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The Libraries' Digital Library Services department is involved in a retrospective digitisation project of all UCT theses. The aim is that all UCT's Master's and Doctoral theses, dating back to 1929, will be available via OpenUCT. ZivaHub is the University of Cape Town's institutional open access data repository. It houses scholarly outputs such ...
UCT held its first graduation on 7 September 2023 in ceremony at the Nobel Peace Hall (Portuguese: Salão Nobel da Paz) in its Balide campus. [11] The university awarded degrees to 31 graduates from the faculties of education and social sciences, including students who previously attended the stand-alone Instituto de Ciências Religiosas.
The University of Cape Town was founded at a meeting in the Groote Kerk in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for young men. The college had a small tertiary-education facility, introduced in 1874 [9] that grew substantially after 1880, when the discovery of gold and diamonds in the north – and the resulting demand for skills in mining – gave it the financial boost it needed ...
Entrance to Jagger Library with floral decorations in 1947. By 1980, the library was part of an eight-library complex at the University of Cape Town, and was the headquarters of the university's library service. It then contained 518,000 of the 741,000 volumes available in the library network, and could house 1280 readers in its reading rooms. [2]
Hendrik Hofmeyr, composer and music theorist; winner of the 1997 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Composition Prize; Professor of Music at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town; Galt MacDermot, composer of the musical Hair; Melanie Scholtz, vocalist, operas, jazz, pop, r&b, and classical music; graduated from the School of Opera
The Medical Library Association (MLA) is a Chicago-based advocate for library professionals and health sciences libraries – primarily in the United States. MLA maintains an online list of ALA -accredited library school programs for those who would like to pursue a master's degree in library and information studies in the US and Canada ( MLIS ).
The Health Sciences Library offers access to more than 6200 Health Science eJournals, 10,000 eBooks and more than 107,000 print books. [6] They also offer access to more than 91 different databases, such as Clinical Key, which provides access to more than 1,500 health sciences books and journals, plus more than 13,000 medical and surgical videos.
The SRC took Varsity Newspaper firmly under its wing, with much indignation from the student body. The first editor, NC Gracie, chose the name claiming UCT had the right to the name "being the oldest [university] with the most inspiring record and the greatest tradition of tolerance and unity".