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WSU Digital Library Services: Our Services

This guide is about services offered at the WSU digital library

Digital Script Writing

This is the venue where lecturers create video content. The venue consists of a face tracking camera, interactive whiteboard and mounted data projector. Lecturers come to the library for the TeachInfinity software to be installed in order for the laptops to be compatible with the DSW system. Lecturers can also conduct synchronous sessions with students. This is very convenient when one needs to write content using a stylus pen. For example, it is difficult to teach Maths with PowerPoint slides, the digital script writing offers the affordance of writing in an interactive whiteboard so that students can be able to follow equations, calculations and drawings. The interaction that DSW offers allow students to annotate and participate in the learning activities whilst attending synchronous sessions virtually.

Training Room

This is the venue that is mostly used for workshops and trainings for WSU staff and students. The venue has a strong and reliable WiFi, wireless projector, projector screen and desks with device charging sockets. The venue capacity is 36

 

Bring Your Own Device

This is the area where students bring their own devices and connect to the Library WiFi. Most students use this area to search eResources, download eBooks, listen to podcasts, work  on their assignments and some they even come to write their exams.

Post Grad Commons

The Postgraduate Commons is located on the 3rd floor of the PNCL Library building. The Postgraduate Commons has been designed as a scholarly common room for all Walter Sisulu University Postgraduate students registered for Advanced diploma, Honours, Masters, and PhD degrees. It is a spacious area containing 8 laptops with access to the Internet and research software. 

 

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. 
OER form part of ‘Open Solutions’, alongside Free and Open Source software (FOSS), Open Access (OA), Open Data (OD) and crowdsourcing platforms.

 

Computer Lab I Study Area I Collaborative Commons

Students bring their own devices such as laptops, smartphones, tablets etc to connect to our fast and reliable network. For students to connect to WiFi, they need to select the "Student-Lib-Wifi" network, then use their WSU email address as a username, use their email password as the login password.