2013 characterised by good news

For the JF Soga Library, 2013 has thus far largely been characterised by good news!


Wireless

The University of Pretoria is in the process of establishing WiFi hot spots at all its campuses.

The Onderstepoort campus was first in line and hot spots have been allocated on both the 4th and 5th floors of the library. Visitors and library clients with mobile devices can now easily connect to the internet by following instructions on the UP Wireless Network webpage

BioMedCentral membership
The library decided to continue its BioMedCentral membership for 2013 and UP researchers can therefore continue to publish in accredited BioMedCentral open access journals.

Hendriette Jansen van Vuuren, the Open Scholarship Administrator at the Merensky Library is available to answer queries.

South African Library Week (16 – 23 March 2013)

Our library joined the South African library community in celebrating South African Library Week with the theme “Educate yourself @ your library”. We launched our own library competition and wanted to know from clients what the library meant to them. The clients surprised us with quite a number of entries and it was fun to read through it and spoil them with daily prizes. Visit our facebook page to see who the winners were.

7th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS)

During May Antoinette Lourens and Susan Marsh will attend the 7th ICAHIS conference in Boston, MA.

The theme for the conference which will be combined with conferences of the Medical Library Association (2013 Annual Meeting), the 11th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML) and the 6th International Clinical Librarian Conference (ICLC) is: ‘One Health: Information in an Interdependent World’

One of the sessions of the ICAHIS section will be devoted to library One Health initiatives in different countries. During this session Antoinette Lourens will deliver a paper on the library’s endeavour to support research and training at the Faculty of Veterinary Science’s Hans Hoheisen Wildlife Research Station (HHWRS) in Mpumalanga. The HHWRS can be seen as a One Health research and experiential training platform for national and international undergraduate and postgraduate students of the faculty.