AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER NorTO, October 1993 ISSN 0148-7868 TABLE OF CONTENTS Africana Libraries Newsletter (ALN) is published quarterly by the Michigan State University Libraries and African Studies Center (East Lansing, MI 48824). Those copying contents are Editor’s Comments asked to cite ALN as their source. ALN is produced to support the work of the Archives- Acronyms Libraries Committee (ALC) of the African Studies Association. It carries the meeting minutes of ALC, CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microform Project) and other relevant ALC/CAMP NEWS..................................... .................. 2 groups. It also reports other items of interest to Africana librarians and those concerned Calendar of Future Meetings about information resources in or about Africa. Schedule for Fall Meeting in Boston CAMP Meeting (East Lansing, May 1) Minutes Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana Library, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. Recent Member Publications & News T el: 517-355-2366; E-mail: 20676afr@msu.edu; Fax: 517-336-1445. Deadline for no. 77: January 5,1994; for no. 78: March 15, 1994. OTHER NEWS............................................................... 5 News from other Associations Calendar American Library Association Arabic Names Authorities Workshop E D ITO R ’S COM M ENTS IFLA INET 93 This issue includes the schedule for the December meeting in Boston Info Africa Nova Conference 1994 and the CAMP minutes (shortened by the editor) fromthe May meeting LC Language & Geographic Codes in East Lansing. Agendas for the fall meetings were not available as of Resources at Libraries & Research Centers late October. Other highlights include a review of a reference book (but Britain-Zimbabwe Society no editorial policy on this issue) and a note on cataloging policy. There Gordimer Papers at Lilly Library is also the usual listing of some of the new books and journals and Mayibuye Centre (Western Cape) articles that have come to the attention of the editor. Grants Once again, this issue would not have been possible without Proposed Title VI Trip to Senegal contributions from many sources. Contributors include: Jim Armstrong, Foreign Periodicals Program Helene Baumann, Phyl 1is Bischof, Joe Caruso, Moore Crossey, Beverly Yale Divinity School Library Gray, Karen Fung, John Howell, A1 Kagan, Nancy Schmidt, and Personnel Changes & Vacancies: Columbia & LC Gretchen Walsh. RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES & INFO. SCIENCE............................................................ 7 Journals & Articles REFERENCE SOURCES...............................................8 ACRONYMS Notes New Reference Titles ACRL « Association of College & Research Libraries (ALA) Review by Caruso: Hist. Diet, of Malawi •;!;ALA'- American Library Call for 1994 Conover-Porter Award Nominations ÀLC +Africana Librarians Council (formerly LETTERS & OPINIONS.............................................. 9 Africa & Sub-Saharan Africa in ASA* African Studies Association (LLS,). .• Cutters, GACs & LCSH, by J. Lauer CAMP - Cooperative:Africàna'^icrofornïlPr(|ect:p | ) p | | | | i Information Dissemination Without Libraries CRL - Center for Research D b ir a r ie ||^ NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS..............10 IF LA-International Federation of Library Vendor Announcements LC - Library of Congress Book Awards ' MELA - Middle East Librarians Events: Zimbabwe Inti. Book Fair MSU « Mi chigan State Uni versi ty ' • Literature on the Book Trade SCOLMA - Standing Conf. on Library Mated ais. on Africa Newspapers LL «University Online Files Serial Changes New Serials . UCLA - University of CD-ROM Products & Videos Selected New Books AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 2 OCTOBER 1993 AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL/CAMP NEWS CALENDAR OF FUTURE M EETINGS COOPERATIVE AFRICANA M ICROFORM PRO JECT (CAMP) December 3-7,1993, Boston - ASA Annual Meeting. BUSINESS M EETING M INUTES April 15-16, 1994, Durham, NC - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. EAST LANSING, M I - M AY 1,1993 November 3-6,1994, Toronto - ASA Annual Meeting. Spring 1994, Evanston, IL - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. Minutes summarized by editor. Full minutes were November (1st week) 1995, Orlando - ASA Annual Meeting. ------- -distributed to-member institutions by CRL. Fall 1996, Portland or Bay area - ASA Annual Meeting. Fall 1997, Norfolk - ASA Annual Meeting. The meeting was convened at 8:38 am by Chair John Howell with Fall 1998, Midwest site - ASA Annual Meeting. Karen Fung as Secretary. SCHEDULE FO R FALL M EETING IN BOSTON Member institutions (and their representatives) present: Boston U. (Angela Aluko, David Westley; [Gretchen Walsh was attending the December 3 (Friday): ASA Board Meeting]), Center for Research Libraries (Linda Naru, 9:00 - 10:00am .... ALC Executive Committee Marlys Rudeen), Columbia U. (Joseph Caruso), Cornell U. (Tho­ 10:00 - 11:30am... Cataloging Committee mas Weissinger), Dartmouth (Gregory A. Finnegan), Duke U. 11:30 - 1:00pm .... Bibliography Committee (Helene Baumann), Indiana U. (Nancy Schmidt), Library of Con­ 2:00 - 4:00pm ......ALC Business Meeting gress (Beverly Gray), Michigan State U. (Onuma Ezera, Joe Lauer), 4:00 - 5:00pm ..... ALC Executive Committee New York Public Library, Schomburg Center (Dorothy Washing­ ton), Northwestern U. (Dan Bri tz, David Easterbrook, Mette Shayne), December 4 (Saturday): Stanford U. (Karen Fung), Syracuse U. (Meseratch Zecharias), U. 9:30 -11:00am .... CAMP Business Meeting of California, Berkeley (Phyllis Bischof), U. of California, Los 11:00 -12:00noon. CAMP Executive Committee Angeles (Ruby Bell-Gam), U. of Florida (Peter Malanchuk), U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (A1 Kagan), U. of Iowa (John Bruce 3:00 - 5:00pm ..... ALC Sponsored Panel: Howell), and Yale U. (Moore Crossey). Afrocentricity and the Library Research Process, chaired by A1 CAMP members not represented: Howard U., La Trobe U. Kagan. (Australia), Ohio U., Princeton U., Queens U. (Canada), U. of • Kathleen Bethel (African-American Studies Librarian, North­ Chicago, U. of Rochester, U. of South Africa, Temple U., U. of western U.), Afrocentricity and the Organization of Knowledge. Virginia, U. of Waterloo (Canada), U. of Wisconsin-Madison. • Mette Shayne (Northwestern U.), Electronic Access to Afrocentric Guests: Charles B. Sherrill (City Colleges of Chicago), Dane Materials. Ward (Lawrenceburg, Indiana). • Alfred Kagan (U. of Illinoisat Urbana/Champaign), Afrocentrism and Library 1. Chair John Howell opened the meeting with a tribute to Ray Organizational Models. Boylan’s work for CAMP. • Kwame Anthony Appiah (Dept, of Afro-American Studies, 2. The Fall 1992 meeting minutes were approved. [See ALN, April Harvard), Discussant. 