Partnerships:

ASAIB (Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers)

AVLIN (The African Virtual Library and Information Network) - will be a network of Internet-based information and knowledge resources and services that form a web of virtual libraries and knowledge exchanges, and will link African libraries, information centres and specialized networks.

Biblionef (SA) - The Centre for the Book plays an active role in Biblionef.

CBF (Children's Book Forum) -  The Centre for the Book plays an active part in the CBF.

CHELSA (Committee for Higher Education Librarians of South Africa) - a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in 2005, and mentions Interlibary Loan, NLSA tariffs, etc. The NLSA is an honorary member of Chelsa. [see also: our Document Supply page]

CDLN (Conference of Directors of National Libraries)

CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) - CODESRIA is headquartered in Dakar Senegal. It was established in 1973 as an independent Pan-African research organisation with a primary focus on the social sciences, broadly defined. It is recognised not only as the pioneer African social research organisation but also as the apex non-governmental centre of social knowledge production on the continent.

COSALC (Coalition of South African Library Consortia)

DAC (Department of Arts and Culture (South Africa)

Digital Fine Art - The National Library of South Africa has formed a partnership with Digital Fine Art to promote the richness of the library's holdings to as wide an audience as possible. The Library is the custodian of South Africa's largest collection of Africana in published form as well as unique material dating back to the 10th century.
A selection of historical maps, anonymous Khoi sketches and drawings of Cape flora and fauna, thought to have been done by Heinrich Claudius, are available from Digital Fine Art.


EDULIS (Education Library Services) - The Centre for the Book works closely with the EduLiS) of the Western Cape Education Department and is a partner in the Western Cape Education Department campaign in which all primary schools read for 30 minutes daily.

IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

LIASA (Library and Information Association of South Africa)

National Archives of South Africa

PASA (Publishers Association of South Africa) -

The Centre for the Book is an active member of the Association, and is represented on its Book Development, Copyright and Marketing committees.

Print Industries Cluster Council : the Centre for the Book is  takes part in its activities.

SABDC (The South African Book Development Council)

SANLiC (The South African National Library and information Consortium)

SAPCON (South African Preservation & conservation specialist group)

The Writers Network

Useful links:

African Digital Commons - A Participant's Guide: 2005 : is a conceptual map of the people, projects and processes that contribute to the development of shared, networked knowledge across the African continent. It is a collaborative output of the Commons-sense Project at the Link Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. It can be downloaded in English and French from www.commons-sense.org or http://www.commons-sense.org/pages/encyclopedia.htm .

Booklist Center : http://home.attbi.com/~dwtaylo1/index.htm

British Library : http://www.bl.uk

Columbia University: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/


Digital Imaging Project of South Africa : http://disa.nu.ac.za

DOAJ (Directory of open access journals) :  www.doaj.org

IFLA Journal : http://ifl.sagepub.com (free access until 13 May 2005)

IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for 2007 : http://www.oclc.org/education/earlycareer/default.htm (Application deadline: 17 March 2006)

Internet library for Librarians : http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/

JSTOR : The Scholarly Journal Archive (for NLSA Reference Service users only)

Library of Congress (US)

Libweb - locate library servers via www : http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/

National libraries around the world : http://www.ifla.org/II/natlibs.htm

National library catalogues around the world : http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ssah/jeast/

National Library of Australia : http://www.nla.gov.au

Stanford University: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html

"The quiet struggle" by Paul Sturgess & Richard Neill (Electronic re-publication of one of the main titles concerned with libraries and information in Africa.) :http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~lsrps/

United Nations depository libraries : http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/deplib/

World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) follow-up conference, Addis Ababa 27-30 March 2006 : Within the context of the WSIS follow-up conference organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 27-30 March 2006, the participants resolved to address specific issues....