Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      National Library of South Africa, Cape Town Division.

    • Postal Address:

      POB 496
      8000 Cape Town
      South Africa

    • Location:

      5 Queen Victoria Street

    • Telephone:

      (27) 21 424-6320

    • Facsimile:

      (27) 21 423-3359

    • E-mail:

      postmaster@nlsa.ac.za

    • URL:

      http://www.nlsa.ac.za/

    • Director:

      Ms Carryl Allardice

    • Year founded:

      1999

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Library

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Artifacts
      Business records
      Ecclesiastical records
      Ephemera
      Government records
      Grey literature
      Manuscripts
      Maps
      Newspapers
      Personal papers
      Photographs
      Posters
      Sound recordings

    • Size:

      1.4 million volumes; 100,000 maps; 70,000 photos

    • Holdings:

      Primary objective is to collect and provide access to material published in South Africa and about South Africa; a secondary objective widens the scope to Southern Africa. We also maintain materials from all parts of the world particulary for our reference collection.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, Afrikaans, Dutch, German, Xhosa, Zulu, Khoi, San and many others.

  • Access Conditions

  • Repository publications: