Current awareness is the term used to describe staying informed by keeping up to date with the latest publications, research and news in your field.
The perspective of current awareness is the present and the forthcoming, as opposed to the retrospective.
Current awareness ranges from looking for information on specific topics on a regular basis (and this usually involves the assistance of your Personal Librarian to help you set up a search profile matched to your research interests) to embracing a wider, more general, and cross-disciplinary view that brings an element of serendipity into your search for the latest information.
Informally, researchers remain alert in all contexts for useful information and insights that will inform their daily practice, their research, and spark off innovative and creative ideas for new avenues of research.
SAHO has become the largest and most comprehensive online website on South African and African history and culture.
SAHO is a unique history project – its website, the organisation’s flagship project, is linked to a partnership programme with universities, community-based history projects, and the educational and the cultural department of government.
SAHO's mission
SAHO's mission is to write a new history which would break the silence on our past and to address the biased way in which the historical and cultural heritage of South Africa and the continent has been represented in our educational and cultural institutions.
SAHO has committed itself to building, a non-partisan, peoples history project in partnerships with academic, heritage and community groups in South Africa and from the rest of the African continent.
Address by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Nelson Mandela, to the United Nations' General Assembly, New York, 3 October 1994.
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The year is marked with many special days, weeks, and months dedicated and devoted to raising awareness about important issues.
This monthly post, compiled by the Information Search Librarians Team, will note special dates and themes, and draw your attention to possibly interesting cross-disciplinary topical references intended to inform and to inspire ideas for research.
The Freedom Month celebrations offer us an opportunity to reflect on progress made thus far in transforming our society, while also examining our challenges. The month celebrates freedom and commemorates the first democratic post-apartheid non-racial elections that were held on April 27th 1994, which saw Nelson Mandela elected as President.
Since 1994, we have moved from an oppressive society to one which values human rights for all through advancing human development and restoring human dignity.
Our vibrant democracy is anchored by the constitution which guarantees equal rights for all.
Events | South African Government (www.gov.za)
23 April is a symbolic date in world literature. It is the date on which several prominent authors including William Shakespeare, Miguel Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega died. This date was a natural choice for UNESCO's General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone to access books - the most beautiful invention for sharing ideas beyond the boundaries of space and time, as well as one of the most powerful forces of poverty eradication and peace building.
World Book and Copyright Day (link is external) is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Each year, on 23 April, celebrations take place all over the world to recognise the magical power of books - a link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures. On this occasion, UNESCO joined up with the international organisations that represent the three major sectors of the book industry - publishers, booksellers and libraries.
World Book and Copyright Day 2021 | South African Government (www.gov.za)
World Veterinarian Day was created in 2000 by the World Veterinary Association (link is external) to highlight and promote the lifesaving work performed by veterinarians around the globe. Each year, a different theme is chosen which helps pet owners to remember the importance of various aspects of animal care, and how vets can help, for example, ensuring your pet’s vaccinations are up to date.
If you are looking for forthcoming conferences, the following websites are helpful:
Now the election is over, the focus in the new South Africa is on the men and women who will make up Nelson Mandela's government. Michael Hamlyn outlines the key players.
Date: Saturday, Apr. 30, 1994
Publication: The Times (London, England) Issue: 64942
Journal of African Law
Vol. 38, No. 1 (1994), pp. 70-77 (8 pages)
Published By: School of Oriental and African Studies
Review of African Political Economy
Vol. 22, No. 66 (Dec., 1995), pp. 525-537 (13 pages)
Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.