CPUT Libraries
CPUT Libraries
Management and administration
- Strategic planning
- Operational planning
- Human Capital management
- Research
- Library Management
- Quality management
- Risk Management
- Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) management
- Policy development
Faculty Support
These services are providing support to students and staff to enhance learning, teaching and research:
- Seven library branches across the seven CPUT campuses
- Information Literacy training
- Advanced Information Literacy training
- Collection Development
- Programme review reports
- Information and clients service support
- Research support
- Faculty Librarians and support staff for consultations and training
- Online AskUs service with a dedicated team in real time to answer any library related questions
Scholarly Communication & Digitization
These services forms part of the research-life cycle where the library supports researchers within the various stages of the research project:
- Research Data Management
- Open Access publishing
- Metrics for research impact
- Special Collections and digitization
- Specialised Librarians and support staff for consultations and training
- Repositories and tools administration and maintenance
- Institutional Repository
- Electronic Thesis and Dissertation repository eSango, research data repository
- Data Management Plan tool
- Metrics Tool
- Special collections Repository
- Open Journal System
Branch Management
Seven library branches across the seven CPUT campuses are managed and staffed to provide various library spaces and services needed:
- Library branch spaces
- Study spaces
- Seminar rooms
- Group work spaces
- Learning Commons labs at some branches
- Training rooms at some branches
- Postgraduate student spaces
- 24h spaces at some branches
- Conference facilities
- After-hours services (evening, Saturdays and during exam times limited time on Sundays)
- Information service points
Technical Services
This department is responsible for controlling spending on physical and electronic resources, receipt, processing and general discovery of new resources.
- Collection Development (Physical and Digital collections)
- Acquisitions
- Cataloguing
- Processing
- eResources subscriptions management
- Trial access
- Metadata creation
- Library Finance office
- Inter-Library Loans
Social media, Marketing & Community Engagement
- Various communication strategies to communicate with our users via social media platforms, library website, Newsflash, posters, QR codes
- Marketing & community engagement activities and events
Information Technology
This department is responsible for supporting the multi-system environment the library needs to provide access to information resources as well as the necessary technology within all library spaces.
- Library website
- Learning Commons labs
- Systems support
- Hardware and software support for library staff and spaces
- Specialised software for postgraduate students
- Hosted services for various repositories, platforms and tools:
- Library Management System (Discovery tool) – ALMA/PRIMO
- Institutional Repository
- Electronic, Thesis & Dissertation Repository eSango, research data repository
- Special Collections Repository
- Data Management Plan tool
- Metrics tool
- Open Journal System (OJS)
- LibGuides, LibCal, LibChat platforms