It is now easy for academic staff and students to provide their assessment of the many databases to which the Library runs trials each year. An online evaluation form is available by clicking on 'Evaluate this database' under each trial database listed under 'What is New' and we encourage staff and students to make use of this form. Feedback received will help Library staff determine which databases would be the most valuable additions to the Library’s collection of electronic resources....read more

Please seriously consider creating a ResearcherID for yourself.
This free facility from ISI provides an excellent way to list your publications in one place and showcase them (and Rhodes!) to the world. You can add your hyperlinked, unique ResearcherID to your e-mail signature, website, etc., for easy access. ResearcherID also provides an easy way to view your citations and h-index....read more

In spite of having opened on the first day of the Easter vacation, this facility has been occupied by an average of 17 students a day during its first two weeks of operation. Heavy use is expected after the second term starts on Monday, 16 April.
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Try the new quick and easy way to link to our extensive collection of databases. Select Databases: easy links from the drop down menu under Resources. The alphabetical list includes the logo and brief description of each database to which the Library subscribes. One click and you’re into the database of your choice!...read more

Where? Short Loan section, Level 1 (48 hour loan)
Click on the “read more” link below to view the complete list of DVDs ((add your keywords to the search box to refine) ) and see the following selections: David Attenborough; World Wars; Natural History; Business;
Warner Home Video; Charles Dickens; Ecology; BBC productions; Mass Media; Psychology
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Postgraduates! Sign up on RUConnected (http://ruconnected.ru.ac.za/) for the RefWorks workshops which Library staff will be offering in the Library Xstrata Training Room (Level 2) on the following days and times:

Wed 29 February: 13h15 – 14h15 and 16h00 – 17h00
Wed 07 March: 13h15 – 14h15 and 16h00 – 17h00

RefWorks is a web-based research management service, similar in function to products such as EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite.


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Vuyo Gontshi, Debbie Martindale and Lucky Mosia-Xaba left on Monday for an exciting ten week study visit to the United States. They will spend the first two weeks at the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During the rest of the programme, Vuyo will be hosted by Yale University, Debbie by the University of Washington at St Louis, Missouri, and Lucky by the University of Arizona in Tucson. They will gather in San Francisco for a mid-internship meeting with their mentors, with staff of the Carnegie Corporation of New York (the project funders), and with the Research Libraries Consortium (RLC) Project Director and Manager.
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Warren Mayer, a BA1 student, is the lucky winner of the Android Alphapad tablet computer, first prize in our O-week “Amazing Place” competition.
The competition proved to be very popular - more than 900 new first year students found out about the Library services by taking part in our version of the “Amazing Race”.
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The winner of the Alphapad Android tablet computer which was the first prize in our “Amazing Place” competition is Warren Mayer. Other prize winners are: Andile Kheswa, Jarryd Pauls, Sahar Davachi Omoumi, Timothy van Rooyen, Jedrick Theron (2 GB flashdrives); Busi Tshabalala (umbrella) and Dylan McCarthy, James Taylor, Asanda Cingo (book bags). Jeanne Berger, the Library’s Deputy Director, drew the winning names from over 900 entries received during O-Week....read more

First Year students who attend Library sessions on the Monday afternoon & on Tuesday & Wednesday of O-Week, 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:

First prize: Alphapad Android 17.7 cm tablet computer worth R2000
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