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10.2 Humanities Hubs: The Travelling Exhibition
The travelling exhibition is an initiative of the Liliesleaf Trust project. The Unisa Library is the rst library to host this travelling exhibition from 16 July to 31 August 2016. The launch of the exhibition was held at Unisa on 27 July 2016. The exhibition is the third of three phases of the Humanities Hubs which seeks to conscientise people to the South African liberation struggle. The objective of the initiative is to have an exhibition of South African history rotating within South African institutions of higher learning and to encourage robust debates around issues that shaped the course of the South African socio-political landscape.
Photo courtesy of NIHSS/Liliesleaf farm
10.3 9th IFLA Africa Public Lecture
Francois Hendrikz (Director & CEO of South African Library for the Blind, Grahamstown)
In 2008 the Unisa Library, in partnership with IFLA Regional O ce for Africa initiated Unisa/IFLA Regional O ce for Africa Public Lecture Series to be held annually. The series seeks to provide a platform for eminent African librarians to deliver lectures on a broad range of issues on African and international librarianship. The public lecture provides the library and information community with an opportunity to engage with “Africanness” in librarianship. The public lecture seeks to address the broad issue of African librarianship in the global context. On 13 July 2016, the 9th Africa Public Lecture was held on the theme African Librarianship in the 21st Century at the Kgorong Building, at Unisa, in Pretoria. Francoise Hendriks (left), Director and CEO of the South African Library for the Blind, presented a paper on The Book Famine for Blind and Visually Impaired People in Africa – are
African Libraries ready to implement the Marrakesh Treaty?
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