Hello folks,

Having learnt that my relatives were in Pochtefstroom, and that this was a city of educational establishments, I got to wondering about how things were progressing in the field of digitisation of records. In Australia lots of libraries are loading digitised material on the internet. Not so much the local libraries, but universities, state and national level libraries. Is anyone aware of this happening in South Africa?

I tried having a look at a university library in Pochtefstroom, but I was rather defeated by the Afrikaans. I could see a reference to digital records, but when I clicked on the "Translate this page", the reference to digital records disappeared in the English version, and after trying another couple of places I gave up. Has anyone any insights into progress of digitisation in the larger libraries?

Best wishes,

Lenore Frost