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Volume 23, Issue 1-2
1 February 2002
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Conceptual Paper| February 01 2002

South African libraries from pre‐Apartheid to Apartheid in the 1960s and 1970s: the beginning of the end

Irene Owens
Irene Owens
Irene Owens is Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, The University of Austin at Texas, USA.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7921
Print ISSN: 0143-5124
© MCB UP Limited
2002
Library Management (2002) 23 (1-2): 53–58.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01435120210413841

Provides an historical context for the protest movements in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and the situation for libraries at this time. The impact of the Sharpeville Massacre and the Soweto Uprisings on the outcries in the 1980s and 1990s are discussed. The structural changes in library services for South Africa as a whole are described.

Keywords: Equal opportunities, Public libraries, South Africa, Apartheid
© MCB UP Limited
2002
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