AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER ISSN 0148-7868 Africana Libraries Newsletter (ALN) is published quarterly by the Michigan State University Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center. Those copying contents are asked to cite ALN as their source. ALN is produced to support the work of the Africana Librarians Council (ALC) TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 items of interest to Africana librarians and those concerned about information resources about or in Africa. Editor’s Comments Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana Library, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. Acronyms Tel.: 517-355-1118/2366; E-mail: 20676jjl@msu.edu; Fax:517-336-1445. Deadline for no. 79: July 1,1994; for no. 80: October 1,1994. ALC/CAMPNEWS................................................. 2 Schedule & Agenda for Durham, NC Calendar of Future Meetings EDITOR’S COMMENTS CAMP Business Meeting (Boston) Minutes ALC Regulars: A Brief Directory Once again, this issue would not have been possible without contributions from many sources. Contributors include: Helene Baumann, Moore Crossey, David OTHER NEWS........................................................ 8 Easterbrook, Gregory Finnegan, Karen Fung, John Howell, A1 Kagan, Nancy News from other Associations Schmidt, Barbara Turfan, and Hans Zell. Highlights of this issue are the CAMP Calendar minutes from the December meeting in Boston and reviews by Crossey and ALA: Midwinter Meeting Schmidt of recent reference books. I also attempted a one-page list of telephone Free Materials Offered & Requested numbers. Resources at Libraries and Research Centers As agreed in Boston, I will continue as editor after this issue, for at least a year. Hardy man Madagascar Collection I also have a new telephone number. 517-355-1118 reaches my desk in the Grant Applications: African Archives & Museums Technical Services Department, where I work on the newsletter and other Personnel Changes: Beverly Gray; MSU; MIT things. The number for the Africana Library remains 355-2366. RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES & An initiative of some interest to ALC is CIC’s “cooperative collecting” INFORMATION SCIENCE..................................... 9 scheme. The heads of CIC (Big Ten Committee on Institutional Cooperation) Thesis institutions have told their library directors to come up with a plan for a single Journals & Articles library. In addition to renewed efforts towards a seamless catalog of joint holdings, heads of collection development have met to divide the world of REFERENCE SOURCES........................................ 8 collecting. For those of us who remember the quiet demise of previous projects, Notes: ARTS; Index Islamicus; the faith in signed agreements and support from the top seems unwarranted. The Green: Indexes & Editions of the N Y Times - continued on p.13 New Reference Titles Book Reviews: Schmidt: 4th ed. of African BIP ACRONYMS Crossey: Merrett’s Source Guide ACRL *Assodatioo of College & Research Libraries NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS........11 •.ALAAmerican Library AssociaHon (Chicago) : | ; | | | i | | | | | | | Vendor Announcements ALC 4Africana. Librarians Council Book Awards (formerly Arehtves-IJbraries Committee) of ASA ¡ ¡ ¡ ||| Events A ^ ; ^Africa» Studies Association (US>) ||§ Literature on the Book Trade •CAjMi**CdQpe^ 'Microform Project (CRL) Serial Changes CRL* Center for Research Libraries (Chicago) ¡ ||; ||! ! |||i |; i New Serials Associations Newspapers: Lesotho, Liberia, etc. L€* library of Congress Selected New Books :MELA |M iddle Ehst-Libra^ •SCOLSlA^StandingCoat on Oferary Materials on Africa U.-University : UCLA £ Umversityaf California, L6s Angeles.- AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 2 MARCH 1994 AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL/CAMP NEWS SCHEDULE FO R ALC/CAM P M EETINGS CALENDAR OF FUTURE M EETINGS IN DURHAM , NC April 15-16,1994, Durham, NC - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. Friday, April 15: November 2-6,1994, Toronto - ASA Annual Meeting. 8:30-12:30.....Cooperative Cataloging Workshop (Room 226) Spring 1995, Evanston, IL - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. 10:00-12:00... Conover-Porter Award Committee Meeting November (1st week) 1995, Orlando - ASA Annual Meeting. 1:30- 3:00......Bibliography Committee Meeting Fall 1996, San Francisco - ASA Annual Meeting. 3:15- 4:45..... Cataloging Committee Meeting Fall 1997, Norfolk - ASA Annual Meeting. Fall 1998, Midwest site - ASA Annual Meeting. 6:00-............. Reception & dinner (Ctr. Inti. Studies) Saturday, April 16: COOPERATIVE AFRICANA 8:30- 9:15..... ALC Executive Board Meeting MICROFORM PROJECT (CAMP) 9:30-12:00....ALC Business Meeting 1:30- 3:30..... CAMP Business Meeting BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES 3:30- 4:30..... CAMP Executive Committee Westin Hotel, Boston, MA, Dec. 4,1993 All meetings are in Duke University’s Perkins Library. The The meeting was convened at 9:37am by Chair John Howell, with Workshop is in Room 226. All others are in the Breedlove Room (on Karen Fung as Secretary. 2d floor, within Special Collections). Reception is at the Center for International Studies. Member institutions (and their representatives) present: Boston U. (Gretchen Walsh, David Westley), Center for Research Libraries Rooms for $48 or $54 (double) reserved at Brownstone Med (Marlys Rudeen), Columbia U. (Joseph Caruso), Dartmouth (Gre­ Center Inn (1-800-367-0293). Other lodging: $38 & $42 at Cricket gory A. Finnegan), Duke U. (Helene Baumann), Indiana U. (Nancy Inn Duke (919-286-3111); $44 & $54 at Best Western University Inn Schmidt), Library of Congress (Beverly Gray, Judy McDermott, (919-286-4421). Thokozile Nkabinde, Ruth Thomas), Michigan State U. (Onuma Further information including maps available from Helene S. Ezera, Joe Lauer), New York Public Library, Schomburg Center Baumann, Perkins Library Box 90195, Duke University, Durham, (Dorothy Washington), Northwestern U. (Dan Britz, David NC 27708. Tel.: 919-660-5847; hsb@mail.lib.duke.edu. Easterbrook, Patricia Ogedengbe, Mette Shayne), Princeton U. (Denise M. Shorey), Stanford U. (Karen Fung), Syracuse U. The Cooperative Cataloging Workshop, for catalogers, had a (Meseratch Zecharias), U. of California, Berkeley (Phyllis Bischof), separate registration deadline of February 28. This workshop will be U. of California, Los Angeles (Ruby Bell-Gam), U. of Florida (Peter taught by LC personnel. It will establish the parameters of coopera­ Malanchuk, Razia Nanji), U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (A1 tive cataloging for the submission of new and enhanced subject Kagan), U. of Iowa (John Bruce Howell), U. of Virginia (Mary Alice authority records and classification proposals to the Library of Kraehe), U. of Wisconsin-Madison (Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol) and Yale Congress. The workshop is intended for NACO- participating U. (Moore Crossey). institutions, but alternative means of contribution could be found for CAMP members not represented: Cornell U., Howard U., La catalogers from other institutions. Trobe U. (Australia), Ohio U., Queens U. (Canada), U. of Chicago, U. of Rochester, U. of South Africa, and Temple U. DRAFT AGENDA FOR BUSINESS MEETING: Guests: Jean-Louis Bourgeois; Henrietta Dax (Clarke’s Bookshop, 1. Toronto program - Finnegan Cape Town); Vicki Evalds (Philadelphia); Robin Fryde (Frank 2. 40th anniversary program - Schmidt & Malanchuk Thorold Booksellers, Johannesburg). 3. Long Range Strategic Planning Committee - Nanji & Finnegan 4. Book donation programs - Bell-Gam, Zecharias, Schmidt The CAMP Executive Committee members are Helene Baumann, 5. ARL Foreign Acquisitions Project, Africa volume - Schmidt David Easterbrook, Karen Fung, Beverly Gray (LC Ex Officio), John 7. Statement on access to government documents - Bischof Howell, Marlys Rudeen (CRLEx Officio), Nancy Schmidt (ALC Ex 8. Use of E-mail for ALC business - Finnegan Officio). The Faculty Representatives are Janet Ewald (Duke) and 9. Scope of ALC Di rectory - Fi nnegan Ali Hersi (Univ. of Florida). 