AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER No. 77, January 1994 ISSN 0148-7868 Africana L ibraries N ew sletter (ALN) is published quarterly by the Michigan State Univer­ sity Libraries and the M SU African Studies Center. Those copying contents are asked to cite AL N as their source. A L N is produced to support the work o f the Africana Librarians Council TABLE OF CONTENTS (ALC) of the African Studies Association. It carries the meeting minutes of ALC, CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microform Project) and other relevant groups. It also reports other Editor’s Comments items o f interest to Africana librarians and those concerned about information resources Acronyms about or in Africa. Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana Library, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. ALC/CAMP N E W S .....................................................2 Tel.: 517-355-2366; E-mail: 20676jjl@ m su.edu; Fax: 517-336-1445. Calendar of Future Meetings Deadline for no. 78: March 15, 1994; for no. 79: July 1, 1994. ALC/CAMP Meetings in Durham, NC ALC Meeting in Boston (Dec. 1994) Business Meeting Minutes EDITOR’S COMMENTS Pre-Bus. Mtg. Executive Board Meeting Cataloging Committee Meeting Minutes News about the ALC meeting in Boston fills this issue, even without the CAMP Bibliography Committee Meeting Minutes minutes which were not yet available. Noteworthy developments include: an Post-Bus. Mtg. Executive Board Meeting overdue “retirement” presentation to Doris Hull; interest shown in filling gaps Afrocentrism & the Library Research Process in newspapers already filmed; a CAMP meeting that moved with remarkable Recent Member Publications efficiency; some new faces; and another year of ALN for this editor. ALC Executive Board, 1993-94 David Leishman made a special plea that we drop his old address (The Rise) Address Changes and replace it with: 2B Westgate, Southwell Notts, NG25 OJH UK. Newspapers for Cooperative Project A special thanks to Ruth Thomas for correcting errors in my Amharic records. And to another LC staffer who explained that L C ’s switch to Cote d ’Ivoire OTHER N E W S...........................................................10 (about 7 years after Abidjan undertook teaching English to the anglophones) News from other Associations followed a recent State Department change. Calendar My most enjoyable panel: Listening to Warren d ’Azevedo practice the art of ACRL “undermining shibboleths” (his words) upon those who came to praise him. ALA/USIA Library Fellows Program Least enjoyable experience: listening to reports and discussions about events Images of Africa Conference in Somalia and Liberia. Pan-African Children’s Book Fair Once again, this issue would not have been possible without contributions Free Materials Offered & Requested from many sources. Contributors include: Helene Baumann, Phyllis Bischof, Resources at Libraries and Research Centers - continued onp.9 Grants Personnel Notes RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES..................................11 ACRONYM S Books & Documents Journals & Articles ACRL - Associa iioi/bfC|llegCp Research Libraries (ALA) A IA - Amarkan Library ^ s w ìa if e REFERENCE SOURCES..........................................12 :A LÉp|4Î!Ffcéiâai& ^ Notes {foriHerly Archi ves-Libra ries Committee) o f ASA f§ § |j|| New Reference Titles ASA* African Studies A s^ ia ïiio (ILS.) CAMP - Cooperative Africana Microform g ||p f (CRL) NOTES ON MATERIALS AND V END O RS....... 13 Vendor Announcements If Book Awards (Herskovits & ASA Text) Online Files IH • Library of Congress MELA-Middle East Librarians Association Serial Changes M SU « M ichigan S ta te U niversity SCOLMA « Standing Coni'. on Library M aterials oil Africa B. - University UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 2 JANUARY 1994 AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL/CAMP NEWS CALENDAR OF FUTURE MEETINGS Wisconsin), David Hogarth (Hogarth), John Bruce Howell (U. of Iowa), A1 Kagan (U. of Illinois), Mary Alice Kraehe(U. of Virginia), April 15-16,1994, Durham, NC - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting Joseph Lauer (Michigan State U.), ADH Leishman (Leishman & November 3-6,1994, Toronto - ASA Annual Meeting Taussig), Robert W. Lesh (Northwestern U.), Margaret Ling (Zim­ Spring 1995, Evanston, IL - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting babwe International Book Fair), Helen MacLam (CHOICE Maga­ November (1st week) 1995, Orlando - ASA Annual Meeting zine), Peter Malanchuk(U. of Florida), Judy McDermott (LC), Razia Fall 1996, Portland or Bay area - ASA Annual Meeting Nanji (University of Florida), Thokozile Nkabinde (Manzini Fall 1997, Norfolk - ASA Annual Meeting Swaziland), Pat Ogedengbe (Northwestern University), Hans Fall 1998, Midwest site - ASA Annual Meeting Panofsky, Elizabeth Plantz (Northwestern U.), Nancy Schmidt (In­ diana U.), Mette Shayne (Northwestern U.), Denise M. Shorey ALC/CAMP MEETINGS IN DURHAM, NC (Princeton University), Françoise Sorieul (Centre Sahel), Andrea Stamm (Northwestern U.), Ruth Thomas (LC, Nairobi Office), Provisional Schedule of meetings Heather Thorpe (Hogarth), Dorothy Washington (Schomburg Cen­ Friday, April 15: ter, NY Public Library), Thomas Weissinger (Cornell U.), David 8:30-12:30......... Cooperative Cataloging Workshop (See below) Westley (Boston U.), Dawn Williams (Northwestern U.), and 10:00-12:00....... Conover-Porter Award Committee Meeting Meseratch Zecharias (Syracuse U.). 1:30- 3:00...........Bibliography Committee Meeting 3:15- 4:45...........Cataloging Committee Meeting Following general introductions, a presentation was made to Doris 6 :0 0 -.................. Reception & dinner M. Hull in honor of her retirement from Howard University. She is Saturday, April 16: now working for the West African Research Association (WARA) 8:30- 9:15...........ALC Executive Board Meeting and we look forward to her continued involvement in African studies. 9:30-12:00......... ALC Business Meeting 1:30- 3:30.......... CAMP Business Meeting C hains Report Following the spring meeting she appointed liai­ 3:30- 4:30.......... CAMP Executive Committee sons to ALA’s Black Caucus, to ALA’s Asian and African Section, and to the Zimbabwe International Book Fair. She wrote to Winston Rooms for $48 or $54 (double) reserved at Brownstone Med Center Tabb to express the group’s continued support for an LC West Inn (1-800-367-0293). Other lodging: $38 & $42at Cricket Inn Duke African Office. She has also written letters of support for Title II and (919-286-3111); $44 & $54 at Best Western University Inn (919- VI funding for libraries. In addition, she has helped to develop a 286-4421). proposal for a joint acquisitions trip to Senegal from Title VI centers. The Cooperative Cataloging Workshop, for catalogers interested Tom Weissinger can no longer be chair of the Strategic Planning in expanding the scope of cooperative cataloging with LC, has a Committee. separate registration deadline of February 28. (Send names and Schmidt requested that the committee meet and choose a new addresses to Baumann at address below.) This workshop will be chair. taught by LC personnel. It will establish the parameters of coopera­ Schmidt thanked Finnegan for sending out all the e-mail messages tive cataloging for the submission of new and enhanced subject to the group. He responded by saying that if anyone is not currently authority records and classification proposals to the Library of receiving messages via e-mail, but would like to, please contact him. Congress. Future developments will be a major topic of discussion. The focus will be on Africana materials, but participation is not Elections limited to Africana catalogers. The workshop isintended forNACO- Elections were held for a new Chair Elect and two new members-at- participating institutions, but alternative means of contribution large. Greg Finnegan was elected Chair Elect and Joseph Caruso and could be found for catalogers from other institutions. There is no fee. Razia Nanji were elected members-at-large. Many thanks to the Further information available from Helene S. Baumann, Perkins Nominations Committee and all those who agreed to run. Library Box 90195, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708. Tel.: 919- 660-5847; hsb@mail.lib.duke.edu. ALC Meetings at ASA in Toronto The group decided to again hold our meetings a day early in Toronto although two of our members are now on the African Studies AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL Association (ASA) Board and will not be able to attend. BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES It was also decided that instead of holding a separate Conover- Westin Hotel, Boston, MA, Dec. 3,1993, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Porter Award reception, we would like to join in a general reception for all ASA award presentations. It was felt that this would provide The meeting was called to order by Nancy Schmidt, Chair. greater visibility for the award as well as for ALC. The Chair will discuss this with the ASA Board on December 7th. Present were: Fr. Peter Bakka (Catholic U.), Helene Baumann (Duke U.), Ruby Bell-Gam (U. of California, Los Angeles), Phyllis ALC Spring Meeting 1994 Bischof (U. of California, Berkeley), Dan Britz (Northwestern U.), Baumann presented information on the spring meeting to be held at Joseph Caruso (Columbia U.), Moore Crossey (Yale U.), Henrietta Duke University. The meetings will take place Friday-Saturday, Dax (Clarke’s Bookshop), David Easterbrook (Northwestern U.), April 15-16,1994, and will include a special session on cooperative Kay Elsässer (LC), Onuma Ezera (Michigan State U.), Gregory cataloging led by personnel from the Library of Congress. If anyone Finnegan (Dartmouth College), Karen Fung (Stanford), Carla Ghezzi needs more information about hotels, etc., please contact her. (Instituto Italo-Africano), Beverly Gray (LC), David Henige (U. of AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 3 JANUARY 1994 Editorship of A L N It was noted that Books for the World is having funding problems Schmidt reported on the failure to find a new editor or co-editors for and is no longer a promising source at this time. the Africana Libraries Newsletter (ALN). Lauer has generously agreed to continue as editor for one more year. If anyone is interested ALC Linkages with African Librarians in editing or co-editing please contact Lauer or Kagan. The Strategic Schmidt has written recently to 49 library associations in Africa Planning Committee was charged to develop a formal procedure for introducing ALC and inviting them to exchange newsletters and recruiting the editor of ALN. other information with ALC. She will pass on any responses she receives to the appropriate person and report on the responses at the 40th Anniversary Committee Report spring meeting. Malanchuk, co-chair of the committee, reported on the evolving plans for an ALC 40th Anniversary Conference. Gray has said that ARL Foreign Acquisitions Project LC is willing to host such an event. If it is decided to hold it at LC, Easterbrook reported on the activities of the Association of Research we will need to think of a way to link the anniversary with the regular Libraries (ARL) TaskForce. As previously noted, they met in Seattle Fall meeting of AS A. TheChair will discuss thiswith the ASABoard to outline a work plan in response to the overall ARL foreign on December 7th. In discussing how to bring people from overseas, acquisitions project and in East Lansing to discuss progress on the it was noted that having them come for an ASA meeting might prove report. Their report outlines the topics ARL wanted addressed: to be more expensive as we would need to pay for a longer stay in a namely, introduction and background, current state of collections, hotel. If ASA were to help pay for someone, they would probably only impact of technology, recommendations, and appendices. They used provide funding for one person and then only for the regular fall Nigeria and Senegal as examples whenever possible but did not limit meeting. Several other possibilities for funding were mentioned: themselves to solely discussing these two countries. Of the 9 area United States Information Agency, Agency for International Devel­ studies task forces also working on this project, only three have been opment, ALA, and the Ford Foundation. The Reed Foundation was completed, Japan, Mexico and Western Europe. All task force mentioned as a possibility but it was noted that the conference would reports should be submitted over the next several months. Final have to have some connection to diaspora studies. The African revisions and additions for the Africana report are currently under­ Archives and Museums Project (SSRC) would be a possibility if way. Due to the size of the report, it is the Task Force’s intention to archives were included. Operation Crossroads Africa is not bringing send copies only to those who actively participated or submitted people to this country at this time but may start in 1994. Members information to the Task Force and to those who specifically request of ALC were asked at the Spring meeting to find out if their a copy. If anyone would like a copy, they should contact David. institutions could sponsor an African librarian who could attend the conference. So far there are positive responses from Indiana, the LC Nairobi Office Mortenson Center at the University of Illinois Library and UCLA. Ruth Thomas reported on the activities of the Nairobi Office for At the end of the discussion it was decided to hold the anniversary fiscal year 1993. She noted that acquisitions are up with a total of 14 conference at LC in the spring of 1997. Possible themes or topics for trips to 15 countries. These trips included a trip to Morogoro, a program were discussed. The Committee presented a very general Tanzania where publications were acquired from Sokoine Univer­ theme of “Researching Africa : Dynamics of Information.” It was sity of Agriculture and to Dodoma, the remotely located, undevel­ noted that we need to create a program which includes African oped capital of Tanzania. A visit was also made to the French island librarians and can be of explicit benefit to them. Asking for input of Mayotte, the first since 1991. The trip to the Zimbabwe Book Fair from African librarians was suggested. It was decided to delay was the outstanding acquisition event of the year. A23rd country has further discussion on a theme until the spring meeting. The Commit­ been added to their list and LC now has a representative based in tee will develop some more specific topics in the meantime. Anyone Asmara, Eritrea. The collection of somewhat rare Somali newspa­ who has any ideas should contact the co-chairs, Malanchuk and pers has continued throughout the year, with a total of 2,990 issues Schmidt. acquired as of Sept. 30, 1993. These are being microfiched along with specially collected reports on current work in Somalia which Training of Future Africana Librarians have been produced by non-governmental and UN organizations. Schmidt reported that efforts by Walsh to contact Simmons College The Nairobi Office monographic cataloging operations have been Library School students interested in meeting members of ALC had under evaluation by LC-Washington DC staff since January 1992. been unsuccessful. She also reported that Indiana University’s This was concluded in September 1993. Independence of Washing­ Library School is setting up a new program for a joint masters degree ton review has been granted for all English and vernacular mono­ in library science and area studies, including Africa. graphs with already established monograph series. The Office is producing its accessions list inhouse instead of the Karachi Office. ASA Book Donation Project It has published six issues of its bi-monthly Accession List and five Prior to this meeting there had been no request for funds from the issues of the Quarterly Index to Periodical Literature. In FY93 thirty ASA endowment grant for book donation projects. Malanchuk noted institutions were enrolled in the participant libraries program of the that he had just sent one in. Nairobi Office. Walsh would like people to send her information on book donation projects they have been involved in over the past two years. She LC Budget and Participant Plan hopes to revise her handbook/directory (ASANews, April/June 1992) Judy McDermott reported on the very serious budgetary problems and would like to include information about projects that have been being experienced at LC. LC is making every attempt to just save undertaken. what they have and a new cooperative spirit is being developed in Dorothy Washington reported on a book lift for Ghana that order to maximize funds. They anticipate aving a flat budget for included a number of books on African American studies. fiscal year ’94 which translates into a 5 percent budget cut given A survey of African embassies that will facilitate book donations inflation. They believe this situation will last at least another 5 years prepared by Pat Ogedengbe was distributed. or until the end of the century. There will be a reduction in FTE by AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 4 JANUARY 1994 ’95 which is part of a larger federal government decrease. Through publishers in their attempts to more widely distribute their publica­ a program of “buyouts” and early retirements, LC has already lost tions outside Africa. 200+ positions. On a positive note it is anticipated that a Chief for the African and Middle East Division will be hired soon. The I FLA Report overseas offices will have a $200,000 reduction that will be spread Kagan reported on the IFLA meeting in Barcelona. Of particular over all of them. Operations in Bangkok are being phased out and interest was the report of the IFLA Mission to South Africa (available all offices will experience reductions in travel. They will stop form IFLA, POB 95312, 2509 CH The Hague, Netherlands, fax: publishing the accessions lists except for Africa and South Asia. 31(70)3834827). The report recommends that IFLA should assist These two will be continued for another six months while other the processes of change in library and information service in South options are considered. Items cataloged in the overseas offices are Africa, assist professional organizations in their research projects, being directly uploaded to the LC database. In this way, a biblio­ including TRANSLIS (Transforming Our Library and Information graphic record for an ite m , which formerly appeared in the Acces­ Service), recognize the strengths of existing professional organiza­ sions List long before its final catalog record appeared anywhere tions and act as a facilitator between them, and assist in staffing online, will now be available sooner electronically. development aimed at redressing past imbalances between popula­ No money has been requested for the West Africa Office for fiscal tion groups. Several general recommendations include the develop­ year ’95. Given the budgetary situation, LC felt that the money was ment of a strategic national plan and a legal framework, hiring based needed elsewhere. They still have the West Africa data and are