1993.] • Michael O. West (Dept, of History & Afro-American Studies, The Chair appointed a Nominating Committee of Walsh and Illinois at Urbana/Champaign), Discussant. Easterbrook to prepare the Summer/Fall ballot for three positions: Member-at-Large, Secretary, Faculty Representative. OTHER MEETING INFORMATION: • Book Exhibits: Sat., 1-6; Sun. & Mon., 10-6; Tues., 8-10am. • African Publishing: A Roundtable, chaired by Hans Zell, is SPECIAL PROJECTS scheduled for Saturday, 11-1. Other participants: W. Bgoya (Dar es Salaam), P. Brickell (Harare), H. Chakava (Nairobi), A. Irele (Ohio 3. SENEGAL COURT RECORDS PROPOSAL. Dennis Galvan State Univ.), & V. Nwankwo (Enugu). (graduate student at the U. of California, Berkeley) in consultation • ASA Business Meeting: Sat., 5:15-7:15pm. with Saliou Mbaye (Directeur, Direction des Archives du Sénégal) • ASA Awards Banquet: Sat., 8:00pm. had prepared a “Proposal for Preservation of Unclassified Court Additional details on the 36th Annual Meeting of the African Records in Regional Capitals of Senegal.” The costs were $36,700 Studies Association (4-7 December 1993 at the Westin Hotel, for equipment, plus $2240 for microfilming an initial batch in Boston) are available from the ASA (Emory University, Credit Kaolack of 8000 pages. Union Bldg., Atlanta, GA 30322; tel.: 404- 329-6410). After discussion, it was agreed that CAMP would broaden coverage of the proposal. Howell, Britz, Meseratch Zecharias, and Fung will work on the grant proposal. 4. HEALTH/MEDICAL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS. Pro­ posal was for CAMP and its members to coordinate and sponsor the purchase, loan and microfilming of all official health and medical reports from 1980-1994 into a corpus that might be duplicated and used elsewhere. This could be a subset for the subscription and AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 3 OCTOBER 1993 microfilming of all Sub-Saharan African government documents. 12. MONDLANE COLLECTION. CAMP filmed the first part of A committee of Finnegan and Crossey will determine what the collection many years ago, but it is still restricted. Herbert Shore documents we have and decide on priorities. (U. of Southern California) was contacted to see if Janet Mondlane could set a date for opening this section. 5. CRL REPORT. [The CAMP Financial Statement, CAMP Mate­ Bell-Gam will consult with Shore on filming the rest of the rial on Order, CAMP Commitments and CAMP Materials Received collection, excluding the Mondlane letters. are attached at end of minutes.] Marlys Rudeen distributed the new CAMP brochure; 2000 were printed. CAMP’s balance is over $26,000 and will receive $4,000 NEW BUSINESS more from CRL. Comments on commitments: 13. COLLECTION ON THE ISMAILIS IN EAST AFRICA. Walsh U.S. National Archives films: CAMP has received 90 reels and is reviewed the papers which are currently privately held in the Boston awaiting another small item. area. Crossey is following up possible acquisition by Yale, with Drum magazine: CAMP cannot buy the film since we did not own subsequent potential filming by CAMP. original issues, as required by South African law. Items received from Yale: 14. GOVERNMENT GAZETTES. Two lists were distributed. 1. National Union of Mineworkers material acquired by Cheadle, CRL’s “Foreign Official Gazette Union List: Africa” (March 1993) Thompson, Haysom (Johannesburg attorneys) 11 reels; includes some information from NYPL, Harvard Law and the 2. Two reels of the Kwandebele Commission on police violence; University of Michigan. LC’s “Sources of Legal Material: A report was generated by the Legal Resources Center; Preliminary List of Foreign Official Gazettes,” edited by Terrel D. 3. Simons Papers. Hale (Feb. 1992) covers LC’s Law Library, NYPL, Los Angeles County Law, Harvard Law, and 2 German libraries. OLD BUSINESS 16. ERITREAN NEWSPAPERS AND DOCUMENTS. M. Zecharias was in Eritrean (summer 1992) and found that most of the 6. KESTELOOT PROJECT. The dissertations are being filmed in archives are in bad shape. TheEritreanresourcesofficeatGrambling Paris at est. cost of $2,500-2,700. is closed but the collection is still there. She plans to bring a proposal to the Fall eeting for CAMP to film these resources. 7. HILDA KUPER PAPERS. CAMP has received the 6 reels of the Syracuse will catalog the titles listed in “Catalog of Materials field notebooks. Filmed by Cooperative Microfilm Project, Haile Sellassie I Univer­ Cost for a positive print from the negative at UCLA is about $125. sity and Syracuse University” (Addis Ababa, 1974; introd. by Cyril A. Hromnik). [CRL was given a copy of this 73-leaves document.] 8. CAMP NEGATIVE MASTERS. Rudeen distributed a sample The negatives are in Ethiopia. The positive copies at Syracuse may printout of 41 titles from the negative masters list. After further only be used within the Library. checking against two paper files, they plan to produce a fairly comprehensive list of negative masters that could also be used as a 17. SUGGESTED FALL 1993 BOSTON MEETING TOPICS. sales catalog. Electronic serials and how to archive them; Publications about Somalia. 9. JUDGES’ NOTEBOOKS OF CIVIL & CRIMINAL CASES OF THE COLONIAL LAGOS SUPREME 18. YALE REPORT. The “Official SWAPO Archives” of Peter COURT, 1876-1915. CAMP received permission to film and needs Katjavivi is now at Yale. There are 24 boxes with over 4 boxes of to find a microfilmer in Lagos. newsletters, press releases and 3 boxes of conference papers, covering the mid-1970s to late-1980s. Included are the research 10. NEWSPAPERS ON FILM. [Members received a list of all papers acquired for Katjavivi’s dissertation on the Herero uprising. British Library microfilm titles (excluding those for Mauritius, Crossey will get an estimate for filming. South Africa and Northern Africa) not held by CAMP; plus a list of South African Institute of Race Relations materials which could 12 Nigerian newspapers held by LC but not in CAMP.] be filmed: Del mas Treason Trial material forwhichtheUniv.of the Agreed to buy all the British Library titles identified as priority Witwatersrand produced an inventory. Yale will receive a print by the Chair: Standard (Kenya), Daily Times (Blantyre), Beira copy of the trial record. There were many documents produced as News, Daily Times (Lagos), Seychelles Govt. Bull., Daily Mail evidence as well. There are additions to the SAIRR collection for (Freetown), Sudan Daily Herald, Nile Mirror (Juba), Habari za Leo, which Yale has a preliminary hand-written inventory. Queens Maarifa, Mambo Leo, Mwongozi, Zanzibar Voice, and Bulawayo University is interested in filming. Chronicle. A second group of J.D. Rheinallt Jones Papers is in the SAIRR Agreed to buy the Nigerian newspapers filmed by LC. archive at the Univ. of the Witwatersrand Library. Crossey thinks A decision on the Eastern Province Herald, 1970-74, was de­ it would cost $4-5,000 to film and would not duplicate other CAMP ferred, while Rudeen checks with the Pretoria State Library con­ holdings. cerning number of reels and price. The collection of the late Harold Gunn is at Yale. Gunn worked on the Ethnographic Survey of Africa volumes dealing with North­ 11. UNIV. OF LONDON, INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH ern Nigeria. The RLIN AMC [Archives-Manuscripts] file has a STUDIES, POLITICAL EPHEMERA, PART 1, SOUTH AFRICA. record. CAMP will buy. CAMP already has Parts 2-4 on Central, East and West Africa. The meeting adjourned at 11:24 pm. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 4 OCTOBER 1993 CAMP FINANCIAL STATEMENT (MAY 1, 1993) FY1992 DECEMBER MARCH Notes CLOSING (1) QUARTER (2) YTD (2) 1. The FUND BALANCE, REVENUES, FUND BALANCE $36,704.25 $26,053.31 $26,053.31 and EXPENSES shown under each completed quarter are taken from the REVENUES Center's accounting records. Each Membership fees $21,900.00 $18,400.00 $18,900.00 column shows cumulative figures for the Income from sales (4) 3,392.90 1,182.00 1,232.00 year. TOTAL REVENUES $25,292.90 $19,582.00 $20,132.00 2. The REVENUES and EXPENSES shown EXPENSES in the YTD (Year to Date) column Cost of sales (4) $528.00 $3,579.00 $3,609.00 combine the Center accounting records Acquisitions 24,565.90 1,368.00 9,900.00 and check vouchers issued up to the Business Expenses .00 .00 .00 date of the statement. Publications .00 .00 179.00 3. The COMMITMENTS are taken from Travel 395.94 466.00 532.00 the records of the Acquisitions Dept. Personnel .00 .00 $.00 and the project coordinator and are Processing Fees .00 .00 $.00 intended to reflect projected costs of Cataloging 10,454.00 2.107.00 2.196.00 past decisions by CAMP and ongoing TOTAL EXPENSES $35,943.84 $7,520.00 $16,416.00 operations. REVENUES LESS EXPENSES ($10,650.94) $12,062.00 $3,716.00 4. Income from sales and cost of sales reflect pass-through funds, with a small COMMITMENTS (3) profit expected. Income from sales may Materials on order (5) $2,408.00 reflect pre-payments. Materials approved (6) 11,818.00 5. This represents commitments for FY93 Non-material expenses 850.00 only, not ongoing commitments. TOTAL COMMITMENTS $15,076.00 6. Estimated cataloging ($700) and travel AVAILABLE FUNDS $38,115.31 $14,693.31 expenses ($150). CAMP - ITEMS ON ORDER South Africa: the Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989...... $3900 MAY 1,1993 South African Advertiser & Mail, 1824-1959 .................... $630 Weekly Review (Nairobi), Feb. 1975-1991 ...................... $1300 Cape Times (Cape Town) 1911-1913. $1100 enc. Moniteur Africain (Dakar), 1961-1967.......................................? Commonwealth political ephemera from the Institute of TOTAL Committed:......................................................$11,818 Commonwealth Studies, pt. 3 (East Africa) & pt. 4 (West Africa). $850 enc. Congopresse, Nov. 1, 1947-Sept. 15, 1951. $300 enc. CAMP - ITEMS RECEIVED SINCE NOV. 10,1992 Ethiopian Herald, July 3, 1943-Mar. 10, 1951 (1 reel) $17.00 paid. * Indicates original filming. Isibuto Samavo (Newtondale), 1843-1844. $35 enc. The Chronicle (Bulawayo), 24 Jl. 1981-29 July 1982 & 5 March Records relating to the Internal Affairs of Madagascar, 1930- 1985-Dec. 1986. 16 reels 39. M1441. R. 89 $23 enc. Despatches from United States consuls in Boma, 1888-1895, T47. South African Freedom News, 1963-1966, $100 enc. 1 reel Yoruba collection of William and Berta Bascom. Despatches from United States consuls in Gabon, 1856-1888. Claimed Nov. 1992. Letter Feb. 1993 - “hoping” forpublica- T466. 1 reel tion within 6 weeks. $1,990 paid. Despatches from United States consuls in Grand Bassa, 1868- 1882. M171. 1 reel TOTAL encumbered: $2408; prepaid $2007. Despatches from United States consuls in St. Helena, British West Africa, 1831-1906. T428. r. 1-16, 19-20. Despatches from United States consuls in St. Paul de Loanda, CAMP COMMITMENTS 1854-1893. T430. 3 reels Despatches from United States consuls in Tamatave, 1853-1906. Congo Collection of Newspapers and News Bulletins .... $1548 T60. Reels: 1-3, 11. Afrique et le Monde Despatches from United States consuls in Goree-Dakar, 1883- Agriculture et elevage... 1906. T573. 2 reels. Courrier d ’Afrique, 1930-1971......................................... $1940 Despatches from United States ministers to Morocco, 1905-1906. Kesteloot collection............................................................ $2500 T725. 1 reel. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 5 OCTOBER 1993 Despatches from United States ministries to Liberia, 1863-1906. State, 1862-1894. T806 1 reel. M170. Reels 1-9, 11-14. Records of the Department of State relating to political relations Despatches from United States consuls in Sierra Leone, 1858- between British Africa and other states, 1910- 1929. M585 1 1906. T438 5 reels. reel. Diplomatic instructions of the Dept, of State, 1801-1906. (Liberia) Records of the Department of State relating to Internal Affairs M77. r. 110 1 reel. of British Africa, 1910-29. M583. R. 11-24, 26-33. Exploration and colonization of Africa, 1794-1844. 14 reels + 2 Records of the Department of State relating to Internal Affairs guides. (British Col. Off. Files 2 & 392) of Liberia, 1910-1929. M613. 34 reels. Guardian (Cape Town) 1937-1962. 20 reels. Records of the Department of State relating to political relations (6 title changes: Cape Guardian (2/19-6/11, 1937); Guardian between Liberia and other states, including the U.S. 1919- (6/18/1937-5/22/1952); Ulafion (5/29-3/14,1952); People’s 1929. M614. 1 reel. World (8/21-10/30,1952); Advance (11/06/1952-10/21/1954); Slave trade, 1858-1892. 10 reels + 2 guides. British F.O. Coll. New Age (10/28/1954-11/29/1962). 541. Infor-Burundi (Usumbura) (#1-95; Jan. 6 ,1962-Nov. 11,1963) * South Africa Speaks. Aug. 1962 - July 1964. * In f orcongo (Bruxelles) (Sept. 1 4 ,1956-Dec. 22, 1958; & Jan. Tanzania Education Journal. Nos. 1-19; 1972-1984. * 25-Sept. 19, 1960. * Kuper, Hilda. Field notebooks of anthropological research in Swaziland and South Africa, 1931-1985. 6 reels. REC EN T M EM BER PUBLICATIO NS & NEW S Michigan State University. Africana Preservation Project. 60 reels. Phyllis B. Bischof (editor). “Africana Reference Works: An Nos Images (Edition Kikongo) Mar. 15, 1951-Feb. 15, 1956. 1 Annotated List of 1992 Titles,” by Bischof, Mette Shayne and reel. * Thomas Weissinger. African Book Publishing Record, 19,2 Nos Images (Edition Kiswahili) July 15,1948- Mar. 15,1958. 3 (1993): 79-91. reels. * Nos Images (Edition Tshiluba) Jan. 15, 1948- Dec. 20, 1955. 1 Dorothy Woodson (Lockwood Library, State University of New reel. * York at Buffalo) received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award Nos Images (Edition Lingala) Nov. 15, 1948- Dec. 15, 1956. 1 within the African Regional Resarch Program for the 1993/94 reel. * academic year. She will conduct research and assist in the Notes from the Liberian legation in the United States to the organization of recently unbanned historical manuscripts, ar­ Department of State, 1862-1898. T807. 