South African Librarianship: A Dissident View

Abstract

Education is the scene of bitter struggles in South Africa, but a revolution is occurring making education freely available for all. Librarians are responding positively in some ways, by offering resources and alternative education libraries, but many prefer to follow the official line, thus making librarianship vulnerable to international boycott. The South African Institute for Librarianship and Information Science portrays librarians as staunch defenders of the free flow of information for all South Africans. The view is that this is more probably a public relations exercise than the truth.