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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2022
Some academic libraries in Zaire were established and sustained during the colonial period, mainly by missionaries. Before Zaire was granted independence in 1960, three important academic institutions of higher education were known and had libraries. These were: Grand Seminaire de Majidi, Université Lovanium and Université Officielle du Congo.
This school trained candidates for priesthood in the Catholic Church. In 1953, its library had 19,500 volumes for teachers and 4,500 for students reading philosophy and theology. Access to the teachers’ collection was restricted unless particular students had special permission to enter the library. (Tete Wersey 1983) mentioned that the library had a general catalogue on fiches with 4 clear sections: (a) Africa; (b) Sciences; (c) Biographies and (d) Africans’ Biographies.
Paper read at a SCOLMA Seminar, London 18th January, 1990