10. Scope of proto-listserv - Finnegan Terms for Ewald, Baumann and Fung end in Fall 1993. Terms for 11. Linkages to African librarians and associations - Schmidt Hersi, Easterbrook, and Howell end in Fall 1994. 12. Outreach to Black Studies librarians - Kagan & Finnegan. Minutes of the May 1,1993 East Lansing meeting were approved/ TENTATIVE SCHEDULE IN TORONTO (Nov. 1994): seconded by voice vote. A slightly abbreviated version of the minutes Wed, Nov. 2: ALC Exec (9-10); Cataloging (10-11:30); appeared in ALN, No. 76, October 1993. Complete copies of the Bibliography (11:30-1); CAMP working groups (1-2); minutes were sent to all CAMP member institutions. CAMP Business (2-4); CAMP Executive (4:15-5:30). Thur, Nov. 3: ALC Business (9-11); ALC Executive (11-12). ELECTIONS. Results of the mail ballot are as follows: Secretary: Tom Weissinger (Cornell) Member-at-Large: Dorothy Washington (New York Public) AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 3 MARCH 1994 Faculty Representative: John Hunwick (Northwestern) SOUTH ASIAN MUSLIMS IN EAST AFRICA COLLECTION. Each will serve a two-year term, ending in 1995. Crossey will see the owner the week of the Boston meeting and will try to verify ownership. CRL REPORT - Marlys Rudeen. CAMP’s balance is $25,545 plus ca. $4,000 in dues still to be paid for a total of ca. $29,000. Special JUDGES’ NOTEBOOKS OF CIVIL & CRIMINAL CASES OF requests can be made to Howell. [The CAMP Financial Statement, THE LAGOS SUPREME COURT, 1876-1915. CAMP has permis­ CAMP Material on Order, CAMP Commitments and CAMP Mate­ sion to film. We now need to find a camera in Lagos for the filming. rials Received are attached at end of minutes.] Howell has written to the USIS and the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. The Institute has recently replied that it does not own a microform camera. OLD BUSINESS EDUARDO MONDLANE ARCHIVES. Bell-Gam contacted BRITISH LIBRARY NEWSPAPERS - some titles we would like to Herbert Shore, at the Univ. of Southern California, who is very order are still under copyright; we need the publisher’s permission interested in continuing the microfilming project. Shore plans to to buy copies. Titles in question are: Ma’arifa, Mambo Leo, give the original papers to Mozambique. Shore travels a great deal Seychelles, Zanzibar Voice. A problem is how to contact the and Bell-Gam has not been able to talk to him further. There is a hold publisher. The British Library’s Bulawayo Chronicle film only on access to the film because Shore and Janet Mondlane would like includes the weekly issues. the correspondence placed in context with the entire collection. Bell - Gam will continue to pursue the matter. [CAMP has filmed the first SENEGAL COOPERATIVE TRIP - Schmidt. All of the Title VI part of the collection which includes personal correspondence.] Centers submitted a proposal for a joint acquisitions trip to Senegal to identify archival material for filming and place subscriptions to current newspapers. We should hear the decision on the proposal in NEW BUSINESS spring 1994. KENYA ARCHIVES FILM. Easterbrook reported that Robert SENEGAL COURT RECORDS WORKING GROUP. Howell Gregory had visited the Kenya Archives recently and Mr. Musembe, reported work is continuing; the group will meet again at the spring the Archivist, had requested that the 30-year rule be observed with 1994 meeting. regard to use of the film CAMP has. A small amount of the film CAMP has is affected, some from the late 1960s and early 1970s and HEALTH PERIODICALS AND DOCUMENTS. Howell reported some of the East Indian archives. the University of Iowa received a DOE grant of $56,200 for each of two years to acquire health and medical periodicals and government MAURITANIAN GUIDE. Univ. of II linois historian Charles Stewart documents for Africa and China from the period 1974 to 1994, with has a bilingual database of Arabic manuscripts from West Africa. the funds evenly split between the two areas. Titles come from There are 7 catalogs of which 2 are ready for issue by photocopy. One SERLINE and David Hogarth’s accessions lists. World Health of the finding aids contains 3,134 records of the manuscripts at the documents will be included. A bibliographic database will be made Institut Mauritanien de Recherche Scientifique, Nouakchott. The for the newly acquired titles. CAMP members will be polled for second, 2,054 records, is from a private family library in Boutilimit, missing issues and complete sets will then be microfilmed. Mauritania. CAMP members present agreed to purchase a micro­ film copy of all volumes. DRUM MAGAZINE. CAMP has been interested in acquiring a microform copy of the various editions of Drum for some time. ALTAIR MICROFICHE COLLECTIONS Recently, J. Bailey, copyright owner, agreed to film the editions 1. Documents, Papers & Memoranda on the Growth of the PAN- published in East and Central Africa (30 reels, original filming), AFRICAN MOVEMENT (since the 1950s). 44 fiches + Guide Nigeria (25 reels, original filming), and Ghana (17 reels, original ($369) filming). The South Africa edition (33 reels) was filmed some time 2. Resolutions of the Annual Summits of the ORGANIZATION OF ago and is held by Northwestern and Yale. CAMP members agreed AFRICAN UNITY & Other Documents Since 1963. 35 fiches + to purchase all four editions at approximately $7,765 provided the Guide ($296) film holdings were complete. [Chair Howell subsequently received 3. COLIN LEGUM’S THIRD WORLD REPORTS, Backfile 1982- a letter from Adam Seftel of Bailey’s African Photo Archives listing 1989. 31 fiches ($266) Updated annually at $37 per year. the missing issues. Seftel asked in the letter that CAMP members Schmidt inquired if the Colin Legum material has an index and help obtain copies of any missing issues held by North American indicated that the collection would be extremely difficult to use libraries. He noted that J. Bailey sold Drum (Nigeria) in 1974 and without one. CAMP members agreed to purchase items 1 and 2 of does not hold copyright after that date. They do have copies of Drum the above. (Nigeria) until 1983 and, at our discretion, would provide microfilm of this. The most missing issues are from the East Africa and Nigeria AEQUATORIA, Coquilhatville, Zaire, 1937-1962?. This is avail­ editions.] able in 16mm film or on fiche. CAMP decided to buy the fiche version - 2,309 fiche at $2,309. KESTLELOOT COLLECTION OF FRENCH LANGUAGE DIS­ SERTATIONS ON THE ORAL AND WRITTEN LITERATURE REVUE COLONIALE: BULLETIN ECONOMIQUE MENSUEL OF FRANCOPHONE WEST AFRICA. These have been received DES COLONIES, Paris, Jan. 1895-Juin 1911. Microfilm $2,682 and will be cataloged in OCLC and RLIN. from Association pour la Conservation et la Reproduction Photographique pour de la Presse. CAMP agreed to buy. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 4 MARCH 1994 COURRIER D’AFRIQUE, 1930-1948. The cost is $820 for 30 reels EAST GERMAN ARCHIVES. Jim Giblin, Professor of African from the Bibliothèque africaine, Brussels. These issues should fill History, Iowa, is working on a joint project with other historians to gaps in holdings at other institutions. CAMP agreed to buy. film archives on Tanzania and other African countries in the Berliner Missionswerk. SOUTH AFRICAN HOMELAND DOCUMENTS. Supplement 1983-1987, $1,675,3,461 fiche. Plus annual supplements. Avail­ AFRICAN DOCUMENTS FROM NORMAN ROSS (formerly able from the State Library, Pretoria. The total cost (5 yr supp. + from GENERAL MICROFILM). 