kahn, M. & Raju, R. 2019. The transition to open: a metrics analysis of discoverability and accessibility of LIS scholarship. South African Journal of Science, 115(7/8). doi: https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2019/5867.

Kahn, M. & Underwood, P.G.  2018. Space planning in libraries: for students, by students. Education for Information. 34(2): 163-174.

Kahn, M. & Underwood, P.  2015. E-book use in South African academic libraries: what patrons want. Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services. 39(1-2). 23-39. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14649055.2015.1125268

Kahn, M., Higgs, R., Davidson, J. Jones, S. 2014.  Research Data Management in South Africa: how we shape up . Australian Academic & Research Libraries. 45(4): 296-308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048623.2014.951910

Kahn, M. & Underwood, P. 2013. Issues related to the adoption of e-books in academic libraries: a literature review. South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science. 79(2): 10-17. DOI: 10.7553/79-2-141.