The Library's iLink catalogue indicates what books have been placed in Academic Reserves.
Academic Reserve material cannot be removed from the library during the day. Material are loaned out for a period of two hours and can be renewed based on demand. In order to use the Academic Reserves you need a student card as well as the author and title of the book that you need to borrow.
Academic Reserves has been relocated to Level 4 of the Westville Campus Main Library.
You can now access Course Reserves online to view materials placed on Academic Reserves :
https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/courseReserves/landing
UKZN Library offers an Interlibrary loan service as well as Inter-campus loan. InterLibrary loans refers to requests received for material not available at UKZN libraries and a team on each campus library will work with this. Inter-campus loans refers to loans between UKZN libraries and such items will be issued to students and staff on their library account.
Prescribed and recommended books: Academic 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 but can be used in the Library for a period of two hours and is renewable.
https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/courseReserves/landing
General book stock
The general book stock is arranged on the open shelves in number order (see left hand column box for a detailed list), most within the number ranges:
Undergraduates may borrow 6 items for a two week period. Honours students may borrow 15 books for 21 days, Masters and PhD students 20 books for 42 days and staff 30 books for 90 days. Books may be renewed if not requested by another borrower. http://ukzn.worldcat.org/ on the Library's website may be used to track the location and availability of an item.
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Geology dictionaries and encyclopedias are available in the libraries. These can be found on level 5 of the Westville Campus Main Library (R550 - R559)
Theses
Please click on the Theses and Dissertations tab at the top of this page.
UKZN theses and Dissertations can be found online @ http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/xmlui
E books
Most text books are currently not available electronically but a few are. The iLink catalogue will provide the URL where online access is available. The library has online access to:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookbshsrw/a/fulltext
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ukzn/search.action?adv.x=1&f00=license&p00=psu&p00=pmu&search=Search
InterLibrary Loans
This is a service offered for items which are not available at UKZN items. There is also an inter campus ILL service for books at other UKZN libraries. For further enquiries speak to library staff,
