Gwenda Thomas is the Director Scholarly Services and University Librarian at the University of Melbourne since May 2018. Her previous experience includes academic library leadership positions in the South African higher education sector at the University of Cape Town where she was the Executive Director of Libraries and the Library and Information Studies Centre (LISC) at (2011-2018) and the Director of Library Services at Rhodes University (2006-2011) in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province. For the greater part of her professional career, she held senior management positions in the Department of Library Services at the University of South Africa (Unisa) in different capacities between 1989-2000.

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