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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.
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 South African Public Library, now known as the National Library of South Africa (Cape Town) . was the first library to be established in South Africa. This was done by a government proclamation on 20 March 1818. The South African Library in fact started off as a true public library and has established itself as a pioneering institution in ...
South African National Gallery Library (Iziko Museums) [30] South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Information Library [31] Bolus Herbarium Library [32] Mary Gunn Library, National Herbarium, Pretoria [33] Harry Molteno Library, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town [34]
The Johannesburg City Library is situated in the central business district of the City of Johannesburg. [2] The Library is located in an Italianate building [3] designed by John Perry which first opened in 1935. It has over 1.5-million books and items in its collection and more than 250 000 members. [4]
The Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) was launched on 10 July 1997. The launch marked the end of the process of unification of all existing library organisations in South Africa, which had been initiated in January 1995, during the Conference on Libraries and Information Services in Developing South Africa (LISDESA), which was an initiative of the two largest existing ...
A music library was included in the Long Street Library when it opened in 1956. The library included gramophone records, sheet music and the Evelyn Fincken Collection and the collection of the Cape Guild of Organists. The first issue of gramophone records in South Africa by a public library was on 5 July 1956 from the Long Street Library. [13]
Major events in South African library development were the 1988 report, The Use of Libraries for the Development of South Africa. [6] and the National Education Policy Investigation (NEPI). [7] The NEPI report aimed to "explore policy options in all areas of education within a value framework derived from the ideals of the broad democratic ...