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A brief moratorium 01 November 2017 – 01 May 2018 has been placed on the acquisition and accessioning of new archival material by Special Collections. The moratorium has been agreed to by UCT Libraries Management Team and Executive Committee, to allow Special Collections to re-evaluate and refine its collections policy. Once this has been completed the findings will be presented to the Library Work Group and Exco for feedback.
Off-campus users may experience problems accessing Google Scholar via EZProxy.This is related to Google Scholar's reCAPTCHA script failing. ICTS is currently liaising with Google to attend to this fix. If you experience this error and are off-campus, please go directly to Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). We do apologise for any inconvenience caused until this problem is resolved.
“Never judge a book by its fore edge” – guest post by retired librarian Tanya Barben. Read more at Memory@UCT blog.
Introducing AtoM@UCT, the recently launched on-line gateway to the primary source collections held by UCT Libraries. AtoM stands for “AccesstoMemory”, an open source, web-based, standards compliant (ISAD-G, DACS, RAD, EAD/EAC, DC etc.) archival management system that is rapidly becoming the gold standard in open source archival description software.