1 reel. chives, and newspapers located at the Mayibuye History Centre. Notes from the Madagascan Legation in the U.S. to the Dept, of [See next section for more on Centre.] OTHER NEWS NEW S FR O M O TH ER ASSO C IA TIO NS AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION The Asian and African Section of the Association of College & CALENDAR Research Libraries has been renamed the Asian, African, and ALA: Middle Eastern Section. Feb. 5-10, 1994, Los Angeles - Midwinter Meeting June 23-30, 1994, Miami Beach - ALA Annual Conf. ARABIC NAME AUTHORITIES WORKSHOP Jan. 20-26, 1995, Cincinnati - Midwinter Meeting Planned for Nov. 11th, during the MELA meeting. Staff from LC Mar. 29-April 1, 1995 - ACRL Conference will give instructions on NACO practice for the establishment of June 22-29, 1995, Chicago - ALA Annual Conf. corporate bodies, emphasizi ng Arabic names of Egyptian govern­ Jan. 19-25, 1996, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting ment agencies. Participants will be encouraged to join the June 20-27,1996, Orlando - ALA Annual Conf. MELA/LC cooperative project to establish Arabic government Feb. 14-20, 1997, Washington - Midwinter Meeting corporate names. For more information contact: John Eilts, June 26-July 2, 1997, San Francisco - ALA Annual Conf. (415)691-2266; bljae@rlg.stanford.edu. IFLA Annual Conference: IFLA August 1994, Havana The Government Information and Official Publications Section Aug. 22-26, 1995, Istanbul (of the IFLA Division of Collections and Services) met in 1996, Bejing Barcelona (August 21,1993,2-5pm, and August 26,3-6pm), with 1997, Geneva Siegfried Detemple as chair and Al Kagan as secretary. In 1998, Edmonton addition to reports on publications, seminars and finances, the following officers were elected for 1993-1995: Chair, Al Kagan; Middle East Librarians Assoc. Annual Conf. secretary, Nina Leneman; treasurer, Celine Walker. Nov. 10-11, 1993, Research Triangle Park, NC. An Anglophone Africa training seminar is planned at the National Conf. of African-American Librarians: University of Zimbabwe during the last week of November 1994, Aug. 5-7, 1994, Milwaukee, WI. with support from IFLA and other groups. The Francophone AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 6 OCTOBER 1993 Summit will fund a seminar in Bordeaux (1994 or 1995) for and reviewed by ALA’s Committee on Cataloging: Asian and secretaries of governments, on the production, management and African Materials. The languages have been mainly assigned to dissemination of government information. There will be a later collective codes in the current language code standard. For those conference for librarians. Additional training seminars are planned languages having a significant body of literature (a total of at least for Latin America and Eastern Europe. 50 bibliographic works), individual codes are being added. For At Havana in 1994, the Section and the Women’s Interest Africa, there are 6 new codes for individual languages, while 23 Group will co-sponsor the program “Government Programs and languages are to be covered by new collective code. The revised Publications on Women.” Proposals for the Istanbul meeting in standard will be distributed for ballot in late 1993. Once ap­ 1995 included a panel on grey literature or fugitive documents proved, a new edition of the USMARC CODE LIST FOR LAN­ and a panel on the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. The GUAGES will be prepared.—LC Cataloging Newsline, Oct. 1993. 1997 conference will focus on national bibliographic services. The Section suggested the following issues for discussion: UBCIM Geographic Area Code Change: The new code for Eritrea is f-ea. corporate headings and authority lists for government bodies, MARC records reflecting this change will appear not earlier than inclusion of government publications in national bibliographies, Nov. 15, 1993. [Editor failed in October attempt to add to an timely production and distribution, standards for bibliographic OCLC record.] Questions to: Cataloging Policy and Support control of electronic datafiles, and standards for locators of Office, LC, Washington, DC 20540-4305. electronic information. There was also a program “Online Access to Government Information” (August 25,1993, 4:45-7:15pm) that included pre­ RESO URCES A T sentations on online access to US, UN and Spanish government LIBRARIES AND RESEARCH CENTERS information. For further details, contact A1 Kagan (U. of Illinois Library, Urbana, IL 61801). Britain-Zimbabwe Society is planning an Archive to store leaflets, newspapers, clippings, discussion papers, personal let­ INET 93 ters, etc. relating to the struggle for Zimbabwe. The Material will The International Networking Conference sponsored by the Internet be held at 66 Woodstock Rd., Oxford, which is part of St. Society (August 17-20,1993; San Francisco) was organized into Antony’s College, and will eventually be fully catalogued. six tracks: network technology, network engineering, application —BZS Newsletter, April 1993 technology, user applications, policy issues, and regional issues. Concerning Africa’s connectivity, there is a great deal of activity Indiana University’s Lilly Library has acquired the archives of in Africa and a number of talented and resourceful people South African novel ist and short-story writer Nadine Gordimer. working in the field. But the continuing image is that of low levels The collection includes manuscripts of her novels and stories, of development and consequently continuing need for foreign notebooks in which she recorded her background research, tele­ assistance. vision scripts she wrote, and about 4,000 letters received from The sessions dealing with Africa included the main regional 1949 through 1976 along with copies of her letters for the same panel, with papers on network building in Africa (Lishan Adam, period. Her more recent correspondence will join the collection PADIS) and networking in Tunisia and Egypt. A session on at a later date. “empowering new users” had considerable African content. Gary The papers now in the Lilly Library are rich not only in the Gariott (VITA) discussed VITA’s appropriate technology or various drafts and versions of her writings but also for the wealth “Africanized” approach, emphasizing training rather than the of research notes she compiled in preparing her novels. These installation of hardware. A paper by Seymour Goodman (Univ. show the great care Gordimer takes to be accurate in even the of Arizona) looked at the situation in formerly Socialist countries, smallest details in her writing. Her letters, of which there are including some African examples. retained copies, tend to be long and informative — more like The Proceedings (papers received in advance) were published those of writers in the pre-telephone era. The collection will be and papers will be available electronically from the Internet ready for use this fall. Society (Suite 100, 1895 Preston White Dr., Reston, VA 22091; isoc@nri.reston.va.us). The Mayibuye Centre for History and Culture (at the Univer­ —Based on notes from Gretchen Walsh (Boston U.). sity of the Western Cape) is the archive for many ANC materials, most notably 100,000 photographs and a huge collection of film, INFO AFRICA NOVA CONFERENCE 1994 both documentary and commercial, in which the ANC figures. It The conference will be held at the Sinodale Conference Centre, also houses Albie Sachs’ magnificent collection of Mozambiquan 234 Visage St., Pretoria, on 16-20 May 1994. The main theme art, and a collection of superb poster art which documents the will