on potential rather than strictly based on qualifications, increasing working on finding representatives to work in the various regions. the quantity and scope of continuing education, and encouraging Support for an office is still strong and it is hoped that they can try SAILIS (South African Institute for Library and Information Science) and propose something for ’96. to promote unity between groups by intensifying confidence building She also reported on the new participant billing system that is measures and internal restructuring. The Report also calls for a coming very soon. All participants will receive a handout and a letter comprehensive review in 3 years time. of explanation soon. The new billing procedures are based on cost Kagan also noted that a paper of particular interest to our group recovery of services. At this point they don’t know what the was presented by Lilia Vazquez entitled “Online access to United differences in costs will be to participants. A dummy bill will be Nations information system information.” It is available from IFLA generated of the last bill that will show the difference with explana­ or directly for the author, e-mail: liliav@nygate.undp.org. IFLA is tions. planning a training seminar on government information sources for anglophone Africa in Harare, November 1994. Also of interest, the Zimbabwe International Book Fair newsletter of the IFLA Regional Section on Africa is available form Margaret Ling, Managing Director of the Zimbabwe International the Africa Regional Office, Bibliothèque de l ’Université Cheikh Book Fair (ZIBF), thanked Schmidt and Walsh (ALC’s liaison to Anta Diop de Dakar, B.P. 2006, Dakar, Senegal, fax: (221)242379. ZIBF) for all their help and advice. ZIBF ’93 was very successful with 170 exhibitors. The ’94 Fair will have a science and technology SABINET theme. They are hoping to have an international symposium on Caruso has done some preliminary investigations of SABINET science publishing and technology transfer, and a training workshop (South African Bibliographic and Information Network) and reports for African publishers on rights and licenses. The British govern­ that it looks like a very promising resource. It provides access to the ment is planning to sponsor a trade mission for publishers at the same databases of over 300 institutions in South Africa, Botswana and time. Walsh, in a report prepared for this meeting, stated that she Namibia, including special collections. A question was raised believes that the ALC should give some thought to ways ZIBF can regarding reports of problems of access to SABINET in South Africa benefit us as maj or book customers. Is there some way that ZIBF can by historically black institutions. Selwyn Singer, a representative of address some of the infrastructure problems of the African book SABINET at the meeting, noted that he was unaware of any such trade? Perhaps part of its international activities could be awareness problems, but would look into it and report back as soon as possible. and ordering mechanisms for overseas libraries? Library of Congress Report Draft Statement on African Books Collective Gray reported that the new representatives from West Africa had Easterbrook and Kagan presented a statement expressing support for been brought to LC for training. While publishing in much of the area the activities of the African Books Collective (ABC). A motion to has been adversely affected by such things as inflation, political endorse the following statement passed overwhelmingly: conditions and mailing costs, acquisitions were up in Nigeria. LC hopes to have similar results in other countries as the representatives The Africana Librarians Council expresses its support for all become more productive. efforts that strengthen publishing in Africa by African-owned pub­ She reported that Michael Grunberger, head, Hebraic Section, lishers. Support is also expressed for those donor agencies who, African and Middle Eastern Division, has succeeded her as the working through the Bellagio Group, work to strengthen the ongoing Division’s acting chief. The section heads have been serving on a development and expansion of publishing in Africa. In particular, rotating basis until a chief is named. The Africa Section is now support is expressed for the African Books Collective, a cooperative functioning with a staff of 3-4 librarians and one library technician. owned by its member publishers, a majority of which are not-for- Thokozile Nkabinde, a librarian from South Africa, joined the staff profit. The African Books Collective distributes select imprints of for a 3 month period, beginning in September, under the auspices of its member publishers outside Africa. The focus of its publicity, Africare’s South Africa Career Development Internship Program. sales and distribution efforts are on a wide range of libraries, The Section continues to participate in Worldnet, USIA’s TV academic and public, and the resulting hard currency earnings have network. For example, Joanne Zellers recently addressed the Ghana been reinvested in individual publishers’ well being in the form of Library Association, and she took part in a USLA program for added equipment, personnel and publications. The African Books Southern African librarians. There has been a marked growth in Collective offers a creative solution to the problems faced by African activity through the Internet where the LC catalog and other files, AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 5 JANUARY 1994 such as the GENBIB files maintained by the Division, are now available through LC.MARVEL(the menu-driven GOPHER system 4. The Chair’s report to the ASA Board on December 4,1993 was at LC). reviewed. It was decided not to bring up the problems of finding Due to current budgetary constraints, they are placing subscrip­ new Africana librarians. Kagan stressed the need for ALC to attract tions only to a limited number of journals, i.e., those ranked “high” librarians who are part-time Africana selectors or who have on a high, medium and low priority scale. They can, however, still responsibilities for African-American or diaspora studies collec­ request any titles to be obtained by gift, exchange, copyright and from tions. The possibility of requesting funding for the 40th Anniver­ the field offices. The Library will soon begin reviewing foreign sary meeting was discussed. It was noted that if the meeting is held newspapers and foreign serials filmed by the LC Photoduplication apart for the annual ASA meeting, there would no hope for Service. This review is necessitated by the increasing costs to financial support from ASA. Schmidt also mentioned that only the acquire, to microfilm and to collate these papers. Herskovits award would be awarded at the ASA banquet and that The budget for international mail has been reduced, and, as a a suggestion had been made at the spring ASA board meeting to consequence, international borrowing has been restricted due to high hold one reception for all other awards. The Conover-Porter Award costs. The Loan Division must restrict the number of items on loan could be presented at such a reception. It was decided to bring this to individual institutions to 10 items at a time. In addition, they can before the ALC. The problems of government publications depart­ no longer provide complimentary photocopy service for international ments being merged into reference departments and a progress borrowers. report on the LC West Africa office were also noted as possible The revised and updated 1993 edition of Newspapers Received topics to be presented to the Board. Currently in the Library of Congress is now available. The Federal Research Division has issued area handbooks for Somalia and 5. Kagan discussed the recent controversy over the selection of Ethiopia in 1993 and plans to issue them for Ghana, South Africa and panels and papers for the 1993 ASA meeting. He noted that these Zaire in 1994. problems would not affect panel or programs proposed by ALC. Institution Reports, etc. 6. The business meeting agenda was reviewed. Malanchuk reported that th qJournal of Peace and Human Rights is coming out soon. — E lizabeth J . P lantz All other reports were postponed until the spring meeting. — Elizabeth J. Plantz (Secretary) CATALOGING COMMITTEE MINUTES December 3,1993,10:00-11:30 a.m. PRE-BUSINESS MEETING Present: Bakka, Bell-Gam, Bischof, Caruso, Dax, Easterbrook, EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING MINUTES Elsasser, Evalds (Philadelphia), Fung, Gray, Howell, Kagan, Friday, December 5,1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Kraehe, Lauer, Lesh, Malanchuk, McDermott, Meseratch Zecharias, Nanji, Nkabinde, Roslyn Pedlar (Boston Univ.), Plantz, Schmidt, The meeting was called to order by Nancy Schmidt, Chair. Present Shayne, Sorieul, Stamm, Thomas. were: Lesh, Baumann, Lauer, Kagan, Bell-Gam, Gray, Schmidt, The meeting was called to order by Robert Lesh, Committee chair. Ezera, and Plantz. 