Our blog has moved!

Dear followers,

Please note that our blog has moved. The new blog has many interesting posts on old Huisgenoot magazine articles, as well as other interesting books and articles that we are digitising.

The new adres is http://uplibrarydigitisationproject.wordpress.com

If there are any questions, please let us know via Facebook: UPLSDigitisation.

Presentation at ASSAF - SA IR CoP

Last week on Wednesday I had the privelege to speak at the meeting of the South African Institutional Repository Managers Community of Practice. For more information on the CoP, use the following link http://hdl.handle.net/2263/16637

Attached herewith a group photo of the organizers and speakers [Louise van Heerden, Adele van der Merwe,Hettie Groenewald, Ria Groenewald, Zweli Ndayi and Susan Veldsman), ]. 

This is a link to a very interesting blog.It's about JPEG2000.Feel free to check it out:
http://jpeg2000wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/

New Monitors

Earlier this week, our office got a few new monitors. Not only that, but the monitors are 27" LED monitors. What did we do with the old monitors? Simple, use them with the new monitors! Now we can work, while we work.See photos below.

“Academic possibilities of tablet devices such as an iPad”

On the 28^th October 2011, Ria Groenewald and Maritz Visser from the Digitisation office attended a workshop at the University of Pretoria Conference hall. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the academic application of tablets and to identify possible difficulties in the implementation thereof.

In attendance were representatives from the various faculties in UP. Ria and Maritz were trying to get the attendees to understand the obstacles presented by firewalls and how they hinder users when trying to gain access to resources through the tablets.

Maritz demonstrated some applications which can be useful to lecturers and how they can use those applications. The attendees were pleased with Maritz and Ria’s presentations and will hopefully use what they learned.

There might be a follow-up workshop same time next year, hopefully by then majority of the staff will be in possession of Tablets to foster a great debate on their use in the academic environment. 

Left: Maritz Visser

Right: Ria Groenewald

Bettie Venter néé Grobbelaar

Bettie Venter néé Grobbelaar
Hieronder volg die joernaal van Bettie Venter née Grobbelaar. Dit is geskryf oor die tydperk gedurende die Anglo-Boere oorlog 1899-1902.

Dit is 'n storie oor 'n 16-jarige meisie wat groot word in 'n oorlog atmosfeer. Hulle het te doene gehad met gevegte, siekte, dood, pyn en honger op 'n daaglikse basis. Sy moes vrede maak met die toestande . Sy praat ook oor haar ou skool vriend, Willem Botha, wat 'n verraaier geword het en sy rug draai op die Boere mense, van sy ou vriende was aangehou in 'n  konsentrasie kamp onder leiding van 'n bevelvoerder met die naam Jacobs. Hy was self ook 'n verraaier wat baie onsensitief opgetree het teenoor die Boere en niks gedoen het om die swak omstandighede in die konsentrasie kamp te verbeter nie.

Die bevelvoerder (Jacobs) sou die mense vrot vleis gee om te eet en eerder te min kos om van te leef, maar te veel om van te sterf. In 1902 is 'n verslag vrygestel oor die bevelvoerder  en sy behandeling van die Boere mense, waarna Jacobs vervang word deur J. Dwyer van die 2 Royal Irish Rifles.  Dwyer het die toestande in die kamp spoedig verbeter.

Die joernaal eindig waar Bettie se pa die kinders vertel dat die oorlog verby is. Hy gee die kinders raad om alles wat gebeur het te vergewe, te vergeet en dit in God se hande te laat.

Die redakteur  is Herman Wehrmeyer. Die kopiereg was oorhandig aan die Universiteit van Pretoria om die joernaal oop te stel op die internet.


This is a link to the pdf: http://www.mediafire.com/?1o9v7ud7whcjqah

Newsletter

Rugby World Cup 2011 Kick-Off – Building team spirit!

For the kick-off of the Rugby World Cup 2011, the digitization unit decided to make a rugby field, along with the stadium, cars and people out of a cake. We asked The Pastry Princess to bake four square cakes, and we put all four next to each other to make one big square cake in order to use it as the stadium. We dyed coconut green for the grass, and used Oreo wafers and boudoirs and toothpicks to create the pavilion. Jelly babies were used as “people” and the cars and flowers was bought at Bakers Bin. The two teams which were projected on the field were South Africa and New Zealand. Danie gave us a one-on-one about the rules and engagement of rugby.

The photos displayed below are also available on the digitization office facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/UPLS-Digitisation-Office/145308528847872