South African Library
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1 November 1999 the two former national libraries, the South African Library in Cape Town and the State Library in Pretoria were amalgamated into what became the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) as a collective national custodian of heritage materials and the national depository of published output materials in the country. This was done in terms of two acts: National Library of South Africa Act 1998 (Act No. 92 of 1998) and the Legal Deposit Act, 1997 (Act No. 54 of 1997).
The joint collections of the NLSA now contains a wealth of information, including rare manuscripts, books published in South Africa, periodicals, government publications, official foreign publications, maps, technical reports, Africana and newspapers.
