The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims for the role of libraries in \ndemocracy; and, on the 20-year anniversary of the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, it is \nan opportune moment to examine the rather confusing fortunes of libraries in our young democracy. \nIn recent years, some 20 libraries have been destroyed in social protest; yet the LIS profession would \nargue that libraries are agents of development and social transformation. The paper reports on the \nwork of the authors on the LIS Transformation Charter which, after a start-stop-start process of two \nphases over six years, has now been handed to government. The paper analyses the political and \nprofessional forces that influenced the Charter writing process; but we argue that the final \nTransformation Charter offers a vision of a transformed and integrated library system that has \nmeaning to all sectors of South African society.
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