Location

The Archives are situated in the Main Campus Library, Lower Ground Floor. Our offices (LG17 and LG18) are adjacent to those of the Botswana Documentation and Special Collections Department (BDSC). We share repository and reading room space.

If we are not expecting you, please enquire at the Reading Room desk for archives staff or  call our telephone extension.

Note however that the Peter Smith Collection is housed at the Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre, (HOORC), Maun. To use this collection it is necessary to contact the Senior Librarian at HOORC Library. Tel: (267) 686-1833, Ext. 260 / 261 Email: hoorc@orc.info.bw. Post: Senior Librarian, HOORC, Private Bag 285, Maun, Botswana.

Section of map of Okavango annotated with ecological observations, Peter Smith Collection [ Smith Family]