Building resilient public libraries with Carnegie in South Africa (1927 – 2012): regularities, singularities and South African exceptionalism
| dc.audience | Audience::Library History Special Interest Group | |
| dc.conference.date | 16-22 August 2014 | |
| dc.conference.place | Lyon, France | |
| dc.conference.sessionType | Library History Special Interest Group | |
| dc.conference.title | IFLA WLIC 2014 | |
| dc.conference.venue | Lyon Convention Centre | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nassimbeni, Mary | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-24T08:10:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-24T08:10:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the contribution of Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) to the development of public libraries in South Africa from 1927 to 2012. It charts this through a parallel examination of two of CCNY’s three South African Inquiries into Poverty, attempting to find links between the idea of the public library as an engine of development (a principle underling Carnegie’s belief in public libraries) and the theme of the Inquiries. It concludes by summarising how the public library developments in particular periods of South African history, and the Poverty Inquiries, reveal evidence of common ground and of discontinuities, and finally comments on the extent to which South African exceptionalism is manifest in the initiatives. | en |
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/5340 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 3.0 Unported | |
| dc.rights.accessRights | open access | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ | |
| dc.subject.keyword | Public libraries | |
| dc.subject.keyword | South Africa | |
| dc.subject.keyword | Carnegie Corporation of New York | |
| dc.subject.keyword | Carnegie Inquiries into Poverty in South Africa | |
| dc.title | Building resilient public libraries with Carnegie in South Africa (1927 – 2012): regularities, singularities and South African exceptionalism | en |
| dc.type | Article | |
| ifla.Unit | Section:Library History Special Interest Group | |
| ifla.oPubId | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/916/ |
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