1 . The minutes of the April 30th East Lansing meeting were 1. Schmidt brought before the Executive Board the problems approved as they appeared in ALN [no. 75, p. 6-7]. encountered by the Nominations Committee in finding members of the Council willing to run for office. While everyone is feeling 2. Old business: “stretched” these days, it was noted that we all need to think about a. Language codes in LCSH authority records for African lan­ supporting the ALC because it is through our collective efforts that guages: Rebecca Gunther (LC) indicated to Elsasser that LC is not much important work in our field has been accomplished over the in favor of adding language codes to LCSH authority records for years. African languages. The proposal had been forwarded to MARBI, which is not in favor of it either. Clarification is to be sought from 2. The problem of finding a new editor for ALN was also discussed. Sally McCallum (LC) and MARBI regarding L C ’s and MARBI’s After reviewing the multitude of steps she followed in the search opinions on this matter. for an editor or co-editors, the Board prevailed upon Lauer to continue in his present capacity as editor for one more year. It was b. African languages survey: Lesh distributed the final draft of generally agreed the ALN needed to be continued as it is an the survey for the Committee’s approval, noting the changes made important means of communication for our group to the “outside since our last meeting and that suggestions for improvement were world.” It was decided that the problems of finding an editor for taken into account. Schmidt pointed out a couple of errors in ALN would be brought to the Strategic Planning Committee for information pertaining to Indiana University; Lesh responded that discussion. he will send out an errata and asked for any other corrections, suggesting they could be sent to him later. The Committee 3. Schmidt reported that Tom Weissinger could no longer be head accepted the final draft. of the Strategic Planning Committee formed at the Spring meeting. It was decided to ask the committee to meet and choose their own c. Enhancement of LC authority records for African lan­ chair. guages: Elsasser spoke with Ann Della Porta (LC ’s Cooperative Cataloging Team) who said this sort of thing is fine, as LC is happy AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 6 JANUARY 1994 to have this enhancement done. Elsasser reported that it will be a other lesser-known languages who could be consulted by catalog­ month or so before the records already completed will be input. e d . CC: AAM will sponsor the Asian/African Section program for She also specified it is preferred that we type or use a computer children’s literature for the Middle East and Africa at ALA. LC has rather than handwrite the enhancements, which should then be supported the creation of some new African language codes; attached to a copy of the original record. Plantz said that she would approximately six new ones were approved. The Middle Eastern like a more detailed explanation and guidelines of how to create Librarian’s Association had hopes for an Arabic name authorities these enhancements. Elsasser said that someone from Cooperative workshop; plans have been scrapped. Cataloging would come to our next meeting to clarify instructions and talk about the future of Cooperative Cataloging, reference Bell-Gam reported on the second meeting. She first expanded sources to use, etc. Cooperative Cataloging is anxious to expand on Louise Leonard’s directory, saying there is talk of this being in the pool of libraries which participate in cooperative cataloging the form of an electronic bulletin board as well as a hard copy ventures in many ways. version. The concept has moved from a small list of languages to a broader scope, since CC: AAM also deals with Asian languages. d. DDC proposal: Lesh distributed a letter that was sent in August Leonard would like to eventually present the idea to our group. A with a proposal for changes to DDC schedules for Islam and consultant’s service might evolve from this directory. A proposal African languages to Julianne Beall, Assistant Editor of the Deci­ is in the works to develop new headings for Thai musical instru­ mal Classification at LC. Stamm reported that no action has been ments. We might want to develop a proposal for Africana musical taken yet regarding the proposed changes; they will be up for instruments in the future. CC:AAM goals will be to continue review in May of ’94; the changes will not be published in DDC working on romanization tables and support DDC expansion and until 1996. Plantz mentioned that she participated in two confer­ revision, as well as the directory of language experts. There is a ence calls with Decimal Classification Division staff and the proposal to invite representatives of OCLC and RLG to come Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC: AAM) regularly to CC:AAM meetings; the chair of CC:AAM will write a subcommittee to review DDC 297, most members of which spe­ formal letter to the two organizations. cialize in Middle Eastern and Islamic materials. More suggestions have come in since then, and DDC 297 has been greatly improved. 4. LC report on its reorganization of cataloging: Elsasser reported that, eighteen months after the reorganization, people are adjusting e. Cataloging Committee Archives update: Lesh noted that at to the physical move, working with new people, etc. The process the last meeting he informed the Committee that he was organizing has been eventful, and things are settling down and working the minutes of our meetings, correspondence, documents, and all smoothly at this point. It is thought that the reorganization will other papers into a Committee Archives. He asked members to contribute greatly to increased efficiency and will ensure much contribute any material they might have, especially things dated better care is taken of material. before 1990. Dorothy Niekamp was able to send him a good deal There are now four cataloging divisions: History/Literature, of material, and he would welcome mailings from anyone else. He Arts/Sciences, Social Sciences, Regional and Cooperative Cata­ also mentioned that he had heard some members of the committee loging. Cataloging of field office materials and cooperative had examined Betsy W idenmann’s papers. Caruso mentioned a cataloging have been combined under the Regional and Coopera­ relative had thrown some of them away, but it is not known what tive Cataloging Division. There is a push to expand cooperative exactly was lost. cataloging as well as NACO contributions and subject, classifica­ tion and bibliographic contributions. In July, LC began working f. DT classification schedule: Elsasser said she had talked to the with the Machine Assisted Virtual Library (called LC Marvel), Cooperative Cataloging teams again about this issue; some confu­ which is available through the Internet. This can be used to dial up sion exists as to what we want. Do we wish to scrap the entire LC catalogs, find out about L C ’s services, and contribute authority schedule, or revise what exists? It is possible that it could be or bibliographic headings to LC. There is also a phone tutorial so expanded easily through Cooperative Cataloging. Since the Li­ one can be walked through the procedure. Interested parties may brary is very short of funds, it could be a problem if the desire is to contact Judy Henderson for a walk-through. get rid of large chunks of the schedule; however, a smaller revision would be okay. Lesh said we would probably just want to enhance 5. Cooperative Cataloging & LC: The Committee decided a what is there. Gray pointed out that in the past we thought we letter should be sent to Sarah Thomas, expressing our interest in an should get some feedback regarding this issue from some African area studies cooperative workshop at the spring meeting. library associations. Lesh volunteered to contact a number of them. Elsasser mentioned the existence of a D “model,” an outline we 6. Searching NOTIS at Northwestern University by geographic need to follow of w hat’s required in the schedule; she suggested area code and language code: Stamm explained how to search for someone write to Mark Zomec at the Cataloging Policy and titles in NOTIS online union catalogs by geographic area code and Support office to obtain the documentation. Lesh offered to do so language code using keyword access. and will send it to Caruso, who expressed an interest in working on this. Elsasser said that if we define specifically what needs to be 7. Use of Africa (f--------- ) and Africa, Sub-Saharan (fb------ ) in worked on, w e’ll get more positive results. LCSH and geographic area codes: Lauer proposed that the group do something toward eliminating the distinction between Africa 3. ALA report: and Africa, Sub-Saharan in both the language codes and subject Stamm reported on the first of two meetings of the Committee on classification. [SeeALV, Oct. 1993, p. 9.] Many people searching Cataloging: Asian and African Materials that were held at ALA for materials do not always recognize the distinction, and many Midwinter. She explained that Louise Leonard of the University catalogers have incorrectly made (and sometimes not made) the of Florida distributed a memo regarding the creation of a directory distinction in cataloging. Some members of the Committee agreed of librarians and others who possess knowledge of African and with Joe; others did not. The point was made, for example, that if AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 7 JANUARY 1994 the GAC and subject heading for Sub-Saharan Africa were elimi­ and international documents collections and of the quality of nated, a great number of records would have just the GAC and general reference service as well. subject heading for Africa in them. The issue will be revisited at Discussion touched both on general trends and principles and on our next meeting; Lesh will refer the matter to the CC:AAM in a the experiences of specific libraries (Brigham Young, U. of CT, UC letter and see what its response is. San Diego) where such integration has taken place. The sense of the meeting, however, was that the statement as drafted was too 8. Time period subdivisions for LCSH for African countries: Lesh specific (not, for example, differentiating forms of organization distributed a letter written to Sarah Thomas advocating the expan­ from necessary functions). Since approval of the draft letter would sion of time periods for African countries in LCSH, as suggested have to be voted at the Business Meeting just after this meeting, previously by the Committee. and would have to be distributed in written form at that meeting, no immediate action could be taken. The sense of the meeting was 9. Announcements: Stamm announced that the grant proposal to that a refined draft be distributed to the membership via electronic fund the indexing of Africana conference papers is being resubmitted mail. to the Department of Education and will hopefully be in the mail within the next few days. There is still no keyword searching 5 . ARL Project on South African acquisitions: Schmidt re­ available in the conference paper file in NOTIS at Northwestern, ported a request by Jutta Reed-Scott, dated 23 July, that we do a but it will be available soon. report on this topic. Discussion raised several points: why was “South” Africa rather than “Southern” Africa the focus? If the The meeting was adjourned at 11:30. previous ARL reports dealt with areas of the world known to present acquisitions problems, would this report not be a lot of — D awn Williams work to demonstrate that materials were being acquired? Lastly, it was noted that ARL had not asked us, as specialists, whether we thought such a report would be valuable; they merely asked us if we BIBLIOGRAPHY COMMITTEE MINUTES would undertake it. The sense of the meeting was to politely December 3 ,1993,11:30 a.m .-l:00 p.m. decline. This proposal is distinct from the working group chaired by David Easterbrook, who will report at the Business Meeting; The meeting was called to order at 11:42 by the Chair, Helene that group, in any case, will formulate our sense of what should or Baumann. could be done, for transmission to ARL. Present [in addition to those listed above as attending the Business Meeting]: Vicki Evalds (Philadelphia), Mary Jay (Afri­ 6. Cooperative Projects: The Chair proposed a task force to can Books Collective), Roslyn Pedlar (Boston U.), Janet Stanley prepare lists of options and priorities for consideration at the (National Museum of African Art), Gretchen Walsh (Boston U.), Spring meeting at Duke. The meeting endorsed the proposal; Dorothy Woodson (SUNY-Buffalo) and Hans Zell (Hans Zell Baumann, Schmidt, and Finnegan will prepare the drafts. Topics Publishers). will include existing arrangements and strengths, with particular attention paid to institutions not usually represented at ALC 1. Announcements: Zell invited those present to the NOMA meetings. Revitalization of the ‘newspaper,’ ‘small-country,’ and Award presentation and reception. The Roundtable on African ‘expensive purchase’ projects will be considered. Schmidt noted Publishing, chaired by Zell, has been rescheduled for Sunday at 11- that details of the CIC initiative in this area will be available in the 1. to avoid conflict with the ALC-sponsored panel. Spring. 2. Correction to Minutes: There is a mistake in the published 7. Institutional Reports: minutes of the Spring Meeting at Michigan State (ALN , July 1993, Library of Congress: Gray reported great growth in demand for p. 5). Near the bottom, it should say “Kagan is chairing a panel on­ Internet access. Vol. 8 of U.S. Imprints on Africa is due soon; it line access to government information. One of the papers will be will include material “developing countries” and African lan­ on accessing UN and IDRC resources.” guages and literatures as well. LC is considering cumulating vols. 1-10 on CD-ROM. Also under consideration for CD-ROM publi­ 3. Conover-Porter Award: Schmidt moved discussion of the cation is the some 98,000 Africana MARC records. McDermott draft “Timetable of Procedures for the 1994 Conover-Porter Award.” distributed a handout regarding a 500,000-record CD-ROM of LC Several points were brought up. Requesting examination copies overseas acquisitions lists. from publishers was customary for other book awards, in the experience of several who spoke. Bischof noted that it has been Northwestern: Easterbrook reported funding for the second year customary for the Past Chair to serve as chair of the C-P Commit­ of the Foreign Periodical Project grant to Northwestern for Africana tee; she also noted that the press release mentions finalists as well titles. 114 new titles, mainly newspapers, have been ordered from as the winning title. More nominations were solicited. 25 countries; 70% are being received. The proposal for the 3rd year of the project will include a preservation component. The project 4. Government Documents: Bischof presented a document in the includes a half-time cataloger, who has to date cataloged 396 titles, form of “An Open Letter to the Profession” which examines a trend 321 of which were previously acquired. Records for all titles in research library organization towards integrating government cataloged will appear in OCLC, RLIN, and JALA. documents collections and specialist staff into general reference Easterbrook also reported on an initiative by the U. of Michigan services. Our concern arises because of the fact that African to tape-load JALA as a file on their OP AC; this would, in turn, be government documents are especially difficult to acquire. Thus we Internet accessible. The project is active, but is proceeding slowly; believe that the effect of merged staff and collections tends to be the depth of the backfile to be mounted has not been decided. a diminishment of the breath and depth of African and other foreign AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 8 JANUARY 1994 8. New Bibliographic Projects and Updates: Technology Interest Group to see what ideas they might have. It Indiana is working with tapes of BBC Somali broadcasts since was decided to form a committee to work on the fall panel. The 1957. committee consists of Finnegan, Walsh, Fung, and JoAnne Zellers. Yvette Scheven is cumulating the bibliographies for the years 1987-1992 which appeared in A BPR’s annual “Africana Refer­ — Elizabeth J. Plantz ence Works.” Kagan reported that the ‘Sheehy’ revisions are making progress, with a 3/15/94 deadline; East Africa is complete. Zell reported several titles to be published. AFROCENTRISM & THE Walsh is doing a brief article on Libraries for Simon and LIBRARY RESEARCH PROCESS Schuster’^Encyclopedia o f Sub-Saharan Africa, under the general Report on the ALC-Sponsored Panel in Boston editorship of John Middleton. by A1 Kagan (Univ. of Illinois Library) John Mcllwaine plans to publish a bibliography on African archives in African Research and Documentation; it will spread About 75 people attended the ALC panel in Boston on Afrocentrism over a year or more and will be followed by a regular column on the and the Library Research Process. Our efforts at reaching out past topic, per letter to Easterbrook. the librarians group were successful. The audience included Shayne is updating her African Newspapers Currently Received scholars as well as local secondary school teachers. Although there and requests lists of current receipts. Schmidt stressed the was little time for discussion from the audience, the questions importance of everyone contributing to this, especially in light of continued well after the formal end of the panel. One discussant the many new newspapers being published. reported a one-hour discussion immediately after the panel. The panel was chaired by the ALC Assistant Chair/Chair Elect 9. Trip and Conference Reports: A1 Kagan. He also presented results of an Afrocentrism Library Zell reported that the theme of the next SCOLMA conference, Survey to determine the organizational patterns of African Studies 9-10 June 1994, will be “Images of Africa: Pictorial Representa­ libraries in relation to Afro-American and Latin American and tion Research;” Patricia Larby will chair. Caribbean libraries at our member’s institutions. Not surprisingly, Malanchuk recently visited Makerere U. as part of Florida’s the results showed much more attention and resources allocated to USIA linkage grant, for social science CD-ROM training for law African studies than to the others, and mostly separate administra­ faculty. tion of resources. Mette Shayne (Northwestern University Li­ brary) presented a useful paper on Electronic Access to Afrocentric — Gregory Finnegan, recorder. Materials although she disclaimed the title and instead concen­ trated on materials available electronically from or about Africa including Internet resources and online and CD-ROM databases. Kathleen Bethel (Afro-American Studies Librarian at Northwest­ POST-BUSINESS MEETING ern University) followed with a paper on Afrocentrism and the EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING MINUTES Organization of Knowledge. She gave an impassioned plea for Friday Dec. 3,1993, 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. user-friendly collections and reference tools relevant to the needs of today’s library users. Michael West (University of Illinois at The meeting was called to order by A1 Kagan, Chair. Present were: Urbana) and Kwame Anthony Appiah (Harvard University) were Baumann, Lauer, Kagan, Bell-Gam, Gray, Schmidt, Howell, Lesh, the discussants. Michael West gave a substantive critique of Nanji, Finnegan, Caruso, Ezera and Plantz. Afrocentrism. Kwame Anthony Appiah (current winner of the Herskovitz award for In My Father’s House) concentrated on the Scheduling for the spring meeting was discussed. Helene Baumann value of new technologies in overcoming cataloging problems, and