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Academic Libraries in South Africa. [edit] Rhodes University Library. University of Cape Town Libraries. University of Pretoria Library Services. University of Venda Library. University of the Western Cape Library Services. University of Johannesburg Library. North-West University Library Service.
The University of South Africa ( UNISA) [ a ] is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa. Through various colleges and affiliates, UNISA has over 400,000 students, including international students from 130 countries worldwide, making it one of the world's ...
The first African Public Library Summit took place in Johannesburg in 2012, hosted by the University of South Africa 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 Ezulwini ...
The National Library of South Africa was the first library to be established in South Africa by proclamation on 20 March 1818 by Lord Charles Somerset when he stipulated that a wine tax would be levied to pay for it. [ 2][ 3] The issuing of the "Molteno Regulations", in the Cape Colony in 1874, was a turning point in the development of public ...
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 ...
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 ...
The South African Library for the Blind (SALB) was established in 1923. It originated, in 1918/1919, from a private collection of 100 braille volumes collected by Miss Comber, a British nurse. On her recall to England in 1919, Miss Comber requested that Josie Wood make accessible these materials. Josie Wood accepted the offer and housed the ...
Location of South Africa The following is a list of South African university chancellors and vice-chancellors . In most cases, the chancellor is a ceremonial head, while the vice-chancellor is chief academic officer and chief executive .