Nos pens\u00e9es vont bien s\u00fbr aujourd\u2019hui vers la ville du Cap et vers son universit\u00e9, durement touch\u00e9es par les ravages de l\u2019incendie du 18 avril. Nous pensons tout particuli\u00e8rement aux \u00e9tudiants d\u00e9plac\u00e9s en urgence, au personnel universitaire, aux biblioth\u00e9caires et archivistes, ainsi qu’\u00e0 tous les enseignants et chercheurs du campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
La grande biblioth\u00e8que universitaire \u2014 l\u2019une des plus anciennes et des plus riches du continent \u2014 a \u00e9t\u00e9 touch\u00e9e, et tout particuli\u00e8rement la section des \u00e9tudes africaines. La salle de lecture Jagger, construite dans les ann\u00e9es 1930, a br\u00fbl\u00e9 tandis que de nombreux ouvrages et documents \u00e9taient d\u00e9truits. Selon le site web de l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Cape Town (UCT), les collections sp\u00e9ciales conservent d’importants documents imprim\u00e9s et audiovisuels consacr\u00e9s, entre autres, aux \u00e9tudes africaines, ainsi que plus de 1 300 sous-collections de manuscrits rares et d\u2019archives priv\u00e9es. Dans le seul domaine des \u00e9tudes africaines, la collection de livres et de brochures d\u00e9passe les 85 000 items. Aux derni\u00e8res nouvelles, les documents les plus pr\u00e9cieux auraient \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9pargn\u00e9s, mais il est trop t\u00f4t pour avoir une id\u00e9e pr\u00e9cise des d\u00e9g\u00e2ts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
L\u2019IFAS-Recherche s\u2019associe pleinement \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9motion qui s\u2019est exprim\u00e9e, depuis dimanche dernier, face \u00e0 cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement terrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Our thoughts today are with the city of Cape Town and its university, which were hit hard by the devastation caused by the fire on 18 April. Our thoughts are with the students who have been urgently displaced and with all the staff, archivists, librarians, teachers and academics on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The large university library \u2014 one of the oldest and richest on the continent \u2014 was affected, especially the African Studies section. The Jagger Reading Room, built in the 1930s, burnt down and many books and documents were destroyed. The Special Collections hold important printed and audio-visual materials on, among other things, African Studies, as well as over 1,300 sub-collections of rare manuscripts and private archives. In the field of African Studies alone, the collection of books and pamphlets exceeds 85,000 items. At the latest report, the most valuable documents were apparently spared, but it is too early to have a clear idea of the damage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
IFAS-Research fully associates itself with the emotion expressed since last Sunday in reaction to this terrible event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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