noted that rooms had been reserved for Friday and Saturday, April the possibilities for further innovative use such as adding marginal 15 and 16,1994. Robert Lesh mentioned that there needed to be notes to library catalogs. time scheduled for a cataloging workshop of 3-4 hours with representatives from the Library of Congress. It was also noted that the Conover-Porter Committee would also need 2-2 1/2 hours of RECENT MEMBER PUBLICATIONS time. It was decided that the workshop would be scheduled for Friday morning and regular business and CAMP meetings would Crossey, Moore. “A Note on Southern African Political Ephemera be scheduled Friday afternoon and most of the day on Saturday. at Yale.” PP. 199-205 inA WorldtooWide: Essays on Libraries and Other Themes inHonour ofReubenMusiker, edited by Joseph Sherman. The fall meeting in Toronto was also discussed. Finnegan is Johannesburg: University of Witwatersrand Library, 1993. responsible for scheduling the business meetings, CAMP and our usual panel. There were several suggestions for topics for a panel. Woodson, Dorothy C. “Creative Writing in South African Politi­ They were: a) Electronic and Internet resources for Africa (with a cal Papers of the 1950s and early 1960s.” Current Bibliography on 30 minute demonstration); b) Electronic cooperation with African AfricanAffairs, v. 25 (1993-94): 93-101. Libraries in order to help with the “Book Famine”; and c) Intellec­ tual access to “your w ork”— how researchers can find things online. The problems of having a electronic hook-up to do Internet demonstrations was discussed. Finnegan will talk to the ASA AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 9 JANUARY 1994 ALC EXECUTIVE BOARD, 1993-94 ADDRESS CHANGES Chairperson The following errors in Nov. 1993 edition of “Africana Librarians Al Kagan Directory” compiled by Gregory A. Finnegan (Dartmouth College Library) have been reported: Deputy Chair/Chair.Elect Greg Finnegan ASA (& Edna Bay) changed their E-mail last summer to: africa@emoryul.cc.emory.edu PastChcdr Nancy Schmidt L eishm an moved from Northampton several years ago to: 2 B Westgate Secretary(1992-94) Southwell, Notts Elizabeth Plantz U.K. NG25 OJH Members-at-large Tel ./fax: 0636 813774 Joseph Caruso (1994-96) Razia Nanji (1994-96) Thomas Weissinger (1992-94) N E W S P A P E R S F O R C O O P E R A T IV E P R O JE C T Indiana University has subscriptions to the following, which they Ex-Officio Members hoped to have filmed by CAMP with contributions from other Chair Bibliography Committee (1993-94) sources: Helene Baumann • N'Djamena Hebdo (biweekly) • Patriote (N ’Djamena monthly) Chair Cataloging Committee (1991-94) • Relance (Libreville weekly) Robert W. Lesh • Independent (Conakry monthly) • Nouvelle republique (Conakry biweekly) Editor o/A LN • Patriote (Conakry biweekly) Joseph J. Lauer • New Express (Blantrye biweekly) • Républicain (Bamako weekly) ASA Publications Committee Liaison (1993-95) • Démocraties (Dakar monthly) Phyllis Bischof • Weekly Post (Lusaka) LC Representative Beverly Gray Northwestern University distributed a list of 115 titles, mostly newspapers, recently acquired or ordered with using Foreign CAMP Chair Periodicals Grant Funds. These will presumably appear in the next John Bruce Howell edition of African Newspapers Currently Received. More informa­ tion about this Project are in Bibliography Committe minutes. Related information is in the Grants Section below. Other Committees, Apointments, etc. Zimbabwe Book Fair Liaison Gretchen Walsh Editors Coments, continuedfromp .l ALA Asian & African Section Liaison Peter Malanchuk Moore Crossey, David Easterbrook, Gregory Finnegan, Karen Fung, John Howell, A1 Kagan, Bob Lesh, Liz Plantz, Nancy BCALA Liaison Schmidt, and Dawn Williams. Tom Weissinger As E-mail supersedes print, an interesting case of misinformation was brought to my attention. A 16 December message from Tony 40th Anniversary Conference Planning Committee Schwartz of Rice U., about Edwin Mellen Press and alternative Peter Malanchuk (co-chair) • Nancy Schmidt (co-chair) publishing, says: “The Am. Assoc, of College and Research Libraries Gretchen Walsh, David Easterbrook, publishes African Libraries Newsletter; which is a very thorough Greg Finnegan, Onuma Ezera review of what is on the market worldwide.” Thorough? (Forget the errors of who and what.) During 1993 the Joint Acquisitions List of Book Donations Committee Africana listed 6425 entries, withoutclaimingtobecomprehensive(or Gretchen Walsh, Nancy Schmidt, addressing the issue of selection). Even under earlier editors who tried Ruby Bell-Gam„Meseratch Zecharias harder, ALN never even approached that figure. Long Range Strategic Planning Committee No Letter & Opinions section, but I do have a correction to a minor Phyllis Bischof, Greg Finnegan, Gretchen Walsh, point in the last issue concerning the introduction of Middle East into Rasia Nanji, Meseratch Zecharias the name of ACRL’s old Asian-African Section. I was mistaken in assuming that Middle Easterners encouraged this change. Rather, the Africana Oral Tradition Archives Section was forced to come up with a solution to the problem of ACRL Phyllis Bischof, Greg Finnegan, Beverly Gray, or ALA headquarters staff mixing the mail of the Asian-African Peter Malanchuk, David Easterbrook, Yvette Scheven Section with that of the African-American section. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 10 JANUARY 1994 OTHER NEWS N E W S F R O M O T H E R A S S O C IA T IO N S Positions available in Africa: Abidjan: Institut International de Recherche Scientifique pour le CALENDAR Développement en Afrique. 5 months, approx. Oct. 1994-Feb. 1995. Select software, design and implement a database on ALA malaria and conduct feasibility study for remote access via tele­ Feb. 5-10,1994, Los Angeles - Midwinter Meeting communications. Instruct staff on sue of U.S. databases in health June 23-30,1994, Miami - ALA Annual Conf. and agriculture. Some French required. ?Jan. 1995, - Midwinter Meeting Kampala: Makerere University. 8 months, Oct. 1994-May 1995. Mar. 29-Apr. 1, 1995, Pittsburgh - ACRL National Conf. Train library staff in current cataloging standards and rules (AACR2), June 22-29,1995, Chicago - ALA Annual Conf. classification schemes and production of catalog data. Presenta­ Jan. 19-25, 1996, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting tion of seminars on librarianship topics to the Library’s staff. June 20-27,1996, Orlando - ALA Annual Conf. Lusaka: National Assembly Library. 8 months, Sept. 1994-April Feb. 14-20,1997, Washington - Midwinter Meeting 1995. Access collection, design and implement improvements for June 26-July 2, 1997, San Francisco - ALA Annual Conf. delivery of information to members of Parliament and their staffs, 1998, New Orleans - Midwinter Meeting develop other outreach activities to assist government in drafting 1998, Washington - ALA Annual Conf. legislation. Train staff in library management and automation. 1999, Philadelphia - Midwinter Meeting Occasional guest lecturing at the School of Library studies, Univer­ 1999, New Orleans - ALA Annual Conf. sity of Zambia. 2000, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting Other positions are in San Jose (Costa Rica), Santa Tecle (El 2000, Chicago - ALA Annual Conf. Salvador), Port of Spain, Jerusalem, Jeddah, Damascus, Phnom Penh, Taipei, Aalborg, Paris, Zagreb, Brno, Bucharest, Moscow, National Conf. of African-American Librarians: Skopje, Tartu (Estonia), and Tirana. Aug. 5-7, 1994, Milwaukee To apply, send resume with a cover letter briefly stating desired position, foreign-language skills, subject expertise and maximum IFLA Annual Conference: placement service length (there is no application form) to: Robert Aug. 21-27, 1994, Havana P. Doyle, Director, Library Fellows Program, ALA, 50 East Huron Aug. 22-26, 1995, Istanbul St., Chicago, IL 60611. See also center insert in the January 1994 1996, Bejing or February 1993 issues of American Libraries. 1997, Geneva 1998, Edmonton The 1992-93 Library Fellows included: • Luella Davis (Emory University) at the University of Ghana’s Book Fairs: Dept, of Library and Archival Studies; May 28-31, 1994 - Pan-African Children’s Book Fair (Nairobi) • Kathleen A. Nystrom (St. Louis (Mo.) Public Library) at the Aug. 3-7,1994 - Zimbabwe International Book Fair University of Malawi in Zomba; • Helen William (Educational Testing Services, Princeton) at the AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Lesotho National Library Services, Maseru; Newly elected officers of the Asian, African and Middle Eastern • John Ober (Univ. of California, Berkeley) at Université Nationale Section (ACRL): Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: James N. Gentner (LC); du Benin. Members-at-large: Carol L. Jones (Yale) & Zhijia Shen (Univ. of Details on their activities are in the January 1994 issue of American Colorado at Boulder). Libraries. ALA/USIA LIBRARY FELLOWS PROGRAM Applications are being accepted through March 15 for the 1994- IM A G E S O F A F R IC A C O N F E R E N C E 95 Library Fellows Program. This joint program of ALA and the United States Information Agency (USIA) has funding for about 10 Organized by the Standing Conference on Library Materials on positions, to be selected among 20 possible posts. Africa (SCOLMA), the conference will be held at the School of Stipends for fellows are $33,000 per year. Travel expenses Oriental and African Studies, London, on 9-10 June 1994. It will (fellow and one dependent) to and from host country will be discuss all aspects of African pictorial materials, including histori­ reimbursed. Health insurance and a small housing subsidy are cal and modern techniques of handling and cataloging. For more provided. Requirements: U.S. citizenship; language skills of the information, contact: Mrs. P.M. Larby, SCOLMA, c/o 28 Russell host country (desired and sometimes required); and education and Square, London WC1B 5DS. experience in library or information science, or other fields directly related to the interests and needs of specific projects with demon­ strated competency as required. If selected, certification from a P A N -A F R IC A N C H IL D R E N ’S B O O K F A IR physician attesting physical and emotional soundness to conduct the fellowship will be required. Persons who have lived abroad for The Third Book Fair will be held in Nairobi, May 28-31,1994, at a 10-year period (1985-1994) immediately preceding application the Kenyatta International Conference Centre. The running theme are not eligible. is “Learning Science at an Early Age.” Workshops, seminars, awards and exhibits are featured. For more details, contact: Third Pan-African Children’s Book Fair, CHISCI, P.O. Box 61301, Nairobi. Tel: (2)442341; fax: (2)442469. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 11 JANUARY 1994 FREE MATERIALS OFFERED AND REQUESTED GRANTS Noteson requestsfor booksare listedasreceived, Indiana University’s Title VI, section 607, award for acquiring without any endorsement by the editor, MSUorALC. serials on new democratic movements in Africa has been renewed for a second year. During the first year, subscriptions were placed William R. Miner (602 Letterman House, 2030 F St., NW, for nearly 100 serials. Indiana will continue to order new titles, Washington, DC 20006-4250) offers American Journal of Public since some acquired last year have ceased. Indiana University also Health andEbony. received a lump sum to acquire tapes of the BBC Somali Service from its inception in the 1950s to the present. These will be added RESOURCES AT to the Archives of Traditional Music, which already has the field LIBRARIES AND RESEARCH CENTERS recordings made by Bogumil Andrzejewski that were received as part of a larger Somali gift in 1993. Indiana University’s Lilly Library has received the Noma Award Archives. The archive includes materials relating to the founda­ University of Iowa Health Periodicals Grant: The Libraries have tion of the award for publishing in Africa and to the annual been awarded a $56,200 grant for each of two years to purchase 244 competitions. Materials from future awards will also be deposited. Subsaharan African and 302 Chinese titles on health for the years 1974 to 1994. Titles will be preserved by microfilming at Iowa or Northwestern University’s M elville J. Herskovits Library of at the Center for Research Libraries. Only titles published locally, African Studies has received a Madagascar collection of about 150 nationally, or regionally will be acquired. Cooperation with the volumes. This collection was donated by Mary Danielli, who did National Library of Medicine and the regional offices of the World field research in Madagascar in the 1940s, before teaching at the Health Organization will be made concerning the preservation of State University of New York at Buffalo. African and Chinese health titles. Yale University Library has received two typescripts relating to the Anglo-Abyssinian Expedition against the “Mad M ullah” in the PERSONNEL NOTES Ogaden Country, 1901: • Reports by Major Hon. A. Hanbury-Tracy & Captain Ralph P. Ms. Constance Omolara Ojo-Ade is seeking a one-year position in Cobbold; including correspondence from J. Hayes Sadler, H.M. a university or special library during her sabbatical in 1994/95. Consul General at Berbera and representatives of the Foreign She has been on the library staff of Obafemi Awolowo University Office, London. 80pp. since 1972, most recently as head of cataloging. Contact her at: H. • Diary by Captain Cobbold (March 8 - Sept. 30,1901). 304pp. Oluwasanmi Library, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Oshun State, Nigeria. RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE The following items have come to the attention o f die editor. of Agriculture, and University of Dar es Salaam. Evaluation covered 3 of the 8 countries in the program. BOOKS & DOCUMENTS Available from Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, P.O. Box 161 40, S-103 23 Stockholm. Bouri, Elizabeth Nicolas. “The Development and Decline of Public Libraries in Egypt: A Shift in National Development A World too Wide.Essays onLibraries and Other Themes inHonourof Priorities.” Ph.D. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1993. Reuben Musiker, edited by Joseph Sherman. Johannesburg: Univer­ 467pp. Order no.: DA9323345. After remarkable growth between sity of Witwatersrand Library, 1993. ISBN: 18688380572. About 1945 and ca. 1970 when UNESCO’s international discourse 25 separate contributions, including many on libraries, publishing encouraged fundamental education and public libraries as opera­ and culture in South Africa. tional tools of education, public library development stopped and even declined. The cause of this decline was public policy choices, precipitated by a shift in national and international JOURNALS & ARTICLES development priorities, in favor of highly specialized information centers.— DAI 54A/4/1133. Third World Libraries, v. 3, no. 2 (Spring 1993), available from Rosary Coll. Grad. Sch. of Library & Information Sci., 7900 W. Priestley, Carol. SARECLibrary SupportProgramme:Evaluation and Division St., River Forest, IL 60305, includes the following: Review, Ethiopia, Mozambique andTanzania. Stockholm: SAREC, • R. Alain Everts, “The Pioneers: Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo 1993. 84p. (SAREC Documentation: Evaluations, 1993:1) and the Development of Library Service to the African in South Concludes that philosophy behind program was sound, and Africa,” pp. 7-19. most agreed that current journals were the highest priority. Major • Sam E. Ifidon, “Publishing of Library Journals in Nigeria,” pp. recipients: Addis Ababa University, Alemaya University of 45-49. Alemaya, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Sokoine University • Benki S.H. Womboh, “Trends in Collection Growth in Nigerian University Libraries,” p. 62. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 12 JANUARY 1994 • U. Selong Edem, “Computerization in Selected Nigerian Uni­ Harricombe, L.J. (Nor. Illinois U.) “Combining Qualitative and versity Libraries,” p. 63. Quantitative Methodologies to Study the Effects of an Academic Boycott on Academics in South Africa.” Library Quarterly, v. 63 Agbodike, Chuma. “Networking inNigeria.” Internet Society News, (Oct. 1993): 508-. 2,3 (Autumn 1993): 8-9. Ogunbameru, A. “Acquisitions of Government Publications: The Aina, L.O. “The Challenges of the Emerging Market and the Nigerian Experience.” GovernmentPublications Review, 20(1993): Education and Training of Information Professionals in Africa.” 515-522. Journal ofLibrarianshipandlnformation Science, 25,4(1993): 197-202. Wyley, Chantell. “Philosophies Informing Library and Informa­ Gupta, Sushma (Inst, of So. Afr. Stu., National Univ. of Lesotho). tion Work in South Africa: The Transformation Imperative.” “Development of the Library Profession and Education in Ethio­ Innovation, no. 6 (June 1993): 8-23. pia .^”International Information&Library Review, 25 (1993): 73-83. The profession started with short courses in 1959 and currently provides training at the diploma, bachelor’s and master’s levels. REFERENCE SOURCES NOTES Women Writing in Africa is a planned multi-volume project of the Feminist Press. A planning conference is scheduled for March Africa Bibliography 1991, covering works on Africa published in 25th, during the annual meeting of the African Literature Associa­ 1991 (or earlier, if missed in previous volumes), appeared in 1993 tion, in Accra. (311 East 94th St., New York, NY 10128). Those with several changes. The new editor, Christopher H. Allen, has interested in participated should contact the Press at 311 East 94th reduced the number of entries for medicine, science, technology, S t, New York, NY 10128; tel: 212-360-5790. physical geography, physical anthropology and to a lesser degree archaeology, because of the existence of good non-Africana bibliographies for those fields. Coverage of material from non- NEW REFERENCE TITLES academic sources, from working paper series, and from African sources (notably books) was increased; materials from new or Thefollowing items or issues are noted unusual journals, “grey” literature and material in unusual lan­ For more titles, see the annual “AfricanaReferenceBooks” inTheAfricanBookPublishingRecord, no. 2. guages are acknowledged as continuing problems. (The absence of titles in Arabic is a partial explanation for the relatively weak coverage (23 of 253 pages) of Northern Africa.) Books reviews Forthcoming titles 1993/94 from Hans Zell Publishers: have been dropped. There are still a total of 5781 entries (on 452 • Nadine Gordimer:ABibliography ofPrimary andSecondarySources, pages); the broader scope 1990 and 1989 volumes had 6588 and 1937-1992, com piled by D orothy D river, Ann Dry, Craig 5819 entries. MacKenzie & John Read. (Dec. 1993) Most entries have been made briefer (e.g., no ISBN). But • BlackAfricanLiterature inEnglish, 1987-1991, Bemth Lindfors. entries for chapters in edited volumes give editors and brief titles (March 1994) (along with reference to item number) rather than the confusing • Sub-SaharanAfricanFilms:AnAnnotatedBibliography, 1987-1992, BN numbers used in earlier editions of this annual. The periodi­ Nancy J. Schmidt. (March 1994) cals list includes notes on actual issues covered. There were also • ABibliography ofAfricanLanguage Texts [at SOAS], to 1963, com­ slight changes in arrangement and indexing. And the introductory piled by Michael Mann & Valerie Sanders. (Jan. 1994) article on publishing has been dropped. • IntemationalDirectory of African StudiesResearch, 3rd rev. & exp. Available from Edinburgh University Press, 22 George Square, e d , compiled by Philip Baker. (Oct. 1994) Edinburgh. ISBN 0748604782; ISSN 0266-6731. • Sub-SaharanAfricanTravelResource Guide, LouisTaussig. Vol. 1: East and West Africa. (June 1994) Documentatieblad, the quarterly compilation of abstracts from • Dictionary ofPortuguese-African Civilization, Benjamin Nunez. 