Africa Research Central
Provides information on South African archives. Maintained by Prof. Kathryn Green and Dr. Susan Tschabrun at California State University, San Bernadino.
http://www.africa-research.org/
African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference, Pretoria
Held at the CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. "Identification of opportunities, strategies and practical examples for new forms of research and scholarship and for the management of the digital content of these activities by academics, researchers, scientists, information professionals and IT experts."
See also the 1st African Digital Curation Conference 2008.
http://www.ais.up.ac.za/digitalscholarship.htm
Andersen, Josephine - Literacy in Libraries
Paper (on South Africa) presented for the Social Responsibilities Discussion Group, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Pub. 1998.
http://www.ifla.org/VII/dg/srdg/srdg3.htm
Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers
Created 1994. Has a directory of freelance indexers. Hosts conferences such as the ASAIB Conference on Africana: from Papyrus to Metadata, 11 - 12 May 2006.
http://www.asaib.org.za/
Bibliophilia Africana 8, Centre of the Book, Cape Town, 11th - 14th May 2005
Day One will focus on historical perspectives, Day Two on the present, and Day Three on the future of the book in Africa.
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/bibliophilia.html
Brenthurst library, South Africa
The Africana library of Harry Oppenheimer acquires rare books, manuscripts, pamphlets, artwork. The web site has brief information on their programs, a list of publications from the Brenthurst Press and from the Brenthurst Archives Series.
http://www.brenthurst.org.za/
Britz, Johannes and Lor, Peter. (2003) -A Moral Reflection on the Digitisation of Africa's Documentary Heritage. Full text, in Adobe pdf. 11 p.
Paper presented to the 69th IFLA Conference, Berlin, 2003.
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/146e-Britz_Lor.pdf
CALICO Cape Library Cooperative
CALICO is "the collaborative Library Project of the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC). CHEC represents four tertiary institutions in the Western Cape of South Africa: the University of Cape Town, theUniversity of Stellenbosch, the University of the Western Cape and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology." Based in Cape Town, South Africa.
http://www.calico.ac.za/calico/
Cape Town Book Fair
Cape Town Book Fair, June 17-20, 2006
"Cape Town will host the first ever international book fair to be held in South Africa in June 2006. With the signing of a joint venture agreement between the the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) and the Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and, Cape Town will be partnering with the largest and most successful book fair organisation in the world. " Announcement on the Frankfurt Book Fair site.
Centre for the Book
Promotes the "the writing, publishing, reading, marketing and distribution of South African books." " an autonomous project of the National Library of South Africa." Offers lectures, exhibitions, workshops. Projects include community publishing, childrens' literature, the adult literacy resource room, etc. Based in Cape Town. http://www.centreforthebook.org.za
Digital Innovation South Africa, DISA
Full text historical South African journals online. Use Search the Journals to locate topics across all journals. The project, "South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990," will put online approx. 40 periodical titles. Access can be slow.
http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za/
Full text titles available are:
Abasebenzi, Afra Newsletter, African Communist, Africanist News and Views, Amandla-Matla, Apdusa Views, Arise! Vukani!, Black Review, Clarion Call, Congress Resister, Cosatu News, Crisis News, Critical Health, Dawn, Democracy in Action, East Cape Update, Fosatu Worker News, Frank Talk, Grassroots, Ikwezi, Inqaba ya Basebenzi, Isisebenzi, Isizwe, Izwi lase Township Journal of Black Theology, Mayibuye, NUM News, Phakamani, Pro Veritate, Rixaka, Sash, SASO Newsletter, SASPU Focus, SASPU National, Sechaba, Speak, Speak Newspaper, TRAC Newsletter, Umsebenzi, Work in Progress.
DISSAnet [Development of Information Science in South Africa]
"a forum for networking in LIS [Library and Information Science] research in Southern Africa." Sponsored an October 2000 conference, Progress in Library and Information Sciences in Southern Africa.
http://is.up.ac.za/dissanet/
FRELICO, Free State Libraries and Information Consortium
A cooperative organization comprising the Univ. of the Free State, Technikon Free State, Vista Univ., Univ. of the North, Bloemfontein Public Library, Sasol Technical Library, and Free State Directorate Information Services and Heritage.
http://www.uovs.ac.za/lib/frelico/index.htm
GAELIC, Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium
"the largest academic library consortium in South Africa, with 16 member institutions. Based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. http://www.gaelic.ac.za/
Innovation, A journal for appropriate librarianship and information work in Southern Africa (Pietermaritzburg)
Has the tables of contents and one full-text article for each issue from Number 18. From the University Library, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. [KF] http://www.library.unp.ac.za/innovation/id31.htm
International Association of Technological University Libraries, (IATUL) Conference, University of Pretoria, South Africa, June 1-5, 1998
Conference Information.
http://www.up.ac.za/asservices/ais/iatul98/conf98.htm
International Association of Technological University Libraries, (IATUL) Conference, University of Pretoria, South Africa, June 1-5, 1998, "The Challenge to be Relevant in the 21st Century"
Abstracts and full text of the papers. Topics include the Univ. of Science & Technology Library, Kumasi, Ghana; librarians in Africa; GAELIC, the Gauteng and Environs Library; Consortium; etc.
http://educate.lib.chalmers.se/IATUL/proceedcontents/cvol8.html
Ithaka: an Introduction by Kevin Guthri
Powerpoint presentation about Aluka, an Ithaka project to create an online database of scholarly resources for research and teaching and to preserve materials in danger of being lost. The first projects are three on Africa - documents from the Southern Africa liberation movements, African Plants and their uses, and the historic Kilwa island off the Tanzania coast. From the web site for the Association of Research Libraries, May 2004 meeting proceedings.
