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Khutsafalo Kadimo

Khutsafalo Kadimo

Gaborone

Summary

I am a well-experienced librarian, a Medical Library Association (USA) Cunningham Memorial International Fellow – 2023, and a University of Botswana Medical Librarian. I served several years in agricultural information systems (Botswana College of Agriculture, now Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources), and health information systems (University of Botswana, Faculty of Medicine). Currently, I serve as a research-support librarian at the University of Botswana (UB), Faculty of Medicine, providing encompassing research services, and leading the evidence synthesis service at the University of Botswana. Also, I am a member of the UB Biomedical Institutional Review Board. I have published in several journals, and I also serve on the editorial boards and review for academic journals. Internationally, I serve as a member of the World Health Organization.|Research4Life Group B (developing countries) country representative and regionally, I am the Vice President of the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA), and a member of the Network of African Medical Librarians (NAML). Locally, I am the secretary for the Botswana Library Consortium, EIFL Copyright Coordinator, and Open Access Coordinator in Botswana, a member of Free Open-Source Software (FOSS), and a member of the Botswana Library Association.

Author ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9613-4393

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khutsafalo-kadimo-a26a9a34/

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Librarian

University of Botswana
10.2014 - Current
  • University of Botswana, Faculty of Medicine research output collating and reporting: collecting of research outputs of all the ten departments in the and reporting them quarterly and annually. The reporting is aimed at both reporting the research impact and facilitating the archiving of the research outcomes in the university Research Management System and the institutional repository.
  • University systematic reviews service librarian (reviews, scope reviews, rapid reviews, meta-analysis, etc): Developing and formalizing the systematic review service in the University of Botswana. Offering support for systematic review projects (more than 50 projects and other consultancies). Capacity building (training/workshops) for library staffing, Faculty of Medicine and Medical students, University of Botswana Post-graduate students (over 250 attendants), teaching and co-supervision (MBBS-IV Systematic Review Elective as a Covid-19 Emergency Teaching Intervention) and core-teaching in the Department of Library and Information Studies (systematic searching). I also provide capacity building, mentoring, and coaching on evidence synthesis (systematic reviews) through the Network of African Medical Librarians (NAML).
  • Writing retreat: planning and facilitating the Faculty of Medicine five-day writing retreat where faculty and residents/postgraduate students submit their topics and are included in the five-day writing retreat. The five days include presentations on writing introductions, methods, results, and discussions (attendants then write over the five days and they are provided with critical readers such that they leave the retreat with a complete manuscript. And for myself I focus on resourcing (providing time for brainstorming and searching for and providing information sources) all the topics, making presentations on how and where to search for information resources, how to manage the data, where to publish (informing the decision with specific topics such as evaluating a journal, identifying predatory journals, etc).
  • Information Literacy: Provide training to faculty and students (undergraduates/MBBS and Postgraduates/GME) on library online resources mainly the Databases like [Ebscohost, Ucentral, PubMed, Medline, ERIC, Web of Science, ClinicalKey, VisualDx, UpToDate, HINARI Online journals and eBooks, etc.]. Teaching information literacy in the MBBS program and examining it through the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).
