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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 ...
Library science (often termed library studies or library and information science) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.
Now part of Walter Sisulu University for Technology and Science: University of Bophuthatswana: Now part of North-West University: University of the Cape of Good Hope: Cape Town: 1873 1916 Renamed University of South Africa: Cape Technikon: Now part of Cape Peninsula University of Technology: University of Durban-Westville: Westville: 1972 1 ...
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 area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist Theophilus Hahn recorded that the original name of the area was '||Hui !Gais' – a toponym in the indigenous Khoi language meaning "where clouds gather."
The Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town. This list of University of Cape Town faculty includes current, emeritus, former, and deceased professors, lecturers, and researchers. Faculty members who have become Institute Professors, or have earned other significant awards and made significant contributions are listed below.
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).