Strand Library News Today

Helderberg libraries and recreation locations are among City of Cape Town facilities that will pull all the stops out to ensure young bodies and minds are kept busy over the school holidays.

Linda Bruwer of Strand Library was among a group of 20 emerging library leaders welcomed to the fold by the City of Cape Town’s Library and Information Services in celebration of National Librarians Day marked on Monday 10 July.

Strand Library now boasts two wax mermaid sculptures filled with plastic, as part of an initiative that started years ago in KwaZulu-Natal to raise awareness of marine pollution.

To mark International Literacy Day (Thursday 8 September), Helderberg libraries will host an author’s fair from Monday 5 to Saturday 10 September.

A fire gutted the Southern Strand library in Cape Town on Saturday.   All that remained were pieces of mangled metal, glass and a carpet of blackened remains of books.   The roof was also destroyed.   A fire gutted the Southern Strand library in Cape Town on Saturday, destroying rows of books which students and residents rely on.   All that remained were pieces of mangled metal, glass and a carpet of blackened remains of the librarys collection. The skeletons of chairs lay askew in the ...