Rhodes university library libguides home welcome to rhodes university library subject guides. Google scholar with oxford full text links access limited to university of oxford card holders links to full text of available articles generated automatically for university of oxford users. Libraryworld cloud library library automation online. Users search in library catalog principally to locate books and other material available at a library. Millennium development goals, integrated library systems, academic libraries, special libraries, public. More than a few people within the higher education community are questioning the usefulness, viability, and longevity of academic libraries in an increasingly digital. The central library of the goethe university frankfurt am main is accessible to the general public. Home mendeley libguides at rhodes university library. Rhodes university ru tshwane university of technology library. Apr 10, 2020 their software and services span trading and market data, investment management, financial advice, superannuation, mortgage, life and pensions, and data intelligence.
To access iress expert, please contact the commerce faculty liaison services on level 3, ru library. A clear layout encourages the casual searcher whilst the advanced search gives the more sophisticated user the tools they need. We started in a single room in the vice chancellors house in 1960. Ru institute for water research, including the unilever centre for environmental water quality iwr. The personal librarian program aims to equip students with the knowledge of. Integrated library system software in use in south african libraries. Compare the best free open source opac software at sourceforge. Information services at barret library rhodes sites. Shiv kumara a and jivesh bansal b a panjab university library, chandigarh 160014, india. Sign in enter the library name and password if required. Information services at barret library rhodes sites rhodes college. Whilst you can order books and other material purely for use in the reading rooms without having to be a member you will need a library card for all other online facilities and to take books off the premises.
To search a specific school, select from the pull down boxes below. Welcome to rhodes university library subject guides. Enter your library registration number and password for login in your account. Vuyokazi gontshi personal librarian rhodes university abstract this paper is a.
The library is closed for the time period and services are limited to book pickup, book return and overdue payment only, during the following office hours. Opacs complete suite of validated tests includes typing speed and accuracy, microsoft windows, word, excel, outlook, powerpoint, and quickbooks amongst many other applications and skills. Used by business, legal, academic, special and school libraries, heritage has revolutionised the practice of managing the library in over 1200 institutions for 20 years. The software automatically extracts citation information such as author, title and journal. It is an access tool and resource guide to the collection of a library or libraries which provides bibliographic data in machinereadable form and can be searched interactively on a computer terminal by users.
Opac the online catalogue find books, journal titles, databases. Library management system,smart lms is complete library software. Senior librarian south african institute for aquatic biodiversity saiab. Rhodes university library, grahamstown, eastern cape. Evaluation and comparison of features of opacs in university. Ejournals atoz alphabetical list and links to electronic journals arranged by subject disciplines accessible via rhodes library. Enter your search term in the box below in order to search all schools to search a specific school, select from the pull down boxes below.
Durban university of technology dut cape peninsula university of technology cput. Z alphabetical list and links to ebooks accessible via rhodes library. The online catalogue opac can be used to search the holdings of the library and to request or reserve books. Search utility allows you to process search transactions without launching organizer pro software. All about web opac with daily data updates resourcemate. Free, secure and fast windows opac software downloads from the largest open source applications and software directory.
Nelson mandela metropolitan university nmmu stellenbosch university us rhodes university internal funding. Libraryworld online patron access opac allows easy and quick searching of libraries that are hosted by libraryworld. Find a guide relevant to your academic subject, or a general informationresearch support guide. Libraryworld cloud online library automation service, use this state of the art web based library automation system to catalog and publish your collection for free. Besides, the library has access to a good number of free and subscribed eresources currently available on databases and programmes worldwide. Opac software measures the most critical skills and abilities required in todays administrative and clerical positions. Select the book you need cited on the library opac. Compare the best free open source windows opac software at sourceforge. The collection of the library contains 400,000 volumes. The rhodes university library is committed to the pursuit of knowledge by connecting people to resources that contribute to the intellectual development of. In return rhodes university library material is made available to other libraries.
Full list of databases the library subscribes to, including trial access. Welcome to the seals consortium online catalogue the south east academic libraries system seals was established in 1998 and consists of 4 member libraries. Libary search utility opac library search utility opac. Evaluation and comparison of features of opacs in university libraries of chandigarh and punjab india published in iaslic bulletin. With just over 8200 students, rhodes is a small university, which enjoys the distinction of having among the best undergraduate pass and graduation rates in south africa, outstanding postgraduate success rates, and the best research output per academic staff member.
Making the academic library online public access catalog opac relevant to todays next generation user is important to the librarys continued livelihood and relevance. Search for books, journal titles, dvds and other resources using the rhodes university library opac in general, you use the opac to find books, films, or other whole publications on a topic that the library owns, in print or online it gives general information about the material. Pdf personal librarian programme vuyokazi jamieson gontshi. Weve since grown to become one of australias leading academic libraries. If mendeley cannot autofill all those fields, it alerts you that the citation is incomplete. From the start of 2006, the complete collection was included on the opac catalogue. Rhodes university library opac margaret smith library, saiab.
Refworks, zotero, mendeley rhodes university library. Rhodes university library opac margaret smith library. Library sultan sharif ali islamic university unissa. With this program you can catalog all resources, maintain circulation, and track circulation history for the resource and the user, fine payment. Search the rhodes library catalogue opac search for books, journals and other materials held by the ru library. Your organizer pro databases are protected from unwanted modifications or deletions. Online public access catalogue opac and its characteristics.
Founded in 1904, the university has a wellestablished reputation for academic excellence. The rhodes university library uses the millennium system innovative. It also has a social network feature in which you can create groups, collaborate and share with colleagues as well as see what other researchers have collected on a topic. Search all search for articles, books, ebooks and digital collections. Rhodes library flash rhodes university chamber choir stage a flash mob inside the rhodes university main library. Online public access catalogue opac opac is an acronym for online public access catalogue. Import citations for databases and the rhodes library opac automatic metadata extraction from imported pdfs collaborate with other researchers online. Together, the division is committed to providing acquisition, organization, and circulation of resources with a wide range of technology resources to support the diverse work of faculty, staff, and students. How can i see which books i have currently borrowed or reserved. Search for books, journal titles, dvds and other resources using the rhodes university library opac. The library has approximately 80,000 books, cds, and videos, and provides online access to over databases.
The online public access catalogue in librarian is simple to use but very powerful. Through the online catalog for the ohio state university, students can search for and request items from other ohio state university libraries. Free, secure and fast opac software downloads from the largest open source applications and software directory. The hkmu main library has a strong relevant collection of textbooks, reference books and journals for courses offered in the university.
Rhodes university library housed the thomas pringle collection, which later formed the national english literary museum, colloquially known as nelm. A major advantage of the specify database software is that it uses a builtin web. With a standard web browser one can search, catalog, or circulate from any location on the internet. Barret library is home to the information services division, a union of library services and information technology services.
This is the official rhodes university library facebook page. I am very lost with the new website for the library. It is a userfriendly software developed to work under clientserver environment. Opac the online catalogue find books, journal titles, databases, multimedia and many more. The university as an whole has fallen short of the reputation that precedes it.
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