be Innovation: Relevant Information Services for Sustain­ struggle. Mayibuye is a popular slogan meaning “Let it return.” able Development of Southern Africa. If you wish to present a The Mayibuye Centre was established to provide a physical paper, please submit topic and an abstract of 150-200 words by 30 resource for the acquisition, research, production, publication Nov. 1993 to: Info Africa Nova cc, PO Box 4649, Pretoria 0001 and distribution of material relating to the history of apartheid and South Africa or fax no. (012) 6621588. resistance to it. Among the Centre’s many projects is the maintenance of several barefoot agents whose mission it is to LIBRARY OF CONGRESS carry publications out into the townships. At present the major LANGUAGE & GEOGRAPHIC CODES portion of the records of the ANC are planned to be located at Fort The revised list of the national language code standard, Z39.53 Hare because of its connection with Nelson Mandela and Govan (Codes for the Representation of Languages for Information Mbeki. Interchange), will include new codes for Southeast Asian, African —Phyllis Bischof and Pacific languages. These were requested by various groups AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 7 OCTOBER 1993 GRANTS PERSO NNEL CHANGES & VACANCIES PROPOSED TITLE VI Joseph Caruso began work on August 23 as the African Studies JO IN T ACQUISITIONS TRIP TO SENEGAL Librarian at Columbia University, where he will do both collec­ The Title VI African Studies centers plan to apply to the US tion and cataloging. Since October 1992, he had served as half­ Department of Education for support of an acquisitions trip to time acting bibliographer while completing “Politics in colonial Senegal in 1994-95 to acquire materials for CAMP. The primary Kenya, 1929-1963: A history of Kilifi District.” (Ph.D. thesis, goal of this trip will be to survey and make arrangements for Columbia University (History), 1993). microfilming materials in IFAN (Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire) and in other government and historical archives. Materials L ibrary of Congress is seeking candidates for Chief, African and of interest include theses and manuscripts. A second goal will be MiddleEasTernDivision. Vacancy Announcement #31089 lists to collect or subscribe to newspapers, newsletters and other this senior level position at $79,931-$108,200. Contact LC, ephemera produced by political parties and interest groups. Human Resources Operations Office, CRLN, 101 Independence Materials at CAMP will be fully cataloged and accessible via Ave., SE Room LM-107, Washington, DC 20540. Tel.: 202-707- OCLC, with a copy of any archival materials being deposited in 5601. the institution where filmed. This proposal was developed by The Chief will maintain the Library’s services and programs Title VI librarians in response to the USDE designation of library relating to the cultural, political, social and economic life of the cooperation as a priority area for project funding and a followup countries of Africa and the Middle East. The Chief is responsible request from center directors to the ALC chair. for the overall administration of the division, and plays the principal role in developing the African, Middle Eastern and FOREIGN PERIODICALS PROGRAM Hebraic collections and facilitating their use. Minimum qualifi­ A source with good connections says that funding for this U.S. cations include knowledge of a field of African or Middle Eastern Dept, of Education has been restored. Details in a future issue. studies, e.g. culture, literature, history, with fluency in one or more languages of the area. Additionally, one year of experience YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL LIBRARY M ICROFILMING at the GS-15 level or above in the Federal Service, or at a YaleDivinity School Library has been awarded a grantof $185,000 comparable level of difficulty outside the Federal Service is to preserve 3,000 serials volumes from its Day Missions Collec­ required. tion. This project (GCMP IV of RLG) will result in the filming of 22,636 volumes from 15 RLG institutions between March 1993 and February 1995. RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE The following items have come to the attention of the editor. Mubwangolo bin Papa M. “Propos sur les obstacles au fonctionnement des bibliothèques de Lubumbashi.” Likundoli: JO URNALS & ARTICLES Archives et documents (Lubumbashi), 14, 1/2 (1991): 108-119. International Information & Library Review, 25,1 (March 1993) Tiamiyu, M.A. “The Realities of Developing Modem Informa­ includes the following: tion Resources Management Systems in Government Organisations • Agboola,A. T. “Third Generation Nigerian University Librar­ in Developing Countries with particular reference to Nigeria,” ies,” pp. 42-60; Journal of Information Science, 19, 3 (1993): 189-198. • Gupta, S. “Development of the Library Profession and Educa­ tion in Ethiopia,” pp. 73-84; • Nwokocha, U. “Resources Utilization by Adults in Nigeria: The Case of two Public Libraries,” pp. 85-. Gupta, Davendra K. (School of Information Studies for Africa, Addis Ababa U.) “Ethiopian Medical Literature and Citation Patterns for the Years 1977 and 1987.” Afr. J. Lib. Arch. & Inf. Sc., 1,2(1991): 107-114. Using data of the Ethiopian Medical Journal, concludes that patterns differ from the universal trend. Notes literature half-life of 5.9 years in 1977, vs. 11.0 in 1987. Gupta, D.K. “Application of Bradford’s Law to Citation Data of Ethiopian Medical Journal,” Annals o f Library Science and Documentation 38, 3 (1991): 85-98. Found that Bradford’s Law applied to both data sets, while ranking pattern of journals changed from 1977 to 1987. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 8 OCTOBER 1993 REFERENCE SOURCES NO TES general and historically specific. The 202-page dictionary in­ cludes a 65-page bibliography and is accompanied by a 14-page ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS IN WEST AFRICA concise and informative historical introduction and an 8-page Two of the 7 catalogues in a bilingual database at the University chronology. However, there is no index. There are three maps, of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana are about to be photocopied. One but they are not listed in the table of contents and the first map that has 3134 records of the MSS at the Institut Mauritanien de appears (with the introduction) is poor. As with the other Recherche Scienti fique (Nouakchott); the second has 3054 records dictionaries in the Scarecrow series, there are general entries. from a private, family library-in Boutilimit,-Mauritania (micro­ -Some-Headers may-initlally find these entries cumbersome, but film available at the U. of I. Library archives. Further details such entries do enable the author to provide important informa­ available from Charles C. Stewart, History Dept. tion that might not fit under any other entry titles. (c-stewart2@uiuc.edu). African historians and specialists on Malawi may be pleased with the many entries for prominent Malawian women in the BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN LITERATURES dictionary; but not with the bias towards 20th century Malawian Peter Limb and Mean-Marie Volet are compiling a bibliography history. However, they may find some of the passages, the choice of African literatures, to be published in the US in early 1995. It of entry titles, and the general arrangement of information a bit will be limited to (selective) books and will cover literatures (all disconcerting. Examples: The entry for “Prehistory” seems to genres and critical works) in English, French, and to a lesser encompass developments in technology and ceramics from the degree selected African languages, Arabic and Portuguese. Fur­ “early Stone Age” through the late 18th century! Under the entry ther information from Peter Limb, Reid Library, Uni v. of Western for “Federation”, a misleading passage (p. 48) reads: “When the Australia, Neldans 6009 Australia, plimb@uniwa.uwa.edu.au post-war Labour Party opposed an amalgamation of the Rhodesias, Stewart Gore-Browne, a Legco member and settler in Zambia, REFERENCE WORKS THAT NEED TO BE UPDATED: suggested a federation among the three territories [Northern & Further Developments since note in ALN April 1993, p. 10. Southern Rhodesia, & Nyasaland] that OSTENSIBLY WOULD Nancy Schmidt’s list was republished in ASA News, July/Sept. PRESERVE AFRICAN RIGHTS.” (My emphasis.) Anyone 1993, p. 26-7, with a longer introduction and three deletions. searching for the origins of the word “Nyasa” will be disap­ pointed, although there is an entry for “Malawi”. There is an entry for the M’bona cult, but not for “Mwari”. The entry for “Slave NEW REFERENCE TITLES trade” is too short and probably gives too much credit to the The following items or issues arc noted. British for ending the slave trade and too little attention to For more titles, see the annual “Africana Reference Books” European (and American) slave and ivory trading interests in the in The African Book Publishing Record, no. 2. region for the period before abolition. In general, there is a lot of good information in the dictionary Alphabets de Langues Africaines, edited by Rhonda L. Hartell. but some of it is buried in the entries. For example, national Dakar: UNESCO Bureau Regional de Dakar & Société population figures have to be distilled from the entry under the internationale de linguistique, 1993. ISBN: 92-9091-019-7. title “Birthrate”. Information about the impact of RENAMO, the rebel army operating in Mozambique, is under the entry title Contemporary Afric an Politic s and Development: A Comprehen­ “Mozambique” but not under the entry title “Refugees”. As a sive Bibliography, Vol. 1: 1891-1990, compiled by Vijitha result, the connection between the war in Mozambique and Mahadeven, with the staff of UCLA’s African Bibliography refugees in Malawi is obscured. Project. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, Nov. 1993. Ca. 1500 Aside from these shortcomings, the dictionary can be used pages. ISBN: 15558873340. $160. critically to a researcher’s advantage. Jones, Huw M. A Biographical Register of Swaziland to 1902. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1993. 744p. R79.99. CALL FOR NOM INATIONS: Miescher, Giorgio. A Provisional Guide to the BAB-SWAPO TH E 1994 CO NO VER-PO RTER AW ARD FOR Archives. Basel: Basler AfrikaBibliographien, 1993. 101p. First AFRICANABIBLIO G RAPH Y O RREFRENCE W ORK draft. The Africana Librarians Council (formerly called Archives- Libraries Committee) of ASA seeks nominations for the eighth H ISTO R IC A L DIC TIO N A R Y OF M ALAW I: biennial Conover-Porter Award for excellence in Africana bibli­ A REVIEW ography or reference work. Any Africa-related reference work, by Joseph Caruso (Columbia Univ.) bibliography or bibliographic essay published separately or as a part of a larger work during 1991,1992, or 1993 can be nominated Crosby, Cynthia A. Historical Dictionary o f Malawi. 2nd ed. for the 1994 award, which includes a prize of $300 that will be Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993. xxxv, 202 p. (African presented during the 1992 annual meeting of the African Studies Historical Dictionaries, 54) ISBN 0810826283 $30.00. Association in Toronto, Canada. Nominations must be received before the end of January 1994. Please include a brief justifica­ For those new to research on 20th century Malawi, the revised tion and at least one review. Historical Dictionary of Malawi is a useful reference. The entry Helen Conover was senior bibliographer in the African Section titles in the dictionary are arranged alphabetically and are both of LC, serving thirty-two years before her retirement in 1963. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 9 OCTOBER 1993 Dorothy Porter Wesley was librarian of the Moorland-Spingam 1988). In 1992 Carol Sicherman’s two works Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Research Center, Howard University, retiring after forty-five A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources, 1957-1987 years of service in 1973. (New York: H. Zell, 1989) andNgugi wa Thiong’o, theM akingof The first award in 1980 was presented to Julian Witherell for a Rebel: A Source Book in Kenyan Literature and Resistance his The United States and Africa: Guide to U.S. Official Docu­ (New York: H. Zell, 1990) received the award. ments and Government-Sponsored Publications on Africa, 1785- Please send nominations to: Helene Baumann, International 1975 (Washington: LC, 1978). Recent winners include the 1988 and Area Studies, Box 90195, Perkins Library, Duke University, award shared by Daniel P. Biebuyck’s The Arts o f Central Africa: Durham NC 27708 (tel: 919-660-5847; fax 919-684-2855; An Annotated Bibliography (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987) and Jean E. hsb@mail.lib.duke.edu). For further information you may con­ Meeh Gosebrink’s African Studies Information Resources Direc­ tact her or the ALC chair, Nancy J. Schmidt, Main Library E660, tory (New York: H. Zell, 1986). The 1990 winner was Yvette Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 (tel: 812-855-1481; Scheven’sBibliographiesfor African Studies 1970-1986 (H. Zell, fax 812-855-8068). LETTERS & OPINIONS In the absence o f any letters or essays, between Asia (entire continent) and Asia east of the Indus (or Asia the editor again inserts a note; plus a quote without comment. from Pakistan to the Pacific; i.e., without the Middle East or Western Asia) in GAC, LCSH or Cuttering. For Western Europe, AFR IC A & SUB -SAIIARAN AFRICA there is a separate GAC, but subject headings and Cutter numbers IN CUTTERS, GACS & LCSII treat as identical to the continent of Europe. In contrast, Sub- by Joe Lauer Saharan Africa is treated as distinct from the continent of Africa in GAC, subject headings and Cuttering. Africa, Asia and Europe This note proposes that the distinction between AFRICA and are parallel cases both in the changing patterns of usage and in the AFRICA, SUB-SAHARAN should be modified or dropped in LC relative size of the subunit that has come to represent the whole. Subject Headings and elsewhere. There are several reasons for