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Publication date: 1 January 1972

JOHN ALLEN, PHILIP HEPWORTH, K LI PLUMRIDGE, KD MILLER, CHRISTOPHER DYER, TERRY HOUGHTON, ARTHUR MALTBY, JS BURDEN, GEORGE BERRIMAN and SETH MANAKA

THERE ARE something like 4,700 qualified librarians in the local government service in this country and for most of us April 1 1974 is a date seldom far from our thoughts.

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THERE ARE something like 4,700 qualified librarians in the local government service in this country and for most of us April 1 1974 is a date seldom far from our thoughts.

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New Library World, vol. 73 no. 15
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 December 1988

Wendy Drewett

Mention South Africa and it always arouses strong emotions and so a phone call from the British Council in 1985 inviting my husband and me to visit that country gave us a great…

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Mention South Africa and it always arouses strong emotions and so a phone call from the British Council in 1985 inviting my husband and me to visit that country gave us a great deal to think about. Would we be supporting a detestable régime? Would we be safe? Would we be acceptable to the black community? How could we best help them? What could we hope to achieve? We decided to go and it proved to be the beginning of an interesting association with the British Council and black South African librarianship.

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New Library World, vol. 89 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 January 2006

Clare M. Walker

The purpose of the article is to review the historical development in South Africa of library and information service associations, and to highlight events in the process that…

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Purpose

The purpose of the article is to review the historical development in South Africa of library and information service associations, and to highlight events in the process that culminated in the founding in 1997 of the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA).

Design/methodology/approach

This is a general review from 1930 to the present, based on published and unpublished material and personal engagement. Some analysis of the significance of events from a current perspective is included. The paper covers the founding in 1930 of the South African Library Association, attempts in the 1960s and 1970s to achieve greater recognition for libraries by government, the transformation of SALA in 1980 into the graduate South African Institute for Library and Information Science; and, in the early 1990s and the first years of democratic rule in South Africa, the emergence of “alternative” “democratic” library and information science (LIS) associations and initiatives. Participation in the 1991‐1992 African National Congress‐based National Education Policy Initiative (NEPI) led to a number of shared LIS events in the mid‐1990s that bridged the apartheid years and prepared the ground for LIASA. The rise of other significant but smaller specialist associations and their subsequent relationship with LIASA is also described.

Findings

In addition to documenting events, this paper reveals the continuing efforts on the part of members of the LIS sector over 75 years to exercise influence on government and in the broad community. Problems identified in 1929 are still reflected in 2005.

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The value of the paper lies in its use of unpublished ephemeral records and the use and consolidation of information in scattered and previously unused published sources.

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Library Management, vol. 27 no. 1/2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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