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Nal’ibali, the South African reading-for-enjoyment campaign, is inviting caregivers across the country to partake in World Read Aloud Day, where the chosen book was authored by a University of Cape Town (UCT) alum.

The University of Cape Town (UCT) Libraries has developed a new continental platform for open access publishing in Africa. The platform allows the African researc

UCT reflects on the campus fires that happened a year ago and its effect on the UCT Jagger Library. In this account of the damaging fire, salvage operations and plans to rebuild, we hear from some of the UCT staff who have been tasked with these import

The Of Smoke & Ash exhibition offers an immediate and visceral experience; the faint smell of charred paper, wood and other material irreparably damaged after fire destroyed much of the Jagger Library last year. In this first annivers

Today as I stood on the Plaza watching the the installation of an exhibition entitled "A Tribute to the Human Spirit" I couldn't help comparing the quiet and peacefulness of this beautiful Autumn day with that of a year ago. 18 April 2021

South African Library Week, 14-20 March, with the theme

Crates of materials salvaged from the Jagger Library Basement in April 2021 were moved to I&J’s Paarden Eiland Distribution Centre on Monday, 17 January 2022.

Despite Wikipedia being the “largest and most popular general reference work” on the internet and “the fifth most popular site in overall global web traffic”, the focus in academia is often only on the cons of using the online r

Ex Libris Press Release: Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, is pleased to announce that the University of Cape Town (UCT) Libraries in South Africa have selected the Ex Libris Leganto® course reading list solution