Private Archives in South Africa: Their Protection and Access with Particular Reference to the now Defunct Lutheran Theological Institute Library and Archives

policies for digital libraries and archives in africa: developing strategies for access to knowledge for development

this paper highlights the strategic role of regional and national policies for digital libraries and archives in promoting access to knowledge for development in africa.  it views regional/national information policies as general frameworks and contexts within which policies for digital libraries and archives are situated.  it, however, recognizes the need to highlight the latter as instrument ...

The Archival Sliver : Power , Memory , and Archives in South Africa ∗

Far from being a simple reflection of reality, archives are constructed windows into personal and collective processes. They at once express and are instruments of prevailing relations of power. Verne Harris makes these arguments through an account of archives and archivists in the context of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy. The account is deliberately shaped around three ...

Pharmacovigilance in India, Uganda and South Africa with Reference to WHO’s Minimum Requirements

Background Pharmacovigilance (PV) data are crucial for ensuring safety and effectiveness of medicines after drugs have been granted marketing approval. This paper describes the PV systems of India, Uganda and South Africa based on literature and Key Informant (KI) interviews and compares them with the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) minimum PV requirements for a Functional National PV Syste...

Intelligent access to document archives

Sound Recordings in the Music Library: With Special Reference to Record Archives

IN THE OVER-ALL CONSIDERATION of music library materials, the sound recording stands as the infinitely reproducible documentation of the musical performance. Formal education of the music student in the United States and elsewhere almost invariably requires its use as the sonant counterpart of the printed or handwritten score. While it does not replace live audition, participation, practice, or...