AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER No. 85, January 1996 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 citeAZJVas their source. ALN is produced to support the work of the Africana TABLE OF CONTENTS Librarians Council (ALC) of the African Studies Association. It carries reports on meetings of ALC, CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microform Project) and other relevant Editor's Comments groups. It also reports other items of interest to Africana librarians and those concerned Acronyms about information resources about or in Africa. Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana Library, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. ALC/CAMP NEW S................................................. 2 Tel.: 517/355-1118; E-mail: 20676jjl@msu.edu; Fax: 517/432-1445. Calendar of Future Meetings Deadline for no. 86: March 15, 1986; for no. 87: July 1, 1986. Meetings in Orlando (Nov. 1995) ALC Business Meeting & Resolution Post-Meeting Executive Meeting Cataloging Committee EDITOR'S COMMENTS Bibliography Committee CAMP report Most of this issue is taken up with reports on activities during the annual meeting in Orlando. The weather was unseasonably hot, even by Florida OTHER NEW S........................................................ 6 standards; and a few of the (non-librarian) panels were too. Contributors for News from other Associations this issue include Sandy Berman, Moore Crossey, David Easterbrook, Calendar Onuma Ezera, Karen Fung, Kenneth Lohrentz, Elizabeth Plantz, Nancy ALA Schmidt, Mette Shayne, and Dawn Williams. LIWO Hennepin County Subjects The recent arrival of a new pentium computer at my work station has made Resources at Libraries and Research Centers it possible to advance plans for making available on a MSU home page on Grants: Getty the Web. The full minutes, as submitted, will be attached, starting with People: Dorothy Niekamp & Dorothy Porter those for the November 1995 Orlando meeting. Some back issues will also be available. RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES................................. 7 Books & Documents Journals & Articles REFERENCE SOURCES........................................ 7 Data on Diskette: SAS ACRONYMS Notes New Reference Titles ACRL - Association of College & Research Libraries (ALA) ALA - American Library Association (Chicago) NOTES ON MATERIALS & VENDORS..............8 ALC - Africana Librarians Council (formerly Archives-Libraries Vendor Announcements Committee) of ASA Book Awards: ASA ASA - African Studies Association (U.S.) Events CAMP - Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CRL) Literature on the Book Trade CRL - Center for Research Libraries (Chicago) Online Files IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations Serial Changes & Notes LC - Library of Congress New Serials MELA - Middle East Librarians Association Videos MSU - Michigan State University Selected New Books SCOLMA - Standing Conf. on Library Materials on Africa U. - University UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 2 JANUARY 1996 AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL / CAMP NEWS CALENDAR OF FUTURE MEETINGS 11. Approved (with two opposed) a letter to the Editorial Board of the African politics bibliography. April 25-27, 1996, Boston - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting November 23-26, 1996, San Francisco - ASA Annual Meeting 12 Area Studies Librarianship Conference - Schmidt will Spring 1997, ?Syracuse, NY - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting forward papers and other messages via email. Fall 1997, Columbus - ASA Annual & ALC 40th Anniversary Fall 1998, Chicago - ASA Annual Meeting ALC RESPONSE TO IFLA RESOLUTION Members of the Africana Librarians Council read with interest the resolutions of the IFLA Anglophone Africa Seminar on Government AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL Information and Official Publications (Harare, 15-18 December 1994) and discussed at our Spring meeting in May and again at our BUSINESS MEETING Fall meeting in November the proposal calling for the Library of Orlando, Nov. 2, 1995, 2-4:30 Congress Field Office in Nairobi to deposit a copy of each publica­ Editor’s report. tion collected at selected African libraries. We recognize the need for African libraries to improve access to 1. Mary Alice Kraehe, a past chair and active ALC member [see material published throughout Africa, and support efforts to reach ALN, Oct. 1995], was noted for her contributions. this end. We also recognize the success of the LC Nairobi Office in developing an efficient mechanism for collecting and distribut­ 2. Elections: Baumann and Shayne were named by the chair to a ing publications from a number of African countries. The ALC Nominations Committee that will prepare a mail ballot. supports exploration of ways in which African libraries can benefit [November mail ballot elected Joe Caruso (Columbia) as vice- from this successful mechanism, as well as other means of reaching chair/chair-elect; and Miki Goral (UCLA) and Kenneth Lohrentz the desired goal. (Kansas) as members-at-large.] Members of the Africana Librarians Council expressed willing­ 3. 