http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/144/guthrie.html
KwaZulu - Natal Law Society Library
The Natal Society Library is the Legal Deposit library in KwaZulu-Natal. Through its database catalog locate journal articles and books on South African legal related topics. Their newsletter provides information on new print and internet documents such as recent judgements from the Supreme Court, the labour and land claims courts. http://www.lawlibrary.co.za/
Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA)
Their constitution notes that "equitable and unrestricted access to basic information, including government produced information, is a fundamental right in a democratic society;..." Has a members discussion list, LIASA Online. Based in Pretoria.
http://www.liasa.org.za/
LibraryNet
Had links to South African libraries, library-related news, information on South African library conferences, seminars, associations, committees, etc. Site maintained by SABINET. In 1999 LibraryNet was incorporated into the Sabinet web site under "Library Industry News."
http://www.librarynet.co.za/
Lor, Peter and Johannes Britz - Information Imperialism: Moral Problems in Information Flows from South to North
Paper presented at the EEI21 (Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century) symposium, in Memphis, Tennessee, October 2002. "The paper deals with three forms of South-North information flows: (1) contributions by African scientists and scholars to the international literature; (2) the purchase of books, journals etc. published in African countries by libraries in developed countries; and (3) the recording and subsequent exploitation in developed [countries] of indigenous knowledge obtained from traditional communities in Africa." "This paper will be published later this year [2003] in the symposium proceedings (publisher McFarland Press). In the mean time a pre-final draft of the paper can be found as an Adobe Acrobat document on the website of the National Library of South Africa." 8 pages in Adobe pdf.
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/docs/imperia1.pdf
Management of State Security Archives of Former Repressive Regimes
Study published in 1994 by UNESCO and the International Council on Archives. Archives concerned included South Africa and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). The report of 16 pages contains little detail.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ramp/security.htm
Mendelssohn, Sidney (31 December 1860 - 26 September 1917)
Collector and Bibliographer of Africana
Brief account (October 1998) by Dr. Donal Brody of Great Epics Books on the life of Mendelssohn, collector of fine books and manuscripts on Central and Southern Africa and author of "South African Bibliography" (1910).
http://www.greatepicbooks.com/epics/october98.html
National Archives of South Africa (Pretoria)
Search archival holdings through the National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS). The National Film, Video and Sound Archives (NFVSA) is a subdirectorate of the National Archives of South Africa. Mailing address: The National Archivist. National Archives of South Africa, Private Bag X236, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
http://www.national.archives.gov.za/
National Commission on Higher Education.
Working Group on Libraries and Information Technology
The 1996 Report of the group established a set of guidelines on library and information technology policies for South Africa's higher education sector.
http://star.hsrc.ac.za/nche/wglit/final/toc.html
National English Literary Museum
Holdings include the Thomas Pringle Papers, (covering 1819 - 1826), Roy Campbell's Collection (verse and prose manuscripts), the papers of Lionel Abrahams, James Ambrose Brown, Dennis Brutus, Guy Butler, Stuart Cloete, Jack Cope, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Athol Fugard, Leon Gluckman, Joy Packer and Barney Simon. The Museum has a department of South African Printing and Publishing History. Has their publications list. They are compiling a bibliography of Anglophone black literature. Based at Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
http://oldwww.ru.ac.za/affiliates/nelm/
National Library of South Africa
"The State Library in Pretoria and the South African Library [Cape Town] ...amalgamated with effect from 1 November 1999 to form the National Library of South Africa (NLSA). The NLSA will consist of a Pretoria Division (the former State Library) and a Cape Town Division (the former SA Library), both operating on the previous premises."
The SAL is the national reference library and "the national preservation library for all South African legal deposit publications (including de luxe editions) and rare or unique material."
Search the online catalog of publications acquired by the various South African legal deposit libraries; Offers limited access to the Index of South African Periodicals; Has a list (in Adobe pdf), of National Library of South African Serials Microfilm holdings and a list of Pretoria microfilm holdings (also in Adobe pdf.)
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/NLSA/
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Formerly University of Port Elizabeth. See the Library and Information Services section.
http://www.upe.ac.za/
Opportunities for Newspaper Preservation and Access in South Africa, Conference, Cape Town, 2003
Conference, March 17-19, 2003, sponsored by the National Library of South Africa. Full text of the proceedings, in a large 286 kb pdf is available. Use your computers Right and Left Arrow keys to navigate in the pdf file.
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/publications.html
Organisation of South African Law Libraries
http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/osall/
Peninsula Technikon. Library and Information Services (Bellville, South Africa)
"The Library and Information Services consists of the Main Campus Library in Bellville South and two satellite libraries for the Dental Technology and Radiography Departments of the Faculty of Science." The Technikon is a member of the Cape Library Co-operative (CALICO). One can access their online catalog; javascript must be enabled.
http://www.pentech.ac.za/library/introduction.asp
Public and Community Library Inventory of South Africa
A report on the numbers, distribution, conditions, impact and spending power of South African libraries, includes statistics, charts. Provides a directory of public and community libraries by province with address, phone, fax.
[KF] http://www.nlsa.ac.za/paclisa/index.htm
Rhodes University Library
Has a Web Catalog.
Includes information on the Cory Library for Historical Research, the special collection for Southern African studies. http://www.ru.ac.za/library/
Rhodes has started to put their dissertations online. For example see, Van Vlaenderen, Hilde Rachel Maurice, "Group problem solving among community activists in a South African setting: an everyday cognition approach" (Grahamstown: Rhodes University, 1997. Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology)) - Rhodes University, 1997.)