They deserve parallel treatment. abandoning this distinction. First, “Africa” or “African” usually Region Cutter GAC LCSH (but not always) is used to refer to the area south of the Sahara. Second, the distinction is not consistently applied. Third, similar Africa A35 f Africa distinctions in Asian or European studies are not made. And Sub-Saharan Africa A357 fb Africa, Sub-Saharan finally (if you accept the preceding arguments), it creates an Asia A78 a Asia unnecessary and annoying division in the shelflist and in lists Europe E85 e Europe sorted by subject headings or Geographical Area Codes. Western Europe E85 ew Europe The case for Africa(n) as usually equal to Sub-Saharan Africa Other issues with regional names: in current usage could be more thoroughly documented. A start 1. No heading for Northern Africa (including Egypt and maybe would be to review titles with the word “Africa(n)” that cover the the Sudan). (Egypt is correctly excluded from both AFRICA, continent and determine if they include Northern Africa (North NORTHEAST, and AFRICA, NORTH). Africa and Egypt) in the coverage. This coverage should be more 2. Sahel (as the region south of North Africa) is assigned a GAC than token (i.e., 1-5 percent of the total), since Northern Africa of f rather than fw (Africa, West), despite the presence of other has 20-25 percent of the continent’s total population. My working Sahels in Tunisia and elsewhere and the fact that the Sahelian hypothesis is that the efforts of the early 1960s to cover (more-or- country of Chad is excluded from Africa, Central. less equally) the entire continent when writing about Africa have 3. Should there be a note that “Central Africa” and other regions been abandoned by most authors and editors. Further, most in the older travel literature meant something different? Given specialists on Northern Africa define themselves as Middle changing usage, is consistency in our catalogs feasible? Eastern and not African specialists (judging from the joint pro­ gram in New Orleans). And librarians in ALA got the name of the Asian and African Section (of ACRL) changed to Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Section, presumably because some of these INFORM ATION DISSEM INATION specialists felt outside of both Africa and Asia. W ITHOUT LIBRARIES A quick survey using keyword searches of 043 and subject “Hitherto, a hindrance to economic policy and capacity building fields shows generally accurate application of the current rules, in southern Africa has been the fragmentation of the economic but inconsistencies or errors do occur. The problem for catalogers community and poor access to, and knowledge of, the available is that it is not always easy to determine if a book is limited to Sub- literature. The Centre has an important role in overcoming these Saharan Africa. There are very few errors when the distinction is difficulties by building networks of economic analysts and dis­ made in the title and relatively few if it is acknowledged in a brief seminating knowledge. This will be achieved through promoting preface (e.g., Scheven, Bibliographies for African studies). But conferences, joint projects, and visits and exchanges between errors are more common if the distinction is buried (e.g., p. xxiv scholars and students from southern African universities and of Mcllwaine, Africa: a guide to reference material) or never SOAS.” —1993 brochure from CEPSA (Centre for Economic explicitly made. Policy for Southern Africa), Department of Economics, School of The approach used for materials about (Western) Europe or Oriental & African Studies, University of London (Thornhaugh Asia (minus Western Asia) should be applied to (Sub-Saharan) St., Russell Sq., London WC1H 0XG), p. 6. Africa. (See codes and headings below.) There is no distinction AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 10 OCTOBER 1993 NOTES ON MATERIALSAND VENDORS VENDO R & PUBLISH ER ANNOUNCEM ENTS Community Process, 1992). 7 vols. on women and community development. African Books Collective Ltd. (The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., Honorable Mentions: Oxford 0X1 1HU) distributed in August its 7th batch of cards. Tim Couzens, Tramp Royal: the True Story of Trader Horn Publishers covered: Buchu Books, CODESRIA, Dar es Salaam UP, (Johannesburg: Ravan Press & Witwatersrand UP, 1992); Don East African Educ. Publ., Editions de l’Océan Indien, Fourth Mattera, The Five Magic Pebbles and other Stories (Johannesburg: Dimension Publ., Freedom Publications, MalthousePress, Nigerian Skotaville, 1992); Inst. Int. Affairs, Southern African Printing & Publ. House, Spec­ Jonathan N. Moyo, Voting for Democracy: A study of Electoral trum Books, & Univ. Lagos Press. Politics in Zimbabwe (Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publica­ tions, 1992); African Imprint Library Services (236 Main St., Falmouth, MA 01uOguibe,A GatheringFear (Poems) (Lagos: Kraft Books, 1992); 02540; tel: 508-540-5378) offers the 25-vol. Revised Edition of the Gill Straker, Faces in the Revolution: The Psychological Effects of Laws of the Federation o f Nigeria 1990 for $1950 and th e Encyclo­ Violence on Township Youth in South Africa (Cape Town: David pedia of the Laws o f the Federal Republic of Nigeria, vol. 4-13, for Philip, 1992); $1495. Alexander H.T. Yankah, I am River Densu (Accra: Afram, 1992). Further details available in/from The African Book Publishing AMARC Publications has a list of books and cassettes on commu­ Record, Hans Zell Publishers, PO Box 56, Oxford OX1 2SJ. nity radiobroadcasting. Address: 3575St-Laurent, no. 704, Montreal, Quebec H2X 2T7. amarc@web.apc.org. Sigma Delta Chi Award for research about journalism went to Africa'sMedia Image (Praeger, 1992), edited by Beverly G. Hawk. Botswana Society (POB 71, Gaborone) offers 24 volumes of the The book is a collection of essays about Africa coverage in the U.S. reprinted Botswana Notes and Records, plus its Index to Publica­ The editor is assistant professor of political science at the University tions, 1969-1989, for $150 plus $10 postage. Current subscriptions of Alabama at Birmingham. (vol. 25: 1993) cost P55 (Southern Africa) or $25/£ 15. California Newsreel issued their 1993-1994 Library of African EVENTS Cinema catalog (Developing Visions), listing 15 titles including 2 1992 releases: Afrique, Je Te Plumerai and Lumumba: La Mort du Zimbabwe International Book Fair 1993 took place during the Prophète. Address: 149 Ninth St., Suite 420, San Francisco, CA first week of August. The theme was “Reading is Development.” Its 94103. 