5,103 titles on 720 reels, $41,000. avail, annual suppls.) is about $2,200. CAMP has the original set. The documents were filmed in random order. Yale bought selected Members agreed to purchase the five year supplement plus subse­ reels. [MSU has complete set and standing order.] No CAMP quent annual supplements. decision was taken on this. TANZANIA SWAHILI NEWSPAPERS. Indiana Univ. has samples and one of their students is acquiring further issues. Ten OTHER REPORTS of the titles had no US holders. The LC Nairobi Office receives all The University of Asmara has been closed since September 1993 but except one. R. Thomas thought the cost to subscribe to all would may open Jan. 1994. Zecharias will try to find out what newspapers be less than $50. LC Nairobi will subscribe for us and mail the are available there. papers from Nairobi to CRL-CAMP. (At present the LC Photodu­ plication Service cannot handle the filming). R. Thomas: A Univ. of Iowa faculty member rated the list for filming - 1. Weekly Review Index has been published. Cost is $60-80. Express, 2. Business Times, 3. Motomoto, 4. Baraza. The remaining There were good papers on preservation at the IFLA African titles are: Dunia Mpya, Heko, Kombora, Message (from Mombasa), Regional Meeting on Preservation & Conservation (June 1993 Mizani, Shaba, Wakati, Wasaa. Nariobi). The papers will be published by IFLA, Paris. A list of Kenyan materials on microfilm is being compiled by a THE UNIV. OF CHICAGO PHOTODUPLICATION LAB. The lab, national committee. The list will include the filming organization. which CRL uses, will close Sept. 1994 and a new filming source must be found. CRL-CAMP on the Internet (Rudeen): Only three ports are avail­ able, so only librarians should try to access at present. Eventually ANDRE NITECKI NEWSPAPERS FROM NIGERIA AND faculty and students will be able to telnet to the CRL OPAC (online GHANA and ZIMBABWE NEWSPAPERS. The Ghana and public access catalog) and search holdings. On order records will be Nigerian newspapers are from the 1960s to 1980s. Schmidt asked if included. CAMP planned to fill in gaps in the film. Researchers at Indiana use newspapers alot and gaps create a problem. Lauer agreed. The The meeting adjourned at 11am. missing issues can be added on at the end. The Zimbabwe titles are Centrepoint (Salisbury), African Times, People's Weekly. People can obtain a list of missing issues from Schmidt if they think they can fill in holdings. Indiana will collate holdings from other institutions. CAMP members agreed that in CAM P - ITEM S ON O RDER principal, we should attempt to fill in serial gaps. NOV. 22,1 9 9 3 NEW COOPERATIVE NEWSPAPER PROJECT. Schmidt pro­ Cheadle, Thompson & Haysom. Legal files on United Mine posed that two or more institutions agree to subscribe to the new titles Workers. 11 reels. Reed. neg. from Yale; Lab producing pos. below and send issues to CAMP for filming. In reply to a query about UC Sp: $206.10 past CRL delays in filming, M. Rudeen expressed the hope that the newspapers will not be held at CRL too long. The titles in question Ethiopian Herald, July 3 , 1943-Mar. 10,1951 (1 reel) Claimed. are: Sp: $16.20 Chad: N'Djamena hebdo, Patriote Gabon: Relance Jama, Bashir. Alley cropping maize ... M.Sc. thesis. Nairobi, Guinea: Independent, Nouvelle republique, Patriote 1986. Claimed. Malawi: New Express Ma'arifa (Zanzibar) 1 Jan. 1959-19 Dec 1963. 3 reels. $189 Mali: Républicain Senegal: Démocraties MamboLeo (Dar es Salaam) Jan. 1948-Aug. 1962. 3 r. $189 Zambia: Weekly Post It was agreed that individual CAMP members will subscribe to these Mwongozi (Zanzibar) 2 Jan. 1959-15 June 1962. 1 r $63 titles and send issues to CRL for filming. Seychelles Government Bulletin. 1 Nov. 1959- 31 Dec. 1969. AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE PAPERS. 11 r. $692 CAMP lacks 1987 and following. CAMP will place a standing order for the papers. Zanzibar Voice. Jan. 1941-Nov. 1951; Jan. 1958-Dec. 1962. 8 r. $503 CLAUDE SUMNER’S ETHIOPIAN PUBLICATIONS. Britz thought the Univ. of Addis Ababa was filming C. Sumner’s publica­ tions which are much in demand but hard to find. R. Thomas will keep us informed on what the University is filming of the Sumner publications. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 5 MARCH 1994 CAMP FINANCIAL STATEMENT (DECEMBER 5,1993) FY1993 SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER CLOSING (1) QUARTER (2) YTD (2) Notes FUND BALANCE $26,053.31 $25,549.31 $25,549.31 1. The FUND BALANCE, REVENUES, and EXPENSES shown under each completed REVENUES quarter are taken from the Center’s Membership fees $22,900.00 $18,400.00 $18,400.00 accounting records. Each column shows Income from sales (4) 4.226.18 ____150.85 3.920.55 cumulative figures for the year. TOTAL REVENUES $27,126.18 $15,550.85 $22,320.55 2. The REVENUES and EXPENSES shown in the YTD (Year to Date) column combine EXPENSES the Center accounting records and check Cost of sales (4) $5,831.14 $84.18 $3,711.28 vouchers issued up to the date of the Acquisitions 18,334.65 8,820.42 10,270.52 statement. The Center’s payment of $4000 Business Expenses 250.00 .00 .00 comes in the 4th quarter. Publications 178.52 .00 .00 3. The COMMITMENTS are taken from the Travel 688.26 .00 .00 records of the Acquisitions Dept, and the Personnel: project coordinator and are intended to Processing Fees $.00 $.00 $.00 reflect projected costs of past decisions by Cataloging ....2,34?,61 ___ 30121 _______m CAMP and ongoing operations. TOTAL EXPENSES 27,630.18 9,208.51 13,981.80 (Bulawayo Chr. & E. Prov. Her. not included; await CAMP decision.) REVENUES LESS EXPENSES ($504.00) $9,342.34 $8,338.75 4. Income from sales and cost of sales reflect pass-through funds, with a small profit COMMITMENTS (3) expected. Income from sales may reflect Materials on order (5) $1,636.00 pre-payments. Materials approved (6) 4,907.00 5. This represents commitments for FY93 Non-material expenses 1,800.00 only, not ongoing commitments. TOTAL COMMITMENTS 6. Estimated cataloging ($1200) and travel 8,343,00 expenses ($600). AVAILABLE FUNDS $34,891.65 $25.545.06 CAM P COM M ITM ENTS Bornu People (Zaria). 23 Mar. 1963-18 July 1964. 1 r. LC $30 Burger (Cape Town). May 8-30,1987. 1 r. Yale. Afrique et le M onde............................................................. $1037 Cape Times (Cape Town) 1911-1913. 31 r. SAL $399.34 Bulawayo Chronicle. 1925-Dec. 1949 (87 r ) .......................$5470 Catalog of materials filmed by cooperative microfilm project, Courrier d’Afrique, 1930-1971............................................ $1940 Haile Sellassie I University & Syracuse University. 1974. Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 1954-1961 Photocopy. Moniteur Africain (Dakar), Apr. 1961-1967 Commission of Enquiry into the 1986 unrest and alleged South African Advertiser & Mail, 1824-1959 ..................... $630 mismanagement in Kwandebele. 2 r. Yale deposited neg; UC Weekly Review (Nairobi), Feb. 1975-1991.........................$1300 $29.38 Congopresse, Nov. 1 ,1947-Sept. 15,1951. 4 r. UC $517.97. * Daily Comet (Kano) 1 Mar. 1962-15 June 1966. 3 r. LC $90 CAM P TITLES RECEIVED SINCE 4/15/93 Daily Mail (Freetown). Aug-Dec 1952. 1 r. BLNP. See Sierra Leone... * Indicates original filming. Eastern Observer (Onitsha). May 1963-Apr 1964. 1 r. LC $30 Action (Tunis) Apr 25, 1955-Dec. 30,1957. 3 r. (16mm)Yale Eastern States Express (Aba). July 1963-June 1965. 3 r. LC Advance (Yaba, Nigeria). 8 Oct. 1967-10 Apr. 1976. 1 r. LC $90. $30. Gaskiya ta fi kwabo (Zaria). 14 Dec. 1962-14 Aug 1964. 1 r LC Afrique action (Tunis). Oct. 17-Dec. 26,1960. 1 r (16mm) Yale $30 Agriculture et elevage au Congo Belge et dans les colonies Habari za Leo (Dar es Salaam). 21 May 1948-24 Feb. 1959 1 r. tropicales et subtropicales. 1-14,5 (1927-1940). 4 r UC BLNP $83.45; & 6 Feb. 1953-24 Feb. 1956 1 r. LC $30. $510.23 * Irohin Yoruba (Lagos). 6 Mar. 1963-6 Dec. 1966 & Aug. 1973- Amana (Ikeja). 6 Apr.-31 Aug. 1981. 1 r. LC $30 Dec. 1979. 4 r. LC $120. Beira news. 2 Apr 1930- 28 Dec. 1935. 7 r. BL $812.55 Isibuto Samavo (Newtondale), 1843-1844.1 r. SAL $32. Beira news and East Coast chronicle. 4 Sept. 1917-30 Dec. 1921. Isitunywa Sennyanga (King William’s Town). Aug.-Dec. 1850. 5 r. BL Included in Beira news. (Filmed with Isibuto Samavo) AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 6 MARCH 1994 Nigerian Daily Times (Lagos). Jan. 1930-July 1938; Jan. 1939- Dione, Saer. Etude du conte africain: quelques contes de Birago Dec. 1940. 39 r. BLNP $2639.43 Diop. Paris, EHESS, 1983. Nigerian Mirror (Onitsha). 1975- 5 Feb. 1976. 3 r. LC $90 Dione, Salif. L ’Education traditionelle a travers les chants et les poemes Seereer. Dakar, 1983. Nigerian Statesman (Owerri). July-Dee. 1979 & Feb. 1980-June Dioum, Abdoulaye. Exploits de Messire Isse Dieye: un épisode 1981. 5 r. LC $150 de Pepopee du Kayor. Dakar, 1978. Nigerian Tide. (Port Hacourt). [Dec. 4 , 1971-Dec. 29,1973] Faye, Amad. Poesie funebre en pay Seereer du Sine. Dakar, (very scattered issues) 1974-1982. 27 r. LC $810. 1980. Nile Mirror (Juba, Sudan). 18 Sept. 1970-Dec. 31,1979; Dec. Houdeau, Serge. Vache et la Chevre: Conte rwandais des “Deux 20, 1980-Aug. 8, 1981. lr. LC $30. filles”. Paris. Nyasaland Times (Blantyre, Malawi). 