SABINET (South African Bibliographic and Information Network
Database includes a union catalog of South African library holdings, the South African National Bibliography, Index to South African Periodicals, list of South African masters' theses and doctoral dissertations, and the past year of the South African government gazette. SABINET is similar to OCLC and RLIN. In general, only institutions are able to afford the fees.
http://www.sabinet.co.za/
SABINET hosts several e-lists with SABINET related news. It also hosts several library discussion groups.
Smart Cape Access Project
Full text report. 32 pages. In pdf. (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004.) 2002 Project to provide free Internet access to six Cape Town, South Africa public libraries in disadvantaged areas.The report describes the impact on the lives of Cape Town residents. The Project received the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2003.
[KF] http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub125abst.html
South Africa. National Council for Library and Information Services Act, 2001 (Act 6 of 2001)
Full text of the act, in Adobe PDF. The National Council advises the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology and the Minister of Education on matters relating to library and information services. The Act commenced on 7 December 2001. On the Legislation site of the South African Government Information site.
http://www.polity.org.za/gnuindex.html
South Africa National ISN Agency
"The ISN Agency supplies international standard numbers (ISN) and codes for published documents in various physical formats – i.a. ISBN, ISSN and Other Identifiers – in order to identify any South African published document worldwide. Publishers may obtain ISNs for books or serials from the ISN Agency." "The national ISN Agency, situated at the National Library of South Africa liaises with South African publishers and the International ISBN Agency in the national administration of the ISBN system in South Africa."
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/isn.html
South African Copyright Forum (SACFO)
http://pgw.org/sacfo
South African History Archive
"an independent archive dedicated to documenting and supporting the struggles for justice in South Africa." Based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, South Africa. The collection includes documents, newsletters, pamphlets, posters, slides, sound recordings, t-shirts, banners, etc. from anti-apartheid organizations, political, community, trade unions, active in the 1980s. Its Freedom of Information Programme has reports, lists of documents released under the Promotion of Access to Information Act, links to related information access sites.
http://www.wits.ac.za/saha/
South African Library for the Blind
"a National Library which provides for the literature and information needs of visually and print impaired persons throughout South Africa and increasingly Sub-Saharan Africa. Audio and Braille books are circulated to its widespread and extensive membership via postal delivery." Based in Grahamstown, South Africa.
http://www.blindlib.org.za
South African Maritime Museum (Cape Town)
Its Research Centre houses the library of the "John H. Marsh Maritime Collection with its several hundred shipping reference books going back to the 1800's." Has information on the Maritime Archaeology Society South Africa "dedicated to the preservation of South Africa's Shipwreck heritage."[KF]
http://maritimemuseum.ac.za/
South African National Library and Information Consortium, SANLiC
Concerns include "access to electronic information through the establishment of the national site licensing initiative, (SASLI) the South African Site Licensing Initiative", contribution to the S A National Catalogue (SACat), interlending agreements. Formerly the Coalition for South African Library Consortia (COSALC); see 3 page PDF 2007 communique.
http://www.cosalc.ac.za/
South African Serials Interest Group
http://www.sasig.org.za/
South African Society of Archivists, SASA
Has a directory of South African Archival Resources on the Internet. SASA publishes the S.A. Archives Journal and the SASA Newsletter. Has a discussion list, Sasa -- South African Society of Archivists and Records Managers.
http://www.archives.org.za/
Southern African Online User Group
Concerned with online information, databases, ejournals. Holds conferences of interest to information science and library professionals. Has a discussion list. Based in Pretoria.
http://www.saoug.org.za/
Special Libraries & Information Services Group, SLIS
The professional association for Special Libraries in South Africa. Holds conferences, workshops. Links to Southern African library related organizations and news.
http://www.slis.co.za/
University of Cape Town Libraries
The Manuscripts and Archives Dept holds microfilm of the Rivonia Trial records and many other collections. See also the African Studies Library which includes a list of newspaper holdings in print and on film. Access their online catalog. Has a blog listing new books acquired. http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/
University of Cape Town Libraries. Manuscripts and Archives Department
Home of the Bleek Collection (language, life and folklore of the now extinct /Xam Bushmen), Jack & Ray Simons Collection (anti apartheid, trade unions and womens issues), the District Six Community Papers (including forced removal of the coloured community), Black Sash; End Conscription Campaign; Colin Eglin; H W van der Merwe; Western Cape Oral History, Neil Aggett Papers, Biko Doctors Case Collection, and many other collections. Has detailed finding aids to some collections.[KF]
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/
Online finding aids and selections from collections, such as -
Black Sash Archival Collections in South Africa.
The South West Africa People's Organisation 1961- 1991: a guide to archival resources and special collections in the Western Cape, South Africa. 186 p. in PDF
San (Bushman) Photographs of Dorothea Bleek.
African Musical Instruments: a selection from the Percival Kirby Collection.
University of Cape Town Libraries. Occasional e-publications series
No. 1. Wilcox, Sarah Sadie - "South West Africa People's Organisation 1961- 1991: a guide to archival resources and special collections in the Western Cape, South Africa. Full text. 186 p., In PDF. University of Cape Town, 2004. (UCT Libraries. Occasional e-publications series Number 1.) Includes a foreword by Christopher Saunders.[KF]
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/libpubs/oepubs/oep01.pdf
University of Cape Town Libraries - The San (Bushman) Photographs of Dorothea Bleek
A selection of photos from "an album containing 310 photographs [1910 to the 1920s] taken by Dorothea Bleek during her many expeditions to identify and record the San (Bushman) languages of Southern Africa." Includes Bleek's "Distribution map of Bushmen languages."
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/existing/DBleekXML/website/
University of Cape Town Libraries - UCT Through the Years
"Groote Schuur Campus 1900 - Present".
Historical photographs (buildings) of the University of Cape Town campus. "....selected from a collection of photographs of the Groote Schuur campus, in the Manuscripts and Archives Department at the University of Cape Town Libraries. They date from the early 1900s to the present..."
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/existing/GrooteSchuurCampus/UpperCampusEAD.htm
University of Fort Hare Library
Has an online catalog. Lists the e-mail addresses of the library staff and includes a history of the library which notes that the Steve Biko Letters and Lennox Papers are held in their Africana collection (the Howard Pim Library). Holds the collections of the African National Congress (including a chronology of the ANC and Thabo Mbeki's speech at the March 1996 opening of the Archives), Pan Africanist Congess of Azania, AZAPO and the Black Consciousness Movement, the A. C. Jordan Papers, the Lovedale Press Records.
[KF] http://www.ufh.ac.za/
University of Fort Hare. National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre Collections
"The Library houses the Howard Pim Library of Rare Books..."The collection houses a number of rare books and concentrates in the fields of South African and African history and education." Their Liberation Archives include the archives of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) the Azanian People's Organization/ Black Consciousness Movement (AZAPO/BCM). They also hold the archives of A. C. Jordan Collection and Lovedale Press. Finding Aids are online.
http://www.ufh.ac.za/collections/NAHECS/nahecs.htm
University of Fort Hare / Howard University - South African Research Archival Project, SARAP
University of Fort Hare and Howard University project to document linkages between Americans and South Africans, principally African Americans, during the anti-apartheid movement. Search the database of collection nventories. Based in Washington, D.C.
[KF] http://sarap.howard.edu/
COLLECTIONS INCLUDE-
African National Congress (Washington DC and U.N. Mission records)Pan Africanist Congress United Nations Mission Records
Records of the U.S. House Sub-Committee on Africa in the Charles C. Diggs Papers
Southern Africa Support Project Collection
Southern African References in the American Society of African Culture Collection
The U.S. National Archives
United States Economic Files (1945-1973)
University of Natal Libraries (Durban)
Has a web catalog.
http://www.library.und.ac.za/
University of Natal. Campbell Collections (Durban)
The Collections are comprised of The Mashu Museum of Ethnology, The William Campbell Furniture Museum, Killie Campbell Africana Library. The library, containing rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, concerns the social and cultural heritage of the KwaZulu Natal region. It has the John William Colenso (1814-1883) Collection. Colenso was Bishop of the Church of England and "a noted biblical scholar and an outstanding figure in Zulu linguistic and literary work." There is an online Inventory [with photographs] of the Historic Photograph Album Collection , c.1865 - 1965. http://khozi2.nu.ac.za
Finding aids include - Guide to the Manuscripts Collection, 1762 - 2000, the Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu Papers, 1905 - 1988, the Alfred County Farmers' Association /Records, c1921 - 1954, and others.
University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg)
Access their library catalog. Is home to the Alan Paton Centre which "focuses on collections of organizations associated with conflict and conciliation with particular reference to KwaZulu-Natal."
http://www.unp.ac.za/UNPDepartments/Library/base.htm
University of Pretoria. Academic Information Service (University Library)
Access the library catalog thru telnet.
http://www.ais.up.ac.za/
University of South Africa Library
http://www.unisa.ac.za/library/index.html
University of Stellenbosh. Department of Information Science (Matieland, South Africa)
http://www.sun.ac.za/infoscience/
University of Stellenbosch, J. S. Gericke Library
http://www.sun.ac.za/library/
University of the Free State Library (Bloemfontein)
Has an Africana Collection with emphasis on the Orange Free State and the Anglo-Boer War. No photocopies may be made from the Collection. Theses by UFS students are held in Special Collections; photocopies may be made of theses.
http://www.uovs.ac.za/faculties/index.php?FCode=12&DCode=431
Its web site has databases providing citations to journal articles, many from South African journals:
Community Health Information Database (CHID)
KovsiAgric - citations to agricultural literature
The Library hosts the Archive for Contemporary Affairs (formerly Institute for Contemporary History). "It houses more than 900 private document collections. This includes the collections of South African politicians ([Botha, P.W., De Klerk, F.W., Verwoerd, H.F., Vorster, B.J.] Prime Ministers, State Presidents, Ministers), economists, church, cultural and community leaders etc. The Archive also has a fully equipped Sound Archive at its disposal, for recording the memoirs of individuals. Hundreds of audio cassettes containing precious research material have already been processed and are available to researchers."
University of the Western Cape. Library.
One can access their online catalog; javascript must be enabled. http://www.uwc.ac.za/
University of the Western Cape. Robben Island Mayibuye Archives - Art Collections
An archive and museum documenting South Africa's liberation struggle. Included are guides to collections, their newspaper and journal holdings, the Centre's publications, online poster exhibit, selection of photos online, art collections.
http://www.robben-island.org.za/departments/heritage/mayibuye/mayibuye.asp
University of the Witwatersrand Libraries (Johannesburg)
Libraries include the William Cullen Library which houses special collections including the wealth of information in the Historical and Literary Papers section. Historical Papers has over 2,400 collections of organization records such as the Robert Sobukwe Papers, Helen Suzman Papers, Dr. A. B. Xuma papers the End Conscription Campaign Records, trade union records, the Gay and Lesbian Archives, many personal papers and political trial records. A list of inventories sold by Historical Records is available.
http://www.wits.ac.za/histp/home.htm
Historical Papers houses the South African History Archive Trust (SAHA). SAHA was formed in 1988 by the UDF and COSATU to collect the documents of the resistance movement against apartheid, from the 1980s to the 1990s. They hold the records of the UDF, JODAC, SAYCO, Five Freedoms Forum, Transvaal Indian Congress, the Julie Frederikse Collection and others. http://www.wits.ac.za/saha/home.htm
The online catalog is at: http://innopac.wits.ac.za/screens/opacmenu.html
Provides information on South African archives. Maintained by Prof. Kathryn Green and Dr. Susan Tschabrun at California State University, San Bernadino.
http://www.africa-research.org/
African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference, Pretoria
Held at the CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. "Identification of opportunities, strategies and practical examples for new forms of research and scholarship and for the management of the digital content of these activities by academics, researchers, scientists, information professionals and IT experts."
