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The value of information in South Africa’s new democracy
(Emerald, 2018)
PURPOSE – The purpose of this paper is to trace and analyse the relationship between information and
democracy in the old and in the new South Africa. The authors interrogate the applicability to the situation of
the ...
Challenges in digitising liberation archives: a case study
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2016)
The article reports on a study of the challenges facing a liberation archive which is attempting to digitise its collections and of how the Archive has responded to the challenges. The article is framed by the critical ...
The power and perils of participant observation in library and information science research: reflections on three South African studies
(UNISA Press, 2017)
This article reports on three participant observation studies conducted in schools and libraries in South Africa, between 1999 and 2015. The study findings have been reported on elsewhere, thus the focus is on the methodologies ...
Libraries and a “Better Life for All”: The politics, processes, and promises of the South African LIS Transformation Charter
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims
for the role of libraries in democracy; and, on the twenty-first anniversary
of democracy in South Africa, it is an opportune moment to
examine the rather ...
South Africa’s LIS Transformation Charter: policies, politics and professionals
(IFLA, 2014)
The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims for the role of libraries in
democracy; and, on the 20-year anniversary of the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, it is
an opportune moment to ...
How school libraries improve literacy: some evidence from the trenches
(Unisa Press, 2013)
The article comes out of a panel discussion, featuring five teacher-librarians, which was
broadcast to schools across the Western Cape Province of South Africa in 2011. Four
of the panelists are graduates of the University ...
“Don’t they know how important it is?” A case study of information literacy education in a small South African town
(International Association of School Librarianship, 2006)
The paper comes out of a month-long case study of information literacy education in two public libraries in a small South African town in the rural province of Mpumalanga, undertaken in October 2004. The participant ...
Information literacy education in the South African Classroom: Reflections from teachers' Journals in the Western Cape province
(De Gruyter, 2016)
This qualitative study reports on teachers in the
Western Cape as they attempt to embed information literacy
in their classrooms. It explores how teachers come
to understand information literacy and the extent to
which ...
Social capital: a fresh vision for public libraries in South Africa
(Library and Information Association of South Africa, 2007)
The article argues that the construct of social capital offers South African public
librarianship fresh vision – urgently needed if it is to fulfil its potential role in social
inclusion. Social capital refers to the ...
The “tricky business” of dual use school community libraries: A case study in rural South Africa
(Walter de Gruyter, 2011)
The article describes an interpretive case study of a group of six dual use school community libraries in one remote region of South Africa. Its focus is rather more on the libraries as school libraries than public libraries. ...