AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER No. 82, Aprii 1995 ISSN 0148-7868 Africana Libraries Newsletter (ALN) is published quarterly by the Michigan State University Libraries and the M SU Africa n Studies Center. Those copying contents are asked to citeAZJVas their source. ALN is produced to support the work of the Africana Librarians Council (ALC) of TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 ACAL26 & Library Catalogs Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana Library, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. Acronyms Tel.: 517-355-1118; E-mail: 20676jjl@ m su.edu; F ax:517-432-1445. Deadline for no. 83: July 1, 1995; for no. 84: October 1, 1995. ALC/CAMP N EW S............................................2 Calendar Schedule for Evanston (May 1995) EDITOR’S COMMENTS Minutes of CAMP Meeting in Toronto (Nov. 1994) The core of this issue are the CAMP minutes, lightly edited, from the meeting last OTHER N EW S...................................................6 November. Other noteworthy items include reports on ALA in Philadelphia, a News from other Associations petition from Hennepin County, and the second edition of a one-page list of ALC Calendar regulars. Contributions came from many sources, including Ruby Bell-Gam, ALA/USIA Fellows Program Sanford Berman, Phyllis Bischof, Moore Crossey, Beverly Gray, Karen Fung, ALA reports: CC: AAM & CC:DA Nancy Schmidt, Mette Shayne, Janet Stanley, Ruth Thomas, and Tom Weissinger. Info Africa Nova Conference Free Materials Offered & Requested The completion of this issue was delayed by my attendance at the 26th Annual Resources at Libraries and Research Centers Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), in Santa Monica, March 24-26. ACAL Grant Reports: NUL Conference Papers honored Joseph Greenberg whose first revision of African language families Personnel Changes: Crafts, Nitecki, Petroff appeared 40 years ago. Classification was the topic of 4 of the 17 sessions, plus the opening session of the smaller 6th International Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Confer­ RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES & ence (Santa Monica, March 27-29). As might be expected, the consensus was that INFORMATION SCIENCE.......................... 7 the Greenberg outline is valid, but the arrangements of families within the four Books and Documents phyla have been and continue to be revised. Publications of African Library Associations Given the location of the conference and my interest in linguistic history, I was Journals & Articles inspired to present a paper on “African Languages in Library Catalogs—Keeping Current with Names, Codes and Links.” This attempt to open a dialogue with REFERENCE SOURCES.................................. 8 linguistics was less successful than my efforts to renew contacts with old friends and Notes Book - continued on p. 12 LETTERS & OPINIONS................................... 8 Petition Concerning Subject Headings :• ' . A e n o m m , I Other Headings Adopted by Hennepin County A C ftt - Association of College & Research Libraries (ALA) NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS .... 9 ALA - American Library Association (Chicago) Vendor Announcements ALC - Africana Librarians Council (formerly Archives-Libraries Events: ZIBF95 Committee) of ASA Literature on the Book Trade ASA ;- African Studies Association (Ujs# _ Online Files CAMP <^p^rative Africana Microform Project (CJRL) New Serials CRL - Center ^ libraries (Chicago) Videos i f ijpA:- International Federation of Library Associations Selected New Books LC - :Library of Congress MELA * Middle East Librarians Association ALC REGULARS............................................ 11 MSU - Michigan State University SCOLMÀ - Standing ConL on Library Materials on Africa lb - University UCLA- University of California, Los Angeles AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 2 APRIL 1995 AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL / CAMP NEWS CALENDAR OF FUTURE MEETINGS COOPERATIVE AFRICANA May 4-6, 1995, Evanston, IL - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. MICROFORM PROJECT (CAMP) November 3-6, 1995, Orlando - ASA Annual Meeting. BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES Spring 1996, Boston - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. Toronto, November 2, 1994 Fall 1996, San Francisco - ASA Annual Meeting. Fall 1997, Columbus - ASA Annual & ALC 40th Anniversary. Fall 1998, Chicago - ASA Annual Meeting. The meeting was convened at 2:15 pm by Chair John Howell, with Thomas Weissinger as Secretary. SCHEDULE FOR ALC/CAMP MEETINGS Member institutions (and their representatives) present: Boston U. IN EVANSTON (Gretchen Walsh, David Westley), Center for Research Libraries (revised; 3/1/95) (Marlys Rudeen), Columbia U. (Joseph Caruso), Cornell U. (Tom Weissinger), Dartmouth (Gregory A. Finnegan), Duke U. (Helene Thursday, May 4, 1995: Baumann), Harvard U. (Jill Coelho), Indiana U. (Nancy Schmidt), Afternoon........Tours of CRL Library of Congress (Joanne Zellers, Ruth Thomas), Michigan Meetings at Northwestern Univ. Library, Ver Steeg Lounge: State U. (Onuma Ezera, Joe Lauer), Northwestern U. (David 7:00-8:30pm....Meeting on Issues of Cooperation Easterbrook, Dan Britz, Mette Shayne), Princeton U. (Nancy (contact: Finnegan or Walsh) Pressman Levy), Stanford U. (Karen Fung), U. of California, 8:30-10:00pm ... 40th Anniversary Program Berkeley (Phyllis Bischof), U. of California, Los Angeles (Miki (contact Schmidt) Goral), U. of Florida (Peter Malanchuk, Razia Nanji), U. of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (A1 Kagan), U. of Iowa (John Howell), U. of Friday, May 5: Pennsylvania (Elisa Forgey), and Yale U. (Moore Crossey). Meetings at Norris University Center: Others present: Henrietta Dax (Clarke’s Bookshop), Peter Ekeh 8:30-9:30am.....ALC Executive (SUNY, Buffalo), Kenneth Lohrentz (U. of Kansas), Wonki Nam 9:30-11:00am ... Cataloging Committee (Central State U., Ohio), Margaret Richards (U. of Cape Town), ll:15-12:45pm . Bibliography Committee Dane Ward (Wayne State U.). 12:45-2:15pm ... Lunch (Provided by NUL at the Allen Center) Camp members not represented: Emory U., La Trobe U. (Aus­ 2:15-4:00pm....ALC Business Meeting tralia), New York Public Library (Schomburg Center), Ohio U., Queens U. (Canada), Scandinavian Inst, of African Studies, Syra­ Other: cuse U., Temple U., U. of Cambridge (African Studies Center), U. 4:15-5:00pm....Tours of Africana Library, Preservation Dept. of Chicago, U. of Minnesota, U. of Rochester, U. of Virginia, and & Mitchell Media Center U. of Wisconsin-Madison. 