WORKING OUTSIDE THE CURRICULUM TO WORK YOUR WAY IN
Information Literacy Workshops for Undergraduates

Google Scholar workshops for undergraduates will be offered in the 2nd term in the Library's Xstrata Training Room (Level 2).

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
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RefWorks is a web-based research management service, similar in function to products such as EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite.

With RefWorks you can: Organize your information in one convenient place; Generate correctly formatted bibliographies in virtually any style, in seconds; Import references from diverse information sources; Manage all types of source content-not just bibliographic data.
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Educate Yourself @ your library

Libraries have always played a role in education, be it a school, academic, public or special library. In the current environment in which we operate, the public library has, for example, largely fulfilled a school library role to fill the gap left by the lack of school libraries. Apart from the “formal” role that libraries play in this arena, they have also always played an informal role in the education of our communities. The concept of lifelong learning is one embodied in all libraries especially public and community libraries. The fact that any person, young or old, rich or poor, employed or unemployed, can walk into a library and find information (in both electronic and traditional formats) to educate and enrich themselves, is one of the major plusses in the favour of libraries.


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Welcome to Rhodes University Library - a dynamic place to visit! This guide has been designed to assist you to become familiar with both print & electronic resources and on-site & virtual services at the Library ...read more

In additon to several individual encyclopedias (see below), Rhodes Library also subscribes to the Oxford Reference collection of over 125 core academic subject, language, and quotations dictionaries.

PLEASE be aware of these useful resources, particularly those of you who resort to Wikipedia for reference purposes!...read more

The draw for the prize winners in the Library's Amazing Place competition for new First Year students took place in the Library on Monday 11th February at 17h00. The Library's Director, Ujala Satgoor, randomly chose the 12 winners from a pile of over 1100 entries. The prizewinners are:...read more

New First Year students who attend ONE of the Library sessions during O-Week ( Monday, 4 Feb -14h00, 14h50 OR Tuesday, 5 Feb OR Wednesday, 6 Feb - 09h00, 09h50, 10h40, 11h30, 13h30, 14h20, 15h10) and who complete a simple series of tasks aimed at getting to know the Library - “The Amazing Place” - have a chance to win one of several prizes:

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Most students (and academics) head for Google Scholar when doing research, and usually find what they want. Because of this, some have questioned why the Library spends money on expensive journals when “they are free on Google Scholar”. WRONG – not free! ...read more

At a function held in the library on 26 September 2012, the draw for the winners of the prizes for participating in the LibQUAL+® survey took place. Out of all the Rhodes University Library Users who took part in the survey, 50 names were randomly selected and placed in a container. The names of the lucky winners were then drawn by Dr Peter Clayton (DVC: Research) and Ms Ujala Satgoor (Director: Library Services) in front of an audience of distinguished guests, the lucky finalists and library staff.

The winner, Aqualine Kuretu, receives her prize from Ms Ujala Satgoor, with Dr Peter Clayton...read more

The work exhibited in the Library is a selection of some of the best work that the third year photojournalism students have produced this year. We hope that you enjoy the photos and learn from them....read more