Complete a Library Subscriber's Application Form and bring it to the Loans Desk on the Main Level of the Chancellor Oppenheimer Library.
Note: Materials that have been requested by another borrower will not be renewed. The Libraries may shorten the loan period of an item that has been requested by another borrower.
Fees payable: None
Note: Materials that have been requested by another borrower will not be renewed. The Libraries may shorten the loan period of an item that has been requested by another borrower.
Fees payable: None
Note: Materials that have been requested by another borrower will not be renewed. The Libraries may shorten the loan period of an item that has been requested by another borrower.
Fees payable: none
Borrowing quota (books, videos, CDs, DVDs) : 6 items
Loan period (books): 7 days (renewable three times)
Loan period (videos, CDs, DVDs): 3 days (not renewable)
Journals may not be borrowed.
Borrowing quota (Short Loan items) : 3 items
Loan period : 3 hours or 1 hour during the day, depending on the status of the item
Overnight loans: from 15h00 to 09h30 the following morning
Weekend loans: from 15h00 on Friday to 09h30 on the following Monday morning
Note: Materials that have been requested by another borrower will not be renewed.The Libraries may shorten the loan period of an item that has been requested by another borrower.
Fees payable: None
Note: Materials that have been requested by another borrower will not be renewed. The Libraries may shorten the loan period of an item that has been requested by another borrower.
Fees payable: None
UCT Alumni (Graduated)
Alumni who have graduated from the University of Cape Town may apply to UCT Libraries for a subscription lasting 6 months or a year. The subscription is granted for research purposes only, and is subject to approval.
Alumni have access to certain database resources. Unfortunately, the services and/or spaces listed below are for current staff and students of UCT:
All registered staff and students, excluding short-course students, of the Universities of Cape Town (UCT), Stellenbosch (SU) and the Western Cape (UWC) and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) are considered Cape Higher Education Library Network (CHELiN) members and may access the CHELiN libraries free of charge to use the materials within the libraries.
Access to CHELiN libraries is by means of staff or student card, although specific institutions may issue additional library access cards where access is controlled electronically.
CPUT
All CPUT libraries are accessible to CHELiN members free of charge subject to positive identification with a valid identification document (photo identification is essential).
SU
All SU libraries are accessible to CHELiN members free of charge subject to positive identification with a valid identification document (photo identification is essential).
UCT
UWC
Staff, doctoral, and masters students from institutions covered by the Committee of Higher Education Libraries of South Africa (CHELSA) Memorandum of Understanding.
Fees payable: None
No borrowing privileges.
Fees payable: None
Library materials may only be borrowed if your host Department has signed surety for them in your letter of introduction.
Note: Materials that have been requested by another borrower will not be renewed. The Libraries may shorten the loan period of an item that has been requested by another borrower.
Fees payable: None
Prospective Masters and PhD students who have not yet registered to study at UCT.
Note: Library membership will be granted for a period of 3 months. If you have not registered as a UCT student after 3 months, you may apply for a renewal of library membership for a further 3 months. Thereafter library privileges will cease.
Library materials may only be borrowed if your host Department has signed surety for them in your letter of introduction.
Note: Materials that have been requested by another borrower will not be renewed. The Libraries may shorten the loan period of an item that has been requested by another borrower.
Fees payable: None
UCT-affiliated Research Institute Members
For example members of the following institutions:
If you wish to query if your institution qualifies please contact Niel Mostert.
Library materials may only be borrowed if your host Department has signed surety for them in your letter of introduction.
Note: Materials that have been requested by another borrower will not be renewed. The Libraries may shorten the loan period of an item that has been requested by another borrower.
Fees payable: None
Supernumerary Registrars are self-funded individuals not paid by the province who work at one of the primary teaching hospitals, i.e. Groote Schuur, Red Cross, Mowbray Maternity, Valkenberg, Lentegeur, Hanover Park and Manenberg hospitals.
Access to the Health Sciences Library and Institute of Child Health Library differs from the main UCT Libraries.
Library materials may only be borrowed if your host Department has signed surety for them in your letter of introduction.
Please note Materials that have been requested by another borrower will not be renewed. The Libraries may shorten the loan period of an item that has been requested by another borrower.
Access to Facilities
Fees payable: None
Western Cape Government (WCG) staff are Provincial staff members working at Primary Teaching Hospitals, i.e. Groote Schuur Hospital, Red Cross, Somerset, Valkenberg, Victoria Hospital, GF Jooste Hospital, Mowbray Maternity and Lentegeur Hospital. WCG staff may only use the Health Sciences and Institute for Child Health Libraries.
Borrowing quota: 4 books
Loan period : 7 days (renewable once)
Journals, videos, DVDs, music CDs, and LPs may not be borrowed.
Please note Materials that have been requested by another borrower will not be renewed. The Libraries may shorten the loan period of an item that has been requested by another borrower.
Fees payable: None
Visiting lecturers
Visiting academics/researchers and students working with a UCT Department
Academics and postgraduate students from international academic institutions who are visiting Cape Town (but not officially visiting a UCT Department), please visit the category for Visiting Researchers.
Bona fide researchers visiting to consult specialist research collections, please visit the category for Day Visitors.
Library materials may only be borrowed if your host Department has signed surety for them in your letter of introduction.
Note: Materials that have been requested by another borrower will not be renewed. The Libraries may shorten the loan period of an item that has been requested by another borrower.
Fees payable: None
Academics and postgraduate students from international academic institutions who are visiting Cape Town, but not officially visiting a UCT Department.
Visiting lecturers, researchers, and students attached to a UCT Department, please visit the category for Visiting Academics.
Bona fide researchers visiting to consult specialist research collections, please visit the category for Day Visitors.
No borrowing privileges.
Fees are charged according to the length of your visit, and are not refundable if your visit is cut short.
Day Visitors
Note : The following libraries have restricted access
Members of the public:
Researchers visiting to consult specialist research collections:
We regret that we are unable to admit school learners, students from private educational institutions, or undergraduates from other tertiary institutions, including distance-learning institutions.
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