Vision and mission

The department of environmental affairs and tourism's vision is:

A prosperous and equitable society living in harmony with our resources. Our mission is to lead sustainable development of our environment and tourism for a better life for all, by:

Creating conditions for sustainable tourism growth and development;

Promoting the sustainable development and conservation of our natural resources;

Protecting and improving the quality and safety of the environment;

Promoting a global sustainable development agenda;

Transformation of the department, statutory bodies and economic sector for which we are responsible.

Our department is guided by the following values:

Sustainability:
meeting people's needs while balancing our consumption of resources with our country's capacity to renew them;

Performance:
providing a high quality service to south africa's people;

Professionalism:
accuracy, punctuality, possession of knowledge, corporate governance;

People:
building a performing, capable team, by promoting batho pele;

Integrity:
our ethics, honesty and non-corruptibility;

Innovation:
facing challenges and offering new solutions, pushing frontiers;

Diversity:
our rich culture and ideas, woven through the fabric of our organisation and nation.

Library objectives
To provide bibliographic support to all including the staff at mcm. To maintain, preserve and support valuable research materials in adherence to the broad spectrum of marine science activities undertaken by mcm: deat in their bid towards sustainable development of south africa’s marine resources.

● Core collection
● Types of material
● 6399 Book titles
● 880 Journal titles - over 100 000 volumes
● Microfiche titles
● Collected reprints
● Electronic access to sabinet and nisc abstracting service
● Maps and charts
● Internal reports
● Working reports
● Reference collection
● Newspapers
● Pamphlets
● Archival material relating to a century of marine science in south africa

An extensive collection of research materials in the following disciplines

● Fisheries management
● Physical and chemical oceanography
● Mariculture / aquaculture
● Marine pollution
● Fish specialization
● Maritime law
● Ship building/engineering/acoustics
● Diving
● Monitoring and surveillance
● Marine birds
● Marine mammals
● Long line fishing
● Fishing techniques

The library also houses a general collection that includes literature pertaining to the work place such as books on management, compiling your cv, aids, computers, comparative religion, multi-lingual dictionaries, etc.

● Chief users
● Internal staff
● Tertiary students
● Interns
● Consultants
● Learners
● Public

Loan policy (click here to download the pdf document)

Comments

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