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Pretoria
Pretoria
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An African Dream

• E-Information services at the University of
  Pretorias Veterinary Science Library
• Antoinette Lourens

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University of Pretoriahttp//www.up.ac.za

• Is striving to become the University of Choice in
  South Africa
• Is the largest residential university in the
  country
• More than 34 000 residential students enrolled in
  2003

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Faculty of Veterinary Science

• Emphasis is on increasing quality research
• Marked increase in number of postgraduate
  students
• More and more students are working from outside
  the campus

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AIS current e-information products

• E-journals (Tyds_at_Tuks)
• Databases (EIH)
• OPAC (UPExplore)
• AIS homepage
• Service unit web pages (include information
  source pages for Web-CT)
• E-reserve collection (Innopac)

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AIS current e-information projects

• E-resources (Infoportal)
• Digital/virtual reference
• E-books
• Global search engine (MAP or Ebsco product)

• Virtual groups (Infoportal)

• Digital preservation
• Micro databases (Infoportal)
• Digital collections (Infoportal (Greenstone open
  source software) Innopac)

• E-dissertations (UPeTD)
• Service unit web pages

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Current e-Products at VET

• Library in your office
• E-newsletter- Infomania
• The African Goat website
• The Ostrich website
• Arnold Theiler website
• Infoportal
• Future projects

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Library in your Officehttp//www.ais.up.ac.za/vet
/virtlib.htm

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Library in your Office
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E-newsletter Infomania http//www.ais.up.ac.za/v
et/infomani.htm
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The African Goat website http//www.ais.up.ac.za/v
et/goatweb.html
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The Ostrich website http//www.ais.up.ac.za/vet/os
trich.htm
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Arnold Theiler project http//www.ais.up.ac.za/vet
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Theilers postcards
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Infoportal http//infoportal.up.ac.za

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AIS future e-information projects

• Global search engine (open source)
• Sophisticated e-resource applications (open
  source)
• Library services as a portlet (e.g. streamlined
  interlibrary loan system)

• Knowledge sharing community (e.g. www.abuzz.com)

• Meta-data standard for UP
• Taxonomy/thesaurus for UP Portal

• E-Scholarship
• DSpace digital repository experiment open
  source
• Eprints.org experiment open source
• eArchives prototype for UP journal articles
• Virtual eJournal protoype

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Future projects at VET

• Veterinary Legislation in South Africa
• African Rhinoceros website
• Wildlife Rehabilitation website
• Dental formulae of various animal species

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• Onderstepoort houses the National Veterinary
  Faculty
• Postgraduate students are located all over
  Southern Africa
• The process of supplying e-information and
  e-services is an ongoing one
• Need to stay in close contact with our clients

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• We want to take the nightmare out of retrieving
  information.

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• and turn it into a colourful and viable African
  dream ! !

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Reference list

• Pistorius, C. 2003. Ons Alma Mater bly die keuse
  van voorkeur. Tukkie 11(1) 2-3
• Kriek, N. 2003. From the desk of the dean. OPNews
  3 (1) 1
• University of Pretoria. 2002. Strategic plan
  2002-2005. Pretoria
• Lourens, A. 2001. Library in your office.
  Infomania. March 2001. (http//www.up.ac.za/asser
  vices/ais/vet/infoman4.htm)
• Basile, A J. 2000. Making the Internet manageable
  for your users (and yourself) in Recreating the
  academic library breaking virtual ground. Ed.
  LaGuardia, C. 169-192
• Pienaar, H. 2003. Design and development of an
  academic portal. Libri (in press)
• Groenewald, H., v d Westhuizen, E E., v Wyk J.
  2002. Knowledge management and the
  Info Specialist.Paper presented at the SLIS -
  OSALL - SAOUG CONFERENCE, 11-12 June 2002,
  Midrand, South Africa. (http//www.slis.co.za/uplo
  ads/UPAIS_Vet.ppt accessed 28 July 2003)
• Lor, P J. 2001. From inter-library lending to
  instant universal access First World utopia,
  Third World nightmare? Paper presented at an
  Inter-library lending Conference of the Finnish
  Research Library Association, Helsinki, 15 May
  2001. ( http//www.nlsa.ac.za/docs/pjlpaper.pdf
  accessed 28 July 2003)
• Music Johnny Clegg Juluka/Savuka