5:30-6:30pm Reception at Program of African Studies (620 Library Place) Minutes of the April 6, 1994 Durham meeting were approved by 7:00pm-...........Dinner/party chez Dan Britz (Glenview, IL) voice vote. An abbreviated version of the minutes appeared in no. 80 of ALN. Complete copies of the minutes were sent to all CAMP Saturday, May 6: member institutions. Meetings at Program of African Studies (620 Library Place): 8:30-9:30am.....ALC Executive ANNOUNCEMENTS: 9:30-ll:30am ... CAMP Business Meeting ll:30-12:30pm . CAMP Executive CAMP ELECTION (Howell) The Electoral Committee (Caruso and Bischof) completed its work Other: and passed a final slate of nominees on to the chair. Nominated for Afternoon ........Visit to Field Museum’s new permanent seats on the Executive Committee were Caruso and Howell. Africa exhibit Professor Peter Ekeh (SUNY at Buffalo) was nominated to fill the Early evening ... Cocktail party chez Bob Lesh seat for faculty advisor. (Rogers Park, Chicago) CAMP MEMBERSHIP DRIVE (Easterbrook) For information on lodging, transportation and other matters, A number of potential members were identified and contacted, and contact Liz Plantz, at eplantz@nwu.edu or (tel.) 708-491-7585. a list of new members was distributed including Emory, Harvard, the University of Minnesota, Ohio State, the University of Pennsyl­ vania, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, and the African Studies Centre at the University of Cambridge. Easterbrook noted there are still a few institutions from the initial mailing last spring which continue to consider CAMP membership. Howell added that he spoke about CAMP membership at various libraries visited last summer in South Africa and Zimbabwe. They all were interested to a certain degree and Howell hopes to follow up within 6 months to a year. A AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 3 APRIL 1995 question about the implications for lending to foreign libraries was new facility probably in late spring. Also of concern is whether asked. Marlys Rudeen answered that basically these institutions LC’s standing orders with CRL need to be cancelled and placed are asked to return borrowed items by airmail, and that most of them with the new filming organization. Rudeen’s response was that see an advantage to being able to buy microfilm at CAMP member standing orders are with CRL, and that the filmer acts as an agent prices. Caruso and Easterbrook will continue to work on the for CRL. membership drive. Zellers reported that LC has cooperated with the University of CRL REPORT (Marlys Rudeen) Florida for four titles from Uganda and Kenya, with LC acting as a (Please see the financial statement accompanying the minutes.) backup for issues Florida seeks for filming. Currently LC is Membership fees have increased to $21,100 so far this year; an sending only one title to Florida, the Daily Nation and Sunday additional $4,000 will come from CRL in the fourth quarter. Grant Nation (Kenya). She deferred to Ruth Thomas on filming arrange­ income of $19,550 is for invoices sent to Title VI centers who have ments currently possible between the Nairobi field office and CRL. committed some of their federal funds to a Joint Acquisitions Trip Thomas indicated that if CAMP wants to film miscellaneous to Senegal and other West African countries. [See details below.] newspapers not routinely filmed by LC, then the field office could To date CAMP has spent $13,371 in acquisitions. A question supply the issues. was asked about the figure paid ($10,923) for the Lagos court records. Rudeen answered that it was for equipment, supplies and There followed a discussion among CAMP members about coop­ labor. The equipment price for 35 mm filming was higher than eration between Florida and LC. It focused on a need for clarifica­ originally expected. The original price quote was for 16 mm film tion regarding whether LC or Florida is filming certain newspapers, which was hard to read because of poor resolution. Howell said that and how libraries will know which institution to place its orders the original price was quoted at about $3,000; and that once we with. A second discussion focused on what CAMP should do with started it was very hard to stop because there was no other the newspapers at the Nairobi office that LC no longer wants. microfilming going on in West Africa, with the possible exception Bischof moved that the CAMP Executive Committee should exam­ of Dakar. There was a question asked about CAMP’s commitment ine Ruth Thomas’ list of newspapers collected by the Nairobi ($1,100) for Courrier d’Afrique. Rudeen responded that CAMP office, determine priorities, and use discretionary funding (ca. had wanted to get a complete file from 1930 to 1972; that we have $10,000) for filming. The motion was approved by the member­ 1930-48 on order, and that between CAMP and CRL we own 1955 ship. through the first part of 1970 and 1959-67. CRL has some hard copy, but lacks a different source for purchase or more hard copy for TRIP REPORT TO SOUTHERN AFRICA (Howell) filming. Shayne indicated that Northwestern had some hard copy. Copies of Howell’s trip report were distributed. He directed attention to Appendix A which cited books and periodicals obtained Rudeen also mentioned that CRL CAMP location symbols are on the trip (almost all 1994 items). Some of these were obtained being added to OCLC records for the Bascom Yoruba collection from the book fair in Zimbabwe, others from the government analytics. She said that no cataloging expenses are included on the printers, and others from vendors. Howell said he visited Michele financial report because these were not reported, but they will be Pickover, Director of Archives at the University of Witwatersrand. included by the next meeting. There followed a discussion about She was asked about possibility of CAMP’s receiving a complete fees African institutions should pay for membership in CAMP. A copy of everything they have. Appendix B is a list of 22 volumes motion to charge $5.00 uniformly continent-wide was approved by (inventories) Howell received as gifts for CRL. Appendix C listed the membership. This membership fee will be reviewed in three a few of the popular magazines he found in Johannesburg. Appen­ years. dix 4 listed materials from the Zimbabwe government printer. Howell noted that the Zimbabwe material is inexpensive, but they LIBRARY OF CONGRESS REPORT (Zellers) will not mail items out of the country. In April LC reviewed its collection of foreign newspapers. Part of this review was to examine and encourage more active