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10.4 The Archives Section Exhibitions
The Archives Section Exhibitions set up the Following Exhibitions in the Archives Reading Room: The history of the Theo van Wijk Building (also featured on Facebook)
The Beyers Naude Collection in pictures
The Berlin Mission: Mission Work in Venda
11. Community Engagement: Projects Facilitated by the Unisa Library
11.1 Unisa Library and Unisa Women’s Forum (UWF) at Project Dignity
Research has revealed that 62 million girls around the world do not have access to formal education. However, for those that do, UNICEF estimates that one in ten schoolgirls in Africa do not attend school during menstruation as they do have access to adequate sanitary protection. On average, most girls miss up to 50 days of schooling each year for this reason. In support of Project Dignity, the Unisa Library in collaboration with the UWF collect dignity packs for distribution to help keep young girls of disadvantaged communities in school during their monthly cycles.
The Unisa Library implemented various initiatives in support of the UNGC principle for promotion of education, training and professional development during 2016. The following section highlights these initiatives.
11.2 #libraries4lifelonglearning
South African Library Week took place from the 11th to the 21st March 2016. The theme presented a more holistic view of learning by recognising that lifelong learning occurs in diverse environments. It is an episodic and progressive training within the framework of the formal education system. The Unisa
Library took part in this celebration by hosting three main events.
The rst event during South African Library Week was a book launch, and reading, of The Pavement Bookworm, by Philani Dladla. The Unisa community had a chance to engage with Dladla, a ectionately known as the “pavement bookworm”. He wrote the book while homeless and sleeping
under a bridge on the streets of Johannesburg.
On 16 March 2016, the library, in collaboration with Unisa Press, launched a book titled Practical and critical issues in open distance learning, edited by Dr Anniekie Ravhudzulo and Sibusiso Ndlangamandla. The 16-chapter book maps the eld of distance education and its socio-political context, uncovers key debates surrounding learner support, and provides practical demonstrations of e-learning and mobile technology.
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