Hello All!
Hope y'all doing fine? Am doing quite well here, busy with library visits and campus tour. So much things to see, so much to learn...and am gonna share every bit with you. Pls stay with me on my amazing cpdexperience2016.
We visited three places which are- the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), University of South Africa(Unisa), and University of Pretoria (UP) Library and Campus Tour.
For the National Library of South Africa:
We were shown all the Units at the library like the automated circulation desk, the amazing 1,500 capacity Auditorium which also serves as a source of generating funds for the library, the readers room, reference room, reserve section, the digitization unit and the deacidification unit. The de-acidification unit has a big machine that made me think I was in a big engineering room. The engine is used for de-acidifying books as they start showing traces of discoloration and/or brittleness. They showed us the Magnesium substance used and how the machine helps in drying the books and preserving the longevity of the book...it was really amazing! The high-capacity scanner is one of a kind. It is the first time am seeing such a gigantic, high quality and precise scanner in a library.
The library also serve as a legal depository agency for all publications emanating from South Africa, same as we have it at the National Library of Nigeria. Another amazing thing with the NLSA library is the way users are trooping in and out of the library trying to get their information needs solved. I started wondering whether am actually in another academic library!
My experience at the University of South Africa....coming soon. Got a class now...Later!
Hope y'all doing fine? Am doing quite well here, busy with library visits and campus tour. So much things to see, so much to learn...and am gonna share every bit with you. Pls stay with me on my amazing cpdexperience2016.
We visited three places which are- the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), University of South Africa(Unisa), and University of Pretoria (UP) Library and Campus Tour.
For the National Library of South Africa:
We were shown all the Units at the library like the automated circulation desk, the amazing 1,500 capacity Auditorium which also serves as a source of generating funds for the library, the readers room, reference room, reserve section, the digitization unit and the deacidification unit. The de-acidification unit has a big machine that made me think I was in a big engineering room. The engine is used for de-acidifying books as they start showing traces of discoloration and/or brittleness. They showed us the Magnesium substance used and how the machine helps in drying the books and preserving the longevity of the book...it was really amazing! The high-capacity scanner is one of a kind. It is the first time am seeing such a gigantic, high quality and precise scanner in a library.
The library also serve as a legal depository agency for all publications emanating from South Africa, same as we have it at the National Library of Nigeria. Another amazing thing with the NLSA library is the way users are trooping in and out of the library trying to get their information needs solved. I started wondering whether am actually in another academic library!
My experience at the University of South Africa....coming soon. Got a class now...Later!
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