participation with other libraries through cooperative programs in filming for­ OLD BUSINESS eign newspapers. This is the third year of a moratorium on all but the highest priority of purchased serials. The review resulted in the Filming of the Lagos State Court Archives: following list for cancellation or acquisition from another source: Discussed during the financial report. Howell noted these film Kenya Leo, Taifa Jumapili, Taifa Leo (Kenya); Gboungboun (Ni­ have been paid for, but not yet received. geria); Heegan, Horseed (al-Tali ‘ah), Najmat Uktubar, Xiddigta Oktoobar (Somalia); Afrikaner Idise Tsaytung, Ilanga, Namib Times of Zambia and Sunday Times: Times, Rapport (South Africa); Mzalendo (Tanzania); and Focus, CAMP bought Oct./Dec. 1991- Jan ./Mar. 1992 from AILS. Howell Financial Times, and Star (Uganda). Reasons for removing these did not know whether AILS would be doing future issues. Someone titles from LC’s foreign newspaper holdings include: They are from the floor indicated that AILS had been filming the title for a either acquired and filmed by other U.S. libraries, or they were not while. received regularly and appear to no longer be published; and similar information is available in other sources received on a regular basis. Joint Acquisitions Trip to Acquire West African Materials: Bischof reported that the costs for microfilming equipment are Zellers related several questions from LC’s Head of Newspapers, enormously high, about $50-60,000 for a state-of-the-art camera. particularly his concern about the relationship between CRL and Checking with a commercial vendor (Norman Ross) she found that LC. Since LC currently gets about 40 titles from CRL on microfilm, if CAMP were to send someone in to do the filming it would cost he wanted to know whether CRL will continue filming foreign about $100,000. She said this amount was out of reach; and that newspapers. Rudeen replied that CRL is planning to start up at the digital scanning appears to be a technology that might have great AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 4 APRIL 1995 application to this particular project. A scanner should cost well val boxes equaling about seven reels of film. He estimates the cost under $1,000 (perhaps including software). If someone within the of filming to be around $1,500. Because a proper agreement must target country had a computer with sufficient compatibility, then be obtained we cannot act on this at present. This is something he one could go to the site and take a scanner to do the work, and the hopes to have finalized by the spring meeting. scanner could be available for other CAMP projects. Bischof said that a test project might have the potential for grant funding. A Microfilming Foreign Theses: secondary purpose of the trip is to attempt establishing newspaper Howell reported that at the last meeting we discussed theses and subscriptions for CAMP. Schmidt added that the Title VI directors microfilming them. He asked if this is going to be done, how are have funded the project with $39,100 for the next two years; and she we to prioritize among them. Rudeen added that CRL buys a lot of concurred that scanning is a possibility. foreign doctoral dissertations, and that most universities have very strict guidelines for what they will film for sale. She said we cannot Moore Crossey Report: film theses unless it is fairly clear there is permission to do so; and Yale is supposed to receive the archives of a Windhoek civil rights that African universities are often very sensitive about use of their organization related to legal defense for persons with treason and theses. Bischof noted that at the spring meeting Schmidt had other political offenses in South Africa and Namibia. Part of the suggested there be consideration of a cooperative project to catalog agreement with the donor agency is that the records of an observer theses; that apparently theses are acquired but not cataloged. mission from the U.S. to the Namibian post independence election Bischof recommended that this be added to the agenda of the be microfilmed and given to the National Archives of Namibia. He discussion concerning potential cooperative projects. She said she expects this collection will be received by the end of spring. was certainly in favor of filming, but we also need cataloging. Britz Other matters: Crossey will write to Michele Pickover and urge said that at the last meeting we were not so much talking about her to look into costs for filming additional Institute of Race microfilming dissertations because we realize the difficulty in Relations material. He said he has two hand written inventories obtaining permissions and so forth; but in 1979 he produced a book from her which lead him to think the material remaining is fairly on African dissertations on demand (Foreign Doctoral Disserta­ substantial. This is not something CAMP can act on at present. tions on Africa Purchased on Demand) which had been acquired by Another item concerned some SWAPO papers. The verbal agree­ CRL. He thinks it would be very useful to extend this list another ment Crossey has is that the originals will go to either the National fifteen years because of its usefulness in determining what CRL has Archive or University Library of Namibia. There are eleven archi­ acquired. CAMP FINANCIAL STATEMENT (NOVEMBER 2, 1994) FY1994 SEPTEMBER CLOSING (1) QUARTER NOTES: FUND BALANCE $25,549.31 $21,996.99 1. The F U N D B ALAN CE, REVEN UES, a n d EX PE N SE S sh ow n u n der each REVENUES co m p le te d q u a rte r are taken fro m the Grant Income $19,550.00 C e n te r ’s accou n tin g re c o rd s. E ach Membership fees (2) $22,400.00 21,100.00 colum n sh o w s cu m u lative fig u re s fo r Income from sales (4) 4,073.80 the year. TOTAL REVENUES $26,473.80 $40,650.00 2. The C e n te r ’s p a y m e n t o f $ 4 0 0 0 co m es in the fo u rth qu arter. EXPENSES 3. The C O M M IT M E N TS are taken fro m Cost of sales $3,711.28 the re c o rd s o f the A cq u isitio n s D ep t. Acquisitions 20,310.18 $13,371.00 a n d the p r o je c t c o o rd in a to r a n d are Business Expenses .00 .00 in ten ded to re flec t p r o je c te d c o sts o f Publications .00 .00 p a s t d ecisio n s by C A M P a n d on g o in g Travel 1,030.17 .00 o p era tio n s. Personnel: 4. In com e fro m sa le s m ay re flec t p r e ­ Processing Fees $.00 $.00 p a ym en ts. Cataloging 4,974.49 .00 5. P ro je c ts a p p ro v e d bu t n o t a ctu a lly TOTAL EXPENSES $30,026.12 $13,371.00 ordered, fu n d s n ot en cum bered. 6. E stim a te d c a ta lo g in g ($5,500) a n d REVENUES LESS EXPENSES ($3,552.32) $27,279.00 tra v el expen ses ($600). 