40th Anniversary: Schmidt reported on progress, with Indiana, ness to share in the effort to develop a means of ameliorating Illinois-Champaign and Florida having committed to funding for an acquisition of and access to publications from all of Africa in African librarian. libraries throughout Africa, and applaud the efforts already under­ way. 4. Spring 1996 meeting at Boston University will start Thursday evening. A block of room has been reserved at the Howard Johnson Kenmore Square Hotel. Special rates of $89 for a single room ($98, POST-MEETING EXECUTIVE MEETING double) are available by calling direct to 617-267-3100. Meetings will be in the George Sherman Union. Discussed procedures for electing new board members; named John Howell as ALC representative to the ASA Publications 5. Strategic Planning Committee (Finnegan for Nanji) is working Committee; selected Meseratch Zecharias (Syracuse) as member- on Manual and Mission Statement. at-large to fill the unexpired term vacated by Bob Lesh.—Notes by 6. Cooperation Committee (Walsh): discussed options in Evanston, ALN editor. with emphasis on pilot project of newspapers received, with retention policies. CATALOGING COMMITTEE MINUTES 7. Conover-Porter Award - Nominations before end of year Orlando, Nov. 2, 1995, 9:30-11:00 a.m. deadline were urged. [Shortened by editor.] 8. Resolution of support for H arare resolution, of IFLA Working Present: [full names and institutions of those attending Bibliogra­ Group, to fund LC-Nairobi’s collecting and depositing one copy of phy Committee meeting are not listed here]: each publication in an African library. Members rejected idea of Britz, Caruso, Coelho, Crafts, Crossey, Dax, Dembele, Fung, paying for this, arguing insufficient funds and/or accounting diffi­ Gentner, Gray, Howell, Kagan, Lauer, Lohrentz, Nam, Panofsky, culties. Walsh offered a resolution of support, suggesting that the Petroff, Elizabeth Plantz (Northwestern), Schmidt, Shayne, Sinnott, interested parties get grant funds, possibly from UK’s Book Aid Cheryl Spence (Clarke’s Bookshop, Cape Town), Stamm, Will­ International. This went out on the mail ballot. [This was iams, Zellers. approved, 16 to 3, with 1 abstaining, in a subsequent email ballot. See text below.] 1. The meeting was called to order by Elizabeth Plantz, Committee 9. ALN report: Promised to be available on the Net before the next chair, who announced she will go on maternity leave in February meeting. Idea of abbreviated minutes, with full minutes only 1996. online, was referred to Strategic Planning Committee. 2. DT classification schedule expansion: Caruso had distributed 10. LC reports were presented. Zellers plans a trip to Senegal, a proposed expansion of the schedule for the Indian Ocean islands. Mali and Burkina Faso. Gentner reported on LC-Nairobi activities Having received detailed comments from LC, he will be preparing for Ruth Thomas, with specific details on acquisitions for each of 14 a revised version. countries. For the 33 participants in the cooperative program, 3. ALC Africana Subject Funnel Project: To date, only 8 proposals overhead charges are dropping from 73% to 58%. (all from Lauer) were submitted. A handout with examples was distributed. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 3 JANUARY 1996 4. Enhancements of African language subject headings: Plantz Problems with the acquisition of serials were also discussed. It has identified headings needing enhancements, and she will assign was agreed that a list of recommended vendors could be compiled five headings to any volunteer. so long as it does not include dealers which are not recommended. Discussion of Henige’s article in the Oct. 1995 ALN was put off to 5. Follow-up to 680 for “Indigenous peoples’’: Comments should the spring meeting. go to Lauer, who will develop a proposal to submit through the funnel. 4. Dissertation list: Lauer raised the question of whether the printed list in ASA News is still necessary, in view of the availability 6. Proposal for translations of titles in African languages: Andrew of the UMI CD-ROM product for browsing. Consensus was that the deHeer (cataloger at Schomburg Center, New York Public) pro­ list is extremely useful to track research trends, and it should be posed that publishers of African language materials be urged to continued. Help was sought in scanning print versions for titles include translations of their titles in English, French or other missed by computer searches. And the possibility of adding British official language in the publications. The Committee discussed theses would be explored. how this might be encouraged. 