fire in South Africa = significant library loss

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I bet the U of Cape Town wishes it could beam up. 


 The African Studies Library and Special Collections at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, was ravaged by a fire on April 18, with significant losses of rare and invaluable resources. The library houses printed and audiovisual materials,1,300 sub-collections of unique manuscripts and personal papers, and more than 85,000 books and pamphlets on African studies, including contemporary materials as well as works on Africa and South Africa printed before 1925. In addition, the library contains one of the most extensive African film collections in the world, according to the university's website.


The University of Cape Town asks that archivists put a call out at their respective institutions to researchers to archive and digitize any materials they may have copied, photographed, or recorded at the library and upload them here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1reMSaVXCFyGjIXTVGXfRcJmQWgbNKRHDHcH0KbNkeH4/viewform?edit_requested=true 

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