  • Curriculum development and review: Contribute to the development of the Information Literary Curriculum for the University of Botswana Library offered or delivered in partnership with the University of Botswana Continuous Study Skills (Department under Centre for Academic Development). Review of the University of Botswana Faculty of Medicine curriculum introducing embedded information literacy and other areas of importance such as indigenous knowledge, traditional medicine, etc. Contributed to the development module and the course material and training for the health informatics library module Development of the curriculum for the Diploma in Health Information Science (HIS) that graduated its first cohort on September 4, 2020, at the Centre for Education Development in Health Arusha (CEDHA). We developed the curriculum as the Network of African Medical Librarians (NAML) and the curriculum was first tested in Tanzania.
  • MLearning: To ensure continued and seamless access to learning and clinical information, communication, and collaboration between residents, medical students, and faculty, the UBFoM implemented a mlearning project. Students and faculty were given tablets pre-loaded with medical information resources in the form of medical apps and guidelines. The mlearning project was part of a broader eLearning strategy implemented to support medical education (Kebaetse 2014; Kebaetse 2016) and funded through the United States Government-funded Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI). The mlearning project was implemented by a diverse team of personnel, including the Botswana-UPenn Partnership (BUP) who pioneered mHealth work in Botswana, UB support professionals, an educational technologist, medical librarians, and Information Technology (IT) specialists.
  • Tablet project (mLearning): Offering support services like tablet/smartphone configuration, medical databases installation and authentication, and user training and support. Develop guidelines for device set-up and configuration for Blackberry, Android, and IOS. Also, guidelines for using medical applications such as UpToDate, Skyscape, Medscape, Ebscohost, Ucentral, and PubMed.
  • Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD): Towards the end of United States Government-funded Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) funding for mLearning, the implementation team explored BYOD as a sustainable option for institutionally provided devices. Students and faculty would use their mobile devices, thus relieving the FoM from the pressure of procuring and issuing institutional devices. We soon learned that such a transition from institutionally provided mobile devices to personally owned mobile devices required a guiding policy. Due to the paucity of medical education literature on examples of BYOD policies the team conducted a semi-systematic review of the literature to explore various components that could potentially inform BYOD policy formulation.
  • Reference Management Software: provision of reference management software (EndNote, Mendeley, and Zotero). The service includes Installation and provision of end-user training and Continued Support for Faculty and Students. As a Mendeley Advisor, I have also been providing reference management software training to other institutions such as the Institute of Health Sciences Gaborone, Botswana Open University, and other regional institutions and researchers through the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) –Nigeria chapter and Network of African Medical Librarians (NAML).
  • Wikipedia Project - The project is a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Botswana Library. The project includes training on creating accounts on Wikipedia, editing articles on Wikipedia, and writing articles or pages on Wikipedia.
  • Community outreach: Access to and use of health information resources normally offered to the Nurses through workshops and conferences. The trainings often cover a lot of databases that are open access to support users beyond the institutional subscription-based resources. Other routine tasks such as: Non-systematic literature searching training and support (searching and retrieval of information sources mainly journal articles): mainly for faculty and postgraduate students.
  • Institutional Repository: publications are harvested and uploaded onto The University of Botswana Library institutional repository named UBRISA.
  • Collection Development Policy: develop a collection development policy for the University of Botswana Library.
  • Library LibGuides development: develop LibGuides for the University of Botswana Library.