7. LC report: Gentner reported that the most recent initiative 5. INSTITUTIONAL REPORTS: involving the Nairobi office was full-level serials cataloging. Northwestern: Easterbrook reported that the Foreign Periodicals Records added to the database include 1,700 monographs, 460 Project is in its third and final year. A list of the 227 titles ordered serials, 65 non-book titles, and 1,780 authority records. from 37 countries is available. Easterbrook also asked for time at the Spring meeting to discuss the future of JALA (Joint Acquisitions List of Africana). North­ BIBLIOGRAPHY COMMITTEE MINUTES western is concerned about costs and need, with many catalogs Thursday, November 2, 1995, 11:00-1:00 online. As part of its consultation with ALC, a questionnaire will [Shortened by editor.] be distributed in the new few months. Stamm and Williams are doing the volume on Mali for Clio Present: Christine Ayonude (Center for Study of African Econom­ Press. ics, Oxford), Helene Baumann (Duke), Ruby Bell-Gam (UCLA), Phyllis Bischof (U.C. Berkeley), Daniel Britz (Northwestern), Joe Indiana (Schmidt): IU has not been able to maintain all of the Caruso (Columbia), Jill Coelho (Widener, Harvard), George Crafts subscriptions begun on the Title VI serials grant. With support (U. of Virginia), Moore Crossey (Yale), Henrietta Dax (Clarke’s from Title 2-C, two tools are going up on the world wide web: Bookshop, Cape Town), Amidou Dembele (Duke), David Somali posters collection with descriptions; and a caito- bibliogra­ Easterbrook (Northwestern), Onuma Ezera (Michigan State U.), phy of uncataloged maps on the colonial countries and Africa in the Greg Finnegan (Tozzer, Harvard), Karen Fung (Stanford), James geography collection at IU. Gentner (LC), Beverly Gray (LC), John Howell (U. Iowa), Mary Jay (African Books Collective, U.K.), Al Kagan (U. Illinois), Joe Lauer Boston Univ. (Walsh): Her book on Africa and the media is due in (Michigan State U.), Ken Lohrentz (U. Kansas), Helen MacLam July 1996. She is also preparing a guide to African materials on the (Choice Magazine), Peter Malanchuk (U. Florida), Wonki Nam WWW, including the guide to African language materials in the BU (Central State U., Wilberforce, Ohio), Hans Panofsky (Northwest­ collection. She is also hoping that BU’s pamphlet collection will ern, Retired), Loumona Petroff (Boston U.), Nancy Schmidt (Indi­ be listed on the WWW. Westley continues work on his bibliogra­ ana U.), Mette Shayne (Northwestern), Elisabeth Sinnott (NYU), phy on the Mfecane. Andrea Stamm (Northwestern), Janet Stanley (Smithsonian), Gretchen Walsh (Boston U.), Dawn Williams (Northwestern), and LC (Zellers): Information about the African Section is being Joanne Zellers (LC). expanded on Marvel. LC is now doing a list every thirty days of new records added, arranged alphabetically by main entry. This list 1. Conover-Porter Award, for bibliographies published in 1993- includes about 300 revised or newly cataloged titles on the WWW. 1995: Members were urged to submit nominations accompanied U.S. imprints of Sub-Saharan Africa, v. 9/10, 1993/1994, will with book reviews to Shayne or to the chair of the Conover Award appear with 519 entries. chair, Finnegan before the end of 1995. [A list of 11 nominated titles was distributed after the meeting.] Univ. of Illinois (Kagan): A publisher for his coursebook on Africana bibliography is needed. His e-mail message about helping 2. UPDATES: with Gloria Westfall’s guide to official publications got only one Africana Conference Paper Index (AFRC): Stamm distributed response, and someone is still needed to do Somalia, Botswana, and a brief final report for the project which ended on September 30. Gambia. The database is now accessible via telnet, and it contains records for 61,096 papers from 3,272 conferences. Based on discussions at Univ. of California-Berkeley (Bischof): Simon Bockie, a Zairian previous meetings, they added help screens and the imprint to the assistant, is working on a Diaspora bibliography. citation in the index record. They were unable to change pagination system or add LCSH terms. Univ. of Iowa: Howell reported on two grants. The first, for health Northwestern Ephemera File: Access to this database of 45- and medical materials, was extended to next spring. The second is 50,000 records will be a future project. for a grey literature collection. 3. Mentoring of new members: The idea of a workshop or session Yale Univ. (Crossey): The date field of Orbis (Yale’s online on grant-writing was discussed. catalog) can be searched to located new Africana titles. The PIER Library for the Center of Area and International Studies will be going online. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 4 JANUARY 1996 Smithsonian (Stanley): A complete retrospective project for OLD BUSINESS analytic records for materials in the Smithsonian collection will be Lagos State Archives - correspondence continues. entered into OCLC. This is a three-year project funded by the J. Paul Getty Trust. Book reviews will be entered in the 581 note field Senegal microfilming project - Members approved spending up to rather than having separate records. The Smithsonian is soon to add $4000 for equipment needed to film archives. Other non-equip­ a home page on www and will probably discontinue the paper copy ment funding is coming from the Title-VI Africana centers, whose of its acquisitions list. Vol. 4 of The arts of Africa is now published. directors have agreed to fund a cooperative acquisitions project. Caruso reported on his trip to Senegal and mentioned a list of Duke Univ. (Baumann): The J. Hope Franklin Center for African CODESRIA-held theses. and African-American Documentation, which will include Franklin’s papers and other material, was launched. The center will be located African newspapers: Discussed Shayne’s revised and improved list in the library, and they are recruiting a bibliographer/archivist. of current newspapers. CRL now has a WWW site (http:/crlmail. uchicago.edu/~smets/newspaper.html) for newspapers. Somali Harvard/Tozzer (Finnegan): Harvard is involved in a multi-year newspapers collected by LC-Nairobi are being microfiched. CAMP retrospective conversion project, with Tozzer high on the list. The is working with LC-Nairobi to film: Botswana Guardian, Al- Africana shelflist is a separate project. The future of the printed Watwany (Comoros), Mirror (Lesotho), Journal de Madagascar, Tozzer catalog is uncertain. Madagascar Tribune, New Era (Namibia), Imvaho (Rwanda), Sunday Mail (Zambia), and Manica Post. Univ. of Florida (Malanchuk): The papers of Rene Lemarchand, including books, older issues of Zairian newspapers, and manu­ NEW BUSINESS scripts, have been contributed to the University of Florida Librar­ Sierra Leone newspapers - Schmidt is preparing a list with dates for ies. An extensive collection of interviews received from the estate future filming. of Gwendolen Carter are being put on the WWW. Cost of filming newspaper discards Michigan State received from Univ. of California-Los Angeles (Bell-Gam): They acquired the LC-Nairobi to be reviewed. manuscript collection of Roland Stevenson. This collection of several thousand pages emphasizes North Eastern African lan­ Offipubs: Cape of Good Hope (18547-1910), costing $4,138, will guages and includes field notes, manuscripts, and other unpub­ appear on a CRL ballot. lished materials. CAMP has paid $2000 for microfilm of Guinea material gathered 6. Letter concerning Contemporary African Politics and Develop­ by Robert Harms (Yale). This includes materials from district ment, a bibliography compiled at UCLA. ALC chair Finnegan offices on agricultural history, plus photocopies of materials from distributed the draft of a letter to be sent to the editors of this work. the national archives. The letter stressed three things: it was not comprehensive, lacking materials for Lusophone Africa; the coverage of journals was Members agreed that chair should select titles to spend its credit incomplete; and there was insufficient explanatory data in the front with the State Library (Pretoria). matter. After further discussion, it was decided that the revised draft would be brought to the business meeting. Efforts to acquire theses cited in Passé de l’Afrique par l’oralité —Ken Lohrentz, secretary; Mette Shayne, chair (1993) continue. Action on La politique coloniale, 1892-1919, was deferred. CAMP BUSINESS MEETING Orlando, November 3, 1995 TITLES RECEIVED SINCE MAY 1995 Report by ALN editor. Official minutes are distributed by CRL to members. Dar es Salaam newspapers. Zululand Observer, Aug. 14, 1969-Oct. 31, 1975. Meeting chaired by John Howell was attended by about 30 indi­ Zululand Times, 1907-1911. viduals, representing about 15 institutions. CAMP Executive: The following were elected to 2-year terms: Jill TITLES ON ORDER Coelho (Harvard), as secretary; Phyllis Bischof (Univ. of Califor­ nia, Berkeley), member-at-large; Chris Ehret (UCLA), faculty Afrique et le monde (Bruxelles) representative. Continuing for 1994-1996 are John Howell (Iowa), Barisa (Addis Ababa) Joe Caruso (Columbia) and Peter Ekeh (SUNY at Buffalo). Danab (Mogadishu) Démocraties (Dakar) CRL REPORT: See attachments at end of this report. Only about Drum (East Africa ed.) $6000 not committed. Les échos (Bamako) Nouvelle Republique (Conakry) LC reported a new list of African newspapers on microfilm avail­ Patriote (Conakry) able for sale. Patriote (Ndj amena) Républicain (Bamako) South African Library plans to join CAMP. Unity independent (Freetown) Waaga cusub (Mogadishu) AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 5 JANUARY 1996 CAMP FINANCIAL STATEMENT (NOVEMBER 3, 1995) MARCH(l) FY 1995(1) SEPTEMBER QUARTER CLOSING QUARTER FUND BALANCE $21,996.99 $21,996.99 $6,902.16 