7. A VAILABLE F U N D S eq u a ls the COMMITMENTS (3) F U N D B A L A N C E p lu s R E V E N U E S Materials on order $13,245.00 L E SS E X P E N S E S m inus TOTAL Materials approved (5) $ 3,787.00 COM M ITM E NTS. [The $19,550 Non-material expenses (6) $ 6,100.00 already committed to theTitle-VI Joint TOTAL COMMITMENTS $23,132.00 Acquisitions Trip was not included in Commitments.] AVAILABLE FUNDS (7) $26,143.99 AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 5 APRIL 1995 Somali Papers: Mittheilungen Von Forschungsreisenden und Schmidt distributed a list of Somali newspapers and journals with Gelehrten Aus Den Deutschen Schutzgebieten: holdings obtained from Worldcat. On the reverse side of the Mit Benutzung Amtlicher Q uellen..................... Enc: $100 handout was a list of scattered issues at Indiana which did not have Morning News, 1956-1959 ..................................... Enc: $315 records on Worldcat. Schmidt asked whether we might want to Notre Temps, 1991-1992......................................... Enc: $90 consider doing a miscellaneous collection of newspapers, as CAMP Nyanza Prov. Microfilm Collection, 1899-1963 ....Enc: $50 has done in the past. Her final item was an Oromo newspaper that Official publications of South African states: Indiana received with its Somali gift which also lacked a Worldcat Supplement 1983-1987........................................ Pd: $2,448.16 record. She requested anyone with holdings or information relating Vigilant. (Khartoum, Sudan) to any of these to send responses to her. She will prepare a proposal The Weekly Post...................................................... Pd: 325.00 for the spring meeting. Weekly Review (Nairobi)....................................... Pd: $1,189.08 The Zululand Observer........................................... Enc: $325 The meeting adjourned at 4:20 pm. The Zululand T im es................................................ Enc: $700 TITLES RECEIVED SINCE APRIL 1994 STANDING ORDERS Annual Departmental Reports Relating to Nyasaland 1907-1964. African Studies Association. Annual Meeting Papers, 1993-. 44 reels. $3,071.00 Tanzanian newspapers: Business Times, Baraza, Dunia Mpya, Annual Meeting Papers [Microform] / African Studies Association. Express, Heko, Kombora, Mizani, Motomoto, Watu, and Wakati. 11 reels. $1,807.00 Centre Aequatoria. Archives. 2309 riches. $2,339.00 CAMP COMMITMENTS Centre Point [Microform]. Afrique et le monde (Congolese Newspapers)..................$1,037 Vol.l, no.l - Vol.3, no.4 (11/70 - 2/73). $71.12 Courrier d’Afrique...............................................................$1,100 Echoes (Bamako)........................................................... est. $750 Documents, Papers & Memoranda on the Growth of the Pan- Filming for Tanzanian papers........................................ est. $900 African Movement (Since the 1950’s). 44 fiches & 2 copies of guide. $431.99 To be voted on: The Ghanaian Times [Microform]. July 2 - Dec. 29,1979. $34.00 1. Bulawayo Chronicle. CAMP owns: Oct. 12,1894-1924. (weekly issues only May 1897-1924) The People’s Weekly. No. 1-193 (1/14/81-10/23/85). $263.18 2. Chronicle (later title). [1960-June 1981] [July 2, 1982- Mar. 1985]. 1989+ . BLNP confirmed that their file contains weekly Resolutions of the Annual Summits of the Organisation of African issues only. 1925-1949 87r. @ £42 ea., or $5,500. Unity & Other Documents Since 1963. 35 fiches and 2 copies of guide. $348.01 TITLES ON ORDER African Eagle, 1/6/59-1/25/62 ................................. Enc: $420 Berliner Missionsberichte [Mf] 1836-1939 ...........Enc: $1,830 Courrier d ’Afrique, 1930-1948.................................Enc: $820 Drum (Central African ed.).......................................Enc: $1,200 Drum (Federation ed.)...............................................Enc: $450 Drum (Ghana ed .)......................................................Enc: $1,500 Drum (Nigeria e d .).................................................... Enc: $2,250 Drum (South Africa ed.)............................................ Enc: $1,500 Drum (West Africa ed.).............................................Enc: $1,000 The International .......................................................Enc: $100 Judges’ Notebooks of Civil and Criminal Cases of the Colonial Lagos Supreme Court 1876-1915 ............................................................. Enc: $10,923 Kinship and Property Among the Jie and Turkana [Microform]............................................ Enc: $70 Mitteilungen Aus Den Deutschen Schutzgebieten V.25 (1912); V.13 (1918)...........Enc: $125 AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 6 APRIL 1995 OTHER NEWS NEWS FROM OTHER ASSOCIATIONS Report on CC:DA The Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) CALENDAR heard various reports during its meetings on Feb. 4 and 6. LC’s request for assistance with Francophone African names (for a ALA: future edition of IFLA’sNames of Persons) was referred to CC: AAM June 22-29, 1995, Chicago - ALA Annual Conf. [see above]. The ANSI/NISO/ISO 3166 document “Codes for the Jan. 19-25, 1996, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting Representation of Names of Countries” was approved. A report July 4-10, 1996, New York - ALA Annual Conf. about IFLA included note that the 1995 Istanbul meeting cataloging Feb. 14-20, 1997, Washington - Midwinter Meeting program will feature multilingual and multiscript issues. Apr. 11-14, 1997, Nashville - ACRL National Conf. June 26-July 2, 1997, San Francisco - ALA Annual Conf. —edited from report to IRRT by Laurel Jizba (MSU) 1998, New Orleans - Midwinter Meeting 1998, Washington - ALA Annual Conf. 1999, Philadelphia - Midwinter Meeting INFO AFRICA NOVA CONFERENCES 1995 1999, New Orleans - ALA Annual Conf. The following are scheduled for Pretoria, with closing dates for 2000, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting submissions that are 4-6 months in advance: 2000, Chicago - ALA Annual Conf. • Women’s Conference, 6-10 March; • Information Conference (on information services), 8-12 May; IFLA Annual Conferences: • Global Empowerment Conference (or African Identity Studies), Aug. 22-26, 1995, Istanbul 4-6 September; Aug. 25-30, 1996, Beijing • Education Conference, 2-5 October. 1997, Copenhagen Enquiries: Trudle Coetzer, PO Box 4649, Pretoria 0001; tel/fax: 1998, Amsterdam +27 12 6621588. 