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Pieter van Brakel became a Professor of Information Science in 1985 and transferred from the University of Pretoria to the Department of Information Studies at the Rand Afrikaans University in October 1991. His teaching responsibilities there include information technology, indexing, abstracting, thesaurus construction and all aspects of online searching, including the Internet. He is currently involved in a research programme investigating different applications of the World Wide Web to improve scholarly communication. He spoke to us about his experiences of teaching in an information context and also about the changes to which IT teachers must adjust.