- Title
- Place of Knowledge
- Title
- Indawo Yolwazi
- Creator
- Rhodes University Development & Alumni Relations Division
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- vital:7950
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013054
- Description
- [From Introduction] How it all began. The dream of the new library began with the late Margaret Kenyon. Initially joining the library staff in 1982 as a cataloguer. she was appointed to the position of University Librarian in April 2001. It was through her initiative as Head of Cataloguing that Rhodes became the first library in South Africa to create hyperlinks on OPAC records to material also available in electronic format. She was an initiator of the Rhodes eResearch Repository (ReRR) which was among the first open access institutional repositories in South Africa. She also started the LibQUAL survey and while the old library scored well on service and information, it failed dismally on place. The pattern of student use had changed and there was no space for discussion areas to accommodate peer learning and group work. With student numbers having grown to 6200 and academic staff to 300, the library could only seat 10 percent of its users. It was Mrs Kenyon who contacted Geoff de Wet, Architect and Director of the Physical Planning Unit at UCT, and arranged for him to visit the Rhodes Library. It was a great tragedy that she did not see the seed that she had planted come to fruition. The ever changing demands for versatile workspaces that are responsive to evolving patterns of teaching, learning and research require a completely new approach to university libraries. We are thrilled to have seen the Rhodes University Library evolve from humble beginnings in a single room in the old Drostdy building into its grand position as a highly technological facility today.
- Description
- Indawo Yolwazi (place of knowledge) in pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and community engagement.
- Format
- 16 pages, jpg, pdf
- Contributor
- Satgoor, Ujala, Clayton, Peter
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Rhodes University
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