caa a22 4500 378908405 CHVBK 20180305123535.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200409 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/LIBR.2004.169 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/LIBR.2004.169 Brown Nicole E. Pratt Institute, New York NY, USA The Shift from Apartheid to Democracy: Issues and Impacts on Public Libraries in Cape Town, South Africa [Elektronische Daten] [Nicole E. Brown] Providing all citizens with free and equal access to information allows democracy to flourish. Integral to democratic governments, public libraries have both social and political responsibilities. South Africa's 1994 shift from apartheid to a democratic republic makes it an ideal nation through which to investigate the struggles and issues faced as a public library system adapts to a new political structure. South Africa's public libraries did not automatically receive the assumed benefits of the shift from apartheid's oppressive regime of segregation and inequality to a democratic government. Rather, it is a work in progress. South African libraries face social, political, and economic issues such as: unfair allocation of resources, severe social conditions and problems with support from the government including problematic rhetoric within the New Constitution. LIASA (Library & Information Association of South Africa) has admirably begun to fulfill an important role in library development in South Africa. With appropriate funding and support from all levels of government and from local, national, and international library organizations, the public libraries in South Africa can become the beacons of democracy that they are intended to be. © 2004 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, Federal Republic of Germany Libri Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 54/3(2004-09), 169-178 0024-2667 54:3<169 2004 54 LIBR https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2004.169 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2004.169 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Brown Nicole E. Pratt Institute, New York NY, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Libri Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 54/3(2004-09), 169-178 0024-2667 54:3<169 2004 54 LIBR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter