PIETER WESSELS LIBRARY

The Library, housed in the renovated former ladies’ residence (Meade House), was opened in 1980. Its present holdings of over 65 546 volumes include books, videos, CD’s, DVD’s, and other media. The electronic catalogue of the Library is available on Internet. There are more than 1500 periodicals available in the library, including more than 2,100 online journals, with more than 1700 peer-reviewed titles, as well as a selection of hard copy journals.

• The Academic Search Elite database offers information in nearly every area of academic study, including business studies, communication, education, psychology, arts and literature, language and linguistics, and theology. Examples of titles offered in the database include: The Biblical Archaeology Review, Psychological Review, and the Harvard Educational Review. Full text databases include:
• Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopaedia, providing over 25,000 encyclopaedia
  entries covering a variety of subject areas;
• Mus Ultra, a database contains full text for nearly 500 popular magazines, 360 full text reference books, more than 85 000 biographies and 107 000 primary source documents, and an image collection of over 510 000 photos, maps, & flags, colour PDF’s and expanded full text back files for key magazines;
• Primary Search, which contains more than 70 popular full text magazines, and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines.
•  JSTOR, a digital library which contains digitized back issues of academic journals, including books, primary sources, and current issues of journals, and provides full text searches of almost 2 000 journals.

Further databases include the Seventh Day Adventist Periodical Index, which consists of more than 40 past and present journals and magazines, and Logos.

The Library’s linkup to World Share through the SABINET inter-library loan service provides students with access to the holdings of all the major university and general libraries in South Africa.

Students therefore have access to the latest information in a wide variety of areas.

Ellen G. White Seventh-day Adventist
Research & Heritage Centre
The Ellen G. White Seventh-day Adventist Research Centre, opened in February 1983, contains a wealth of historical and church-related research material, the core of which is the writings of Ellen G. White. Photocopies of more than 80 percent of her letters, manuscripts and published works are housed in this Centre, one of more than fifteen such centres in the world. As ancillary material, there is a collection of documents on the history of Adventism. Operating under the oversight of the Ellen G. White Estate and the Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division of the General Conference, the centre serves the entire Southern Africa region within the Division territory. The facilities for research offered by the Centre greatly enhance the service provided by the Pieter Wessels Library at Helderberg College of Higher Education.

Further, there are Ellen G. White Study Centres at various locations in the SID territory, that is, the Southern Africa Union Conference office in Bloemfontein, Solusi University, the Adventist University of Mozambique in Beira, Adventist University Zurcher in Madagascar, and one being established at Rusangu University in Zambia.

There are also two mini centres in Angola.

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