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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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
Two New Resources
The Library now offers access to the electronic version of Heinemann’s African Writers Series which features seminal works of African literature from the latter half of the twentieth century and includes authors such as Chinua Achebe, Steve Biko, Nadine Gordimer and Nelson Mandela. ...read more
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
New E-journals A-Z Linking Service
Library Services welcomes new students