1. The FUND BALANCE, REVENUES, and EXPENSES REVENUES shown under each completed Grant Income (2) $19,550.00 $19,550.00 $18,055.92 quarter are taken from the Membership fees (3) 19,400.00 23,400.00 20,000.00 Center’s accounting office. Income from sales 862.00 862.00 236.69 Figures fo r FY95 are unaudited. TOTAL GEN. REVENUES $39,812.00 $24,262.00 $20,236.69 2. The line fo r General Revenue or Grant Expense do not include EXPENSES either the Grant Revenue or Grant Expenses (2) $1,494.08 $40.10 Grant Expense lines Cost of sales $721.28 810.00 118.50 Acquisitions 29,875.00 33,165.83 1,044.00 3. The Center’s payment of $4000 Business Expenses 100.00 100.00 60.00 comes in the fourth quarter. Publications 4. The COMMITMENTS are taken Travel 591.00 591.00 288.50 from the records of the Personnel: Coordinator and are intended to Cataloging 4.690.00 4,690.00 reflect projected costs of past TOTAL GEN. EXPENSES $35,977.00 $39,356.83 $1,511.00 decisions by CAMP. REVENUES LESS EXPENSES $3,835.00 $(15,094.83) $18,725.69 5. Non-material expenses: Cataloging: $4845; Travel: COMMITMENTS (4) $1200. Materials on order $1,630.00 6. AVAILABLE FUNDS equals the Materials approved (5) 12.480.00 FUND BALANCE plus Grant Expenses Approved REVENUES LESS EXPENSES Non-material expenses (6) 6,045.00 minus TOTAL COMMITMENTS. TOTAL COMMITMENTS 20.155.00 AVAILABLE FUNDS (6) $6,983.85 STANDING ORDERS • African Studies Association. Annual Meeting Papers, 1993- • Northwestern University Library Africana [preservation filming]. • Tanzanian newspapers: Business Times, Baraza, Express, Heko, Mizani, Motomoto, Watu, and Wakati. CAMP COMMITMENTS Newspaper filming (Papers from LC-Nairobi)............ $2000 /yr. Liberian Newspapers..................................................... $2500 MSU Africana film ........................................................ $1880 Somali paper...........................................................................$500/yr. Tanzanian newspapers................................................. $1500/yr. ASA papers............... $300 /yr. Northwestern Africana film .......................................... $3800 Total: $12480 AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 6 JANUARY 1996 OTHER NEWS NEWS FROM OTHER ASSOCIATIONS Scope note: Here are entered materials on a series of economic measures imposed on resource-poor countries by the World Bank CALENDAR And International Monetary Fund as a condition for loans. Such measures include reduced government spending for social services, ALA: currency devaluation, privatization of state-run enterprises, and Jan. 19-25, 1996, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting incentives to promote production for export. July 4-10, 1996, New York - ALA Annual Conf. Feb. 14-20, 1997, Washington - Midwinter Meeting Apr. 11-14, 1997, Nashville - ACRL National Conf. June 26-July 3, 1997, San Francisco - ALA Annual Conf. RESOURCES AT LIBRARIES Jan. 9-15, 1998, New Orleans - Midwinter Meeting AND RESEARCH CENTERS June 25-July 2, 1998, Washington - ALA Annual Conf. 1999, Philadelphia - Midwinter Meeting National English Library Museum (Pvt. Bag, 1019, Grahamstown, 1999, New Orleans - ALA Annual Conf. South Africa) has acquired a considerable number of interesting 2000, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting manuscripts and rare books over the past months. Details in NELM 2000, Chicago - ALA Annual Conf. News (Dec. 1995). IFLA Annual Conferences: South African L ibrary (PO Box 496, Cape Town 8000) is Aug. 25-30, 1996, Beijing microfiching South Africa: a weekly journal. This London news Aug. 31-Sept. 5, 1997, Copenhagen magazine was published from 1889 to 1970. It is expected that the Aug. 1998, Amsterdam entire run will require 4000 fiche; and will cost $8000. Aug. 1999, Bangkok AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION GRANTS ACRL candidates for 1996 elections include: • Gregory Finnegan (Harvard Univ.), for member-at-large in the Getty G rant Program ’s list of awards made between July 1993 Anthropology and Sociology Section; and June 1995 includes the following: • Peter Malanchuk (Univ. of Florida), for member-at-large in the • Basler Mission (Switzerland). For documentation of the photo­ Asian, African & Middle Eastern Section. graphic archive. • International African Institute (London). For the West African LI WO (SOUTH AFRICA) Museums Programme. Following a November 1995 meeting of its national co-ordinating • Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC). For an online index committee in Cape Town, the Library and Information Workers and finding guide to the African art and culture collections of the Organisation of South Africa (LIWO) constituted itself as a na­ Library of the National Museum of African Art. tional body. This action was part of a deliberate decision against • Musée National de Guinée (Conakry). For training. absorption into a proposed