Mapping the fit: library and information services and the national transformation agenda in South Africa, Part I.
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2008
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LiASA
Abstract
This article, the first of two parts, is an update of one which appeared in the IFLA journal in 2007 (Stilwell 2007a).
Progress since 2007 is mapped in terms of the fit between the library and information services available and the national
transformation agenda. It reviews information policy and describes information sources, systems and services in South
Africa as part of the wider national information system. It stops short of describing the situation pertaining to school
libraries, archives, record centres and museums, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), embassies, commercial database
industry and indigenous knowledge which are covered in Part 11. The sectors concerned with the dissemination of
information and information technology are also described in Part 11, as well as the library and information education and
training sector and the organised profession. This overview is based on literature retrieved from the available, mostly electronic,
databases.