See also the 1st African Digital Curation Conference 2008.
http://www.ais.up.ac.za/digitalscholarship.htm
Andersen, Josephine - Literacy in Libraries
Paper (on South Africa) presented for the Social Responsibilities Discussion Group, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Pub. 1998.
http://www.ifla.org/VII/dg/srdg/srdg3.htm
Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers
Created 1994. Has a directory of freelance indexers. Hosts conferences such as the ASAIB Conference on Africana: from Papyrus to Metadata, 11 - 12 May 2006.
http://www.asaib.org.za/
Bibliophilia Africana 8, Centre of the Book, Cape Town, 11th - 14th May 2005
Day One will focus on historical perspectives, Day Two on the present, and Day Three on the future of the book in Africa.
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/bibliophilia.html
Brenthurst library, South Africa
The Africana library of Harry Oppenheimer acquires rare books, manuscripts, pamphlets, artwork. The web site has brief information on their programs, a list of publications from the Brenthurst Press and from the Brenthurst Archives Series.
http://www.brenthurst.org.za/
Britz, Johannes and Lor, Peter. (2003) -A Moral Reflection on the Digitisation of Africa's Documentary Heritage. Full text, in Adobe pdf. 11 p.
Paper presented to the 69th IFLA Conference, Berlin, 2003.
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/146e-Britz_Lor.pdf
CALICO Cape Library Cooperative
CALICO is "the collaborative Library Project of the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC). CHEC represents four tertiary institutions in the Western Cape of South Africa: the University of Cape Town, theUniversity of Stellenbosch, the University of the Western Cape and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology." Based in Cape Town, South Africa.
http://www.calico.ac.za/calico/
Cape Town Book Fair
Cape Town Book Fair, June 17-20, 2006
"Cape Town will host the first ever international book fair to be held in South Africa in June 2006. With the signing of a joint venture agreement between the the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) and the Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and, Cape Town will be partnering with the largest and most successful book fair organisation in the world. " Announcement on the Frankfurt Book Fair site.
Centre for the Book
Promotes the "the writing, publishing, reading, marketing and distribution of South African books." " an autonomous project of the National Library of South Africa." Offers lectures, exhibitions, workshops. Projects include community publishing, childrens' literature, the adult literacy resource room, etc. Based in Cape Town. http://www.centreforthebook.org.za
Digital Innovation South Africa, DISA
Full text historical South African journals online. Use Search the Journals to locate topics across all journals. The project, "South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1990," will put online approx. 40 periodical titles. Access can be slow.
http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za/
Full text titles available are:
Abasebenzi, Afra Newsletter, African Communist, Africanist News and Views, Amandla-Matla, Apdusa Views, Arise! Vukani!, Black Review, Clarion Call, Congress Resister, Cosatu News, Crisis News, Critical Health, Dawn, Democracy in Action, East Cape Update, Fosatu Worker News, Frank Talk, Grassroots, Ikwezi, Inqaba ya Basebenzi, Isisebenzi, Isizwe, Izwi lase Township Journal of Black Theology, Mayibuye, NUM News, Phakamani, Pro Veritate, Rixaka, Sash, SASO Newsletter, SASPU Focus, SASPU National, Sechaba, Speak, Speak Newspaper, TRAC Newsletter, Umsebenzi, Work in Progress.
DISSAnet [Development of Information Science in South Africa]
"a forum for networking in LIS [Library and Information Science] research in Southern Africa." Sponsored an October 2000 conference, Progress in Library and Information Sciences in Southern Africa.
http://is.up.ac.za/dissanet/
FRELICO, Free State Libraries and Information Consortium
A cooperative organization comprising the Univ. of the Free State, Technikon Free State, Vista Univ., Univ. of the North, Bloemfontein Public Library, Sasol Technical Library, and Free State Directorate Information Services and Heritage.
http://www.uovs.ac.za/lib/frelico/index.htm
GAELIC, Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium
"the largest academic library consortium in South Africa, with 16 member institutions. Based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. http://www.gaelic.ac.za/
Innovation, A journal for appropriate librarianship and information work in Southern Africa (Pietermaritzburg)
Has the tables of contents and one full-text article for each issue from Number 18. From the University Library, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. [KF] http://www.library.unp.ac.za/innovation/id31.htm
International Association of Technological University Libraries, (IATUL) Conference, University of Pretoria, South Africa, June 1-5, 1998
Conference Information.
http://www.up.ac.za/asservices/ais/iatul98/conf98.htm
International Association of Technological University Libraries, (IATUL) Conference, University of Pretoria, South Africa, June 1-5, 1998, "The Challenge to be Relevant in the 21st Century"
Abstracts and full text of the papers. Topics include the Univ. of Science & Technology Library, Kumasi, Ghana; librarians in Africa; GAELIC, the Gauteng and Environs Library; Consortium; etc.
http://educate.lib.chalmers.se/IATUL/proceedcontents/cvol8.html
Ithaka: an Introduction by Kevin Guthri
Powerpoint presentation about Aluka, an Ithaka project to create an online database of scholarly resources for research and teaching and to preserve materials in danger of being lost. The first projects are three on Africa - documents from the Southern Africa liberation movements, African Plants and their uses, and the historic Kilwa island off the Tanzania coast. From the web site for the Association of Research Libraries, May 2004 meeting proceedings.
