August; Durban, South Africa.

17-20 April 2002, Johannesburg, South Africa. Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Librarians (SCECSAL).

7-11 July; Durban, South Africa.

23-26 September; North West Province, South Africa

LIASA seeks to ensure access to a well-stocked library or information resource centre by every community and school in South Africa by the year 2004 and to promote continuous, lifelong learning for all people through library and information services of all types. LIASA, if pronounced "liyasa", in the Nguni languages, means "the dawning".

Aims are to link and support everyone interested in law librarianship in South Africa.

The largest academic library consortium in South Africa, with 16 member institutions, GAELIC seeks to develop regional information resources for education, research and lifelong learning as a contribution to development.

Promoting the use of electronic networks to expand access to library and study materials in South Africa's Free State province.

This directory is the first step towards providing information on university libraries in Africa that could be useful to colleagues in Africa and beyond. It is maintained by the Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa.

The University of the Witwatersrand Library plays a major role in Southern Africa both in the provision of information for study and research, and in the preservation of rare and beautiful materials which record the heritage of our country and its peoples.

The Unisa Library is one of the largest academic libraries in Africa and also one of the best endowed with information resources, information technology and expert staff.

The University of the Western Cape is a national university, alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South Africa, and to responding in critical and creative ways to the needs of a society in transition.

** Link inaccessible** In the new South African dispensation, Unitra sees herself as a resource centre for regional and national development.

EDC is a collection of official publications of the European Union. This is the only full status EDC in South Africa and one of five in Africa.

The collection comprises about 5 mio. issues, including historical stocks, archives and estates. Special collection areas are Africa South of the Sahara, Oceania, General and Comparative linguistics, General and Comparative science of literature, German language and literature, Germanic studies, Israel, Judaism and Theatre studies and film.

The Music Library serves the needs of the UOFS Department of Music. Because of the Odeion String Quartet, resident at the UOFS, the Music Library has an extensive string quartet collection which includes printed music as well as sound recordings.

Over many years the Music Library has been fortunate in securing a collection of rare and interesting material, much of it of particular value to music researchers. The special collection includes, inter alia, valuable and rare early music prints and editions, original music manuscripts, facsimile editions, bequests of the music oeuvres of a number of South African composers, other music and books with Africana value, correspondence and archival material.

Founded in 1992, this is a library specialized on historical, social anthropological and political issues in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. The library holds about 16 000 titles and 90 current periodicals.

Since the establishment of the new Parliament in 1994 a number of steps have been taken to make Parliament more accessible. This has been done to make the institution more accountable, as well as to motivate and facilitate public participation in the legislative processes.

Speeches, event and government information

Providing information about the ANC and South Africa including speeches, historical documents, maps, photos, etc.

Comprising the Africana collection of the Oppenheimer family in Johannesburg containing manuscripts, artworks, rare books, pamphlets and maps relating to southern Africa.

The Library collects material of all kinds to support research into the history of Southern Africa and and politics including Xhosa history and literature, mission and church history, the history of education and mining, commercial and agricultural history.

News, features, reviews about sports in the country.