Assistant Librarian, Health Sciences

University of Botswana
10.2013 - 09.2014
  • The roles were similar to those of the librarian role, as described above.

Assistant Librarian

Botswana College of Agriculture
05.2011 - 09.2013
  • Company Overview: now Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Sciences
  • Administer the Institutional Repository - The Botswana College of Agriculture institutional repository was set up in both Greenstone Software and Dspace free open source software and the plan was to swiftly migrate to Dspace.
  • Development of Sectional Institutional Repository Administration Manuals: the manuals were produced to standardize the archiving process and most importantly the metadata. Such documentation was also important in ensuring consistency and continuity.
  • Harvesting of Materials: college research output and other strategic documentation were collected for archival purposes as per the institutional repository requirements.
  • Copyright Clearance: Materials selected for archiving in the institutional repository, especially the published articles required copyright clearance before they could be archived and the process included checking them in Sherpa Romeo to verify their status and those that were published in journals that do not allow archiving publishers were formally contacted to request clearance.
  • Digitization of Print Materials: The materials that are selected for archiving but existing in print media only were digitized before archiving the softcopy in PDF format.
  • Uploading: The materials that were selected and cleared for copyright were then uploaded or archived.
  • Information Literacy; the library had an information literacy training program for staff, researchers, and students and the training included accessing and searching the Internet, databases searching, and information retrieval. The Databases included Ebscohost, Ebscohost A-Z, Agricola, TEEAL, Science Direct, etc.
  • Question & Answer Service: The college library has a service targeted at assisting farmers in improving their farming methods through researched information and most importantly supporting their development projects including funding proposals. The service was about receiving requests for information and such information will be searched, retrieved, and delivered via mail or where possible over the counter.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations Repository: Botswana College of Agriculture is a FAO depository and the special collection housing such materials. It being a depository came with a responsibility of pro-actively providing access and exhibitions were done mostly at the agriculture fairs, tertiary education fairs, business community fairs, and events including World Food Day which is celebrated every year in Botswana.
  • Periodicals: The special collections had the responsibility of building a strong collection of newspapers to support learning and most importantly research. The newspapers were collected, binding consignments were prepared and collections were sent out for binding every year. The periodicals collections apart from newspapers also included the Agrinews magazine and Government Gazette and Agrinews.
  • Botswana Collection: Local Publication (Books and periodicals) were collected and that means all the titles published in and about Botswana were collected to build a collection of local publications.
  • SADC Publication: as a way of making our collection specific to our needs and supporting local and regional research needs the library collected the SADC publications and such collection supported research and strategic planning.
  • Now Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Sciences

Library Officer

Botswana College of Agriculture
01.2009 - 05.2011
  • The roles were similar to that of an Assistant Librarian, as described above.

Research Assistant

University of Botswana
11.2008 - 12.2008
  • The University of Botswana, Department of Library and Information Studies was undertaking a country-wide research. The department was undertaking the study as a consultancy contracted by ACHAP but the research was for the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation. The research was a first-hand collection of facts on the ground about the libraries and their capacity around the country and it was the findings that were followed by funding of the Kitsong centers [libraries] around the country that had resources from books to computers and staffing.

Education

Master’s Degree - Archives and Records Management (MARM)

University of Botswana
Gaborone, Botswana
10-2020

Bachelor Degree - Library and Information Studies

University of Botswana
Gaborone, Botswana
10-2008

Undergraduate (Diploma) - Library and Information Studies

University of Botswana
Gaborone, Botswana
10-2006

PhD - [On-going] - Library and Information Studies

University of Botswana
Gaborone, Botswana

MPhil [On-going] - Library and Information Studies

University of Botswana
Gaborone, Botswana

Certification

  • Research4Life resource, 2019
  • UpToDate Certified Trainer, Wolters Kluwer Health, 2017
  • ITOCA Trainers Trainer, Research4Life, 2013
  • Mendeley Certificate of Achievement, Mendeley, 2013

Position Held

Assistant Librarian, Librarian

Date Of First Employment

12 February 2009

Related Professional Courses

  • CE401 Developing a Systematic Review Service, Medical Library Association (USA), Washington, Seattle, 2016
  • CE702 Introduction to Systematic Reviews for Librarians, Medical Library Association (USA), Washington, Seattle, 2016
  • Digital Library Practices & Information Technology Application for Knowledge Management, The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme (ITEC), 2012

Related Professional Exposure

Cunningham Memorial International Fellow, 2023, through the Medical Library Association USA with direct, onsite exposure from various universities and the Library of Congress.

Teaching Experience - Courses Taught

  • 2025-2026, COM 141
  • 2024-2025, COM 141, GME 705, GME 701, SOM 503, LIM 200, 129, 37, 53
  • 2023-2022, COM 141, GME 705, GME 701, SOM 503, LIM 200
  • 2022-2021, COM 141, GME 705, GME 701, SOM 309, SOM 503, LIM 200
  • 2021-2020, COM 141, GME 705, GME 701, SOM 309, SOM 503
  • 2020-2019, COM 141, GME 705, GME 701, SOM 309
  • 2019-2018, COM 141, GME 705, GME 701, SOM 309
  • 2018-2017, COM 141, GME 705, GME 701, SOM 309
  • 2017-2016, COM 141, GME 705, GME 701, SOM 309
  • 2015-2016, COM 141, GME 705, GME 701, SOM 309
  • 2014-2015, COM 141, GME 705, GME 701, SOM 309

