Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      University of Cape Town Libraries, Manuscripts and Archives Department

    • Postal Address:

      Private Bag
      7701 Rondebosch
      South Africa

    • Location:

      Oppenheimer Building, University of Cape Town

    • Telephone:

      (+27 21) 650-3123

    • Facsimile:

      (+27 20) 686-1505

    • E-mail:

      mss@uctlib.uct.ac.za

    • URL:

      http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/

    • Director:

      Mrs. Lesley Hart, Librarian-in-Charge

    • Year founded:

      1829

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Library

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Business records
      Ecclesiastical records
      Manuscripts
      Personal papers
      Photographs

    • Size:

      1008 manuscript collections

    • Holdings:

      This information will shortly available on our new web site

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, Afrikaans, some German, San languages

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Access to postgraduate and senior undergraduate students, and to bona fide researchers (with letter of introduction).

    • Access restrictions:

      Some collections have restrictions on access placed by donors or depositors, but most of the collections are open to bona fide researchers.

    • Finding tools:

      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications: