LHRT NEWS AND NOTES

A Wildfire Has Gutted the University of Cape Town Library and Its Priceless African Studies Collection
The devastation raises important questions about improving remote access to scholarship (Naomi Rea, ARTNET)

S.Africa’s UCT campus salvaging books from burned library (Wendell Roelf, Reuters)

Jagger Reading Room: the historical cost of Cape Town’s fires (Kelly Mutizira, Daily Vox)

UCT has a page set up that allows us to send a financial contribution, message of support/prayer, or other assistance at:

http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/jagger-recovery