Contact Information

• Name:

  Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) Library, Rare Book Collection

• Postal Address:

  PO Box 524, Auckland Park
  2006 Johannesburg
  South Africa

• Location:

  c/o Kingsway and University Way, Auckland Park

• Telephone:

  +27 (11) 489 2630

• Facsimile:

  +27 (11) 726 7723

• E-mail:

  info@bib.rau.ac.za

• URL:

  http://www.rau.ac.za

• Director:

  Head, Rare Book Collection

• Year founded:

  1967

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Library

• Types of source material:

  Archival records
  Artifacts
  Business records
  Ephemera
  Manuscripts
  Newspapers
  Personal papers
  Photographs
  

• Size:

  around 233 metres

• Holdings:

  Afrikaners in the Witwatersrand collection (1886-1961): a collection of 131 individual collections containing diaries, private and official correspondence, memoirs, bibliographies, manuscripts, photographs. etc. EN Marais collection: handwritten manuscript of the Soul of the Ape, correspondence (1916-1923) between the author and his son and his publishers. Gerrit Bakker collection: correspondence of a Johannesburg antiquarian bookseller (1939-). HG Viljoen collection: documents of well-known authors. NJ van Warmelo collection: world class anthropologist who published many books on tribes in Southern Africa. Contains ethnological research material, photographs and books. JP de Lange collection: documents of the Rector of RAU re HSRC Investigation into Education. CA Nöffke collection: re Information Scandal (1974-1978), AL Aucamp collection: Diaries and African artifacts pertaining to his time as Minister of the Reformed Church in Eldoret, Kenya (1933-1937)

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  Afrikaans, English
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  Contact Department Head, Rare Book Collection.

• Access restrictions:

  Fully accessible

• Finding tools:

  Electronic catalogs
  Inventories
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications: