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6.2 Unisa Digital Archives Launch during Open Access Week
On the 26th October 2016, during Open Access Week, the Library launched the Unisa Digital Archives that make 4034 previously undescribed, but valuable, items in the Homeland Government Publications special collection discoverable and available; 1,048586 Name Authority records were ingested into the Library Catalogue to enhance author identi cation and discovery.
6.3 7th LIS Research Symposium (28-29 July 2016)
The Library and Information Services
(LIS) Research Symposium was
held on 28-29 July 2016. The LIS
Research Symposium series was
initiated in 2006 and it has evolved
into a popular biennial event on the
library profession’s calendar. The 2016
theme was Information Professions and
Services in the e-Environment: From ‘so what’ to ‘what if’. The 2016 Symposium aimed at creating an opportunity for information practitioners such as academics, archivists, librarians, museum scientists, and so on, to engage on signi cant ethics-related issues in information services provision and librarianship on the African continent. The Symposium convened some 30 speakers, mostly librarians, professors, senior researchers and IT professionals from various parts of South Africa, including Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria and Johannesburg, and from Switzerland. The papers presented during the LIS Research Symposium are available in the Unisa Institutional Repository (UnisaIR).
6.4 Implementation of Scopia: Interactive Online Training Tool
In support of teaching and learning, the Library piloted and implemented a web conferencing tool to train remote researchers, Masters and Doctoral students. This tool enables the trainers to provide information literacy courses and product demonstrations to the clients by sharing their screens and simultaneously interacting with each other. This web conferencing solution enabled the Library to further enrich its database training outreach to remote clients.
6.5 Establishment of the College of Graduate Studies e-Library
In further support of teaching and learning, an e-Library was established for the College of Graduate Studies (CGS). CGS forms part of Unisa’s Research and Innovation Portfolio and comprises the School of Transdisciplinary Research, the School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies, the Ethiopian Graduate O ce and the Master’s and Doctoral Administrative Division. Therefore, the development of the e-Library for CGS brings a wealth of digital services to the Masters’ and Doctoral students as well as to sta members in the college by providing unlimited access to electronic information resources. In addition, the
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