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📢 Humanities undergrads!

Free tea 🍵 Free biscuits 🍪 Free research skills 🎓

Join the UCTL Humanities librarians this October for interactive sessions to boost your assignments, research, referencing & AI skills.

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🎉📚 115 years of Hiddingh Hall Library!

Here’s to the HHL staff, past and present, who have cared for its collections and supported its users — and to generations of students, academics and researchers who have made it such a vibrant space.

Happy 115th birthday, HHL! 🥳🥳🥳

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📚 Heritage Month

Did you know that the Law Library on Middle Campus hosts the Van Zyl Collection, featuring rare 17th- and 18th-century works on Roman-Dutch Law that offer a window into the legal traditions that shaped South African law?

Explore here: https://t.co/Hf5W14faHA

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Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) will present its annual Ibali Iindaba webinar series between September and December 2026, exploring some of the work taking place around UCT Libraries’ Digital Collections Platform, Ibali.

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📢 Postgraduate researchers and staff 📢

Today's Digital Scholar Series online training session, from 13h00 to 14h00 is 'Cleaning your Data for Analysis with Open Refine'.

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https://t.co/7JJnsu6R8L

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UCTL has been granted access to Nature Masterclasses On-demand courses until 31 August 2026, allowing UCT researchers free access to the platform’s full range of professional development courses for a limited time.

👉Register below to explore the courses:
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📢 Library workshop for undergraduates today! 📢
Today's session from 14h00 to 14h45 will introduce you to the UCT Libraries databases and show you how to use them for your assignments. Register by clicking below:
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📢 Savvy Researcher Series Training Session today from 3pm to 4pm. 📢

This session will cover the use of the most common UCT Libraries databases. Register by clicking here: https://t.co/NDmR31PGWD

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📢Postgraduate researchers and staff 📢

Today's Digital Scholar Series Online Training Session - Capture and Manage Data with Forms

Register by clicking below.
https://t.co/9Gtuj7WX6C

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📢Calling all undergraduates! 📢

Be sure to register for UCTL's Core Research Series 2026 library workshops for undergraduates every Wednesday from 14h00 to 14h45, starting this week.

The session on 5 August is all about using Primo. Register here: https://t.co/GChNyPMFR4

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📷 Digital Scholar Series Training Session Today 📷

This session at 13h00 today takes you through updating your DMP with the information you have learned so far during your research project. Register here: https://t.co/MIMjf7ATmK