Gates Foundation Awards $2.97 Million Grant For South African Public Library Project

From the South Africa Dept. of Arts and Culture:

The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) together with the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) will launch the Gates Foundation Global Libraries’ Project in South Africa as part of celebrating the South African Library Week. The event will take place on Tuesday, 18 March 2014 at the National Library of South Africa in Pretoria.
The NLSA has been awarded a R32 Million [$2.977 Million/USD] Grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support a pilot project to strengthen selected Public Libraries in South Africa. The pilot project is in line with the DAC’s mandate and is a precursor to a national country grant that is intended to strengthen and enhance current public library services.
The grant from the Gates Foundation will enhance the already started work by the Department of Arts and Culture’s Community Libraries Conditional Grant which provides internet facilities in public libraries countrywide.

See Also: The Top 20 South African Books, 1994-2014: A New List From the Library and Information Association of South Africa
The list was released last week.

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