This presentation was delivered during the Institutional Repositories workshop on creating an information infrastructure for the scholarly community, 17 - 19 July 2007, WITS (Johannesburg). It describes the development of ...

Presented on 4 December 2008 at the "Best Practices in Leading and Managing Exceptional Libraries & Information Centres", FNB Conference Centre, Sandton, South Africa. This presentation covers the digital library environment, ...

In the OCLC report of 2015 it was shown that library strategies are linked to university strategies in order to contribute to the institutions’ success. At the University of Pretoria priority is given to teaching and ...

The emerging technologies identified by the 2008 Horizon report were discussed with library examples. These trends are: grassroots video, collaboration webs, mobile broadband, data mashups, collective intelligence and ...

An overview of the implementation of the Web 2.0 tools by a new generation librarians at the Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria.

This paper presents an overview of the shifting issues in library management, from pre to post electronic access to information. Beginning in the 1940s through the 1970s, research libraries were faced with an information ...

The Department of Library Services conducts quality surveys as one of the tools to assess the quality of services, library spaces and resources. LibQUAL has previously been used to assess the user’s expectations and ...

Unfilled interlending requests are usually not openly discussed as they reflect negatively on libraries that strive to render a reliable service. Thus it is not strange that there has been little or no published research ...