System And Software

  • Office suite
  • Mendeley reference management software
  • EndNote reference management software
  • Zotero reference management software
  • Koha Library automation system
  • Drupal Content management software
  • Greenstone Library automation and institutional repository software
  • Dspace institutional repository software
  • Rayyn Systematic review support software
  • DistillerSR Systematic review support software
  • REDCap Research and data management system
  • SPSS statistical data analysis software

Contacts

kadimok@ub.ac.bw, kkadimo@gmail.com, +267 355-5606, +267 74258403, P. O. Box 2152 ABG, Sebele Mall, Gaborone, Gaborone

Personal Information

  • Title: Librarian at the University of Botswana, Faculty of Medicine
  • Date of Birth: 08 May 1984

References

  • Dineo Ketshogileng, Senior Librarian-Medicine, University of Botswana Library, +267 3555602, +267 71789830, +267-395-3411, ketshogidk@ub.ac.bw
  • Jacob Ngwako Sekgoni, Director – Botswana National Library Service, Private Bag 0036, Gaborone, Gaborone, +267 75 305 067, +267 71884212, jsekgoni@gov.bw
  • Dr Kagiso Ndlovu, Acting Hospital Commissioner, Sir Ketumile Masire Teaching Hospital, +267 71786953, +267 72274911, kndlovu@skmth.org.bw

Languages

Setswana
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2

Research And Publications - Journal Papers

1. Kadimo, K., & Ayane, G. N. (2018). Diagnosis and surgical management of congenital intestinal malrotation presenting with midgut volvulus in an adult: high index of suspicion (case report).

2. Kadimo, K., Kebaetse, M. B., Ketshogileng, D., Seru, L. E., Sebina, K. B., Kovarik, C., & Balotlegi, K. (2018, Nov). Bring-your-own-device in medical schools and healthcare facilities: A review of the literature. Int J Med Inform, 119, 94-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2018.09.013

3. Kadimo, K., Mutshewa, A., & Kebaetse, M. B. (2022, Mar 10). Understanding the role of the bring-your-own-device policy in medical education and healthcare delivery at the University of Botswana's Faculty of Medicine. Information and Learning Sciences, 123(3/4), 199-213. https://doi.org/10.1108/Ils-09-2021-0077


4. Ayane, G., Motsumi, M., Motlaleselelo, P., & Kadimo, K. (2018). An 80 year old hermaphroditic with Hugh Bren-ner Tumour: a Rare Case Report and Review. African Journal of Urology, 24(3), 202-205.

5. Ayane, G. N., & Kadimo, K. (2018). Diagnosis and surgical management of congenital intestinal malrotation presenting with midgut volvulus in an adult: high index of suspicion (case report). Pan Afr Med J, 29, 154. https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.29.154.13910

6. Ayane, G. N., & Kadimo, K. (2020). Atraumatic Ruptured Giant Renal Tumor. Annals of African Surgery, 17(3), 130–131-130–131.

7. Ayane, G. N., & Kadimo, K. (2020). Truth-telling about terminal illness prognosis in the African context: a review. Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 13(4), 335-343.

8. Ayane, G. N., Walsh, M., Prozesky, D., & Kadimo, K. (2018, Aug). Simultaneous false aneurysm and arterio-venous fistula in the presence of a single wound. Trauma Case Rep, 16, 8-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcr.2018.07.004

9. Ayane, G. N., Walsh, M., Shifa, J., & Khutsafalo, K. (2017). Right congenital diaphragmatic hernia associated with abnormality of the liver in adult. Pan Afr Med J, 28(1), 70. https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.28.70.11249

10. Ayanea, G., Walsha, M., Prozeskyb, D., & Kadimoc, K. Trauma Case Reports.

11. Cox, M., Ayane, G. N., Khutsafalo, K., & Shifa, J. Z. (2017). Spontaneous Splenic Infarcts and Rupture Presenting as Massive Haemoperitoneum.

12. Gezahen N. Ayane, D., Cox Megan, DM2, Jemal Z. Shifa, DM3, Kadimo Khutsafalo4. (2017). Spontaneous Splenic Infarcts and Rupture Presenting as Massive Haemoperitoneum. PULA: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 31(1), 205-210.

13. Jain, P., Jorosi, B., & Kadimo, K. (2024). Bibliometric analysis of the literature on the teaching of information literacy skills in Sub-Saharan African institutions of higher learning. Journal of ICT Development, Applications and Research, 6(1), 1-19.


14. Koobotse, M. O., Zachariah, M., Senabye, B., Gobe, I., Kadimo, K., Nthontho, K. C., Mokomane, M., Koto, G., Phuthego, T., Lekgetho, H., Ndlovu, A., Motswaledi, M., Mbwinja, A., Tawe, L., Ramatlho, P., Paganotti, G. M., Kyokunda, L., Vuylsteke, P., Grover, S., Ramogola-Masire, D., & Kasvosve, I. (2023, Mar). Bibliometric analysis of cancer research outputs in Botswana between 2009 and 2021. Journal of Cancer Policy, 35, 100405. https://doi.org/ARTN 100405
15. 10.1016/j.jcpo.2023.100405

16. Motlaleselelo, P., Kadimo, K., Motsumi, M. J., & Ayane, G. N. (2018). An 80 year old hermaphroditic with HughBrenner Brenner tumor: A rare case report and review of literature.

17. Ndlovu, K., Mauco, K. L., Keetile, M., Kadimo, K., Senyatso, R. Y., Ntebela, D., Valela, B., & Murambi, C. (2022, Mar 15). Acceptance of the District Health Information System Version 2 Platform for Malaria Case-Based Surveillance By Health Care Workers in Botswana: Web-Based Survey. JMIR Form Res, 6(3), e32722. https://doi.org/10.2196/32722

18. Olashore, A. A., Akanni, O. O., Fela-Thomas, A. L., & Khutsafalo, K. (2021, Jul-Sep). The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Health-Care Workers in African Countries: A Systematic Review. Asian Journal of Social Health and Behavior, 4(3), 85-97. https://doi.org/10.4103/shb.shb_32_21

19. Siamisang, K., Rankgoane-Pono, G., Madisa, T. M., Mudiayi, T. K., Tlhakanelo, J. T., Mubiri, P., Kadimo, K., Banda, F. M., & Setlhare, V. (2022, Nov 4). Pediatric tuberculosis outcomes and factors associated with unfavorable treatment outcomes in Botswana, 2008-2019: a retrospective analysis. BMC Public Health, 22(1), 2020. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14477-y

20. Walsh, M., Kadimo, K., Prozesky, D., & Ayane, G. (2018). Simultaneous false aneurysm and arterio-venous fistula in the presence of a single wound.

Timeline

Librarian

University of Botswana
10.2014 - Current

Assistant Librarian, Health Sciences

University of Botswana
10.2013 - 09.2014

Assistant Librarian

Botswana College of Agriculture
05.2011 - 09.2013

Library Officer

Botswana College of Agriculture
01.2009 - 05.2011

Research Assistant

University of Botswana
11.2008 - 12.2008

Master’s Degree - Archives and Records Management (MARM)

University of Botswana

Bachelor Degree - Library and Information Studies

University of Botswana

Undergraduate (Diploma) - Library and Information Studies

University of Botswana

PhD - [On-going] - Library and Information Studies

University of Botswana

MPhil [On-going] - Library and Information Studies

University of Botswana

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