News
Need a laptop to work on your assignments and projects?
WE HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR YOU!!
Borrow a laptop at your library for up to two hours
You need a valid student card and no library fines owing
First come, First served. Numbers are limited.
Enquire at your library NOW.
(An SRC initiative supported by the Library and ITSS)
Congratulations Sean Carte
Congratulations Sean Carte (Library IT Dept) on winning a competition held by @MIRE, a software company that is well known for their research and development in open source software such as DSPACE. The announcement was made on @MIRE’s website this week (see details). The prize, an add-on module for content and usage analysis (an extremely expensive module) will be implemented by @MIRE for free. This much needed module will now enable us to report more efficiently on the usage of the Institutional Repository. WELL DONE SEAN!!!
Extended Library Hours during examination - 1st Semester
| Alan Pittendrigh Library ( Steve Biko Campus )
Monday – Thursday : 07:30 – 02:00 |
BM Patel Library ( ML Sultan Campus )
Sundays : 10:00 – 14:00 |
| Indumiso Library ( Midlands Campus )
Monday – Thursday 07:30 – 02:00 |
Riverside Library ( Midlands Campus ) Sundays – 10:00 – 14:00 |
Library Hours during the Easter Weekend 27/03/2013
The library will be closed on the following days : Friday 29 March 2013 ; Saturday 30 March 2013 ; Monday 1 April 2013
South African Library Week 2013 18/03/2013
Come celebrate South African Library Week with us.
This year's theme is Educate Yourself @ your library. Click here for a list of events at your library
Interruption of Services
15/03/2013
Please note that the Ezones will not be available from Friday, 15 March 2013, 14:30 until Sunday, 17 March 2013 due to the campus network infrastructure upgrade taking place. Normal services will resume on Monday, 18 March 2013
Book Launch at City Campus 25/07/2012
Author of ‘BOM BOY’ Yewande Omotoso visited the City Campus Library today. The award winning author (2012 Caine Prize for African Writing) shared her passion for reading and writing with both students and staff – she truly inspired the young students with her poetry reading and background stories about her book. The event was opened by students of the Pneumarella Society of Arts who stunned the audience with their poetry renditions.
Extended hours 13/03/2012
Please note that the Alan Pittendrigh Library at the Steve Biko Campus now closes at 23:45 from Monday to Friday.
DUT Library introduces Summon, a new Discovery Tool.
Your library, from a single starting point
The Library has launched a new service that allows students and research staff to quickly search and locate Library resources in the same way they search Google or Google Scholar. The Summon™ service, located on the Library homepage, lets users search all the Library’s content from a single search box – books, e-books, journal articles, databases, DUT theses and dissertations and research papers.
Go to Summon. If you experience any problems using Summon,
or wish to send us feedback, please click here.
DUT Library’s content using a single search box.
A single search
It provides a Google-like search experience, so you can use one search box to discover credible and reliable library content.
Mobile friendly
Compatible with major mobile devices, such as iPhone and Blackberry (app is automatically downloaded).
Relevant results
Delivers search results in a relevancy-ranked list so the most relevant results appear at the top of the list.
Complete and instant access
Incorporates the comprehensive knowledge of DUT Library's holdings so that you can access their results including full-text of electronic articles.
Results refinement
Navigate and narrow search result sets using multiple methods, such as filtering, faceting and sorting.
Full-text filter
Results set can be limited to items immediately available in full text online.
Bibliographic information export
Export citations to bibliographic management software applications, EndNote and RefWorks.
Scholarship filter
Limit results to "scholarly" publications, including peer-reviewed material.
"Did you mean?" suggestions
Provides guidance for misspellings or low yield queries.