1999, Bangkok FREE MATERIALS OFFERED AND REQUESTED ALA/USIA LIBRARY FELLOWS PROGRAM, 1993-94 In addition to the Americans who worked overseas, a pilot program Notes on requests for books are listed as received, brought mid-level professionals for overseas to work in American without any endorsement by the editor, MSU or ALC. libraries. Among these were: • Mary Boye, Dept, of Library & Archival Studies, Univ. of Legon, K-Executive Club of Uganda (PO Box 3092, Kampala; tel: (256) Ghana, worked in the reference department at the Univ. of Wiscon­ 41-200187; fax: (256) 41-233829) still seeks financial assistance sin, Oct. 1993-July 1994; for shipping books to help with its work in promoting libraries and • Lucy Kinyanjui, principal librarian at the Kenya Polytechnic adult education. Their US contact is R. Suzette Ungvarsky, (Nairobi) worked with systems staff at the University of California, Manager, International Book Bank, 608-L Folcroft St., Baltimore, Santa Barbara, Oct. 1993-June 1994. MD 21224. Tel: (301)633-2929. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Report from CC:AAM RESOURCES AT The Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials LIBRARIES AND RESEARCH CENTERS (CC:AAM) met on February 5 and 6, 1995, during the ALA Midwinter meeting in Philadelphia. Items of interest to ALC Basler Afrika Bibliographien (CH-4051 Basel, Postfach 2037, members include: Switzerland) are a library and archives focusing on Southern 1. LC’s request for help with revising IFLA’s Names of Persons Africa, with Namibia being its specialty. was accepted by CC:DA [see below] and referred to CC: AAM, who had volunteered to take responsibility for Francophone African Smithsonian Institution Libraries, which includes the National names. CC:AAM is seeking clarification on the scope of Museum of African Art Library, is now available on the Internet. To “Francophone Africa,” i.e., whether it includes North Africa, and connect via TELNET, type: siris.si.edu. To exit, type STOP. hopes for collaboration from ALC. 2. CC:AAM is proposing to sponsor a program on the authority control of names in lesser-known languages at the 1996 annual GRANT REPORTS meeting in New York. A decision is expected in June. 3. CC:AAM requests for formal liaisons: The Research Libraries AFRICANA CONFERENCE PAPER INDEXING PROJECT Group (RLG) has appointed John Eilts as its representative to Progress report (Oct.-Dec. 1994) from Northwestern University CC:AAM. OCLC has not yet responded. concerning its Title II-C grant (Improving Access to Research 4. Next meetings are June 25 and 26. Library Resources, Program number: R091A40104) —edited from report by Ruby Bell-Gam (UCLA), Upon receipt of official notification, Northwestern hired librarian Chair, ALA -ALCTS-CCS-CC.AAM Allison Dillard for the position of Senior Indexer and Martin Saganski, an experienced copy cataloger and retrospective conver­ sion specialist, for the position of Indexer. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 7 APRIL 1995 A new software program, written by a Catalog Department librar­ PERSONNEL CHANGES ian, has eliminated many repetitive and error-prone inputting activities and required the acquisition of two personal computers. George Crafts has been named as African Bibliographer at the Another by-product of this same software program is the ability to University of Virginia Alderman Library. He has an ABD in French scan a page, which is being done with English-language confer­ history from the University of Chicago and the MLS from the ences with clear typeface in their table of contents. University of Texas at Austin. While working as the French-Italian Bibliographer at UV since 1977, he was responsible for francophone Progress has been excellent. Robert Lesh, Project Manager, Africa. With the recent retirement of Mary Alice Kraehe, he has revised all of the work of both the Senior Indexer and the Indexer added duties for the rest of the continent. Afeworki Paulos until he was assured of the quality of the product. He carefully continues as an assistant to the African Bibliographer, through a trained the Senior Indexer in the underlying philosophy and use of staff-share arrangement with the Cataloging Dept. the MARC 653 field, for uncontrolled subject index terms. Andre Nitecki, a librarian and professor with years of experience The cataloging of the conference proceedings, is proceeding well. in West Africa and Canada, died in September 1993. Among his Of the original number of 487 uncataloged conferences, many publications were three occasional papers (1972-1974) from 209 were cataloged before Oct. 1 (118 with copy) and 76 confer­ the Dept, of Library, University of Ghana, on classification prob­ ences since. lems with Africana. The project indexed 607 conference proceedings, resulting in Loumona Petroff began work in February as the cataloger for the 10,466 individual conference papers being indexed. Some slowing African Studies collection of Boston University’s Mugar Library. of the pace is expected as the indexers include foreign language material, but we are confident that the project goals of cataloging and indexing 2,086 conference proceedings can be met. RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE The following items have come to the attention of the editor. Namibian Information Workers Association. NIWA-INFO, Vol. 5, BOOKS & DOCUMENTS Nos. 2-3, July/September, 1994. Highlights include articles by Henry Chakava (Kenya) on the Alemna, Anaba A. Librarians in Ghana, a who’s who and problems of publishing in Africa, Barbara Bell on the Namibian annotated bibliography. Accra : Type Co. Ltd., 1995. National Bibliography, Margie Orford on contemporary Namibian Biographical information on 78 librarians and bibliography of literature, and an interview with Clive Lloyd on what is African articles and books published 1991-94. literature. CD-ROM for African Research Needs: Some Basic Guidelines, edited by Lisbeth A. Levey. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: Sub-Saharan JOURNALS & ARTICLES Africa Program, AAAS, Dec. 1994. 76p. Includes reports on production, costs and demonstration projects. African Research and Documentation, no. 65 (1994): Appendix 3 (Coverage of African Research Information in CD- • Mcllwaine, I.C. “Africa in the UDC,” pp. 10-31. ROM Databases) reports that research published in Africa accounts Reflections on 4 works published 1991-1993 under auspices of for 14% of all entries in TROPAG & RURAL; 7% in POPLINE; 3% the UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) Consortium; espe­ in both CABCB and PAIS; but only 1% of the entries in MEDLINE, cially concerned with tables for languages, for places, and for ethnic Science Citation Index, and Social Science Citation Index. The grouping and nationality (which are derived from those for lan­ article also discusses the types of material covered and notes that guage). the numbers for Latin America are about the same as those for • Musiker, Reuben. “South African Bibliographical Notes & Africa. News, July 1994,” pp. 32-35. