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UCT scrambles to recover valuable material lost in library fire
By Sisonke Mlamla
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Cape Town - The UCT community, including the alumni, have urged researchers around the world who have photocopies or images of documents destroyed in the Jagger Library fire to contribute those to help recover some of the lost records.
Dr Maha Rafi Atal, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Copenhagen Business School in Frederiksberg, Denmark, took an initiative to establish a registry of copies of materials that researchers have among their research collections.
Atal, who is collecting the information online, said in light of the fire at UCT on Sunday, academics and other researchers around the world who have worked in those special collections and have taken photocopies or mobile phone images of documents may be able to contribute those to help recover some of the lost records.
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By Phando Jikelo, Rudolf Nkgadima
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Cape Town - Hundreds of years of history have gone up in smoke after an âout of controlâ fire destroyed the the Reading Room of the nearly 200-year-old Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town.
The wildfire broke out early on Sunday morning at Rhodes Memorial and spread to UCT yesterday and then towards the Devils Peak Estate/Vredehoek area of the Cape Town City Bowl overnight. Firefighters are still battling the blaze.
Parts of UCTâs library, residences and upper campus buildings were damaged by the fire.
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