Jagger Reading News Today

The doors of the Jagger Library were opened to the public last night (Tuesday 18 April) – exactly two years after the devastating fire that tore through there on 18 April 2021.

“The firefighters were heroic, they were smashing away the wall between the two buildings, standing on the roof, doing their utmost to keep our building from the worst of the fire. We had to make fast calls. We had little time to scour the building and make decisions before the fire department entered and began the process of hosing it down.”  Sara de Beer describes the fire that almost burned down Cape Town’s A4 Arts Foundation in December 2020. The space housed irreplaceable work by ar...

Fire in our soul: When disaster strikes, protecting precious artefacts is a matter of design Devaksha Vallabhjee © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved “The firefighters were heroic, they were smashing away the wall between the two buildings, standing on the roof, doing their utmost to keep our building from the worst of the fire. We had to make fast calls. We had little time to scour the building and make decisions before the fire department entered and began ...

The executive director of UCT Libraries, Ujala Satgoor, said volunteers were still needed to help salvage and remove works in the Jagger Library in the wake of the recent fire that swept across Table Mountain. The University of Cape Town’s Jagger Reading Room was left in ruins after a wildfire destroyed the facility. (Photo: Gallo Images / Die Burger / Jaco Marais) “Volunteers are needed to help move vulnerable materials to a safer location. They can use this link to register and get more i...

Scholars grieve loss of priceless antiquities in Cape Town fire AFP 6 hrs ago AFP © RODGER BOSCH Academics and alumni lament the loss of priceless collections of African antiquites in the Cape Town fire that engulfed a university library It was no ordinary library. The University of Cape Towns Jagger Reading Room, destroyed by a runaway fire this week, was a beacon of African history and intellect. The African studies section of the 1930s library was engulfed by flames on S...