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The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claimsfor the role of libraries in democracy; and, on the twenty-first anniversaryof democracy in South Africa, it is an opportune moment toexamine the rather confusing fortunes of libraries since 1994. Thelibrary and information services (LIS) profession portrays librariesas agents of development and social transformation; yet, since 2009,more than twenty South African libraries have been destroyed insocial protests. This paper reports on the work of the authors of theLIS Transformation Charter, which after a start-stop-start process of twophases over six years was delivered to the government in 2014. Thepaper analyzes the political and professional forces that influencedthe charter-writing processes. The two fundamental arguments ofthe charter are that access to information, and thus to libraries, isa fundamental justiciable human right, both as a so-called freedomright and as an instrument of other economic, social, and culturalrights; and that transformation will depend on “ecosystems” thinkingwhereby the various subsectors collaborate to ensure seamlessservices and the equity of provision. The paper argues that the finalLIS Transformation Charter maps a path for a transformed andintegrated library system that has meaning for all sectors of SouthAfrican society

Libraries and a “Better Life for All”: The Politics, Processes, and Promises of the South African LIS Transformation Charter