Information Desk Services:
VISITOR ACCESS
Former University staff who have resigned or whose contracts have ended, and students who have de-registered before graduating, have no special status for access or borrowing privileges and are given ordinary visitor status unless they qualify as members of Convocation (see Alumni below).
HEALTH SCIENCES
For information about access to the Witwatersrand Health Sciences Library, please contact the library on 011 717-2348/2250. The information about Library access given below does not apply at present to WHSL.
VISITORS AND EXTERNAL USERS
WHERE:
Applications for access from external users are processed in the Wartenweiler Library on the East Campus unless otherwise indicated below, and permit holder access cards are physically processed by the ICAM office in the Senate House building on the East Campus.
Please refer to the University Library s' Corporate User Schemes for organisational and institutional membership through the Engineering and Built Environment Libraries, the Law Library, the Wits Health Sciences Library and the Wits Library of Management.
WHEN:
Desk hours for applications in the Library are Monday-Friday 09:00-15:30 . No applications are processed in the Library or the ICAM office on Saturday mornings.
GENERAL ACCESS
The University Library system offers access to its resources and facilities by permit card to individual external users and visitors in various categories. In every case the charge for an access card is R130, in addition to which a further fee is charged in various categories.
Borrowing privileges are limited to certain categories of permit holders only.
ACTIVATION
PLEASE NOTE that cards created for users at the ICAM office will not normally be fully active, it might take a couple of days 2 up to 5 days after the card is made. This is a system limitation, outside the control of the Library. Cards may be used to access Libraries but not scan until fully activated.
CATEGORIES OF ACCESS
•STUDENTS INTENDING TO STUDY FOR POSTGRADUATE DEGREES AND WISHING TO PREPARE PROPOSALS ALTHOUGH NOT YET REGISTERED, have 6 months access-only to the Library on presentation of a signed letter of introduction, on University School letterhead, from their future supervisors.
•ALUMNI (PAST STUDENTS AND GRADUATES) OF THE UNIVERSITY
Alumni should first contact the University Alumni Affairs office at (011) 717-1095. There is a card charge of R150. Access to the Library with this card is free of charge but a fee is charged at the Alumni Office on behalf of the Library for borrowing privileges (2 books at a time for 7 days at a time, renewable if requested and available). Borrowing privileges are only granted to full members of Convocation.
STUDENTS CURRENTLY REGISTERED AT THE UNIVERSITY, AND STAFF EMPLOYED BY THE UNIVERSITY, including fixed period staff and retired staff with full retirement benefits, have access and borrowing privileges through student and staff cards. After retirement, staff should take their cards to the ICAM office for updating. No access charge.