Not always a walk in the park

The following image had to be scanned from a carbon copy of the the copy we had, since we didn't have the original. Since the copy we had the work with was already bad quality, it wasn't an easy task to digitise it into an acceptable version. A lot of work thus had to go into digitising this book into a high quality digital copy. Whoever said digitising was as easy as 1, 2, 3?

Painting the office

They say change is as good as a holiday, so after choosing a new colour scheme for the office, these were the results:
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DURING

AFTER

Africana Books - William J. Burchell, Volume I (1967) - Travels in the Interiors of South Africa

Digitising this book, we came across some beautiful pictures and sketches and thought we could share them!

If only they knew....

I found the following excerpt in the Statute Law of the Transvaal 1839-1910. This volume is mainly an index containing law numbers, their subject/title, year amended, etc. When I read the first law on the first page, the first thing that popped into my mind was "If only they knew..."

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Our work on the University of Pretoria's Repository

The ratings of the university's repository for March 2010 are out and as many of the top accessed material are digitised by this office, we have decided to give you insight into some of the remarkable material we work with.

Herewith the rating list:
 Top 5 Communities accessed:

1. Engineering, Built Environment & Information Technology http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/71
2. Economic & Management Sciences http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/1682
3. Education http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/63
4. South African National Veterinary Repository http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/3809
5. Veterinary Science http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/78
 Top 5 Sub-communities accessed:
1. Architecture http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/72
2. Southern African Transport Conferences http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/5201
3. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research
4. Research Articles (Jonathan Jansen ) http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/111
5. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/11004
Top 5 Collections accessed:
1. Campus Buildings http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/6523
2. Pretoria Environs Buildings http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/11706
3. Africana Books Collection http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/4911
4. LLM Dissertations (Centre for Human Rights) http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/927
5. Jonathan Jansen Collection http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/108
Top 10 items accessed:
1. Curriculum reform in South Africa: a critical analysis of outcomes-based education
http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/132
2. Geslacht-register der oude Kaapsche familien. Deel 1, A-J
http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/9290
3. Geslacht-register der oude Kaapsche familien. Deel 3, P tot Z.
http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/9288
4. Language and other background factors affecting secondary pupils' performance in Mathematics in South Africa http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/4915
5. Geslacht-register der oude Kaapsche familien. Deel 2, A tot O
http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/9289
6. Faktore wat die beroepskeuse van eerstejaaronderwysstudente benvloed
http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/6133
7. Lantana camara http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/8498
8. Has curriculum reform in South Africa really changed assessment practices, and what promise does the revised National Curriculum Statement hold? http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/5044
9. Public safety and security during the 2010 Soccer World Cup
http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/3734
10. Afrikaner en skisofrenie : 'n genetiese studie http://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/handle/2263/6271

"Gepidgniseerde Afrikaans"???

Die Universiteit van Potchefstroom het 'n tesis deur Stolz, E met die titel Gepidginiseerde Afrikaans in Wit-Swart -Interaksie, 1983.

Ek het regtig nog nooit van die woord gehoor nie en deel dit sommer met ons lesers:

Interesting Fact

Hans Merensky collected newspaper clippings for each day of 1929 from The Rand Daily Mail,Sunday Times and The Star.See above an example taken from Rand Daily Mail,9th January 1929,Scenes from the Holfontein Diggings.