http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/144/guthrie.html
KwaZulu - Natal Law Society Library
The Natal Society Library is the Legal Deposit library in KwaZulu-Natal. Through its database catalog locate journal articles and books on South African legal related topics. Their newsletter provides information on new print and internet documents such as recent judgements from the Supreme Court, the labour and land claims courts. http://www.lawlibrary.co.za/
Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA)
Their constitution notes that "equitable and unrestricted access to basic information, including government produced information, is a fundamental right in a democratic society;..." Has a members discussion list, LIASA Online. Based in Pretoria.
http://www.liasa.org.za/
LibraryNet
Had links to South African libraries, library-related news, information on South African library conferences, seminars, associations, committees, etc. Site maintained by SABINET. In 1999 LibraryNet was incorporated into the Sabinet web site under "Library Industry News."
http://www.librarynet.co.za/
Lor, Peter and Johannes Britz - Information Imperialism: Moral Problems in Information Flows from South to North
Paper presented at the EEI21 (Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century) symposium, in Memphis, Tennessee, October 2002. "The paper deals with three forms of South-North information flows: (1) contributions by African scientists and scholars to the international literature; (2) the purchase of books, journals etc. published in African countries by libraries in developed countries; and (3) the recording and subsequent exploitation in developed [countries] of indigenous knowledge obtained from traditional communities in Africa." "This paper will be published later this year [2003] in the symposium proceedings (publisher McFarland Press). In the mean time a pre-final draft of the paper can be found as an Adobe Acrobat document on the website of the National Library of South Africa." 8 pages in Adobe pdf.
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/docs/imperia1.pdf
Management of State Security Archives of Former Repressive Regimes
Study published in 1994 by UNESCO and the International Council on Archives. Archives concerned included South Africa and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). The report of 16 pages contains little detail.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ramp/security.htm
Mendelssohn, Sidney (31 December 1860 - 26 September 1917)
Collector and Bibliographer of Africana
Brief account (October 1998) by Dr. Donal Brody of Great Epics Books on the life of Mendelssohn, collector of fine books and manuscripts on Central and Southern Africa and author of "South African Bibliography" (1910).
http://www.greatepicbooks.com/epics/october98.html
National Archives of South Africa (Pretoria)
Search archival holdings through the National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS). The National Film, Video and Sound Archives (NFVSA) is a subdirectorate of the National Archives of South Africa. Mailing address: The National Archivist. National Archives of South Africa, Private Bag X236, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
http://www.national.archives.gov.za/
National Commission on Higher Education.
Working Group on Libraries and Information Technology
The 1996 Report of the group established a set of guidelines on library and information technology policies for South Africa's higher education sector.
http://star.hsrc.ac.za/nche/wglit/final/toc.html
National English Literary Museum
Holdings include the Thomas Pringle Papers, (covering 1819 - 1826), Roy Campbell's Collection (verse and prose manuscripts), the papers of Lionel Abrahams, James Ambrose Brown, Dennis Brutus, Guy Butler, Stuart Cloete, Jack Cope, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Athol Fugard, Leon Gluckman, Joy Packer and Barney Simon. The Museum has a department of South African Printing and Publishing History. Has their publications list. They are compiling a bibliography of Anglophone black literature. Based at Rhodes University, Grahamstown.
http://oldwww.ru.ac.za/affiliates/nelm/
National Library of South Africa
"The State Library in Pretoria and the South African Library [Cape Town] ...amalgamated with effect from 1 November 1999 to form the National Library of South Africa (NLSA). The NLSA will consist of a Pretoria Division (the former State Library) and a Cape Town Division (the former SA Library), both operating on the previous premises."
The SAL is the national reference library and "the national preservation library for all South African legal deposit publications (including de luxe editions) and rare or unique material."
Search the online catalog of publications acquired by the various South African legal deposit libraries; Offers limited access to the Index of South African Periodicals; Has a list (in Adobe pdf), of National Library of South African Serials Microfilm holdings and a list of Pretoria microfilm holdings (also in Adobe pdf.)
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/NLSA/
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Formerly University of Port Elizabeth. See the Library and Information Services section.
http://www.upe.ac.za/
Opportunities for Newspaper Preservation and Access in South Africa, Conference, Cape Town, 2003
Conference, March 17-19, 2003, sponsored by the National Library of South Africa. Full text of the proceedings, in a large 286 kb pdf is available. Use your computers Right and Left Arrow keys to navigate in the pdf file.
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/publications.html
Organisation of South African Law Libraries
http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/osall/
Peninsula Technikon. Library and Information Services (Bellville, South Africa)
"The Library and Information Services consists of the Main Campus Library in Bellville South and two satellite libraries for the Dental Technology and Radiography Departments of the Faculty of Science." The Technikon is a member of the Cape Library Co-operative (CALICO). One can access their online catalog; javascript must be enabled.
http://www.pentech.ac.za/library/introduction.asp
Public and Community Library Inventory of South Africa
A report on the numbers, distribution, conditions, impact and spending power of South African libraries, includes statistics, charts. Provides a directory of public and community libraries by province with address, phone, fax.
[KF] http://www.nlsa.ac.za/paclisa/index.htm
Rhodes University Library
Has a Web Catalog.
Includes information on the Cory Library for Historical Research, the special collection for Southern African studies. http://www.ru.ac.za/library/
Rhodes has started to put their dissertations online. For example see, Van Vlaenderen, Hilde Rachel Maurice, "Group problem solving among community activists in a South African setting: an everyday cognition approach" (Grahamstown: Rhodes University, 1997. Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology)) - Rhodes University, 1997.)
