Celebrating libraries in 20 years of democracy : an overview of library and information services in South Africa

Since the establishment of the first public library in 1818, the South African library and information services landscape has also been a reflection of the socio-political order and developments in the country. This article presents an historical perspective as well as an overview of libraries in South Africa since 1994, the context within which libraries function, library governance and legislative framework, government funding for redress, library technologies, library and information services education and the professional association. The article further highlights the importance of libraries in meeting the goals of the national development agenda towards entrenching a strong democracy and an educated and informed nationOriginal publication is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/034003521558510

Sex identification and other aspects of the personality of the male paranoid schizophrenic.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityThe psychoanalytic concept of the relationship between paranoia and homosexuality has been subject to only limited experimental investigation. The major purpose of this study is to determine whether or not unconscious homosexual wishes and other related personality variables as postulated by psychoanalytic theory are found in the male paranoid schizophrenic. Since the time of Freud's original writings on paranoia, the concept that unconscious passive homosexual wishes play a role in the formation of paranoid behavior has been generally accepted by most psychoanalysts. Later psychoanalytic writers have attempted to explore the nature of the relationship between homosexuality and paranoia, without challenging the basic premise that such a relationship exists in fact. Many clinicians claim not to have found homosexual wishes in paranoid subjects as the psychoanalytic hypothesis would lead one to expect. [TRUNCATED