Special Collections include scrapbooks and folders of press clippings on southern African topics compiled and donated by individual researchers and journalists as well as civil society organisations.
Special Collections holds runs of important press clippings bulletins on specific areas or themes, including AF Press Clips, Facts and Reports, and South African Press Clips.
Ms Ingrid Thomson, Branch Librarian of Hiddingh Library was announced as a joint winner of the 2023 LIASA-Sabinet Influential Library Leader Award at the gala dinner of the Annual LIASA Conference held from 10-13 October 2023.
Newspaper holdings are rich and varied, including nearly-complete runs of the Cape Argus and the Cape Times from the 19th century, as well as many community newspapers and press clippings.