Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
Level of description
Part
Extent and medium
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
This collection is intended to grow as current children’s fiction in the Wits Education Library is withdrawn. The books in this collection come from various sources:
• supplied by the Transvaal Education department (TED)
• bought by the Johannesburg College of Education (JCE)
• bought by the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) -- ongoing
• donated by individuals or institutions
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Superseded English Children’s fiction. The collection includes only fiction that would have been kept in school and public libraries. (Graded readers are kept in Part 3 of this archive).
Rationale for collecting superseded children’s fiction. Once children, teachers and parents lose interest in children’s fiction books their working life is over. They are usually withdrawn and discarded. Once researchers need them as primary sources examples are notoriously hard to find. Examples of children’s fiction therefore ought to be preserved in archives.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright vests with the individual publishers.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Compiled by Mark Sandham, Education Librarian. The inventory covers all 7 Parts of this archive.