{"id":2279,"date":"2024-02-02T08:18:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T08:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2024-02-09T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T14:04:38","slug":"new-postgraduate-student-or-staff-member-at-stellenbosch-university-join-us-to-learn-more-about-our-library-services-and-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/2024\/02\/02\/new-postgraduate-student-or-staff-member-at-stellenbosch-university-join-us-to-learn-more-about-our-library-services-and-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Library induction for new staff and postgraduate students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1258\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2023\/02\/Smart-Logo-580x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2023\/02\/Smart-Logo-580x232.png 580w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2023\/02\/Smart-Logo-940x376.png 940w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2023\/02\/Smart-Logo-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2023\/02\/Smart-Logo-1536x614.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2023\/02\/Smart-Logo-676x270.png 676w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2023\/02\/Smart-Logo.png 1563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are new to Stellenbosch University, but you are a postgraduate student or a new staff member, it can be daunting to have to discover all the services and facilities available to you and, especially, how to access them. As part of the Library and Information Service&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/library.sun.ac.za\/en-za\/Learning\/Pages\/training-postgrads.aspx\">#SmartResearcher<\/a> training series, we offer a Library induction that specifically caters to postgraduate students and academic staff. This three-hour session will introduce you to all of the services and facilities that the Stellenbosch University Library has to offer. You will learn how to find your faculty librarian, how to navigate the library&#8217;s website, how to access library guides that are important to your research area and how to contact the library for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>You will also be introduced to Research Impact services, Research Data Services, Open Access publication, the Carnegie Research Commons, the Makerspace and our institutional repositories.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the dates available in the first semester:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sun.ac.za.libcal.com\/event\/11859455\"><span class=\"ms-rteThemeForeColor-5-0\">22 February: 10:00 \u2013 13:00<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sun.ac.za.libcal.com\/event\/11859456\"><span class=\"ms-rteThemeForeColor-5-0\">20 March: 10:00 \u2013 13:00<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both sessions will be presented in hybrid format, so you can choose to attend in person or online.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, we are here to help you excel in whatever you aim to achieve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are new to Stellenbosch University, but you are a postgraduate student or a new staff member, it can be daunting to have to discover all the services and facilities available to you and, especially, how to access them. As part of the Library and Information Service&#8217;s #SmartResearcher training series, we offer a Library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tu3H-AL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}