single library and information science organization. LIWO’s national spokesperson is Maris Farelo at crimar@protem.uct.ac.za; and its joint national secretaries are PEOPLE Christopher Merrett and Rose Kuhn at (merrett@library.unp.ac.za) and rRse Kuhn (kuhn@...). Dorothy Niekamp retired effective January 1, 1996, from the Indiana University Library, where she worked as a cataloger since September 1966. She began as the cataloger for Western European HENNEPIN COUNTY SUBJECTS studies and also cataloged dissertations. For many years she has been Indiana’s cataloger for African language materials, plus the Sandy Berman at Hennepin County Library continues to promote cataloger for most of the Africana in European languages. She was many new subject headings, and “Griots” is among those recently active in both ALA and ALC, serving on various committees. She adopted by LCSH. was chairperson of ALC’s Cataloging Committee in the early As a substitute for “Structural adjustment (Economic policy)” 1990s. (which was added to LCSH in 1991), HCL Cataloging Bulletin #137 lists the following: Dorothy Porter Wesley, a librarian at Howard University, died on Structural adjustment programs (World Bank/IMF). December 17,1995. She was 91. She was known as Dorothy Porter UF SAPs until 1979, when she married Charles Harris Wesley, a historian World Bank structural adjustment programs who died in 1987. Her first husband, James Amos Porter, had died IMF structural adjustment programs in 1970. International Monetary Fund structural adjustment Dorothy Porter was bom in Warrenton, Va., and reared in programs Montclair, N.J. She received her bachelor’s degree in 1928 from ESAPs Howard and her master’s in library science from Columbia in 1932. Economic structural adjustment programs (World Bank She began working at Howard in 1928 as a library cataloger and was IMP). named, in 1930, librarian of what became the collection of the AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 7 JANUARY 1996 Moorland-Spingam Research Center. By the time of her retirement Committee’s first secretary and only librarian member, and she in 1973, this collection grew from 3000 to 180,000 items. She also remained active in what became ALC. Her contributions to ALC compiled numerous significant bibliographies in the fields of were honored in the late 1970s with the creation of the Conover- African and African-American studies, including Afro-Braziliana: Porter Award for outstanding Africa-related reference works. And A Working Bibliography (G.K.Hall, 1978). she has been present at several of the award ceremonies. When the African Studies Association was formed in 1957, it established a Library Committee. Dorothy Porter served the RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE The following items have come to the attention of the editor. • S. Badal, “The Role of online information systems in non­ government organisation: MISANET,” pp. 279-282; BOOKS & DOCUMENTS • E.E. van der Westhuizen & E.S. Miller, “Electronic communi­ cation in Africa: The promotion of animal health information Olden, Anthony. Libraries in Africa: Pioneers, Policies, Prob­ dissemination,” pp. 299-308. lems. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1995. 190p. ISBN 0-8108- 3093-0 $37.50. Akintunde, S.A. “The Status of Broadcasting Libraries in Nigeria: A Study of Bauchi and Plateau states.” International Information Political Economy o f Information: Development, Democracy and & Library Review, v. 27 (Sept. 1995): 283- Security in Southern Africa, edited by Maurice C. Lundu. Harare: Sapes Trust, 1995. $35. ca. 166p. C.M. Kangulu & F.E. Wood, “An evaluation of the Pan-African development information system (PADIS), with particular refer­ Proceedings o f the Pan-African Conference on the Preservation ence to Zambia.” Journal o f Information Science, v. 21 (1995): and Conservation o f Library Materials, Nairobi, Kenya, 21-25 343-358. June 1993, edited by Jean-Marie Arnoult et al. The Hague: IFLA (IFLA Professional Reports ; no. 43), 1995. J. Kwafo Akoto, “Collecting, publicizing and providing access to socio-economic grey literature in Southern Africa with particular Who's who in Library and Information Science Training Institu­ reference to Botswana.” Interlending & Document Supply, v. 23, tions in Africa, ed. by L.O. Aina. 2d ed. Ibadan: Archlib and no. 3 (1995): 10-16. Information Services Ltd., 1995. 66p. N150;and$15. 