1925-1932. 8r. BLNP Keita, Abdoulaye. Tradition orale Wolof, contes et taasu. Dakar, $541.90 1986. Records relating to the Internal Affairs of Madagascar, 1930-39. Ly, Amadou. Epopee de Samba Gueladiegui: vue version inédite. M1442. R. 89 [Per publ. catalog no. (M1441) was misprint, Dakar, 1978. M1442 r.89 covers Madagascar.] SRI $23 Ly, Amadu. Epopee de Samda Gueladio Diegui. Dakar, 1975. Sierra Leone Daily Mail. (Freetown). Jan.14,1933-July 31, Mbengue-Ndoye, Mariama. Literature orale Leboue. Dakar, 1952. 28 r. BLNP $1,895.15 1981. Simons Papers, reels 2-10. Nordiska Africa Institute. Deposit Mounkaila, Fatimata. Mythe et l’histoire dans la geste de from Yale. Zabarkane. Dakar, 1985. South Africa: the Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989. 439 fiche + Ndiaye, A. Raphaël. Notion de parole chez les Seereer, Sénégal. 2 guides. C-H $4,326.00 Paris, INALCO, 1981. South African Freedom News, 1963-1966. 1 r. UC $65.84 * Ndiaye, Moussa. “Galaay” ou la quete de l’épousé dans un conte Sudan Daily Herald. 3 Jan. 1941-Dec 31, 1942. 4r. BLNP Woof. Dakar, 1987. $1,083.20 Includes: Sudan herald. Jan. 5 , 1943-Mar. 30,1952. Sagna, El Hadji. Problématique de l’enfant dans la littérature 14 r. BLNP traditionelle Diola. Dakar, 1987. Twentieth century political ephemera from the Institute of Sambou, Jean-Joseph. Notion du Boekin dans le conte Diola. Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Africa, pt. I Dakar, 1984. South Africa: political parties, trade unions and pressure Sene, Moustafa. Surnaturel et la représentation du merveilleux groups. 189fiches. Altair $1244.00 dans les ethno-textes Wolof. Dakar, 1988. Twentieth century political ephemera from the Institute of Sidibe, Fode Moussa Balla. Deux récits de chasse Banmana Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Africa, pt.2, Ndoronkelen et Bani-Nyenema. Dakar, 1984. Central Africa (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Siguine, Badoua. Surnaturel dans les contes Soninké. Dakar, Mozambique, Rhodesia, South West Africa, Swaziland, 1983. Zambia, Zimbabwe) 111 fiches. Altair $858.00 Sy, Amadou Abel. Geste Tiedo. Dakar, 1980. Twentieth century political ephemera from the Institute of Sy, Amadou Abel. Pekane, deux récits epiques des pécheurs Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Africa, pt. 3 toucouleur. Dakar. East Africa (Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, Tandina, Ousmane Mahamane. Epopee Zarma: Wangougna Issa Zanzibar) 69 fiches. pt. 4 West Africa (Gambia, Ghana, Korombeize Modi, ou Issa Koygolo, “mere de la science de la Nigeria, St. Helena, Sierra Leonne) 60 fiches. Altair $779.00 guerre.” Dakar, 1984. Umshumayeli Wendaba (Grahamstown). July 1837-Apr. 1841. Thiam, Mamadou Cherif. Genre satin co-laudatif: le Taasu-Wolof. Filmed with Isibuto Samavo. Dakar, 1979. Yancin dan Adam (Jos, Nigeria). 1 Apr.-26 Aug. 1981.1 reel. Wade, Magatte. Récits epiques Wolof. Dakar, 1988. LC $30 Wade, Magatte. Bataille de Dekhele: un épisode de l’epopee du Yoruba collection of William and Berta Bascom. 709 fiches. Kajoor. Dakar, 1980. ROSS $1990. Wane, Aminata. Gueladio Ham Bodedio, héros de la Poulagou a Zanzibar Voice. May 3 1 ,1931-July 5,1936. 4 reels. NYPL travers deux récits epiques peuls. Dakar, 1980. $136 THESES FROM KESTELOOT COLLECTION Aye-Monnet, Agnes. Chants et chansons en pays Akye. Dakar, 1985. Cissoko, Sekene-Mody & Sambou, Kaoussou. Receuil des traditions orales des Mandinguies de Gambie et de Casamance. Niamey, 1974. Couloubaly, Pascal Baba F. Associations Bambara et leurs chants récréatifs. Dakar, 1984. Couloubaly, Pascal Baba. Enfance Bambara. Dakar, I.F.A.N., 1986. Diagne, Leon. Système de parente matrilinéaire Serere. Dakar, 1985. Dieng, Samba. L ’Epopee d’El Hadj Omar, versions toucouleur. Dakar, 1984. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 7 MARCH 1994 ALC REGULARS Working list o f telephone, email, fax and ZIP code numbers for ALC regulars. Regulars are those who attended two meetings within the past three years or who recently joined; includes some who are not members of ASA, which is a requirement for voting. Fax numbers are truncated from telephone number whenever possible. Helene Baumann.......................919-660-5847; hsb@mail.lib.duke.edu; fax 684-2855; 27708 Ruby A. Bell-Gam.................... 310-825-1518; ecz5rbg@mvs.oac.ucla.edu; fax 206-4974; 90024 Phyllis B. Bischof......................510-642-0956; pbischof@library.berkeley.edu; f. 3-7891; 94720 John Blosser.............................. 708-491-2941; jblosser@nuacvm.acns.nwu.edu; fax 8306; 60208 Chris B o y d................................ 508-540-5378; fax 508-548-6801; 02540 Dan Britz....................................708-491-7684; dbritz@nuacvm.acns.nwu.edu; fax -8306; 60208 Joseph C aruso...........................212-854-8045; jc93@columbia.edu; fax -2495; 10027 J.M.D. Crossey..........................203-432-1882/3; Crossey@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu; fax -7231; 06520 Henrietta D ax............................ South Africa: 021-23-5739; fax-6441 David L. Easterbrook............... 708-491-7684; dleaster@nuacvm.acns.nwu.edu; fax -8306; 60208 Kay Elsasser.............................. 202-707-6485; elsasser@mail.loc.gov; fax -2824; 20540 Victoria K. Evalds.................... 215-557-4417; ppvd@penndrls.upenn.edu; 10903 Onuma Ezera............................. 517-355-2366; 20676oez@msu.edu; fax 336-1445; 48824 Gregory A. Finnegan................ 603-646-2868; greg.fmnegan@dartmouth.edu; fax -2167; 03755 Karen F u n g ............................... 415-725-3505; Karen.fung@hoover.stanford.edu; fax -4655; 94305 Beverly G ray............................. 202-707-1985; gray@mail.loc.gov; fax -1724; 20540 Mari eta Harper..........................202-707-9896; fax -9440; 20540 David H enige............................ 608-262-6397; henige@vms.macc.wisc.edu; 53706 David Hogarth...........................U.K.: 081-341-6570; fax -0284; telex: 8951182GECOMSG Sharon Howard.......................... 212-283-5317; fax 491-6760; 10037 John Bruce Howell....................319-335-5885; john-howell@uiowa.edu; fax -5900; 52242 A1 K agan....................................217-333-6519; kagan@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu; fax 244-0398; 61801 Mary Alice Kraehe................... 804-924-4989; mak7u@virginia.edu; fax -4337; 22903 Joseph L auer............................. 517-355-1118; 20676jjl@msu.edu; fax 336-1445; 48824 David Leishman........................U.K.: 44-636 813774 Louise Leonard..........................904-392-0351; louleon@nervm.bitnet; fax -7251; 32611 Robert L esh............................... 708-491-7585; rlesh@nuacvm.acns.nwu.edu; fax -8306; 60208 Helen MacLam..........................203-347-6933; fax -346-8586; 06457 Peter M alanchuk.......................04-392-4919/4920; petmala@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu; fax -7251; 32611 Valerie Sandoval Mwalilino.... 202-707-9894; mwalilin@mail.loc.gov; fax -9440; 20540 Razia N an ji............................... 904-392-4919; raznanj@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu; fax -7251; 32611 Dorothy Niekamp..................... 812-855-7511; niekamp@ucs.indiana.edu; fax -7933; 47405 Patricia Ogedengbe.................. 708-491-7684; fax -8306; 60208 Hans Panofsky...........................708-475-8974; 60202 Elizabeth J. Plantz.................... 708-491-7585; eplantz@nuacvm.acns.nwu.edu; fax -8306; 60208 Yvette Scheven..........................217-359-7735; scheven@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu; 61820 Nancy J. Schmidt...................... 812-855-1481; schmidtn@ucs.indiana.edu; fax -8068; 47405 Mette Shayne............................ 708-491-7684; mshayne@nuacvm.nwu.edu; fax -8306; 60208 Denise M. Shorey......................609-258-5307; dmshorey@pucc.princeton.edu; fax -4105; 08544 Francoise S orieul......................Laval, Quebec G1K 7P4: 418-656-2500; fax -7461 Andrea Stamm...........................708-491-7587; astamm@nuacvm.acns.nwu.edu; fax -8306; 60608 Janet Stanley.............................202-357-4875; fax -4879; 20560 Ruth Thomas.............................Nairobi: 254/2 225-484; fax 254/2 217-646 Gretchen W alsh.........................617-353-3726; gwalsh@acs.bu.edu; fax -2084; 02215 Dorothy Ann Washington.........212-930-0704; fax 21-2546; 10018 Thomas Weissinger.................. 