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, v. 83 (Jan. 1995): PUBLICATIONS OF • Myers, G. “From Apartheid to Integration: The Role of the AFRICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS Witwatersrand Medical Library in Health Care Services in Johannesburg, South Africa,” pp. 71-77. Compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt, Indiana University. • Steynberg, S. “Testing Orr’s Document Delivery Test on Bio­ See ALN, July 1994, for earlier list that includes addresses. medical Journals in South Africa,” pp. 78-84. Namibia. Ministry of Education and Culture. LAS News, Newslet­ International Information & Library Review, v. 26 (Dec. 1994): ter of the Library and Archives Services, Vol. 1, No. 4, August • Ononogbo, R.U. “User Expectation in Higher Education Library 1994. Services in Nigeria,” pp. 289-302. Highlights include the “Library Services Annual Report” April • Stilwell, C. “Towards Transformation? An Update on the Re­ 1993-March 1994, an 18-page supplement, and a new organization source Centre Fora of South Africa,” pp. 303-314. chart for the Library and Archives Services. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 8 APRIL 1995 Alemna, A.A. “Persistent Issues in Library and Information Sturges, P. (Loughborough Univ.) “Using grey literature in infor­ Science Education in Africa.” Education for Information, v. 12 mal information services in Africa.” Journal of Documentation, v. (Dec. 1994): 429-436. 50 (Dec. 1994): 273-290. Keates, Sarah. “Workshop on the Universal Availability of Publi­ Tôtemeyer, Andree-Jeanne. “Speaking from a Book: the Transfer cations in Francophone West Africa,” Focus on International & of De-recorded Information to the Information-Starved.” IFLA Comparative Librarianship, v. 25 (1994): 137-145. Journal, 20 (1994): 410-8. A greater understanding of the potential of the oral mode of Kisiedu, Christine. “The West African Library Associati9on: Its communication is needed. The information mediator de-records Origins, Breakup, and Revival.” Project for African Research the information in books by orally translating those parts appropri­ Libraries Notes, v. 4, no. 2 (1994/1995): 1-6. ate to the needs of a specific group. One-year certificates and two- year diplomas in appropriate community librarianship should be Korsah, J.E. “Towards Effective Utilization of University Library instituted to provide the needed personnel. Resources: The Situation in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.” ASLIB Proceedings, v. 46 (1994): 263-266. REFERENCE SOURCES NOTES comprehensive compilation of systematic knowledge about black peoples and cultures in the Old and New Worlds with the new multi- African Studies Abstracts, formerly Documentatieblad, covers media technology that makes knowledge available in a form that will the articles in over 300 recent periodicals and edited works. The both educate and entertain. complete list of periodicals regularly scanned (by the library and documentation dept, of the African Studies Centre, Leiden) is available from Hans Zell, 11 Richmond Rd., PO Box 56, Oxford BOOK OX1 2SJ, England. Dawn Bastian Williams, Robert W. Lesh and Andrea L. Stamm. The Encyclopaedia Africana is being prepared in a multimedia Zaire. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio (World Bibliographical format by Professor Anthony Appiah (Harvard University). This series, v. 176), 1995. ISBN 1851092188. project combines the vision of W.E.B. Du Bois for a definitive and Selective bibliography of more than 800 sources. LETTERS & OPINIONS In this section, the editor hopes to publish letters and NAZISM and NAZIS; essays that challenge prevailing practices or beliefs. (c) convert GYPSIES to this people’s self-preferred, authentic In all cases the opinions expressed are those of the writer. name ROMANIES (or ROMA); No endorsement by the editor or ALC or MSU is intended (d) eliminate “Christian primacy” in all religion-related headings; e.g., assign to work on the Christian deity a new form, GOD (CHRISTIANITY), instead of the unmodified and therefore PETITION CONCERNING SUBJECT HEADINGS pre-eminent GOD; (e) substitute HANSEN’S DISEASE and HANSEN’S DISEASE The following petition was prepared by: Cataloging Con­ PATIENTS, both terms sanctioned by the U.S. Public Health sumers Network (4400 Morningside Road, Edina, MN Service, for the stigmatizing LEPROSY and LEPERS; 55416) and distributed by its Convenor, Sanford Berman. (f) abandon PYGMIES, instead using the names of specific The original is dated April 1995. “pygmy” groups; e.g., MBUTI (AFRICAN PEOPLE); (g) replace INDIANS OF NORTH AM ERICA-RELOCATION TO: Chief, Cataloging Policy and Support, with INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA-FORCED REMOV­ Library of Congress, Washington DC 20540 ALS; (h) substitute JAPANESE-AMERICANS, MASS INTERN­ WE, the undersigned, urge the Library of Congress to MENT, 1942-1945 for JAPANESE-AMERICANS-EVACU- (a) change the present heading, HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939- ATION AND RELOCATION, 1942-1945; and 1945), to HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1933-1945), thus making (i) establish and assign these warranted and essential headings: the Holocaust coincide with the Third Reich instead of AFROCENTRIC EDUCATION appearing to be merely a byproduct of World War II; AFROCENTRIC HISTORIOGRAPHY (b) replace NATIONAL SOCIALISM and NATIONAL SOCIAL­ AMISTAD REBELLION, 1839 ISTS with the more familiar and commonly-used forms, AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 9 APRIL 1995 ANTI-ARABISM RACISM IN FILMS ANTIRACIST ACTION RACISM IN LABOR UNIONS ANTI-SEMITES RACISM IN LANGUAGE ANTISEMITISM IN CHRISTIANITY RACISM IN LAW ANTISEMITISM IN THE ARMED FORCES RACISM IN MASS MEDIA BIRMINGHAM CHURCH BOMBING, SEPTEMBER 14,1963 RACISM IN THE ARMED FORCES CULTURAL IMPERIALISM ROCK SPRINGS MASSACRE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1885 DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SKINHEADS ETHNIC POLICY SOCA MUSIC ETHNOCENTRISM IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE SOUKOUS (MUSIC) ETHNOCIDE TEX-MEX MUSIC HATE GROUPS THIRD WORLD SUPPORT GROUPS HOLOCAUST, ROMANI (1933-1945) VIOLENCE AGAINST MINORITIES HOWARD BEACH KILLINGS, DECEMBER 19, 1986 INTERRACIAL FRIENDSHIP JEWS, SPANISH—HISTORY—EXPULSION, 1492 OTHER HEADINGS