VUT Secunda Campus Library

The Library at Secunda Campus provides information services to both students and staff members in support of teaching, learning and research. The library serves about 700 students. There are about 7197 books on the shelves. The collection is geared mainly to the courses that the campus offers. In a situation where the lecturer or student needs a book that is not available in the Library, the VUT has an active Interlibrary Loan service where the book or journal article can be requested for the patron.

The campus offers a limited number of courses, namely:

1. Chemical Engineering
2. Cost and Management accounting
3. Electrical Engineering
4. Process Instrumentation
5. Safety Management

The library offers the following services and facilities:

• Information literacy training to all its patrons
• 4 Computers that are strictly for OPAC
• Training room that can accommodate about 50 students at a time
• 8 Discussion rooms. Students can make bookings at the circulation desk.
• Photocopying service available to the VUT registered students.

Collections & Arrangement

Books from the Open Shelves are arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification and can be loaned and taken out of the library, for a specific period depending on the user type. While books from Reserve and Reference collection cannot be loaned out but can be used inside the library. Books at the reserve include only prescribed or recommended material and can be loaned for a maximum of two hours.

Circulation

The library has a service counter, and this is the point where clients can return, renew or loan material provided they have a valid ID card. Loan periods are the same as that of main campus library.

SECUNDA STAFF AND CONTACTS:

Ms Sibongile Mtsweni

Campus Librarian

017 631 1990

sibongile@vut.ac.za

Ms Portia Mtsweni

Library assistant

017 631 1990

portiam@vut.ac.za

Mr Melusi Simelane

Library Assistant

017 631 1990

melusis@vut.ac.za