607-255-5229; blzx@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu; fax -0784; 14850 David Westley...........................617-353-3726; c/o gwalsh@gwalsh@acs.bu.edu; fax -2084; 02215 Dawn W illiam s........................ 708-491-7585; dawnwill@nuacvm.acns.nwu.edu; fax -8306; 60208 Dorothy Woodson......................716-645-2817; unldorot@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu; fax -3859; 14214 Meseratch Zecharias................ 315-443-4612; mtzechar@hawk.syr.edu; fax -9510; 13210 Hans Zell................................... U.K.: (0865) 726686; fax -793298; telex: 94012872ZELLG Joanne Zellers...........................202-707-5528; zellers@mail.loc.gov; fax -1724; 20540 AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 8 MARCH 1994 OTHER NEWS NEW S FR O M OTHER ASSOCIATIONS developing their library collection. Address: PO Box 1350, Ta­ male, Northern Region, Ghana. CALENDAR ALA: RESOURCES A T LIBRARIES June 23-30,1994, Miami - ALA Annual Conf. AND RESEARCH CENTERS ?Jan. 1995, - Midwinter Meeting Mar. 29-Apr. 1,1995, Pittsburgh - ACRL National Conf. The Hardyman Madagascar Collection was donated in 1991 to June 22-29, 1995, Chicago - ALA Annual Conf. the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Univer­ Jan. 19-25,1996, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting sity of London. The 70 shelves of books and journals were June 20-27,1996, Orlando - ALA Annual Conf. collected by Mr. J.T. Hardyman, who lived in Madagascar from Feb. 14-20, 1997, Washington - Midwinter Meeting 1946 to 1973. June 26-July 2, 1997, San Francisco - ALA Annual Conf. The Library has cataloged about a third of the total. With 1998, New Orleans - Midwinter Meeting funding from the British Library, they are working through the 1998, Washington - ALA Annual Conf. substantial sections on church and mission history. They hope to 1999, Philadelphia - Midwinter Meeting attract further funding to complete the cataloging and publish a 1999, New Orleans - ALA Annual Conf. printed catalog. IDC is investigating filming to create a microfiche 2000, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting set. Further details available from: Mrs. R.B. Turfan, Librarian, 2000, Chicago - ALA Annual Conf. Africa Division, SOAS Library. National Conf. of African-American Librarians: Aug. 5-7, 1994, Milwaukee G RANT APPLICATIONS IFLA Annual Conference: Aug. 21-27, 1994, Havana African Archives and Museums Project awards grants of up to Aug. 22-26, 1995, Istanbul $15,000. This project is administered by the Joint Committee of 1996, Bejing African Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the 1997, Geneva American Council of Learned Societies with funding from the Ford 1998, Edmonton Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Archives and muse­ ums in sub-Saharan Africa are invited to submit applications by Book Fairs: June 17,1994 to: African Archives and Museums Project, SSRC, May 28-31, 1994 - Pan-African Children’s Book Fair (Nairobi) 605 Third Ave., New York, NY 10158. Tel.: 212-661-0280. Aug. 3-7, 1994 - Zimbabwe International Book Fair AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION PERSONNEL CHANGES At the Mid-Winter Meeting in Los Angeles, the ALA Council passed a resolution endorsing the South African Council of Churches Beverly Gray became chief of the African and Middle Eastern Investment Code. The resolution ends ALA’s divestment policy, Division, Library of Congress, effective February 6. This post has effective after the majority rule election is certified in April. It been vacant since Julian Witherell retired Aug. 31,1991. passed at the urging of the Social Responsibilities Round Table and after much debate. Michigan State University will not be filling the position of The Social Responsibilities Round Table and the ALA Black Africana cataloged Lauer’s assignment in Cataloging is being Caucus will co-sponsor a panel (at the annual meeting in Miami) increased from 20 to 40 percent. on linking African librarians with American librarians. Three African librarians temporarily in the United States will report on MIT Libraries seeks an Archives Specialist for the Rotch Library current conditions in their countries and how American libraries Visual Collections/Aga Khan Archives. Responsibilities include might help. For further information, contact A1 Kagan (Univ. of organizing, maintaining, and developing the Aga Khan Program Illinois at Champaign-Urbana). Visual Archives. Responsible for slides and other materials on architecture, art and urban design in the Islamic world; also African, Middle Eastern and Asian architecture. FREE M ATERIALS OFFERED AND REQUESTED Requires: graduate degree or equivalent in architectural and art history of Islamic and developing world; 2 years of library/archival Notes on requests for books are listed as received, experience, with focus on visual materials; experience with per­ without any endorsement by the editor, MSU orALC. sonal computers and database management; reading knowledge of American Council of Learned Societies has prepared a Manual for one foreign language. Hiring salary range: $26-28,000. International Book and Journal Donation. Available for $10. Call: Applications received by May 15, 1994 will receive priority 212-697-1505, ext. 131. consideration. Complete applications, which consist of a letter of application, resume, and three references, should be sent to: University for Development Studies (Tamale) admitted its pio­ Search Committee for Archives Specialist (LST) neer students in September 1993, offering courses in agriculture, The Libraries, Room 14S-216 health sciences, integrated development, and basic and applied Massachusetts Institute of Technology sciences. Its Acting Librarian (I.K. Antwi) seeks assistance in Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 9 MARCH 1994 RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE The following items have come to the attention o f the editor. Alemna, A.A. “African Library Science Journals: The Missing Link.” Scholarly Publishing, 25, 1 (Oct. 1993): 48-52. THESIS Alemna, A.A. “A Bibliography of Library Development in Ghana, 1950-1969.” Reference Librarian, 40: 189-199. Mwila, Apollinaris Buleti. “The Use of the University of Zambia Library by the Social Science, Humanities and Science Faculties.” Ephraim, P.E. “Medical Practice, Research and Training in Ph.D. thesis, University of Michigan, 1993. 191pp. Order no: Nigeria: The Current State of Interlibrary Loan and Document DA9332140. Supply ” Interlending & Document Supply, 21, 3 (1993): 26-33. Survey based on 108 responses to questionnaire mailed to 191 faculty. Found that humanities faculty, and then social science Kisiedu, C.O. “A Survey of Past Post-Graduate Diploma Students faculty, used library more than science faculty. — DAI 54:2367A. of the Department of Library and Archival Studies of the Univer­ sity of Ghana, 1970/71-1980/81.” Journal of Information Science, 19 (1993): 481-8. JOURNALS & ARTICLES Kuntz, Patricia S. “African Studies Computer Resources.” Col­ Information Trends Newsletter (Univ. of Botswana, Library & lege & Research Libraries News, Feb. 1994, p. 68-74. Information Studies), v. 2, no. 1 (Jan. 1994) focuses exclusively on the new vacation course (June 1994) on the development of new Roberts, Winston. “IFLA Activities in Support of Librarianship in management approaches. Africa.” African Research and Documentation, no. 61 (1993): 1- 11 . Innovation (University of Natal), no. 7 (December 1993) focused on issues in children’s librarianship. Sitzman, Glenn L. “A Bibliography of Library Management in Sub-Saharan Africa;” & “Bibliography of Sub-Saharan African International Information & Library Review, 25 (1993): Librarianship, 1990.” Advances in Library Administration and • Nweke, K.M.C. “National Libraries as Institutes of Interna­ Organization, v. 11 (1993): 267-318. tional Understanding Among Member States of ECOWAS.” • Seeds, R. “Academi c Lib rary Service i n the Republ ic of Burundi.” International Journal of Information and Library Research, v. 5, no. 1 (1993) includes: • Alemna, A. Anaba. “Library and Information research in Africa: Obstacles and Workshops.” • Malumfashi, M.U. “African