Information Studies: Books

Information Studies books are arranged on the shelves in number order (Dewey system): 020 - 029. Knowledge management can generally be found at 658.4038. Some records management books can be found at 651.5.  Please consult the icatalogue for precise locations.

Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias Collection

Subject reference material is available in print and electronic format. Print reference works are housed in the Reference library on the ground floor. Go to the ebooks page to identify online materials.

Location of Library collection:

 Main Collection (Open Shelf)

• Borrowed for a limited period
• Books can be loaned across campuses
• Books can be renewed electronically or telephonically or by visiting the Circulation Desk
• Books not on the shelves – can be requested by visiting the Circulation Desk or via the catalogue using the REQUEST button.
• Fines are charged per day, per item for late returns.

For further information on borrowing library materials, click here.

Academic Reserves (AR)

• Consists of recommended and prescribed books in high demand
• Loan period of 2hrs during the day
• Usage only renewable if not wanted by another user
• Fines are charged per item per hour for late returns.

Build your search Using  Boolean Operators:

When using and, or, not, or to combine your search terms will narrow or expand your search results.

• AND requires both terms appear in the items that are retrieved.
• OR requires either term appear in the items that are retrieved.
• NOT excludes a term.
   

Keyword Search

• Simplest form of searching.
• System  matches the words typed, not the ideas represented by the words.
• Some are “phrase searches”.
• Truncation  -- word stem e.g.  creat*
• Results can be by displayed by date or relevance.

Most ebooks purchased by UKZN Library are housed on the EBSCHOhost or ProQuest platform but are all listed in the catalogue with a clickable link to get to the fulltext. On the main library page there is also an ebooks tab.

UKZN Library offers an Interlibrary loan (ILL) facility through which books can be borrowed from other libraries in the country if available. Most times there is no charge for borrowing a book. Copies of journal articles may also be requested and if it cannot be scanned and emailed there is a fee for this.

All ILL requests are done through the catalogue by clicking on either the red REQUEST or ILL REQUEST button on a catalogue record. Or fill in a manual request in your My Library Account.

On the national system SABINET, the collection SACat indicates what books are in which library in the country. Under the Product option at the Sabinet landing page, scroll down to SACat.

Most methodology books can be found at the numbers 001.4 and 300.72 on the top floor. Some of the latest editions of key texts such as those by Babbie and Mouton and Newman are kept in Academic Reserves.

There is a permanent display of methodology books on the ground floor of the Pmb main library.

Please note that some methodology books in high demand in the Pmb library have been made available for a 3 day loan rather than placed on Academic Reserves. These 3 day loan books are on the wooden shelf opposite the circulation desk.