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The Public Library as a Communal Cognition System
Public libraries are resources, shared, supported, used and sometimes abused by people. They are alive (at least in part) and are subject to neglect, decay and death, but are also fertile, and if treated with practical reverence can be sustained by, and help to sustain, the communities within which they are embedded.
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JICP on the Lit District
The Literary District’s goal is to help improve experience and perception of the city by creating a literary district in a walkable swath of downtown Johannesburg, to highlight the city’s reading culture, past and present.
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Rissik Street Post Office
This once-proud landmark now languishes in a state of profound distress. Its windows, like vacant eyes, are boarded against the harsh realities of neglect. Vandalism has left its indelible mark, the most recent indignity being the theft of its very hands and inner workings, callously discarded from its height and dragged from within its hallowed walls.
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South African Booksellers Open Up Sales in Defiance of Lock-down
For bookseller and writer Griffin Shea, South Africa’s 35-day total lockdown made for a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad
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US journalist turned bookseller enjoys new chapter in South Africa
Read More Griffin Shea in his shop, Bridge Books © Marc Shoul When Griffin Shea first visited downtown Johannesburg as
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