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The 5th IFLA Symposium on AI

5th IFLA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence

The 5th IFLA Symposium on AI seeks to explore the latest advancements, challenges, and best practices in leveraging AI technologies within libraries and information services.

Hosted by: University of KwaZulu-Natal Library Services

Location: Golden Horse Casino, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Date: 16 – 20 June 2025

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SciVal Database

DATABASES

SciVal by Elsevier

SciVal is a web-based research analytics platform, designed to help institutions, researchers, and policymakers evaluate and enhance research performance. It leverages data from Scopus, Elsevier's comprehensive abstract and citation database, to provide insights into research trends, collaboration opportunities, and benchmarking metrics.

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Engineering Village

research tools

Engineering Village

Engineering Village is widely used by academic institutions, research organizations, and industry professionals to support engineering research and development, making it a key tool in the engineering community. Engineering Village aggregates content from multiple databases, including Compendex and Inspec which covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, as well as related fields such as computer science and materials science.

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Scopus Database

DATABASES

SCOPUS BY ELSEVIER

Scopus is the world’s largest, multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, developed and maintained by Elsevier this database has a variety of use cases and can greatly assist researchers to select topics, journals, find topic experts and relevant peer reviewed literature.

Sea - Geology Lecture

Geological Sciences Research Lecture Series

Topic: The need of the Seafloor data in Southern Africa and what UKZN is doing about it?

Presented by: Prof. Andrew Green
Professor in the School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences (SAEES)
Professor Green holds an MSc in Coastal Geomorphology and a PhD in Marine Geology
Leader of Marine Geology Research Unit
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Recorded: 24 April 2025

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GLDC

The Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre

The Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre invites you to take a video tour of the Centre to learn of the rich history of KwaZulu-Natal.

VIDEO TOUR

The Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre WEBSITE

Open Access Week celebration

CALLING ALL RESEARCHERS AND STUDENTS

UKZN subscribes to an institutional license to Covidence, the world’s #1 Systematic Review tool. Using Covidence as part of your research process can reduce the time to complete by up to 35% while maintaining quality.

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Knovel Enginnering

You are invited to Knovel practical sessions

Knovel is an online technical reference platform that provides access to a vast collection of engineering and scientific resources, including handbooks, data, and interactive tools offering searchable content, equations, and material properties to enhance productivity and facilitate problem-solving.

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Geology Lecture

Geological Sciences Research Lecture Series

Topic: The Moon in a Pebble: Challenges in reading the history of the moon from only a small number of samples

Presented by: Matthew Loocke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Director of the Chevron geomaterials Characterization Laboratory
Department of Geology & Geophysics
Louisiana State University
Recorded: 26 March 2025

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HERITAGE OF UKZN

LATEST BLOG

The heritage of the University of KwaZulu-Natal

The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has a rich and evolving heritage, tracing its origins back to the early 20th century when the foundations of universities in South Africa were first established. The roots of UKZN lie in the Natal University College, founded in 1909, which became the University of Natal in 1949.

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SA Library Week Seminar

The University of Kwazulu-Natal Library Services cordially invites you to

The South African Library week seminar

18 March 2025, 9h00 - 13h00

Theme: Technology in Libraries and Quality Education

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Library Survey

LIBRARY SERVICES CLIENT SATISFACTION SURVEY

UKZN Library Services is undertaking an online survey to gather information about the Libraries' services in order to improve and enhance our services in support of research, teaching and learning.
Please share your thoughts and enter a lucky draw for a chance to win an amazing prize.

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Staff Survey

Student Survey

alan_paton_3

LATEST BLOG

Reflections on the Alan Paton Literary Festival held at UKZN (PMB) on the 15th October 2024.

It was a privilege to attend the Alan Paton Literary Festival. The line-up of speakers included David Attwell and Ashwin Desai, both of whom are authors and academics, Richard Conyngham, also an author, Michael Deeb, a Dominican priest, and Darryl Earl David, author and academic, as well as curator and master of ceremonies (MC) of this festival.

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Digital Library

LATEST BLOG

The Future of Academic Libraries:
Adapting to the Digital Age and Beyond

Royal Anthropological Institute

Royal College of Physicians

Database Promotion

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Library Opening hours

UKZN Library Services Opening Hours: First Semester from 10 February 2025.

Campus	Library	Weekdays	Saturdays	Sundays
Edgewood	Edminson Library	24 hours	24 hours	24 hours
Howard College	Barrie Biermann Architecture Library	08h00 – 16h30	Closed	Closed
	EG Malherbe (Main) Library	24 hours	24 hours	24 hours
	Eleanor Bonnar Music Library	08h00 – 16h30	Closed	Closed
	GMJ Sweeny Law Library	24 hours	24 hours	24 hours
Medical School	Nelson R Mandela Library	24 hours	24 hours	24 hours
Pietermaritzburg	Cecil Renaud (Main) Library	24 hours	24 hours	24 hours
	Law Library	08h00 – 23h00	08h00 – 16h30	Closed
	Life Sciences Library	08h00 – 23h00	08h00 – 16h30	Closed
Westville	Westville (Main) Library	24 hours	24 hours	24 hours
Special Collections
Pietermaritzburg	Alan Paton Centre & Struggle Archives	08h00 -16h30	Closed	Closed
Pietermaritzburg	Centre for African Literary Studies	08h00 -16h30	Closed	Closed
Westville	Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre	08h00 -16h30	Closed	Closed
Campbell Collections	Killie Campbell Africana Library	08h00 -16h30	Closed	Closed

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Library Services during Lockdown

All UKZN libraries will open 24 hours a day and seven days a week for students and staff who are permitted to return to campus. However, Barrie Biermann Architecture Library will open weekdays from 08h00 until 23h00 and on weekends from 08h30 until 17h00 and the Eleanor Bonnar Music Library will remain closed

All libraries will close between 12h00 –13h00 for sanitization in line with COVID-19 health and safety protocols.

We continue to work remotely and business communication will continue as per lockdown regulations. Librarians remain available to provide virtual support for teaching, learning and research.

The Main libraries on all campuses will open weekdays from 08h00 until 16h30 for students and staff who are permitted to return to campus. However, the Branch Libraries at the Howard College campus – Barrie Biermann Architecture Library will open only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 13h00 till 15h30 and the Eleanor Bonnar Music library will open only on Thursday from 13h00 till 16h00.

All libraries will be closed on weekends.

All libraries will close between 12h00 –13h00 for sanitization in line with COVID-19 health and safety protocols.

We continue to work remotely and business communication will continue as per lockdown regulations. Librarians remain available to provide virtual support for teaching, learning and research.

Contact us

Libraries
Subject Librarians
Interlibrary loan queries (ill@ukzn.ac.za)
General library queries (librarian@ukzn.ac.za)
Online library account queries (library@ukzn.ac.za)

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About the Website

We have revamped and expanded the website. The technology behind the new website is up-to-date, resulting in a website that is cleaner, has a less cluttered design, with simpler navigation and easy to use. It presents a unified view of the library resources and is an important element of our digital infrastructure. The main menu is the gateway to the website.

Our new website represents many months of user research, planning and building, resulting in a website that attempts to be intuitive, accessible and simple to navigate.
We are excited about the enhanced user experience it will offer and invite you to submit comments.