The Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College Library was started in 1979, the year the school was established. The Library was located in one of Classroom before it later moved into new premises. By then it was catering for students and staff numbering about 500. In the beginning the library was run one senior student who was later joined by other student. It lacked resources in both human and equipment or facilities to the overall requirements of the college, which was ever quantitatively growing in size. The new was then built and completed in 1985. The building comprises of lending hall, reference section, periodicals and newspaper area, working room, audiovisual section, culture hall archives section- a total area of about 800sequare metres. Until October 1987 a Finnish manned the library volunteer Librarian and several ANC members who were willing to help with library work. Through their efforts the library was moved from the small classroom to the new premises where also new services could be offered to the patrons. In the same month, October, a trained ANC librarian returned from her studies abroad, and five who had completed the Certificate course in Tanzania. With the help of new trainees, things started to change and work better unlike in the past. Because Bantu Education had deprived blacks of the most elementary exposure to the knowledge and wonder of the universe, one of the objectives of the library was to stimulate access to the fund of knowledge and be a for both students and staff, to develop their appreciation of mankind's cultural heritage and achievements. Most importantly was that the library provided the community of SOMAFCO with rich educational materials which it could dream to have, but restricted access to in the Then Apartheid South Africa.