2 Leiden’s African Studies Centre, will cease with Vol. 24, no. 4 vols. (March-May 1994) (due out in late 1993). It is being replaced by the African Studies Abstracts, which will have a new design, format and price. Hans Guide to theNadine GordimerPapers in theLilly Library. Bloomington: Zell Publishers will distribute for £80/$130 per year for institu­ Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1994? $5 plus postage from tions (£40/$65 for individuals; ?free to Africa). ISSN changes Lilly Library, Bloomington, IN 47405. from 0611-2694 to 1352-2175. The editorial content will stay the same, with abstracts compiled by the documentalists at the L i­ Uniger-Goumaz, Max. Who *swho de la dictature de Guinée équatoriale: brary of the African Studies Centre (Leiden). LesNguemistes, 1979-1993. La Chaux (Suisse) [B.P. 1308] : Editions du temps, 1993. 351p. $30. Institute of Commonwealth Studies (University of London, 28 te regional list for Africa in addition to its New Titles Added to the Nanni, Stefania. “Fonti missionarie per la storia dell’africa occidentale.” In Terra d yAfrica, Angelo Turco (Milano: Unicpoli, Library. 1992), pp. 217-256. —DavidBlake, Librarian AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 13 JANUARY 1994 NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENTS Ja c a ra n d a Designs, L td. of Nairobi (POB 76691) is launching a second season of children’s books after a successful entry into the Aequatoria, a research center at Bamanya (B.P. 276, Mbandaka, US market in 1993. Its Spring 1994 list has 6 titles, in addition to Zaire), has microfilmed its collection of archives and rare imprints, the 8 children’s books on the backlist. US agent (and new) address: with a grant from the African Archives and Museum Project (Social Carrie Jenkins Williams, PO Box 7936, Boulder, CO 80306. Tel: Science Research Council and American Council of Learned 303-440-5235. Societies). The entire collection is available for $1318 (on 58 16mm reels) or $2309 (on 2309 14.5 x 10.5 microfiches). The M inerva Books (PO Box 32948, Braamfontein 2017, South A f­ holdings are listed in its 129-page Catalogue des Archives, pre­ rica; & Traduna Centre, 10th floor, 118 Jorissen St., Johannesburg pared by Honoré Vinck (1993). Special strengths: materials in 2001) is a new book operation of Argo Publications for supplying African languages, linguistic studies (including offprints), and the South African and overseas publications. papers of GustaafHulstaert (1900-1990), Edmond Boelaert(1899- 1966) and others. Preliminary orders for copies of all or part of the collection should be sent to: Aequatoria, Te Boelaerlei 11, B-2140 BOOK AWARDS BORGERHOUT, Belgium. An invoice, asking confirmation, will be sent before any copies are made, which will not be before the end Herskovits Award for 1993 (presented by ASA to author of the of October 1994. outstanding original scholarly work on Africa during the preceding More information on this project is in: Honoré Vinck, “Le year) to Kwame Anthony Appiah for In My Father's House: Africa microfilmage des Archives Aequatoria,” History in Africa, 20 in the Philosophy o f Culture (Oxford UP). (1993): 423-27. Other finalists: African Books Collective Ltd. (The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., • Andrew Apter, Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Oxford OX1 1HU) has issued its Catalogue no. 7. Power in Yoruba Society (Univ. of Chicago Pr.) It also distributed its 8th batch of 33 cards in December. • Catherine Boone, Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Publishers covered: Baobab Books, Buchu Books, Community Power in Senegal, 1930-1985 (Cambridge UP) Publ. Process (Zimbabwe), Dar es Salaam UP, East African Educ. • Basil Davidson, The Black M an’s Burden: Africa and the Curse Publ., Editions de l ’Océan Indien, Found, for Ed. with Prod., o f the Nation-State (Random House) Fourth Dimension Publ., Heinemann Ed. Books (Nigeria), Ibadan • Anthony W. Marx, Lessons of Struggle: South African Internal Univ. Press, Malthouse Press, Nigerian Inst. Int. Affairs, Southern Opposition, 1960-1990 (Oxford UP); John Middleton, The World African Res. & Doc. Centre, Spectrum Books, Univ. of Zimbabwe of the Swahili (Yale UP) Publications, Zimbabwe Book Publ. Assoc. • Elizabeth Schmidt, Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939 (James Currey, Baobab); African Imprint Library Services (236 Main St., Falmouth, MA • Elliot P. Skinner, African American and U.S. Policy toward 02540; 508-540-5378) issued in December lists of new receipts for Africa, 1850-1924 (Howard UP) Sierra Leone and from Swaziland. January 1994 lists included • Paul Stroller, The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnology of Jean Botswana and Sudan. Its Service Newsletter no. 39 (Dec. 1993) Rouch (Univ. of Chicago Pr.) notes plans to travel to Cameroon and to Kenya and Tanzania. • Christopher C. Taylor, Milk, Honey, and Money: Changing Concepts in Rwandan Healing (Smithsonian Inst. Pr.). Axeage Private Press (207 Long St., Cape Town 8001) was established in 1989 as a print workshop publishing fine prints and ASA Text Prize for 1993 (for the best critical edition or transla­ collaborative hand-made books. Major limited editions (50 copies tion into English of primary source materials on Africa) to Paul only): Hai r, Adam Jones & Robi n Law ioiBarbot on Guinea: The Writings • Sound from the thinking strings, Pippa Skotnes. ofJeanBarboton WestAfrica 1678-1712 (Hakluyt Society, 1992). • Face value:... Lydenburg Heads, Malcolm Payne. This inaugural awarding covers works published in the years 1989-92. Canadian Association of African Studies has made available its 1993 conference papers at $0.10 per page (or about $237 for the Other finalists: set) from Centre for Urban & Community Studies, 455 Spadina • Public Documents from Sinnar, ed. Jay Spaulding & Ibrahim Ave., Room 426, University of Toronto, M5S 2G8. Abu Salim (Michigan State UP, 1989) • After theJihad: TheReign ofAhmadal-Kabirinthe WestemSudan, ed. Clarke’s Bookshop (211 Long St., Cape Town 8001) issued John Hanson & David Robinson (Michigan State UP, 1991) Catalogue 87, listing 1055 mostly older publications. • Zulu Popular Praises, ed. Liz Cunner& M afikaGwala (Michigan State UP, 1992) Gregg Revivals (60 High St., Godstone, Surrey, RH9 8LW) have • In the Heart of the Hausa State, by Paul Staudinger; ed. Johanna announced the first dozen titles in their reprint series of scholarly Moody (Ohio UP, 1990). books on Africa. Authors include Geoffrey Kay, Colin Newbury, Christopher Fyfe, A.H.M. Kirk-Greene, G.E. Metcalfe and P.E.H. Hair. Most appear with a new introduction. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 14 JANUARY 1994 ONLINE FILES SERIAL CHANGES H andsN et (20195 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 120, Cupertino, CA Africana Notes and News, the quarterly of the Johannesburg 95014; 408-257-4500) provides access to the resources of numer­ Africana Museum, ceased publication after almost 50 years. ous national research and policy centers, for an annual subscription FEWS Bulletin of the A.I.D. Famine Early Warning System, has fee of $270. Included in its resources is SANGONet, the Southern split into 2 series. Beginning with the issue for November 30, African Nongovernmental Organisation Network (PO Box 31, 1993, the “SA” series will appear at 10-day intervals with informa­ Johannesburg, 2000). tion on the [Southern] Africa countries of Kenya, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Monthly bulletins on the Sahelian and Horn Horn o f Africa Bulletin is now available electronically on the countries will continue, with the schedule reversing with the APC (Association for Progress Communications) network under change in growing seasons. Contact PEWS Project, Tulane/ the conference title lpi.hab. For more details, contact Everett Pragma Group, 1611N. Kent St., Suite 511, Arlington, VA 22209. Nelson at LIP (enelson@nn.apc.org). South African Journal o f Cultural and Art History (Pretoria) has N ew spapers available online include Ghanaian Chronicle from been discontinued, per Foundation for Education, Science and News@midnight. Also, the Weekly Mail and Guardian is exploring Technology letter of October 1993. use of internet to make its files available on a pay to read basis. Contact Philip Machanick (Dept, of Computer Science, Univ. of South African Panorama ceased after the Jan./Feb. 1993 issue. It the Witwatersrand; philip@ concave.cs.wits.ac.za. is being replaced with a thematic ad-hoc publication Accent that will appear at least 3 times a year. Cost is R10 a copy from: South African Communication Service, Pvt. Bag X745, Pretoria 0001. •uopnjpsui (Cjiunjjoddo-jvnba ‘uoijDV-9Aijvwuijfv uv si \Z 'ON jr a u a j S€0I-^88fr ueSiqoijv ‘Suisueq iseg J01UCQ |BUOllEUi3)UJ 001 IPi Huisueq g ii}isj3AiuQ 3]b js u eS n p ip v CHVd H 3LN33 S3IOOLS N V 3I33V 30V1SOJ s n •Sj o j ij o j j - u o n