Museums and social change: the case for and against digitising – ICOM-SA Workshop

ICOM-SA is holding a half-day workshop on ‘Museums and social change: the case for and against digitising’ on 13 July 2012. It will take place at the auditorium of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, 237 Jabu Ndlovu Street, Pietermaritzburg, from 09H00 to 11H00. The final programme with background information is available HERE (click to download). The workshop will …

South African History Online Internship Programme

Through its Internship Programme, South African History Online aims to recruit some Masters and PhD students who can assist with research, specifically with regard to: The history of documentary photography in South Africa. An exhibition and book on banishments during the struggle against apartheid. An exhibition that contributes to SAHO’s Lives of Courage feature. As …

Goethe-Institut invites experts to SCECSAL conference

Niall McNulty has been invited to present a workshop on ‘Libraries as Community Memory’ in Nairobi, Kenya. This forms part of the SCECSAL Conference taking place next week. The 20th conference of SCECSAL, the umbrella organisation for library associations in East, Central and Southern Africa, takes place between 4 and 8 June 2012 in Nairobi, …