SABINET (South African Bibliographic and Information Network
Database includes a union catalog of South African library holdings, the South African National Bibliography, Index to South African Periodicals, list of South African masters' theses and doctoral dissertations, and the past year of the South African government gazette. SABINET is similar to OCLC and RLIN. In general, only institutions are able to afford the fees.
http://www.sabinet.co.za/
SABINET hosts several e-lists with SABINET related news. It also hosts several library discussion groups.
Smart Cape Access Project
Full text report. 32 pages. In pdf. (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004.) 2002 Project to provide free Internet access to six Cape Town, South Africa public libraries in disadvantaged areas.The report describes the impact on the lives of Cape Town residents. The Project received the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2003.
[KF] http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub125abst.html
South Africa. National Council for Library and Information Services Act, 2001 (Act 6 of 2001)
Full text of the act, in Adobe PDF. The National Council advises the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology and the Minister of Education on matters relating to library and information services. The Act commenced on 7 December 2001. On the Legislation site of the South African Government Information site.
http://www.polity.org.za/gnuindex.html
South Africa National ISN Agency
"The ISN Agency supplies international standard numbers (ISN) and codes for published documents in various physical formats – i.a. ISBN, ISSN and Other Identifiers – in order to identify any South African published document worldwide. Publishers may obtain ISNs for books or serials from the ISN Agency." "The national ISN Agency, situated at the National Library of South Africa liaises with South African publishers and the International ISBN Agency in the national administration of the ISBN system in South Africa."
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/isn.html
South African Copyright Forum (SACFO)
http://pgw.org/sacfo
South African History Archive
"an independent archive dedicated to documenting and supporting the struggles for justice in South Africa." Based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, South Africa. The collection includes documents, newsletters, pamphlets, posters, slides, sound recordings, t-shirts, banners, etc. from anti-apartheid organizations, political, community, trade unions, active in the 1980s. Its Freedom of Information Programme has reports, lists of documents released under the Promotion of Access to Information Act, links to related information access sites.
http://www.wits.ac.za/saha/
South African Library for the Blind
"a National Library which provides for the literature and information needs of visually and print impaired persons throughout South Africa and increasingly Sub-Saharan Africa. Audio and Braille books are circulated to its widespread and extensive membership via postal delivery." Based in Grahamstown, South Africa.
http://www.blindlib.org.za
South African Maritime Museum (Cape Town)
Its Research Centre houses the library of the "John H. Marsh Maritime Collection with its several hundred shipping reference books going back to the 1800's." Has information on the Maritime Archaeology Society South Africa "dedicated to the preservation of South Africa's Shipwreck heritage."[KF]
http://maritimemuseum.ac.za/
South African National Library and Information Consortium, SANLiC
Concerns include "access to electronic information through the establishment of the national site licensing initiative, (SASLI) the South African Site Licensing Initiative", contribution to the S A National Catalogue (SACat), interlending agreements. Formerly the Coalition for South African Library Consortia (COSALC); see 3 page PDF 2007 communique.
http://www.cosalc.ac.za/
South African Serials Interest Group
http://www.sasig.org.za/
South African Society of Archivists, SASA
Has a directory of South African Archival Resources on the Internet. SASA publishes the S.A. Archives Journal and the SASA Newsletter. Has a discussion list, Sasa -- South African Society of Archivists and Records Managers.
http://www.archives.org.za/
Southern African Online User Group
Concerned with online information, databases, ejournals. Holds conferences of interest to information science and library professionals. Has a discussion list. Based in Pretoria.
http://www.saoug.org.za/
Special Libraries & Information Services Group, SLIS
The professional association for Special Libraries in South Africa. Holds conferences, workshops. Links to Southern African library related organizations and news.
http://www.slis.co.za/
University of Cape Town Libraries
The Manuscripts and Archives Dept holds microfilm of the Rivonia Trial records and many other collections. See also the African Studies Library which includes a list of newspaper holdings in print and on film. Access their online catalog. Has a blog listing new books acquired. http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/
University of Cape Town Libraries. Manuscripts and Archives Department
Home of the Bleek Collection (language, life and folklore of the now extinct /Xam Bushmen), Jack & Ray Simons Collection (anti apartheid, trade unions and womens issues), the District Six Community Papers (including forced removal of the coloured community), Black Sash; End Conscription Campaign; Colin Eglin; H W van der Merwe; Western Cape Oral History, Neil Aggett Papers, Biko Doctors Case Collection, and many other collections. Has detailed finding aids to some collections.[KF]
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/
Online finding aids and selections from collections, such as -
Black Sash Archival Collections in South Africa.
The South West Africa People's Organisation 1961- 1991: a guide to archival resources and special collections in the Western Cape, South Africa. 186 p. in PDF
San (Bushman) Photographs of Dorothea Bleek.
African Musical Instruments: a selection from the Percival Kirby Collection.
University of Cape Town Libraries. Occasional e-publications series
No. 1. Wilcox, Sarah Sadie - "South West Africa People's Organisation 1961- 1991: a guide to archival resources and special collections in the Western Cape, South Africa. Full text. 186 p., In PDF. University of Cape Town, 2004. (UCT Libraries. Occasional e-publications series Number 1.) Includes a foreword by Christopher Saunders.[KF]
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/libpubs/oepubs/oep01.pdf
University of Cape Town Libraries - The San (Bushman) Photographs of Dorothea Bleek
A selection of photos from "an album containing 310 photographs [1910 to the 1920s] taken by Dorothea Bleek during her many expeditions to identify and record the San (Bushman) languages of Southern Africa." Includes Bleek's "Distribution map of Bushmen languages."
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/existing/DBleekXML/website/
University of Cape Town Libraries - UCT Through the Years
"Groote Schuur Campus 1900 - Present".
Historical photographs (buildings) of the University of Cape Town campus. "....selected from a collection of photographs of the Groote Schuur campus, in the Manuscripts and Archives Department at the University of Cape Town Libraries. They date from the early 1900s to the present..."
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/existing/GrooteSchuurCampus/UpperCampusEAD.htm
University of Fort Hare Library
Has an online catalog. Lists the e-mail addresses of the library staff and includes a history of the library which notes that the Steve Biko Letters and Lennox Papers are held in their Africana collection (the Howard Pim Library). Holds the collections of the African National Congress (including a chronology of the ANC and Thabo Mbeki's speech at the March 1996 opening of the Archives), Pan Africanist Congess of Azania, AZAPO and the Black Consciousness Movement, the A. C. Jordan Papers, the Lovedale Press Records.
[KF] http://www.ufh.ac.za/
University of Fort Hare. National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre Collections
"The Library houses the Howard Pim Library of Rare Books..."The collection houses a number of rare books and concentrates in the fields of South African and African history and education." Their Liberation Archives include the archives of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) the Azanian People's Organization/ Black Consciousness Movement (AZAPO/BCM). They also hold the archives of A. C. Jordan Collection and Lovedale Press. Finding Aids are online.
http://www.ufh.ac.za/collections/NAHECS/nahecs.htm
University of Fort Hare / Howard University - South African Research Archival Project, SARAP
University of Fort Hare and Howard University project to document linkages between Americans and South Africans, principally African Americans, during the anti-apartheid movement. Search the database of collection nventories. Based in Washington, D.C.
[KF] http://sarap.howard.edu/
COLLECTIONS INCLUDE-
African National Congress (Washington DC and U.N. Mission records)Pan Africanist Congress United Nations Mission Records
Records of the U.S. House Sub-Committee on Africa in the Charles C. Diggs Papers
Southern Africa Support Project Collection
Southern African References in the American Society of African Culture Collection
The U.S. National Archives
United States Economic Files (1945-1973)
University of Natal Libraries (Durban)
Has a web catalog.
http://www.library.und.ac.za/
University of Natal. Campbell Collections (Durban)
The Collections are comprised of The Mashu Museum of Ethnology, The William Campbell Furniture Museum, Killie Campbell Africana Library. The library, containing rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, concerns the social and cultural heritage of the KwaZulu Natal region. It has the John William Colenso (1814-1883) Collection. Colenso was Bishop of the Church of England and "a noted biblical scholar and an outstanding figure in Zulu linguistic and literary work." There is an online Inventory [with photographs] of the Historic Photograph Album Collection , c.1865 - 1965. http://khozi2.nu.ac.za
Finding aids include - Guide to the Manuscripts Collection, 1762 - 2000, the Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu Papers, 1905 - 1988, the Alfred County Farmers' Association /Records, c1921 - 1954, and others.
University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg)
Access their library catalog. Is home to the Alan Paton Centre which "focuses on collections of organizations associated with conflict and conciliation with particular reference to KwaZulu-Natal."
http://www.unp.ac.za/UNPDepartments/Library/base.htm
University of Pretoria. Academic Information Service (University Library)
Access the library catalog thru telnet.
http://www.ais.up.ac.za/
University of South Africa Library
http://www.unisa.ac.za/library/index.html
University of Stellenbosh. Department of Information Science (Matieland, South Africa)
http://www.sun.ac.za/infoscience/
University of Stellenbosch, J. S. Gericke Library
http://www.sun.ac.za/library/
University of the Free State Library (Bloemfontein)
Has an Africana Collection with emphasis on the Orange Free State and the Anglo-Boer War. No photocopies may be made from the Collection. Theses by UFS students are held in Special Collections; photocopies may be made of theses.
http://www.uovs.ac.za/faculties/index.php?FCode=12&DCode=431
Its web site has databases providing citations to journal articles, many from South African journals:
Community Health Information Database (CHID)
KovsiAgric - citations to agricultural literature
The Library hosts the Archive for Contemporary Affairs (formerly Institute for Contemporary History). "It houses more than 900 private document collections. This includes the collections of South African politicians ([Botha, P.W., De Klerk, F.W., Verwoerd, H.F., Vorster, B.J.] Prime Ministers, State Presidents, Ministers), economists, church, cultural and community leaders etc. The Archive also has a fully equipped Sound Archive at its disposal, for recording the memoirs of individuals. Hundreds of audio cassettes containing precious research material have already been processed and are available to researchers."
University of the Western Cape. Library.
One can access their online catalog; javascript must be enabled. http://www.uwc.ac.za/
University of the Western Cape. Robben Island Mayibuye Archives - Art Collections
An archive and museum documenting South Africa's liberation struggle. Included are guides to collections, their newspaper and journal holdings, the Centre's publications, online poster exhibit, selection of photos online, art collections.
http://www.robben-island.org.za/departments/heritage/mayibuye/mayibuye.asp
University of the Witwatersrand Libraries (Johannesburg)
Libraries include the William Cullen Library which houses special collections including the wealth of information in the Historical and Literary Papers section. Historical Papers has over 2,400 collections of organization records such as the Robert Sobukwe Papers, Helen Suzman Papers, Dr. A. B. Xuma papers the End Conscription Campaign Records, trade union records, the Gay and Lesbian Archives, many personal papers and political trial records. A list of inventories sold by Historical Records is available.
http://www.wits.ac.za/histp/home.htm
Historical Papers houses the South African History Archive Trust (SAHA). SAHA was formed in 1988 by the UDF and COSATU to collect the documents of the resistance movement against apartheid, from the 1980s to the 1990s. They hold the records of the UDF, JODAC, SAYCO, Five Freedoms Forum, Transvaal Indian Congress, the Julie Frederikse Collection and others. http://www.wits.ac.za/saha/home.htm
The online catalog is at: http://innopac.wits.ac.za/screens/opacmenu.html
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