Overview, size and provenance of archival holdings
TOTAL Archival records: 3945 linear metres, including 750 accessions
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University Archives (± 2 000 linear metres)[1]
Unisa (including University of the Cape of Good Hope)
Merger partners: Vista and TSA
Joint Matriculation Board
Theses Collection (Unisa & Vista)
Provenance: official legal deposit
2
United Party Archives (669 linear metres)
Provenance: 39 donated collections, including the Prof WA Kleynhans’
Collection. The Unisa Archives has been the official custodian of the UP
records since 1969.
3
Documentation Centre for African Studies (390 linear metres)
Provenance: 415 donated accessions in total
4
Manuscript Collections (450 linear metres) Numerical list of
accessions attached
Provenance: 166 donated and 11 purchased accessions = 177 accessions in
total
5
German Africana Collection (172 linear metres)
Provenance: 89 donated accessions in total
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KS Birch Collection (8 linear metres),
The linear metres in the collections include arranged/organised and unsorted materials
Provenance: donated by KS Birch, sketchbooks and family records
7
Rev A Boesak papers (9 linear metres)
Provenance: donated – transferred from TSA Archives after Merger
8
HA & HP Junod Papers (2 linear metres)
Provenance: donated by HP Junod
9
Library Associations (194.3 linear metres)
Provenance: 17 collections donated by library organisations and individuals.
The Unisa Archives is the official custodian of SALA, SAILIS and LIASA
Archives. It is officially designated to gather and curate the SCECSAL
archives.
10
SA Museum Associations (SAMA) (41 linear metres)
Provenance: donated materials - Unisa Library is the official custodian of the
Museums Association
11
Unisa Music Instrument Collection (Umic) (10 linear metres –
documents, music records, 366 instruments and music records in
cylinder and disk format)
Provenance: items purchased and donated
Special Book Collections – provenance and shelf arrangement system
52 000 books, maps, paintings, sketches & artefacts. Collections numbers 112 are fully catalogued and searchable via the OASIS Catalogue
Africana Collections
1
AO Hesse Collection of German Africana (rare manuscripts,
publications, maps and pamphlets)
Provenance: Original Collection was established in 1961. Items are
donated and bought. Items are still being added to the Collection.
Shelf arrangement: Items are arranged according to DCC
2
JL van Schaik Collection (rare Africana publications and
pamphlets)
Provenance : Donated by Mr JL van Schaik in 1965
Shelf arrangement: Items are arranged in numerical order according to
Donor’s List / accession number. Library Management agreed that the
publications would be arranged in the Unisa Library in the same order
as in Mr van Schaik’s Home Library
3
Frederik Wagener Collection (rare Africana publications, framed
sketches, maps, artifacts, documents and fragile newspapers)
Provenance: On permanent loan, since 1982, from the SA
Government’s Department of Education
Shelf arrangement: Items are arranged in numerical order in
accordance with the Department’s Accession List
4
Desmond T Cole Collection (African Languages, literature and
history publications)
Provenance: Donated by Prof DT Cole in 1989
Shelf arrangement: Items are arranged in numerical order
Special Collections
5
Library Own Special Collections (rare manuscripts, publications,
maps, pamphlets and artefacts)
Provenance: Items are donated and bought. Items are still being
added to the Collection
Shelf arrangement: Items are arranged according to DCC
6
WA Joubert Collection of Old Legal Sources (rare Roman –
Dutch Law publications)
Provenance: The Collection was bought in 1960
Shelf arrangement: Although the items have DDC numbers, the Law
Department has requested that the Collection should be re-arranged
alphabetically, according to author
7
Bloemfontein and Umtata Library Cathedrals Collections (rare
theological publications )
Provenance: Collection was bought in 1974 from Church of the
Province of South Africa
Shelf arrangement: Items are arranged numerically according to the
original classical 19th and early 20th century library classification system
used by Cathedral Libraries in the UK and elsewhere. A thesis has
been written on this specific library classification system
8
High Risk Collection (publications)
Provenance: This collection dates from 1990. Items are bought and
identified by the Personal Librarians and Collection Developers as
being at risk on the Open Shelves. Items are still being added to the
Collection
Self arrangement: Items are arranged according to DDC
9
KS Birch’s Civilisation Collection (publications on rise and fall of
civilisations)
Provenance: The items were donated by Mr KS Birch in 1994. Items
are still being added to the Collection
Shelf arrangement: Items are arranged numerical according to
categories specified by the Donor
10
Children’s Research Collection (publications and sound
recordings)
Provenance: Since 1997 these items have been on permanent loan
from the Department of Information Science’s Children’s Literature
Research Unit. Items are still being added to the Collection
Shelf arrangement: The Collection is arranged according to DDC and
AACR 2R
11
Prof JS & Ms HE Van Heerden Collection (pamphlets and
publications on education)
Provenance: Collection was donated in 1999.
Self arrangement: Items are arranged in alphabetical order according
to author
12
JL Van Schaik Publishers Archives (all publications published by
JL van Schaik Publishers from 1914 onwards)
Provenance: The Publishers’ Archive was transferred to the Library in
2000
Shelf arrangement: Items are arranged alphabetically according to title
as requested by the Donor. The Collection contains a copy of each
impression of every title ever published by the Company. Items are still
being added to
Book Collections in Archive Compactus not classified and catalogued:
Government Publications (± 23 000 items); Vista Theses Collection