Prof A K Boekhorst

Albert K. Boekhorst (1943) is a semi-retired information scientist (Universiteit van Amsterdam) and Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria. He has been attached to the Department of Information Science of the University of Pretoria from 1995 – 2001 as a Visiting Lecturer and from 2001 – 2011 as Visiting Professor. He is currently a research fellow of the department. His research concentrates on the access to information, especially on information literacy and the role of (school) libraries. Among others he is Information Officer of the IFLA School Libraries section, member of IASL and KNVI (Dutch Association for Information Professionals). He participated in several UNESCO Expert Group Meetings on Media and Information Literacy and coordinated the worldwide UNESCO TtT in Information Literacy workshops series. He was involved in writing the UNESCO-IFLA MIL Recommendation. See further albertkb.nl.