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You can now set up RSS (or news) feeds for any search you run on EBSCOHost databases. A "Create alert for this search" link now appears on the top of the page containing your search results.

Clicking on this will provide a link for the corresponding RSS feed which you can subscribe to via your news aggregator or RSS reader. Or you can have the alerts come to your email.

Items in the feed are article titles and brief citations. The "Read More" link takes you to a full citation page.

The feeds last indefinitely as long as you access the feeds within one week of creation and no more than two months goes by without new data in the feed.

UCT Libraries took part in the Open Day Saturday 5th May with a small group of staff and student assistants manning the Library stand in Leslie and taking tour groups around the Chancellor Oppenheimer Library.

There were library tours literally every five minutes from just after 10 am until 3 pm when the Open Day closed. We were exhausted as the photo showed!

We have a trial to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers until 25 May 2007.

The blurb reads: " The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers are vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. They are among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the past two centuries, and are fundamental to an understanding of current legislation, policy making and the political environment."

As part of the USA's National Library Week (15 April - 21 April) , Greenwood Publishing have given free access to their electronic products.

These products include:

* African-American Experience

* ARBA Online (quality reviews of print and electronic reference works)

* Daily Life Through History (content from reference works, monographs and primary documents)

* @ the Greenwood Digital Collection (e-books)

* Latino American Experience

* Praeger Security International Online (in-depth information and articles on security-related issues)

* Reader's Advisor Online (what to read next)

* World Folklore and Folklife (origins and development of traditional cultures; part of Daily Life Through History )

* Children's Magazine Guide (annotated citations of recent articles from childrens' magazines including websites)

We have access to African Biographical Archive Online until 3rd May 2007. The link is up on the libraries' database trials page.

The archive provides access to biographical information on individuals from the whole African continent and covers the publishing period from 1807 to 1993.

The African Biographical Archive is one of the databases provided by WBIS Online - so one will need to limit the search to this particular database.

The African Biographical Archive Online is a KG Sauer production and ... access to biographical information on a vast number of individuals from the whole African continent

Alas, not all the Easter Egg tokens were found ... and it is now too late.

And then the purple-eared Easter Bunny visited the library. We think

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The Library Easter Bunny (with purple bunny ears) visited the library just after 3pm today to do the Easter Egg Draw.

The lucky seven are:-

• Luvuyo and Mbongeni Notshokovu
• Alisha Naidoo
• Thandeka Mpati
• Peter Wynne
• Allie Pangarker
• Vuyo Fula

Thank you for joining in the Easter Fun!

Photos ...

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UCT Libraries will be closed Friday 6th April 2007 for the Easter Weekend. We will re-open Tuesday 10th April 1007.

PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) is a bibliographic database produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, while offering both current and retrospective coverage. Document types covered include journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.

Index to Theses provides a comprehensive list of these with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Access is by password which is available from the Humanities Reference Desk. Trial access ends 13 April 2007.

It has become a custom in the library to have some Easter Fun and this year is no different. So this is an invitation to join in the Easter Egg Hunt on Thursday 5th April.

We'll be hiding 36 Easter Bunny tokens on Levels 4 and 5 in the Chancellor Oppenheimer Library. These can be redeemed at the Humanities Reference Desk for a marshmallow Easter Egg.

And as a bonus for those chocolate lovers or for those who can't find any tokens, there is an Easter Egg Draw as well. Put your name in the Easter Egg Draw at the Loans Desk. Names will be drawn at 3 pm on Thursday afternoon.

The chocolate eggs are donated by the Humanities Reference Staff.

The Copyright Clearance Reports for photocopies on Short Loan are only valid for the year in which they were granted. So at the end of each academic year, all photocopied items are removed from Short Loan and returned to individual academic staff.

To keep items on Short Loan, one needs to apply afresh for new Copyright Clearance to CHEC and then re-submit to Short Loan. The procedure is outlined on the Short Loan website.

The procedure for placing photocopies on Short Loan is governed by the DALRO (Dramatic, Artistic, and Literary Rights Organisation) Blanket Licence Agreement which came into effect at UCT on 01 January 2006. This licence is administered by the Publishing Liaison Office (PLO) of the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC).

Round about this time each year, the orientation students bringing in groups of first years for a quick tour of Chancellor Oppenheimer Library. The Humanities students stop by the Humanities Reference Desk, and get a whirlwind tour of Aleph, the online catalogue, and a slightly longer stop at the databases while enjoying the "bottle experience".

A scene from Wednesday's tour ... spot the librarians!

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UCT Libraries participated in the Parents' Open Days with a stand in the Leslie and taking parents on tours of the Chancellor Oppenheimer Library. The Humanities librarians were on duty at the stand on both days, and took tours around the library. Here is

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UCT Libraries has trial access to Empire Online until 5 March 2007.

"Welcome to Empire Online. Adam Matthew Digital have brought together an exciting collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world." Continued at http://www.empire.amdigital.co.uk/introduction/index.aspx