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DUT Grants Amnesty During South African Library Week

DUT Grants Amnesty During South African Library Week

The Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) is celebrating South African Library Week from 19 to 25 March 2018 with the theme Libraries: Heart of the Community.

According to LIASA, libraries mirror, reflect and serve communities according to their needs, provide a place to find the resources to learn new skills, provide an opportunity to fight unemployment, illiteracy, digital illiteracy and loneliness, connect people, up-skill them, enable creative learning and build communities as well as are bridging the disparities within communities.

The Durban University of Technology Libraries is currently celebrating South African Library Week from 19 until 25 March 2018. In this week, DUT libraries also have amnesty during the South African Library Week where students and staff can return their overdue library books during this timeframe and no fines will be charged or questions asked.

DUT’s Siza Radebe-Manager: Site Libraries: said there is a national call to celebrate South African Library Week and to create awareness of libraries and its role. He added that at DUT there are activities that were scheduled as part of the Library week such as the involvement of the Chiropractic department to showcase their department and to take the students and staffs’ blood pressure.“What students can benefit from is to return their overdue books during this amnesty period. The aim is for the library to be more user-friendly and for users to start afresh as well as to make use of the library responsibly,” he said.

If students and staff still have outstanding books across all campuses, they can return the books by Saturday, 24 March 2018.

Pictured: DUT Chiropractic student Lindsay Balkwill takes Zamokuhle Dube’s blood pressure during the DUT Library Week.

Waheeda Peters

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