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UCT Libraries. / -33.957571; 18.460347. University of Cape Town Libraries (UCT Libraries) is the library system of the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa . The library system holds roughly 1.2 million print volumes and over 100,500 print and online journal subscriptions. An Africana research collection can be found in the ...
The University of Cape Town was founded at a meeting in the Groote Kerk in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for young men. The college had a small tertiary-education facility, introduced in 1874 [9] that grew substantially after 1880, when the discovery of gold and diamonds in the north – and the resulting demand for skills in mining – gave it the financial boost it needed ...
Central Library Cape Town is a public library in Cape Town, South Africa. It is one of 104 libraries within the City of Cape Town Library and Information Services. [2] Central Library includes lending and reference services as well as specialised art and music sections. There are 90 plus computers plus free Wi-Fi for library members.
The most likely model for Cape Town's "Public Library" was the London Institution (established in 1805 in the style of an Athenaeum). The Library's first significant acquisition was the collection of Joachim Nikolaus von Dessin , who bequeathed his books to the Dutch Reformed Church in 1761 to serve as the foundation of a public library. In ...
The Centre for Conflict Resolution is a social research institute of the University of Cape Town . It was founded in 1968 by Professor H.W. van der Merwe in Cape Town, South Africa, to conduct academic research on relations between "racial" groups, with the goal of promoting mutual acceptance and co-operation.
Strandfontein Library. / -34.071862352200995; 18.554656186627437. Strandfontein Library is a public library in Strandfontein, Cape Town, South Africa. It is part of the City of Cape Town Library and Information Services. [1] The library's holdings can be searched online via the City of Cape Town's Open Public Access Catalogue (OPAC).
Entrance to Jagger Library with floral decorations in 1947. By 1980, the library was part of an eight-library complex at the University of Cape Town, and was the headquarters of the university's library service. It then contained 518,000 of the 741,000 volumes available in the library network, and could house 1280 readers in its reading rooms. [2]
The first Europeans to reach the Cape were the Portuguese. Bartholomeu Dias arrived in 1488 after journeying south along the west coast of Africa. The next recorded European sighting of the Cape was by Vasco da Gama in 1497 while he was searching for a route that would lead directly from Europe to Asia.