978-31413- 1-7 Biographical data on about 170 educators. Includes indexes; Jenni Millward, “Transforming Library Service in the New South and details on programs in English-speaking Africa. Africa,” American Libraries (Oct. 1995), p. 879-9. Describes the July 20-21 biannual conference of the Library and Information Workers’ Organisation (LIWO). JOURNALS & ARTICLES Cephas Odini (Moi Univ.), “Collection development: the experi­ Electronic Library, v. 13, no. 4 (August 1995) carried the Proceed­ ence of Kenya Polytechnic Library,” Collection Building, v. 14, no. ings of the Third Southern African Online Information Meeting, 4 (1995): 24-28. Discussion of problems and proposals for change. including: • N. Dpivrt, “Guest Editorial,” pp. 259-268; • E. Raitt, “The World to come,” pp. 269-278; REFERENCE SOURCES DATA ON DISKETTE NISC is also preparing an African Studies (AS) CD-ROM. This includes databases from various sources. South African Studies (SAS) is a new CD-ROM available from NISC USA. Contact Fred Durr or Angela Myaris, Wyman Towers, NOTES 3100 St. Paul St., Baltimore, MD 21218; tel: 410-243-0797; email: fdurr@nisc.com. H-Africa (an electronic discussion group; see ALN, July 1995) SAS includes Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP), South plans an African Studies table of contents (TOC) service. This is African National Bibliography (SANB), the NELM (National planned as a regular, monthly electronic service, covering African English Literary Museum) and NALN (Nasionale Afrikaanse history and related disciplines. Preliminary plans are for 3 postings: Letterkunde Museum en navorsingsentrum) databases, the Joint mainstream African studies; non-mainstream, including African Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations, and management Reports imprints; and non-Africanist journals. Editorial responsibility will from the University of Witwatersrand. This joint disk will replace be held by Peter Limb, Univ. of W estern A ustralia the ISAP CD-ROM. (plimb@library.uwa.edu.au). AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 8 JANUARY 1996 African Biographical Archives (AfBA) is being issued in about 450 NEW REFERENCE TITLES fiche in 12 installments. It contains approximately 113,000 entries for 75,000 individuals. A list of 231 sources has been distributed The following items or issues are noted. by K.G. Saur, the publisher. The American distributor, University For more titles, see the annual “Africana Reference Books" Publications of America, lists 1995 prices as $16,075 (Silver) and in The African Book Publishing Record, no. 2. $14,575 (diazo). African Research & Documentation, no. 67 (1995) includes: • James Hargrave, “Sir Roy Welensky and his Archives (Part 1), pp. l- i i ; • J.H. Mcllwaine, “Writings on African Archives, Part 5 (Non- Anglophone West Africa), pp. 12-26. David M. Anderson & Rosemary Seton. “Archives and manu­ scripts collections relating to Africa held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.” History in Africa, 22 (1995): 45-60. Dictionary of African Biography, vol. 3: South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland. Available from: Reference Publications, Inc., Dpt. A3, Box 344, Algonac MI. $75 + shipping. Contains 228 biographies. Previous volumes covered Ethiopia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Zaire. NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENTS C la rk e ’s Bookshop (211 Long St., Cape Town; email: clarkes@iafrica.com) has issued Catalogue 93, with 1104 titles. Africa Book Centre (38 King St., London WC2E 8JT) issued Book About half are current titles, mostly from South Africa. They also Review, No. 2 (Dec. 1995), which carries 4 pages of news and cover Lesotho and Namibia and now Mozambique, with 2 trips per reviews, followed by an annotated listing of new books on and from year. They plan to include Angola, beginning April 1996. Africa. ABC is now an agent for some of the publishers previously served EDICOM-S.A. (16 B.P. 466, Abidjan 16) is a new Ivoirian by L&T, including David Philip, University of Natal Press, and company created in late 1994 to distribute French books in Côte Camerapix (Nairobi). Trade orders will be supplied through d’Ivoire and to distribute Ivorian books abroad. Founded by Pascale Central Books. and Gérard Clavreuil, with assistance from Robert Palmeri, a former USIS officer. Initial list of 8 titles is available from: African Academy of Sciences (PO Box 14798, Nairobi; email: Edicom’s Library Service, 1325 Quincy St., NW, Washington, DC aas@arcc.kaact.kenya-net.org) has issued a catalog of available 20011. titles. These include conference proceedings and directories. Its quarterly journal, Discovery and Innovation, reaches 100,000 Gerald Rilling (720 Colonial Dr., Rockford, IL 61115-3716; tel. readers; and costs (outside Africa) $80 for individuals, $90 for 815-654-0389) issued a list of 275 out of print books on Africa, with institutions. a focus on East Africa. African Books Collective (The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., Hogarth (1 Birchington Court, Birchington Rd., London N8 8HS) Oxford OX1 1HU, England) has appointed Rosalind Sherwin to the is taking over the non-trade part of Leishman & Taussig. post of trainee manager, to work under the direction of Mary Jay. It is envisaged that this post will eventually lead to appointment as Larry W. Bowman (458 Middle