City of Johannesburg Library and Information Services (CoJ LIS) is a public library system of the City of Johannesburg metropolitan government in Gauteng, South Africa. It manages about 90 public branch libraries across seven regions, giving access to roughly 4.9 million residents.
History After Johannesburg was founded, a volunteer library committee founded premises and appointed the city's first librarian in 1890s. In 1924, the city council took over the library and planned the Johannesburg City Library (JCL) which was opened on 6 August 1935.
The library reopened in 2012.
Library network and list of libraries
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