ADOPTED BY MAKOSSA MUSIC HENNEPIN COUNTY MBAQANGA MUSIC MOVE BOMBING, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, HCL Cataloging Bulletin #135 (March/April 1995) includes the MAY 14, 1985 following (cn = cataloger’s note; pn = public note; sf = see from): MULTIETHNIC NEIGHBORHOODS Films, African. MUSLIMS—SPAIN—HISTORY—EXPULSION, 1502 sf African films NATIONALITY POLICY North-South economic relations NATIVE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST (1492-1900) Shirazi (East African people) NAZI COLLABORATORS cn HCL form. Authority: Subject headings employed at the NAZI FUGITIVES Makerere Institute of Social Research Library (1972), NEOCOLONIALISM p. 85. ... NONRACIST CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Swahili (East African people) NONRACIST WRITING GUIDELINES cn LC form: SWAHILI-SPEAKING PEOPLES. Authority: NORTH-SOUTH ECONOMIC RELATIONS Subject headings..., p. 91. ... NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS pn Here are entered materials on persons who have their RACISM IN BIOLOGY home in or around one of the traditional Swahili RACISM IN BUSINESS settlements of the East African coast or their modern RACISM IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT counterparts in the interior; whose lifestyles conform to RACISM IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE that of their neighbors; and who have inherited or adopted RACISM IN CHRISTIANITY the Swahili language as their preferred tongue. RACISM IN EMPLOYMENT RACISM IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENTS Leishman & Taussig African Book Services (2 B Westgate, Southwell, Notts, UK NG25 OJH; tel: -44 1636 813774) plans trips African and Caribbean Imprint Library Services (236 Main St., to Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania (Arusha only) in April/May; to ZIBF Falmouth, MA 02540; tel: 508-540-5378) has issued lists of “Titles (Harare) in August; to South Africa (Cape only) and Namibia in Aug/ Recently Received” for Malawi and Sierra Leone. Sept; and to Botswana, Swaziland and South Africa (Natal, North- West and Gauteng) in Nov/Dec 1995. Gauteng is the new name for African Books Collective (The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., the PWV Province around Johannesburg and Pretoria. Oxford OX11HU, England) has issued its 51-page Catalogue no. 9. Norman Ross Publishing Inc. (330 West 58th St., New York, NY Editions du CRAC (Club de recherche et d ’action culturelle) is a 10019; 800 648-8850; microform distributors) has alerted customers new publishing house, started by a former editor at SOPECAM. to some new collections from the library of Colin Legum being Address: B.P. 8133, Yaounde, Cameroon. prepared by Altair: • Early Years of Apartheid: South African Press Digests, Indian Ocean Books (Larry W. Bowman, bookseller; at 458 Middle 1949-1972 (140 fiche, with finding list; £800); Turnpike, Storrs, Ct 06268; bowman@uconnvm.uconn.edu) has • Liberation Movement in South Africa, Zimbabwe and issued Catalogue no. 2, a listing of 160 titles. It includes antiquarian Mozambique; books, prints and maps on the region, especially the Indian Ocean • Labour Movement in Africa. islands. Want lists are welcome, and Bowman is also interested in buying books on the region. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 10 APRIL 1995 Simon Ottenberg, Bookseller (PO Box 15509, Seattle, WA 98115; NEW SERIALS 206-720-7150), recently distributed a catalog featuring almost 600 antiquarian African art titles. African Anthropology is a new journal from the Pan African Anthro­ pological Association (BP 1862, Yaounde), priced at $60 for 2 issues University Publications of America (Tel: 301-657-3200) has per year. The association also publishes a newsletter and is updating issued the 1995 Supplement & Price List to its 1991 “UPA Research its 1992 Profile of African Anthropologists. Collections.” New titles include Africa, 1992-1994 Supplement, 10 reels ($1190) in its Special Studies series. The initial volumes of East Africa, no. 1 (Nov. 7, 1994)-. Weekly newspaper available British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Series G: Africa are avail­ from National Newspapers Ltd., PO Box 49010, Nairobi; fax (254- able. These reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential 2) 217112. Cover price: Ks 30. US subscription: $260/year. print are scheduled for reproduction in 55 volumes during 1995- 1996. East African Chronicle of Business and Commerce, no. 1 (Oct. 7, 1994)-. Weekly newspaper available from Media House Ltd., PO Hans Zell Publishers (an imprint of Bowker-Saur) catalogue for Box 38859, Nairobi; fax (254-2) 532736. Ks 20 per issue. US 1995 includes 3 forthcoming titles: subscription: $25 per year, plus $4 per issue postage. • Bernth Li ndfors, Black African Literature in English, 1987-1991; • Hans M. Zell, Publishing and Book Development in Sub- Gallery Delta is a quarterly that covers the contemporary art scene Saharan Africa, 1960-1994: an Annotated Bibliography; in Zimbabwe, with an emphasis on painters. Price: $26. Address: • Hans M. Zell, The African Studies Companion, 2d rev. ed. Gallery Delta, 110 Livingstone Rd. at 9th Ave., Harare. Liberia Update is a new monthly published in Monrovia (POB EVENTS 3148). Copies are also available from Jim Gray (410 Cork Dr., Blacksburg, Va 24060-3606). 1995 Zimbabwe International Book Fair Theme: Human Rights and Justice. SISA Newsletter, quarterly publication of School of Information Special events will focus on freedom of expression and the press, the Studies for Africa, Addis Ababa University. Address: PO Box 1176; writer and human rights, literacy and power, library acquisitions of email: SISA@PADISgn.apc.org. First issue (Oct. 1994) includes African books, low-cost book production and intra-African rights information about SISA, its masters theses and faculty publications trading. since 1990. Provisional Program: 28-29 July (Fri-Sat): Freedom of Expression Indaba Zimbabwean Review is a new journal of essays costing £20/year 30 July (Sun): Afro-Asian Book Council seminar outside of Africa. Address: P/Bag A 6177, Avondale, Harare, 31 July (Mon): Exhibitor’s setting-up day & APNET workshop Zimbabwe. 1-2 Aug. (Tue-Wed): Traders’ days & Marechera Symposium 3-4 Aug. (Thu-Fri): Public days & Freedom of the Press Wkshop 5 Aug. (Sat): Public day; ZIBF95 closes. VIDEOS Further details available from ZIBF, 78 Kaguvi St., Harare; or, ZIBF(UK), (margaret.ling@geo2.poptel.org.uk) 25 Endymion Rd, Films for the Humanities & Sciences (PO Box 2053, Princeton, London N4 1EE, UK. NY 08543-2053) has issued a 16-page catalog of African American & African Studies on video. LITERATURE ON THE BOOK TRADE SELECTED NEW BOOKS Bugembe, Mary H. “The 3rd Pan-African Children’s Book Fair [Nairobi, 28-31 May 1994],”African Book Publishing Record, v . 