UPSpace highlights in 2008: Veterinary Science Library

UPSPACE HIGHLIGHTS 2008 – VETERINARY SCIENCE LIBRARY


1) MARKETING (displays, posters, brochures and powerpoint ) at client conferences - VETERINARY COLLECTIONS (SA National Veterinary Repository, Theiler, Biomedical illustrations)

- SA Veterinary & Paraveterinary Conference, Sun City, July 2008

- Faculty Day, September 2008

- Pan African Centenary Veterinary Conference, 6-9 October 2008

2) PRESENTATION AT SA ONLINE CONFERENCE, CSIR, THE LIBRARIAN AS AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT: launching veterinary science in UPSpace
Antoinette Lourens, Erica van der Westhuizen, Amelia Breytenbach, Tertia Coetsee and Ria Groenewald
Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, South Africa
David Swanepoel
ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute Library, South Africa

3) PARTICIPATION in the IR workshop, 3 October to show role of faculty library manager and information specialist in getting buy-in from faculty and doing marketing

PROJECTS 2008 in UPSpace

1) Proceedings 5ICAHIS (5th International Conference of Animal Health Information
Specialists, July 2005, Onderstepoort)
2) Proceedings of the 1st Conference of African Animal Health Information Specialists, July
1995, Onderstepoort
3) Proceedings of the Pan African Veterinary Conference of 1929
4) SA National Veterinary Repository (UP Faculty of Vet Sci and OVI)
5) Theiler Memorial Lectures

2009 PROJECTS

1) NEXT YEAR we would like to digitise South Africa’s 2 veterinary journals, from their start date till 1996/7 when they began their electronic format as SAePublications. Looking for funds! (JSAVA and OPJVR)

2) METADATA for digitised slides of various departments at the Faculty: some funds have been given by EI for students to upload the metadata, and to pay the experts who will supply the descriptions of these “learning objects”.

Erica van der Westhuizen 22 October 2008




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