Research Analytics / Archives

Today was again quite packed with useful information sessions. We had a quick meeting with Kara, who gave us a bit of background to some of the meetings coming up during the day. She also organised for us to attend Engage: Public engagement in practice next week. (Engage is an annual event where they showcase and celebrate the varied ways that researchers engage with the community.)

Our first meeting of the day was with Katie Evans, their Research Analytics librarian. This was a superb session showing us examples of bibliometric reports she delivers to Research Committees, describing how she had to build the service. Katie is very inspiring and has a lot of expertise in the field. We will definitely stay in contact in future. We got lots of ideas from her on how to improve our bibliometric/research impact services. More about this also later when we return to Stellenbosch...

This afternoon's session was with Lizzie Richmond who is responsible for their Archives and Special Collections. It was interesting to see how our sections differ from each other. She brought us an album of photographs from 1930 when the women hockey team visited South Africa by boat! It was SO interesting to see. Herewith a few photographs from the album :-)

The team (on the boat)

First sight of Cape Town from the boat!

The Springbok Team!!!

The rest of the day we spent on preparing for our presentations tomorrow morning (and still are!) about the University and about the Library. Alvina will present something on the University (including Medicine and Health Sciences, also something about the new Library) and I will present something about the JS Gericke, but also more specifically on our research and academic services.

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