66-page Catalogue lists about 150 exhibitors representing 250 publishers from 35 countries, including 20 African countries. Cameroon Post, an English-language weekly, is now available On August 4th, the Zimbabwean printers Print Holdings (Pvt.) from their North American bureau (Po Box 268528, Chicago, IL Ltd. smashed the Guinness Record for the fastest book in the world 60626) at following rates: $60 for 3 months; $108 for 6 months; by printing 2000 copies of the 100-page Book Fair Book on a sheet­ $200 for 12 months. Tel: 312-878-3584. fed Speedmaster machine in 5 hours and 23 minutes (per initial release; 4 hours and 50 minutes in other reports). Book Fair Book is Gerald Rilling (270 Colonial Dr., Rockford, IL 61115-3716; tel/ a collection of stories and poetry by Zimbabwean writers. A large- fax 815-654-0389) is preparing an occasional list of Out of Print print version, a Braille version, a CD-ROM and an audio tape of this Books on Africa. Focus is eastern Africa, including travel and same book were produced concurrently. exploration by Burton, Speke, Grant, Meyer; World War I books; The African Periodicals Exhibit opened at ZIBP before going on anthropology, hunting, etc. a UK and US tour, October-December 1993. (It will be on display at the ASA meeting in Boston.) The Exhibit includes 44 scholarly Info Africa Nova (PO Box 4649, Pretoria 0001) has published the journals from 13 countries. It is sponsored by the UK-based following recent titles: Southern African Book Fair Trust and a number of European and • Who’s Who in Library and Information Services of Southern American journals. Additional journal sponsors are sought. Africa 1992/93. ISBN 0620179864. R163.02/US$48 plus R11.40/ Zimbabwe International Book Fair 1994 will be held in Harare on $12 for surface mail. 3-7 August 1994, with a special focus on science and technology. • Proceedings of the Info Africa Nova Conference 1993. ISBN Further information available from: Margaret Ling, 25 Endymion 0620177179. R163.58/US$55 plus R10.26/$20 for p&h. Rd., London N4 1EE; & ZIBF, 12 Selous Ave, Harare. National Sporting Fraternity (PO Box 5385, Clinton, NJ 08809- 0385) and Amwell Press (same address) have issued several LITERATURE ON TIIE BOOK TRADE illustrated titles about hunting in Africa. St.John, Warren, “Vanity’s Fare,"Lingua franca, Sept/Oct 1993, p. BOOK AW ARDS 1, 22-25 & 62. Describes editorial practices (little or none) and profit-maximizing procedures (low costs, high prices and a new 1993 Noma Award winner: Wally Serotse for his poem Third university) at Edwin Mellen Press. World Express (Cape Town, David Philip, 1992). Special Commendation: Building Whole Communities (Harare: AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 11 OCTOBER 1993 NEW SPAPERS SERIAL CHANGES La Marché du continent. Weekly newspaper from Dakar. Nouv. Accessions List: Eastern Africa, issued by the Library of Congress ser., no. 16 = 16 juillet 1993. Office, Nairobi, has become Accessions List: Eastern and Southern Africa with the 1993 issues. TITRA “Le Journal des Journaux Africains” is the new name for Libertitres. It reprints selected articles from the press of both Bibliotheka (Swakopmund, Namibia) has ceased, per ARGO Pub­ francophone and now anglophone Africa. It began in April 1991. lications (Johannesburg). Subscription for 10 issues of about 20 pages per year: 300FF in Europe; 350FF elsewhere. Address: 12, rue Gilodes, 34080 Eritrean Newsletter (Toronto) ceased with no. 20 (1990?). Montpellier, France. Tel: 67953229; fax 67523911. LIBERIAN NEWSPAPERS acquired by Michigan State: NEW SERIALS « Eye, v. 3:42 (Aug. 16,1993) & 52-60 (Sept 7-24,1993) • First National Poll, 2:4 (Sept 13,1993) American-Somali Council Report. 1 (Spring 1993)+. Available • Human Rights Review, 1:7 (Sept 23-30) from: The American Somali Council, 1129 29th St., Washington, • Humanitas, 1:3 (Sept 1993) * Inquirer, June 28,1993 (3:105)... DC 20036. Sept. 24,1993 • Monrovia Daily News, June 28, 1993 ... Sept. 24,1993 Banques dAfrique is a new quarterly, starting with June 1993, « The News, May 10, July 27-28, Sept 6-22,1993 costing 80 FF. Address: 6 bis rue du Viscos, 65000 Tarbes, France. Southern African Weekly is a new tabloid to be issued by SAPES The Humanitarian Monitor, no. 1 (June 1993). A quarterly review Trust, PO Box MP 111, Mount Pleasant, Harare. of humanitarian issues in the Horn of Africa. The first 30-page issue focuses on Somalia. Single issues are $3. Contact InterAfrica Group, PO Box 1631, Addis Ababa. 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ILO Publications (International Labour Office, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland) offers videos, including the following: Somalia-News-Update is available on gopher. • “Community Action for Disabled People.” 32 min. VHS PAL video; $40. • “Images of the gender role in two ILO Projects.” 29 min. VHD- PAL video; $40. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 12 OCTOBER 1993 SELECTED NEW BOOKS Asongwed, Tah. Born to Rule. Abidjan: Heritage Publishing Company, 1993? 228p. ISBN 093643908. Satire by a linguist and This section is generally limited to titles outside the regular book interpreter. $17.95 plus $2.50 from Three Dimensional Publishing, trade, or titles received by the editor. Many more titles and/or Inc., 1015 Stirling Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20901. Tel./fax: 301- details on publisher addresses can be found in Joint Acquisitions List 593-6450. ofAfricana (6 issues per year available for $50 from Northwestern University Library), The African Book Publishing Record (Hans Zell Melo, A. Borges de. Historia da imprensa de Angola. Rio de Publishers), American Book Publishing Record (Bowker), Janeiro: Semana Ilustrada, 1993. 235p. Available from: Accessions List: Eastern Africa (Library of Congress Office, Mundinter Empreendimentos Ltda., Nairobi), or in one o f the current national bibliographies. av. das americas, 3939 - loja d, condominio esplanada da barra, Affirmative Action for Women in Local Government in Namibia, 22631-003 barra da jijuca, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. produced by the Gender Research Project of the Legal Assistance Centre. Address: PO Box 604, Windhoek, Namibia. Moleah, Alfred Tokollo. South Africa: Colonialism, Apartheid and African Dispossesion. Wilmington, DE [2307 Kennwynn Rd, Ambrose, David. Maseru: An Illustrated History. Morija: Morija 19810]: Disa Press, 1993. 341p. ISBN 0913255009 ($40) and Museum & Archives, 1993. ISBN 9991179356. Price outside 0913255017 (paper, $20). southern Africa: M75 or US$45 or £25. Address: PO Box 12, Morija 190, Lesotho. Ojo-Igbinoba, M.E. The Practice of Conservation of Library Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa. Bloomington, IN [221 Woodbum Arid Zone Hydrology and Water Resources: Paperspresented at the Hall, 47405]: African Studies Program, 1993. $7. international conference held at the University o f Maiduguri, September 23-26,1985, edited by N.M.Gadzamaetal. Maiduguri: Tadesse, Kiflu. The Generation: The History o f Ethiopian People’s University of Maiduguri Press, 1993. 527p. Includes 33 of the 38 Revolutionary Party. Silver Spring, MD: Independent Publishers; papers presented. Price: $100 for soft- and $150 for hard-cover. distributed by K & S Distributors (PO Box 943, Silver Spring, MD Checks should be payable to The Bursar, University of Maiduguri; 20910) and Red Sea Press, 1993. 266p. $15.85. and sent to Senate Publications Committee, University of Maiduguri Press, P.M.B. 1069, Maiduguri, Nigeria. Their May 1993 price list includes 86 items. Non-Profit Org. 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