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SPONSORED | Be part of the next go2uj Cloudebates on libraries, and whether books should be shelved, on September 18 2019 when a panel of experts will address these questions.

27 August 2019 - 08:29Be part of the next Cloudebate, titled"Libraries: Should Books Be Shelved?", on September 18 2019. Picture: SUPPLIED/UJ

There’s no need nowadays for video cameras, pagers, wrist watches, maps, books, travel games, torches, home telephones, dictation recorders, cash registers, alarm clocks, answering machines, yellow pages, wallets, keys, dictionaries, radios, newspapers, magazines and pocket calculators. Books and their accessibility have always aroused passions and have often been at the forefront of revolutionary thought. Is this debate an instance where books might themselves be the passive subject of change, rather than the active driving force?

The University of Johannesburg , as a leader of probing and innovative academic thought on the continent, is fostering this debate and the questions it generates.

 

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