Engineering Library: On the Move
628 days ago
Engineering Library: On the Move We are pleased to inform you that the Engineering library on the 2nd floor of the Chamber of Mines building will close on Monday, 3 October at 17:00. The new Gold Fields Engineering library on the ground floor of the Chamber of Mines building will open at 8:00 on Tuesday, 4 October. Photocopying, printing and internet facilities as well as telephone services will be interrupted on Tuesday morning.
Please be patient with any enquiries to the Engineering staff during this time.
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Engineering library staff
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LIBRARY CLOSURE: PUBLIC HOLIDAY, SATURDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2011
638 days ago
LIBRARY CLOSURE: PUBLIC HOLIDAY, SATURDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2011
All Libraries will be closed on Heritage Day, Saturday 24 September 2011.
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ScienDirect will be down on Saturday 10 September
652 days ago
Please note on September 10 we will be releasing several new enhancements to the SciVerse platform (more information on these to follow shortly). Therefore, we have a scheduled outage on September 10 which will affect the following products:
- SciVerse ScienceDirect
- Journals Consult
The products and services mentioned above are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 11 hours on Saturday, September 10.
Down time by region is expected to be as follows:
- U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT): 7:30AM EDT - 6:30PM EDT
- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): 11:30AM GMT - 10:30PM GMT
- British Standard Time (BST): 12:30PM BST - 11:30PM BST
- Singapore Time (SGT): 7:30PM SGT Saturday, September 10 - 6:30AM SGT Sunday, September 11
In relation to the planned work, SciVerse ScienceDirect alerts will be suspended for two weeks, September 9-23. Subscribers will receive their outstanding alerts when we resume processing.
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Library Hours: Vacation/Study/Research Break, Saturday 10th September - Sunday 18th September 2011
653 days ago
The libraries will remain open as usual during the vacation/study/research break starting on Saturday 10th September and ending on Sunday 18th September 2011. The opening hours are:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: OPEN AT 08:00, except for WHSL at 08:30
Wednesday: OPEN AT 09:00, except for WHSL at 10:30.
Friday: all Libraries close at 17:00, except WHSL at 18:00
For SATURDAY & EVENING OPENING HOURS please use links to individual Branch Libraries from the Library Home page.
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TRAINING FOR LAW LIBRARY USERS
685 days ago
The Law Library invites academics, students and interested parties to a training workshop on the new system being implemented by the library. Sabinet is in the process of migrating all its legal products (online Gazettes, Acts, policy documents etc) to a new search platform with improved features for searching, retrieving and saving legal items.
Date: 11 August 2011
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Venue: West Campus, Oliver Schreiner Law Building Chalsty Auditorium.
RSVP: Anna.siwela@wits.ac.za or Janet.Zambri@wits.ac.za
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LIBRARY CLOSURE: PUBLIC HOLIDAY, TUESDAY, 9 August 2011
686 days ago
LIBRARY CLOSURE: PUBLIC HOLIDAY, TUESDAY, 9 August 2011
All Libraries will be closed on National Women's Day, Tuesday 9 August 2011.
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Engineering and Built Environment Postgraduate Workshops:
687 days ago
Postgraduate students are welcome to join our Library Resources workshop on 18 (Part 1) & 19 (Part 2) August.
- Library Resources: Learn more about library resources relevant to your research and improve your searching techniques.
- Refworks: Learn how to organize and store your citations from online databases and the library catalogue; use these citations in your research writing and create in-text citations, reference lists and bibliographies.
Venue: Electronic Class room, Commerce Library
Time: 9:00 - 13:00
Bookings: Hildegard.chapman@wits.ac.za
Enquiries: maryna.vandenheever@wits.ac.za
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The upset: young contemporary art edited by Robert Klanten.
688 days ago
The upset: young contemporary art edited by Robert Klanten.
This book is about the return to the tradition of figurative art, finding inspiration in everyday life ad using paint as the weapon of choice. You won't find nature or landscape in this book.
The book divided into six chapters; "Lowbrow", "Gothic", "Realism", "Illustration", "Character", "Urban Art", "Pattern" and "Expressionism", is a catalogue of young contemporary art from well-known artists, so it makes for a nice portfolio of their already pricey works for anyone to enjoy.
The goal is the visual language, not the concept behind the piece, and emerging from underground subcultures, most of the artists featured in "The Upset" are definitely not interested in being part of the elitist art world, but want to create an own path with like-minded colleagues. They don't only reference to youth culture in their works, but also actively participate in it, using their commercial success to make ends meet and spread their message on a daily basis.
Hard as it may be to finger the pulse of such a varied scene as contemporary art, The Upset does a good job of showcasing work that collectors would find in the most prominent international art fairs as well as pieces that typically hang in shadowy upstart galleries where the cool kids mingle.
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