{"id":57,"date":"2015-09-18T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T10:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/?p=57"},"modified":"2015-09-18T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T10:51:16","slug":"become-a-library-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/index.php\/2015\/09\/18\/become-a-library-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a library client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This blog shows clients the benefits of being able to access the library catalogue and having a user ID.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The services offered by The Technical Library to all members are listed in detail on our website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techlibrary.co.za\">www.techlibrary.co.za<\/a>)\u00a0 What are the benefits of becoming a member and being able to have direct access to The Technical Library catalogue?<\/p>\n<p>One of the main resources is the library catalogue. The interface is called <strong>Webview<\/strong>. Clients are able to search for information within this collection, which comprises books, conference proceedings, journal titles and journal articles. However, in order to <strong>request <\/strong>any items from the catalogues or <strong>submit a research request<\/strong> it <strong>will be necessary for you to have a user ID.<\/strong> All members are given a User ID on registration.<\/p>\n<p>When you contact the library to request information, training or an item from our collection, the process will be streamlined as we will have your details on our system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Library jargon definition of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SDI : <\/strong>This stands for Selective Dissemination of Information, a rather archaic term meaning keeping clients informed of new resources on specific topics. \u00a0This can be done electronically via alerts on our databases (contact <a href=\"mailto:katinka@techlibrary.co.za\">Katinka van Straaten<\/a>) or manually when we are reading our hard copy journals (contact <a href=\"mailto:katinka@techlibrary.co.za\">Katinka van Straaten<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This weekly blog is written promoting the products and services of The Technical Library. Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie Lievaart<\/p>\n<p>debbie@techlibrary.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog shows clients the benefits of being able to access the library catalogue and having a user ID. The services offered by The Technical Library to all members are listed in detail on our website (www.techlibrary.co.za)\u00a0 What are the benefits of becoming a member and being able to have direct access to The Technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,20,3,22,23],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introduction-to-the-technical-library","tag-library-catalogue","tag-request","tag-the-technical-library","tag-user-id","tag-webview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techlibrary.co.za\/Blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}