Google Scholar Workshops for Undergraduates in 2nd Term
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 Workshops are taking place in the Rhodes Library on Wednesdays from 10 April to 12 June
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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South African Library Week 16-23 March
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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New Students and Staff: Getting Started at Rhodes Library
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
Online subject encyclopedias/dictionaries for RU staff & students
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!
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Amazing Place Competition Winners
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
Library O-Week Competition
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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Google Scholar article access – the Library is behind it!
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
The winners of Rhodes Library LibQUAL+® prizes
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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
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Telling stories: Photojournalism 3, 2012
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
Open Access Week, 22 - 28 October 2012
Celebrate Open Access Week from the 22nd to the 28th of October.
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its sixth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
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Library System Notice
The Library system will be unavailable from 16h00 on Wednesday the 3rd October, for the Library system migration to Sierra (the next generation software upgrade of the currently used Millennium Integrated Library System).
Access to the OPAC and the subscribed e-resources will also be affected by the shutdown.
Loan transactions will be handled manually during the shutdown.
The system is expected to be available again from Thursday morning, 4th October.
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FREE and near you: Presentation 'Publishing Scientific Research'
For your research to be recognized you need to publish it. 'Publish or perish' is the popular phrase.
How to choose the appropriate journal? How do you improve your chances of getting your research paper accepted? How is the Impact Factor calculated? What are the differences between Open Access publishing and Traditional publishing?
We hope to answer all these questions (and more) if and when you join us on:
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Now online - Inter Library Loan request form
The request form for books and articles via the Library's Inter Library Loans (ILL) is now available online.
http://opac.seals.ac.za/screens~S2/ill_s2.html
Please note that you need to be registered on the Library login facility in order to use the online ILL.
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Benchmark your research output against peers worldwide: InCites and ResearcherID Training
The Research Office recently began subscribing to InCites™. Please consider attending one of these training sessions in the Library: ...read more
Did you know that the Library offers access to thousands of e-books?
In addition to Oxford Scholarship Online, where Rhodes users may access several thousand OUP-published e-books in these collections: Biology, Business & Management, Classical Studies, Economics & Finance, History, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science and Psychology, the Library offers a growing collection of e-books ...read more
Invitation for input to the Library Artwork Task Team
A Library Artwork Task Team has been appointed to draw up a guiding vision or concept for artwork in the 'new' library.
We welcome ideas you might have in regard to any of the questions posed, or any other points you might wish to make which would assist us in our deliberations. Please send these to f.still@ru.ac.za to be received by the 1st of June.
Thank you
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New Online Database Evaluation Form
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
Showcase your research!
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.
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Postgraduate Commons - Level 0
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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Postgraduate Commons - Library Level 0
This brand-new Library facility for postgraduate students had its official opening on Thursday, 22 March at 10h30. It opens for use on Monday, 2 April 2012 at 08h30. The Postgraduate Commons is designed to be a scholarly workplace for Honours, Masters and PhD students at Rhodes University. ...read more
Databases: easy links
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
Explore the Library’s DVD Collection (over 2,500 DVDs)
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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RefWorks workshops for postgraduates
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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Librarians off to the USA!
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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Winner of the Android Alphapad!
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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O-Week Competition Winners!
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
Library O-Week Competition
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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The Chronicle of Higher Education
Rhodes University staff and students may now access the full content of the Chronicle of Higher Education via convenient IP access.
Visit http://0-chronicle.com.wam.seals.ac.za/
The Chronicle includes the latest news, commentary, essays, and news coverage of higher education events and people from around the world.
Users may take advantage of free e-mail newsletters, including Academe Today, the Chronicle’s popular daily report.
Also available is the weekly Chronicle Review e-mail newsletter for those interested in discussions and ideas rather than hard news.
Users sign up for a free account which enables them to sign up for newsletters, comment on articles, participate in discussion forums, and use the suite of job tools.
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Rhodes Library celebrates African Universities Day
The International Office, with the help of Library staff, has mounted a display in the exhibition area on Level 1 of the Library to mark African Universities Day on 10th November. The theme for this year is “Harmonisation of curricula and qualifications in higher education in Africa: challenges and prospects”.
Please come and look at this attractive display and share your views with us on the white board!
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November in the Library
At this time of the year the Library is busy with students preparing for their examinations.
Counts done at 15h30 on Thursday, 3rd November, show the occupancy rate for areas on levels 2-4 of the Library to be:
Science & Pharmacy (level 2) : 85% (94 of 111 seats occupied)
Information Commons (level 2) : 76% (110 of 160 seats occupied)
Commerce (level 3) : 71% (142 of 200 seats occupied)
Humanities & Education (level 3) : 79% (132 of 167 seats occupied)
Humanities (level 4) : 84% (141 of 167 seats occupied)
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A reminder that Rhodes users have online access to the following online reference books.
A great place to begin your research : online subject encyclopedias and dictionaries at your fingertips. The Rhodes Library brings you these excellent reference tools - sciences, social sciences, economics and more. ...read more
