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The State Library functioned as both a public and national library, from the early 1890’s to 1964. The State Library ultimately took the responsibility of legal deposit too. These two libraries merged in November of 1999 and became the National Library of South Africa.
The Coalition of South African Library Consortia (COSALC), a non-profit organisation, was established in 1999 as a single umbrella organisation to include the various higher education academic library consortia, the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA), and the various research entities.
Sefako Makgotho Health Sciences University Library [8] Tshwane University of Technology Library [9] University of Johannesburg Library [10] University of Pretoria Library Services; University of South Africa (UNISA) Libraries [11] University of the Witwatersrand Libraries [12] Vaal University of Technology Library [13]
The first African Public Library Summit took place in Johannesburg in 2012, hosted by the University of South Africa [35] [34] Evidence show that the maiden Summit was not organized under the auspices of AfLIA, as the Association had not been established as at then but the second and third African Public Library Summits which took place in ...
The Library and Information Association of South Africa [2] (LIASA) is a professional non-profit organization, representing institutions and people working in libraries and information services. The LIASA National Office is located on the Pretoria campus of the National Library of South Africa (NLSA).
South Africa: National Library of South Africa (Nasionale Biblioteek van Suid Afrika) Pretoria and Cape Town [223] South Sudan [nb 6] [No national library] [224] Spain: Biblioteca Nacional de España [National Library of Spain] Madrid [225] ♦ Catalonia: Library of Catalonia (Biblioteca de Catalunya) Barcelona [40] Sri Lanka: National Library ...
As of July 2018, the Directory of Open Access Repositories lists 39 repositories in South Africa. This includes 11 traditional universities (or at least their departments), several universities of technology (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Durban University of Technology, Central University of Technology and Tshwane University of Technology), three comprehensive universities ...
The history of libraries in South Africa had its start with libraries formed for private use which later were made available for the general public. In 1761, the most extensive of these early private collections, owned by Joachim von Dessin, the secretary of the Orphan Chamber, was left to the Cape consistory of the Dutch Reformed Church specifically to form the basis of a public library for ...