Library Science Journals Work­ shop.” REFERENCE SOURCES NOTES ing the data from disk, which replaced the cards previously supplied. ARTS Abstracts is published quarterly for ARTS (Office of Analy­ sis, Research, and Technical Support), Bureau for Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development by the Africa Bureau Infor­ INDEXES AND EDITIONS OF THE mation, which is operated by the Academy for Educational Devel­ NEW YORK TIMES opment under contract to USAID. Summer 1993 issue abstracted by James F. Green (Michigan State University) 14 documents, with information on ordering copies from the A.I.D. Development Information Services Clearinghouse. Contact: Af­ Information Access Company, the producers of Expanded Aca­ rica Bureau Info. Ctr., Room 2664 NS, Washington, DC 20523- demic Index (ACAD), indexes both the National and Late City 0037; tel: 202-736-4663. editions of the New York Times. (N) after the page numbers indicates the National edition; (L), the Late City edition. Most Index Islamicus plans annual printed volumes, starting with the articles appear in both editions, and ACAD cites both if page volume for 1993 which is scheduled for the end of 1994. Along numbers are different. But some appear only in one edition. And with three preliminary advance fascicles, these will replace the there are even some differences in regional versions of the National present Quarterly Index Islamicus. A series of two-year cumula­ edition. ACAD indexes the West Coast (San Francisco) version of tions is also planned, to continue the 1981-1985 cumulation.— the National edition. MELA notes, no. 58-59, p.24. The Michigan State University Library gets the Chicago version of the National edition in hard copy, but the microfilm “replace­ JALA has temporarily suspended its policy of listing LC-Nairobi ment” is for the Late City edition. As most (if not all) libraries acquisitions. The editors are experiencing difficulties download­ AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 10 MARCH 1994 discard the paper as microfilm becomes available, it is very The fourth edition of ABIP lists more than 23,000 titles pub­ difficult to locate a copy of an older article that appeared only in the lished through the end of 1991 from 745 publishers in 45 countries. National edition. Records on OCLC and RLIN do not reflect these It includes not only commercial trade books, but also publications differences. of libraries, university departments, research institutes, profes­ sional and scholarly societies. Like previous editions it was compiled from questionnaires sent to publishers and includes only NEW REFERENCE TITLES publications from those publishers who returned the question­ naires. Details on the method of compilation are provided in the The following items or issues are noted. introductory section (p. ix). For more titles, see the annual “Africana Reference Books" The publishing output of the continent is substantially larger in The African Book Publishing Record, no. 2. than represented in ABIP not only due to the lack of cooperation from publishers, which the editor bemoans, but also because no attempt has been made to cover government publications, serials, African Literature: Pilot Bibliography o f Research in Southern pamphlets of less than 10 pages, publications in Arabic, or the Africa, 1908-1991, compiled by G.M.M. Grobler & E.M. Briers. publications of mainstream South African publishers. No indi­ Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1993. (StudiaComposita ; 17) vidual could possibly compile a list comprising all of these ISBN 0869818023. publications. Hans Zell is to be commended for his persistence in Separate sections for General, Nguni, Sotho, Tsonga, Venda and obtaining responses from those publishers whose books fall within Shona. the scope of ABIP. The arrangement of the fourth edition of ABIP is similar to that Directory of African and African-American Studies in the United of previous editions. The introduction in the first volume makes States, 8th ed. Atlanta, Ga: African Studies Association Press, comparisons with previous editions and comments briefly on the 1993?. economics of publishing in Africa. The scope and arrangement are presented clearly and concisely, and some general guidance on how Price, Helen C., Colin Hewson & David Blake. Theses on Africa, to use the Sears subject headings effectively is provided. There are 1976-1988: Accepted by the Universities of the United Kingdom lists of abbreviations and symbols used in the bibliographic and Ireland. London: Hans Zell Publishers, for the Standing entries. In the directory of publishers, distributors in the U.S., Conference on Library Materials on Africa, 1993. 350p. U.K. and Europe also are noted where relevant. Addresses of the Includes author and subject indexes. Lists 3654 items, com­ publishers and distributors are provided. The list of publishers pared with 3497 in the two previous volumes. Covers Egypt, deleted from this edition of ABIP notes which ones are known to including Ancient Egypt. No attempt is made to provide compre­ have ceased publication, merged with another publisher, or changed hensive coverage of research in Ireland. No pagination or order their name. Some, such as the Human Sciences Research Council numbers with entries. Sources not listed. (South Africa) and Makerere University Library (Uganda), are still The quarterly Index to theses with abstracts accepted for higher publishing, but did not return the questionnaires for either the third degrees by the universities o f Great Britain and Ireland and the or fourth editions of ABIP. Council for National Academic Awards should be consulted for Volume one includes the author and title lists, while volume two updates and additional information. Some British theses are also includes the subject list. Complete bibliographic information, listed in Dissertation Abstracts International (and in ASA News). price, country of publication and language symbols are included for all entries in both volumes. Materials in 120 African languages are included. They are easy to locate in the subject volume, which has BO O K REVIEW S subdivisions under each language for fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, and linguistic materials including dictionaries, grammars FOURTH EDITION OF AFRICAN BOOKS IN PRINT and pedagogical materials. All African language titles also include A review by Nancy J. Schmidt (Indiana University) the title translated into English which is placed in brackets. The subject volume includes cross-references which facilitate finding Hans M. Zell, ed. African Books in Print/Livres Africains related materials. Disponibles. London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1993. 2 vols. When one considers how rapidly books published in theU.S. and (lviii+1448 pp.) $400 Europe go out of print, it is interesting to note that the fourth edition ofABIP includes numerous titles from previous editions, including African publishing has grown steadily, despite economic prob­ the first. Titles in print from previous editions include not only lems in most African countries, since the first edition of African school books, but scientific and technical reports, university, Books in Print (ABIP) was published in 1975. The first edition library and research institute publications as well. The large included some 6000 titles from 188 publishers and represented a number of pedagogical materials including textbooks, supplemen­ landmark in the bibliographic control of indigenous African pub­ tary readers and study guides listed in the fourth edition exemplify lishing by listing in one volume a significant number of publica­ the dominance of educational publishing that is characteristic of tions from the continent. Without the four editions of ABIP most African countries. published since 1975 it would be virtually impossible to gain an The format of ABIP has improved significantly since the first impression of the extent of publishing on the continent, since most edition which had a uniform light type face, except for the names countries do not have their own books in print, and national of publishers and subject headings which were in bold type. The bibliographies, where published, are seldom published regularly, fourth edition is more attractively produced, with darker type and do not provide thorough coverage of local publications, with overall, more use of bold type, and more space between biblio­ the notable exception of South Africa. graphic entries, making it easier to read and use. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 11 MARCH 1994 African publishers and anyone interested in publications from This is the latest of a series of short bibliographies and guides Africa are deeply indebted to Hans Zell for compiling the first from the indefatigable Chris Merrett. The main section comprise: edition of African Books in Print, and keeping track of African 1) key government regulations (citations only), 2) books, 3) publishing for nearly two decades through the quarterly African periodicals, 4) indexes to books and periodicals, 5) organizations, Book Publishing Record, three more editions of African Books in and 6) chronology. The bulk of the books and pamphlets listed are Print, and four editions of the African Book World and Press. To products of various activist organizations such as the Lawyers say that ABIP is indispensable is an understatement! But what Committee for Human Rights and the (South African) Human more can one say? Without Hans Zell’s work there simply would Rights Commission, but there is a judicious selection of academic be no bibliographic control over African publishing at the conti­ writings. Nothing obvious is omitted, and there are a few Yale nental level. Library lacks. The periodicals are also primarily activist. Addresses of publi­ cations and organizations are given. Merrett’s column in Innova­ MERRETT’S SOURCE GUIDE tion: Appropriate Lihrarianship and Information Work in South­ A Review by Moore Crossey (Yale University Library) ern Africa (Pietermaritzburg) updates this type of information. There are few or no citation to articles. For this one needs to refer Merrett, Christopher. The Emergency o f the State: A Source Guide to the quarterly Southern African Update (Johannesburg: Univer­ to South African Political Issues, 1985-1990. Pietermaritzburg : sity of the Witwatersrand Library). All in all, an essential University of Natal Library (Publication series no. 8), 1993. ISSN reference work for those interested in the struggle for human and 1-874897-83-2. 60 p. civil rights in South Africa. NOTES ON MATERIALSAND VENDORS VENDOR ANNOUNCEM ENTS Oriental and African Books issued Catalogue no. 17 of OP books on Africa. Address: 73 Monkmoor Rd., Shrewsbury, Shropshire Dan Aiki Publications (c/o Edward L. Powe, 533 Conklin Place SY2 5AT, England. -Apt#6, Madison, WI 53706; tel: 608-259-9194) announces2 new titles: University Publications of America (UPA) is now the distributor • Combat Games o f Northern Nigeria (Black Martial A rts; v. 1). in the Americas for K.G. Saur research collections. 126p. + 55 photos. $50 for color photos; $35 for b&w. • The Lore o f Madagascar. 585p. Over 250 color photos from Aug. 1992-Aug. 1993 trip. $300. BO O K AW ARDS James Currey Publishers (54B Thornhill Sq., London N11BE) ASANews, Jan./Mar. 1994, p. 25-26, carries report with notes on has distributed its 1994 list of “Leading Academic Paperbacks on the winner and finalists for the 1993 Herskovits Award. ALN, Jan. Africa, Caribbean & Third World.” 1994, p. 13, had a brief list of Herskovits Award and ASA Text Prize winners and finalists. The following text prize finalist was Kalinga Publications (10A Pocket I, Mayur Vihar, Delhi-110091, omitted: India) has issued several publications about Africa, including India • AnAfric an American in SouthAfrica: The Travel Notes of Ralph and South Africa: A Fresh Start, Ankush B. Sawant, ed. (1994) Bunche, ed. Robert Edgar (Ohio UP, 1992). ISBN 81-85163-56-1. Rs. 400; £25; $50. ASA Children’s Book Award was presented to David Wisniewski Larry W. Bowman (458 Middle Turnpike, Storrs, CT 06268; tel: for his retelling and illustration of the Sundiata epic as: Sundiata: 203-429-6542) issues its Catalogue No. 1 (Jan. 1994) of antiquar­ Lion King o f Mali (NY: Clarion Books, 1992). ian books on the Indian Ocean and Littoral. Leishman & Taussig’s proposed 1994 trips are as follows: EVENTS • Zambia and Kenya in March-April; • Eritrea, Ethiopia & Sudan in July-August; Pan African Children’s Book Fair will be held in Nairobi, 28-31 • South Africa (PWV only), Lesotho & Malawi in Nov.-Dee. May 1994 at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre. Theme Their List 3/1993 NC offers new books mainly from Zimbabwe is “Learning Science at an Early Age.” Further information from and South Africa. They also now have agents in Mauritius and organizers at POB 61301, Nairobi. E-mail: cgl063. Seychelles. Address: 2 B Westgate, Southwell, Notts, UK, NG25 0JH, UK. Tel/Fax 0636-813774. Symposium on African Science Publishing is convened by the Southern African Book Development Education Trust (SABDET) Microform Academic Publishers (East Ardsley, Wakefield WF3 and organized by ZIBF(UK) for a half-day (March 23,1994) at the 2AT) announced the release of Annual Departmental Reports Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Presenters include Nda relating to Nyasaland, 1907-1964. Collection of 44 reels costs Dlodlo and Victor Nwankwo. £1738/$3080. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 12 MARCH 1994 Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) 1994 will be held in MUtiiri is a new journal in Kikuyu, to be published 3 times a year Harare on 3-7 August, with first 2 days reserved for the trade and beginning in January 1994. Edited by NgugT wa Thiong’o, it will 5-7 August open to the general public. In 1993, ZIBF attracted carry works created in Kikuyu as well as translations to Kikuyu. 44,000 visitors and 170 exhibitors from 35 countries. Cost for developed world: $20 + $1 per issue; $60 + $6 for annual The African Publishers Network (APNET) and ZIBF are orga­ subscription. nizing a 2-day conference immediately before ZIBF94. More details from Margaret Ling, ZIBF (UK), 25 Endymion Rd., Towards Democracy: Journal of the Institute for Multi-Party London N41EE; or from The Book House, 12 Selous Ave., Harare. Democracy. Quarterly. Available from P.O. Box 2811, Durban 4000, South Africa. LITERATURE ON TH E BO O K TRADE NEW SPAPERS Bellagio Publishing Network Newsletter (Comparative Education Center, SUNY at Buffalo, 14260), no. 9 (March 1994) carries: LESOTHO NEWSPAPERS: Notes from David Ambrose. • Hans Zell. “Publishing and Book Development in Africa 1993: • Lentsoe la Basotho - government paper A Checklist of Recent Literature,” p.11-17; • Lesotho Today - government paper • Carol Priestley. “Bibliography of African Book Sector Studies,” • Makatolle - old BCP (Basutoland Congress Party) paper p.17-19. • The Mirror - independent • Moafrika (formerly, The African) - independent; supported BCP • Mohlabani - old royalist Marematlou Freedom Party paper; SERIAL CHANGES briefly revived. • Mohlanka - paper of BNP (Basotho National Party) University of the Witwatersrand’s African Studies Institute • Moitseki - published by the Youth League of the now ruling (A.S.I.), which was established in 1972 and issues several series, BCP; earlier paper of same name came from a Trade Union became the Institute for Advanced Social Research (I.A.S.R.), Organisation. effective January 1994. The change reflects practice of the staff of • Mphatlalatsane - newspaper of royalist Marematlou Freedom ASI to research questions about social process that draw exten­ Party; usually in parallel English & Sesotho eds. sively on the African experience but occasionally transcend it. • Sechaba - newspaper of the Patriotic Front for Development; started with separate English and Sesotho eds. NEW SERIALS LIBERIAN NEWSPAPERS: African Publishing Review - Revista das publicaçoes africana = • Concern. V. 1, no. 4 (?Jan. 1994). Newsletter produced by the Revue des publications africaines is a bi-monthly publication of Mass Media Committee, Liberian Council of Churches, PO Box the African Publishers’ Network (APNET). Subscription rates: 10-2191,1000 Monrovia, 10 Liberia. $25 inside Africa; $40 or $50 (airmail), outside of Africa. Address: • Educator. V. 1, no. 1 (Jan.