20 This section is generally limited to titles outside the regular book trade, (1994): 249-251. or titles received by the editor. Many more titles and/or details on publisher addresses can be found in Joint Acquisitions List of Africana (6 issues per year available for $50 from Northwestern University Library), The African Book Publishing Record (Hans Zell Publishers), ONLINE FILES American Book Publishing Record (Bowker), Accessions List: Eastern and Southern Africa (LC Office, Nairobi), or in one of the current The CSSALL Newsletter, from the Centre for the Study of Southern national bibliographies. African Literature and Languages, University of Durban-Westville, is distributed in both printed form and on the Internet, under the Brambilla, Christina, ed. Letterature delTAfrica. Milano: Jaca Usenet newsgroups: za.events and soc.culture.south-africa, starting Book, 1994. (Enciclopedia temativa aperta) ISBN 88-16-43915-7. with No. 1/1 (1994). Contact Johannes Smit, CSSALL Newsletter, 145000 lire. Univ. of Durban-Westville, Pvt. Bag X54001, Durban 4000; or jasmit@pixie.udw.ac.za. Kposowa, Tibbie S. The Forest are no longer green. ISBN 0913491381; $15. Novel available from author at: PO Box 19393, Cincinnati, OH 45219. The United Nations and Apartheid, 1948-1994 (572p.; $29.95; 92- 1-100546-9) is available in the UN blue book series. Tel: 212-963- 8302. ALC REGULARS Working list (corrections welcome) of 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 tel. nos. 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; 90024-1575 Annalisa Berggren..................... 508-540-7147; fax -7755; 02541 Phyllis B. 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Nairobi: 254/2 225-484; ruth.thomas@mep-l.sprint.com; fax -217-646 Gretchen W alsh ......................... 617-353-3726; gwalsh@acs.bu.edu; fax -2084; 02215 Dane W ard.................................. 313-577-8006; dward@cms.cc.wayne.edu; fax -4172; 48202 Dorothy Ann W ashington.........(212)930-0704; dwashing@nypolgate.nypl.org; 10037-1801 Thomas W eissinger................... 607-255-5229; twl4@cornell.edu; fax -0784; 14850-2599 David W estley............................ 617-353-3726; dwestley@acs.bu.edu; fax -2084; 02215 Dawn W illiam s.......................... 708-491-7585; dawnwill@nwu.edu; fax -8306; 60208 Dorothy W oodson...................... 716-645-2817; woodson@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu; fax -3859; 14260 Meseratch Zecharias................. 315-443-4612; mtzechar@hawk.syr.edu; fax -9510; 13210-2010 Hans Z e ll.................................... U.K.: (0865) 726686; fax -793298; telex: 94012872 ZELLG; OX1 1HU Joanne Z ellers............................ 202-707-1982; zellers@mail.loc.gov; fax -1724; 20540 AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 12 APRIL 1995 Editor’s Comments---------------------------------- ------------ -------- reference works can be relied upon for language names, variants, —cont. from p .l dialects, and broader terms. These issues turned out to be more places, but I did make the point that subject headings can change. complicated than I anticipated, partly because I was not completely The research and thinking in preparation for this presentation satisfied with what Ethnologue, Ruhlen 1987 or the International raised several issues of interest to catalogers: Encyclopedia of Linguistics had to say about the Kru languages, 1. A change from the current alphabetical arrangement of books in which is my area of research. For new or revised names, the latest or about African languages to one based on language families edition of Ethnologue should be cited, but usage in publications is would not be wise; to be preferred. It is clear that we need some editing of the broader 2. Names and cross-references for languages and language groups terms attached to authority records and “Hamitic” should be could be improved; and purged, except as a see-reference. More intermediate subdivisions 3. Language codes are seldom used and probably too numerous. under Niger-Congo languages and Bantu languages would be useful, but Bantu will have to wait for a broadly accepted revision The current alphabetical arrangement of most African languages of Guthrie’s zones, which are not valid genetic units. within the PL8000s is better than any classified system based on language families for two reasons: 1) It is easier for users to For languages with less than 50-100 records in any database, understand, even with such inconveniences as Igbo being classified language codes are an unneeded redundancy. They remain a as Ibo; and 2) it does not become obsolete when the consensus mystery to most users, and they are not needed for languages getting classification changes, as will happen. the subject subdivision “Texts.” ALC (See “African Languages A further complication is that British linguists usually follow Codes Project” compiled by Robert W. Lesh, 1992.) and other different rules (i.e., avoid working hypotheses, but accept some library associations have made an impressive case for more. But geographic and other non-genetic criteria) for their language clas­ their statistics were flawed by counting many titles more than once sifications. These philosophical disagreements are grounds for and by the fact that some libraries do not have individual records for rejecting the classified arrangement adopted by the Universal each title. Of the more than 70 African languages that currently Decimal Classification. (See I.C. Mcllwaine, “Africa in the UDC,” have codes, only about 20 codes are likely to have more than 40 Africa Research & Documentation, no. 65(1994): 10-31.) The only records in any one library; and only 30 will have more than 20 major changes I would suggest for the PL8000s would be to include records. the Cushitic and Omotic languages, which are currently classified LC cooperates more now than in the past, sometimes to the as PJ2401-2594. disadvantage of the community. If an organization such as LC does not hold the line on standards, we will have another virus (like the I had hoped to come to some firm conclusions regarding which Conspectus) slowing our work with unnecessary complexity. uoijnjijsw ¿jiunjuoddo-jDtibD ‘uoijdd- daijvwjiffv uv si [JSJAJ IZ -ON jiau aj SeOI-t7Z88t? UBSiipijAi ‘Suisuirj jseq M ‘Sujsueq g J3JU93 [iiuoui;iun]U| ooi (IIV .I À11&J3AIUQ on; is Hovxsod s n MRLNH3 S3IQÌUS JsTVDIHJV •8jo igojj-uoN