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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 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.
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 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.
Topic: The need of the Seafloor data in Southern Africa and what UKZN is doing about it?
The Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre invites you to take a video tour of the Centre to learn of the rich history of KwaZulu-Natal.
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.
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.
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
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.
18 March 2025, 9h00 - 13h00
Theme: Technology in Libraries and Quality Education
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.
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.
Traditionally seen as the heart of knowledge and research on university campuses, academic libraries have long been the bastions of printed books, scholarly journals, and quiet study spaces. But in today’s increasingly digital world, their role is evolving in ways that promise to reshape the very essence of academic inquiry, collaboration, and community engagement.
When the request was made by the principal, Mr Ndlovu, for the librarians at the UKZN PMB library to assist with creating a library at the Grange Primary School, the librarians eagerly agreed. This was an opportunity to engage meaningfully in community outreach. It also promoted the sustainable development goal, SDG 4, which is...
In the prologue to his book, Kanigel (1991) refers to Ramanujan as a mathematician so great it transcends jealousies. He further refers to Ramanujan as one superlatively great mathematician whom India has produced in the last thousand years....
What is truth? Who decides what truth is? Where do we find truth? These questions are a constant in our daily lives. We encounter situations where we search for truth to guide our opinions or decisions....
IRESS is a technology company that provides financial market data, trading platforms, and wealth management software to clients in the financial services industry. Its flagship product, IRESS Viewpoint, is a comprehensive platform that offers real-time market data, news, research, and analysis tools to help investors make informed decisions....
Augmented reality (AR) is the integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. Unlike virtual reality (VR), which creates a totally artificial environment, AR users experience a real-world environment with generated perceptual information overlaid on top of it......
My first day of work at the University was on Monday 5 January 1981 on the Pietermaritzburg Campus.
I commenced working in the Collection Maintenance section of the Library.....
The Bloomberg product is a computer software system provided by the financial data vendor Bloomberg L.P. that enables professionals in the financial service sector and other industries to access Bloomberg Professional Services through which users can monitor and analyse real-time financial market data, news feeds and messaging...
Open Science, the movement to enhance accessibility to scientific information at all levels of society through collaborative networks, has impacted the crucial role academic libraries play in the area of information sharing, hence there is an ever-growing emphasis on new innovations which aim to encourage access to and networking of information and skills....
Integrating hundreds of years of historical evidence into everyday research
UKZN Library Services Opening Hours: First Semester from 10 February 2025.
Campus | Library | Weekdays | Saturdays | Sundays |
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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 |
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Pietermaritzburg | Alan Paton Centre & Struggle Archives | 08h00 -16h30 | Closed | Closed |
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 |
Library Orientation
Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCHID)
cited reference searching using Scopus
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.
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.
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