-March 1994). Produced by the PO Box 4209, Harare. Liberia National Educational Workers Union, PO Box 5855, Vol. 2, no. 5 (Sept/Oct 1993) carried a report on the APNET- Warren St., Monrovia. Editor-in-Chief: J. Kormah Bryemah. Bellagio meeting (Harare, 6 August 1993), news from various • Facts. Vol. 1, no. 3 (Dec. 31, 1993). Published by Promoters countries, Henry Chakava’s paper of June 1993 on government Inc., UN Drive, PO Box 4792,1000 Monrovia 20. Editor-in-Chief: policies toward publishing, and a critical (“Above all, pity the Momo V. Kanneh. reader who is unwittingly led to believe that publishing in Africa • New Democrat Weekly, v. 1, no. 7 = Jan. 13-19,1994. Published ... is the stuff martyrs’ dreams are made of.”) book review by L. by Society Publishers, 35 Center St., Monrovia. Tom Kamara, Humphrey. Publisher. African World, vol. 1, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1993) is a new magazine with the slogan: The Forum of People of African Descent. Cover Cameroon Post is a weekly that, in collaboration with the Chicago- price: $2.95; Can.$3.95; N40. Subscriptions: $15 for 6 issues from: based Ngambegroup, started printing herein December 1993. For African World, 29 Cottage St., Amherst, MA 01002. subscription rates and other information, contact the Ngambe Group, 1021 Desplaines Ave. Ste 102, Forest Park, IL 60130. Tel.: Ecrans d fAfrique = A frican screen. Ouagadougou, 2e trim. 708-366-7684. 1992-. ISSN 1240-2001. “Revue internationale de cinéma, télévision et video.” Effective 2d quarter 1993, became bilingual Maanta is the daily (except Friday) newspaper of UNOSOM II. and added parallel title. Subscription, outside Europe & Africa: Issue no. 167 appeared on November 18,1993. Hoover Institution FF120. Available from COE (Centro orientamento educativo), Via has acquired some issues. Lazzaroni 8,20124, Milan, Italy. Also available (for Africa) from: FEPACI, BP 01-2524, Ouagadougou 01. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 13 MARCH 1994 SELECTED NEW BOOKS Eirola, Martti. The Ovambogefahr: the OvambolandReservation in the Making: Political Responses o f the Kingdom ofOndonga to This section is generally limited to titles outside the regular the German Colonial Power, 1884-1910. Rovaniemi, Finland: book tradey or titles received by the editor. Many more titles Pohjois-Suomen Historiallinen Yhdistys, Societas Histórica and/or details on publisher addresses can be found in Joint Acquisitions Finlandiae Septentrionalis, 1992. 308p. (Studia Histórica List o f Africana (Northwestern University Library), The African Book Septentrionalia ; 22) ISBN: 9519617485. Address of publisher: Publishing Record (Hans Zell Publishers), American Book Publishing Historian laitos, Kasarmintie 8, SF-90100 Oulu, Finland. Record (Bowker), Accessions List: Eastern and Southern Africa (LC Office, Nairobi), or in one of the current national bibliographies. Gill, Stephen J. Lesotho: Kingdom in the Sky. Berg en Dal, Netherlands: Afrika Museum, 199? 215p. African Language and Literature Collection. Bloomington: Indi­ ana University Libraries, Feb. 1994. Spiral bound list (over 500 p.) Growth Renewed, Hope Rekindled: A Report on the Performance of published materials and field recordings in more than 700 o f the Development Fund for Africa, 1988-1992. Washington, DC: languages. $20 from African Studies Program, 221 Woodburn Agency for International Development, 1994. 68p. Available from Hall, IU 47405. AID, AFR/DP, Room 2495, Washington, DC 20523-0049. - continued on p . 14 Editorial Comments, continued from p .l technological change that inspires more faith is the access through Internet to library catalogs. If bibliographers and faculty can get keyword access to the on-order and in-process files of other institutions, some real sharing is probable. But as a bureaucracy dedicated to self-preservation, I expect librarians to emphasize “prompt” full cataloging. When is not happening (so far) is perhaps as revealing as what is. To my knowledge, no Africana bibliographers consulted with their peers at other institutions before the mid-March meeting of collection development heads. And there is no apparent interest in the available data (from shelflists or Conspectus/NCIP or keyword searches of OPACs) on relative collection strengths. Another approach is to look at which institutions have been AFRICANA DISSERTATIONS, 1988 -1993 most active in the field of African studies. The number of dissertations about Africa that have been listed in Dissertation A B C Abstracts International in the past five and a half years (i.e., Total Sub-Saharan Humanities v.49:no.3 through v.54:no.8, which generally covers 1988 to CIC Institutions mid-1993 titles) could be taken as an illustration of institu­ Indiana U. 68 59 26 tional strengths. The following table attempts to illustrate this Michigan State U. 82 79 9 with numbers in three columns: Northwestern U. 25 22 10 A - Total number of dissertations Ohio State U. 50 42 5 B - Total for Sub-Saharan Africa Pennsylvania State U. 32 29 4 (i.e., excluding those about Northern Africa) Purdue U. 23 20 0 C - Sub-Saharan African titles in fields of History, U. of Chicago (partial) 14 12 1 Language & Literature. U. of Illinois at U-C 57 51 19 U. of Iowa 18 17 6 These numbers were generated by keyword searches of the U. of Michigan 45 21 4 database used to create “Recent Doctoral Dissertations” in U. of Minnesota 48 28 10 ASA News. About 20-25 percent of the total is for theses from U. of Wisconsin-Madison 80 75 27 Canada or U.K. Emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa (columns B and C) was designed to set aside those titles about the Ancient Selected other institutions: (or later) Mediterranean world. These usually come from Boston U. 53 45 10 Middle Eastern or Classics programs not usually closely Columbia U. 50 37 7 connected with African Studies programs. Subset for (some) Columbia U. Teachers College 38 35 3 humanities was created to illustrate strengths in fields of Cornell U. 58 52 4 arguably heavier library use. Results are preliminary and Harvard U. 43 29 4 subject to errors and varying interpretations. Howard U. 51 49 13 The table illustrates the political problem. Most institu­ New York U. 42 26 2 tions with active African Studies programs will want to be Stanford U. 31 25 10 listed as participants in a cooperative scheme. But one of the SUNY at Buffalo 19 14 2 apparently smaller programs (Northwestern) has a library U. of California, Berkeley 55 49 5 with the staff and funds to cover Africa more-or-less compre­ U. of California, Los Angeles 75 65 23 hensively. Other libraries will have materials not held by U. of Florida 25 23 7 Northwestern, but not enough to write about except for U. of Pittsburgh 41 36 1 academic politics. Yale U. 38 25 7 Total in Database 3295 2667 425 AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 14 MARCH 1994 New Books, continued from p.13 Kulubnarti I: The Architectural Remains, by William Y. Adams, is the first of 3 vols, that will report on excavations carried out by the University of Kentucky in 1969 and 1979. Available for $35 from Kentucky Anthropological Research Facility, c/o Dept, of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506- 0024. Ndong, Jean. Banque de données socio-économiques sur le Sénégal de 1980 à 1992. Dakar: Bureau d’Etudes et de Recherche Documentaire sur le Sénégal, 1993. Available for 600FF from author (BP 116, Dakar). US. Business in South Africa 1994, along with its companion volume, International Business in South Africa 1993 is available to subscribers of IRRC’s South Africa Review Service. For further information: Alison Cooper, Investor Responsibility Research Center Inc., 1755 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Suite 600, Washing­ ton, DC 20036. Tel:202-234-7500. Work Against AIDS: Workplace-based AIDS Initiatives in Zimba­ bwe, by Glen Williams and Sunanda Ray. London: ActionAid; Nairobi: AMREF, 1993. (Strategies for Hope; no. 8) 1872502253. £2.75. Others in this series are also about AIDS in Africa. Available from TALC, P.O. Box 49, St Albans ALI 4AX, UK. Informational packet about press launch in Harare (22 Nov.) was distributed by Strategies for Hope (20 Southfield RD., Oxford OX4 1NZ, UK). uonmnsui ^lunuoddo-pnbd (uoijov-dMjvmjiffv uv si {2SW \Z ’ON £ £ 0 1 -^ 8 8 ^ ueSiqoiw ‘Su isu bi }seq IW ‘Suisueq g J3JU 33 IBUOI}BlU9}UI 0 0 1 aivj X}ISJ3AIUfl 31BJS U eS lip ip ^ i TOVXSOd ’STL H3LN33 SHIdOLS NV3IR3V •3jq pjojg-uoK