Political Studies and Policy and Development Studies: Books

Books that have been placed in  Academic Reserves are available at the main issue desk. Search on World Cat Local (icatalogue option) or click on the Course Reserves tab under 'Resources' on the black toolbar. It is the first option on the drop down menu.

Academic Reserves material cannot be removed from the library during the day - the day is divided into two hour slots to allow as many users as possible to have access. Ask at the Circulation desk.

You must produce your student card to be able to borrow items.

Pietermaritzburg Academic Reserves

Copies of Heywood: Politics  along with six copies of Global politics.

Copies of South African Foreign Policy Review, voulmes 1 and 2

Copies of South African politics: an introduction by De Jager 

Copies of Comparative government and politics by Hague

Books that are not available at Pmb but are in another UKZN library may be borrowed provided the item is not on Academic Reserves in another library. 

You now request books and articles online via the catalogue. Find the item, click on its title and on the right hand side you will see a red REQUEST tab. Click on that. You will then be asked to login to your library account. Complete details eg where you want to pick the book up from and click submit. You will be informed when the book is ready for collection. Articles will be scanned and emailed to you.

Setting up my library account

The Library's iCatalogue is now part of the world's academic libraries called World Cat. Icatalogue tells you what books, journals, articles, etc are available at UKZN (as well as elsewhere in the world) and in which library as well as the current status of a book eg is it in Academic Reserves, out on loan, on order etc.

  Training sessions on how to use World Cat Local are offered at the beginning of each semester.

Prescribed and recommended books: Academic / Course Reserves

Copies of prescribed and recommended books are often kept in the Academic Reserves sections of the libraries. Academic Reserves materials may not be taken out of the library during the day. Academic reserves material is kept at the Circulation Desk.

General book stock 

The general book stock is arranged on the open shelves in number order, most within the number ranges 320 - 329's and 350s for policy. Undergraduates may borrow 6 items for a two week period. Books may be renewed if not requested by another borrower. The iCatalogue on the Library's website may be used to track the location and availability of an item. See below for guides to the numbering system for politics books.

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

Some specialist politics dictionaries and encyclopedias are available in the libraries including the online International Encyclopedia of Political Science. A useful respected source is Encyclopedia Britannica.

Theses

Please click on the Theses and Dissertations tab at the top of this page

Ebooks

Most text books are currently not available electronically but a few are. The icatalogue will provide the link where online access is available. Also try eBooks or GoogleBooks: many books have at least chapters that are full text.

During 2020 a major effort was made to try and get at least prescribed books in electronic format where available for institutional access. 

There are print copies of both these books in the Academic Reserves section of each main library

Core numbers:

UKZN Library offers an Interlibrary loan (ILL) facility through which books can be borrowed from other libraries at UKZN and 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.

You can ask the Circulation desk staff to help you or a subject librarian; you can send your request to: ill@ukzn.ac.za or, under the tab 'Library accounts' on the far right of the library webpage, click on Inter library loans. You need to set up an account.

On the national system SABINET, the collection SACat indicates what books and print journals are in which library in the country.