{"id":8779,"date":"2021-04-29T16:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T06:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2021-04-29T16:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T06:59:14","slug":"statement-of-support-for-the-university-of-cape-town-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/2021\/04\/29\/statement-of-support-for-the-university-of-cape-town-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Support for the University of Cape Town Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flinders University Library expresses deep sorrow for the losses suffered at the University of Cape Town Library (South Africa) following the Table Mountain fire. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.uct.ac.za\/campus\/communications\/updates\/-article\/2021-04-21-recognising-the-loss-of-the-jagger-reading-room\">update from the UCT Vice Chancellor on 21 April<\/a>, the fire has destroyed a recently restored building at the Rondebosch Campus, university archival material and special collections. A week on from the fire, librarians and volunteers are salvaging material from the risk of water damage and assessing the full extent of the loss.<\/p>\n<p>We have received enquiries from both library and academic colleagues who wish to offer their support along with messages of commiseration. The UCT Library created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uct.ac.za\/jagger-recovery\">Jagger Library Support page<\/a> for this purpose, as well as an update from the Vice Chancellor where there is a link to the UCT\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alumni.uct.ac.za\/giving\/ways-to-give\">Ways to Give<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Reports from UCT and Jagger Library suggest it is still very early days of clean-up and assessment of damages. While the Library continues to assess the damage, we will wait to hear what help will be most useful.<\/p>\n<p>For further information see Jagger Library recovery updates blog, or follow #JaggerLibrarySalvage and #UCTWillRiseAgain on social media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flinders University Library expresses deep sorrow for the losses suffered at the University of Cape Town Library (South Africa) following the Table Mountain fire. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}