The Methodist Church of Southern Africa Collection: In 1965 the Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa announced its decision to transfer, on loan, the Methodist Archival collection housed until then at Livingstone House (a Divinity students residence at Rhodes University) to the then Cory Library for Historical Research, Rhodes University. The University undertook to maintain the archive ‘in good condition, reasonable wear and tear excepted.’ By 1968 the first tranch of material had been catalogued, and the Cory Library Accessions List no. 22 was dedicated to listing these manuscripts, pamphlets, periodicals, books and pictorial items. In subsequent years supplements to this initial list were published in further Accession Lists, which were made available to other South African libraries and institutions. With the advent of online cataloguing, the production of Accession Lists ceased. Researchers were now able to discover current accessions on the online catalogue. All archives suffer the problem of large backlogs and too little time, or too few staff, to process such material in detail. Cory Library for Humanities Research is no exception, and has therefore, with the worldwide move towards digitisation, decided that in future all Methodist material in our collection still awaiting processing, will be inventoried and the resulting finding aids for each separate collection will be made available on our digital platform. We hope these will prove a useful tool for researchers. The original material will be housed at the location numbers given at the head of each such finding aid, and remain available to on site researchers.