LPYL -
School library
development
in South Africa and
Sweden
Library Practice for Young Learners ( LPYL)
Stakeholders of the project
LIWO – Library and Information Workers’
Organization formed in Durban 1990 was working during the 1990s as »an independent
activist organization involved in social transformation.
LIWO aims to provide the space for critical and constructive debate and
projects and to bring together LIS practitioners of all kinds in an organization
working towards an equitable, non-discriminatory
information system accessible to all people
in South Africa« (from Statement of Intent) LIWO members were 1991 actively involved in the National Education Policy
Investigation (NEPI) of the library situation
in South Africa.
LIWO was the South African partner in the project
during phase 1 (1997–2000)
EPU – Education Policy Unit (Natal) was established jointly by the University of Natal and the National Education Coordinating Committee (NECC) in 1987 to provide research for organisations working towards bringing about a democratic and non-racial system of education in South Africa. Through its activities EPU (Natal) works to empower national and provincial governments, non-governmental organisations and community-based organisations to develop education policies that promote democracy, equity and educational quality. EPU have been involved in Department of Education’s Policy Framework for School Library Standards and was in 1999 commissioned to draft the Implementation Plan for School Library Policy Framework. http://www.nu.ac.za/department/default.asp?dept=epuune
(From presentation brochure from EPU)
EPU was the South African partner in the project
during phase 2 (2000–2002)
Centre for Educational Technology and
Distance Education (CETDE) at the
Department of Education in Pretoria has
taken an active part of the LPYL project by having two
representatives in the South African Reference Group and has facilitated and
taken part of the meetings of SCHELIS. Department of Education formally endorsed
phase 1 of the project.
SCHELIS – a forum for the heads of school libraries in
South Africa’s nine provinces. SCHELIS was
formed 1997 as a result of LPYL and has been actively involved in the project
on a consultative basis.
Bibliotek i Samhälle (BiS) (»Libraries
in Society«) was formed 1969 in Sweden as a »politically
independent organisation working on a socialist basis to promote progressive librarianship« (from the program of BiS) BiS
has been actively involved in projects in
South Africa for about ten years, during the early 1990s by supporting a resource
centre in Lingelihle, the township of Cradock in Eastern Cape. In its periodical
bis (quarterly), other issues relating to social
commitments are also published. Website: http://www.foreningenbis.org
Sida – Swedish Agency for International Development
Cooperation. Sida has moved from aid to
cooperation. Since the mid-1980s Sida has included culture in its activities.
Sida’s Culture and Media Division has funded the LPYL as part of the Swedish
government’s program for South Africa. Website: http://www.sida.se