Turnpike, Storrs, Ct 06268; tel.: general manager. Ms. Sherwin has a commercial and publishing 203-486-3355; bowman@uconnvm.uconn.edu) has issued Cata­ background, as well as teaching experience in Zimbabwe. She was logue no. 3: Indian Ocean Books, Maps and Prints. This lists 335 selected by the African publishers comprising ABC’s Council of (mostly annotated) antiquarian titles. Management, after reviewing 250 applications. ABC also issued Catalogue no. 11 (53-pages) and its 13th and LC’s Photoduplication Service (101 Independence Ave., SE, 14th batches of cards, covering title nos. 0522-0594. The “ABC Washington, DC 20540-5230; tel: 202-707-5640) announced the Electronic Bookstore” is available at: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ availability of two collections of Somali publications: African_Studies/Publications/ABC_Menu.html Somalia newspapers, post-Barre period. Part 1: Microfiche #94-55211. 287 fiche African Im print Library Services (236 Main St., Falmouth, MA Somalia reports, post-Barre period. Part 1: 02540; tel: 508-540-5378) has issued numerous lists including Microfiche #94-55210. 544 fiche “Titles Recently Received” for Algeria, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe. Regular prices: $1.75 per fiche for diazo; $5.00, silver copy. Discounts available for batched orders of entire set. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 9 JANUARY 1996 from the Records of the Emir of Kano’s Judicial Council McBlain Books (P.O. box 5062, Hamden, CT 06518) issued (Michigan State Univ. Press, 1994); Catalog 132 (North Africa and the Middle East), with an indexed • Claude-Hélène Perrot & Albert van Dantzig, for Marie-Joseph list of 1720 antiquarian books. Bonnat et les Ashanti: journal 1869-1874) (Société des Africanistes, 1994); Michael Graves-Johnston (PO Box 532, 54, Stockwell Park Rd., • Yves Marquerat, for La naissance du Togo selon les docu­ London SW9 ODR) issued Catalogue 53 (Africa). ments de Vépoques (Editions Haho, 1993). Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (the Nordic Africa Institute, PO Box 1703, S-751 47 Uppsala) issued Books on Africa, a 32-page EVENTS annotated catalog of its publications. Effective 16 Oct. 1995, its telephone changed to 018-56 22 0/int +46-18-56 22 00. Zimbabwe International Book Fair ZIPF96 will be held July 26-3 August 1996, with July 26-28 set University of Trondheim’s History Dept. (7055 Dragvoll, Nor­ aside for conferences and seminars. Exhibitors will set up their way) has started the “Trondheim Studies in History” series as a stands on Monday, 29 July. July 30-31 will be set aside for traders means of distributing its theses and other documents. The first only. The Fair will be open to the public on August 1-3. African theses to appear in the series are: • Per Hemaes, Slaves, Danes, and African Coast Society, nr. 6, 1995. 418 p. ISBN: 83-7765-005-1. NKR.275. LITERATURE ON THE BOOK TRADE • Motslatsi Thabane, Individual Diamond Digging in Lesotho, 1955-1970. Nr. 8, 1995. 214 p. ISBN: 82-7765-008-6. NKR Bellagio Publishing Network Newsletter, no. 15 (Nov. 1995) car­ 200 . ried articles by Terence Ranger (on the 1995 Zimbabwe Book Fair), Katherine Salahi (Sept, meeting of Bellagio donors & APNET), University Place Book Shop, which specialized in Africana and Henry Chakava (publishing partnerships), Ansu E. Momoh, Mar­ African-American OP books, went out of business recently. It had garet Ling, Diana Rosenberg, Diana Newton, Isaac Phiri, and been operated in New York City by the late Walter Goldwater. Bill others. French, who inherited the business, noted: “Old booksellers always die, but they never retire.” Brenda Mitchell-Powell, “Booksellers, Librarians Celebrate Afri­ can Literature at ZIBF’95,” American Libraries (Oct. 1995), p. 880-1. BOOK AWARDS Partners in African Publishing, no. 2 (Autumn 1995) carried 8 The Herskovits Award was presented by the African Studies pages of trade news. Available from: CODE Europe, The Jam Association for the outstanding original scholarly work on Africa Factory, 27 Park End St., Oxford OX1 1HU. published in English during 1994. The winner was: Henrietta L. Moore and Megan Vaughn for Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern ONLINE FILES Province o f Zambia, 1890-1990 (Heinemann; James Currey; Uni­ African Publishing Home Page is at http://wn.apc.org/mediatech/ versity of Zambia). publish/. It includes selected publishers in Eastern and Southern Other finalists: Africa. • Suzanne Preston Blier, African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and African Studies Association now has a web page on the home page Power (Univ. of Chicago); for African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Its url is • Gracia Clark, Onions are my Husband: Survival and Accumu­ http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html lation by West African Market Women (Univ. of Chicago); • Isabel Hofmeyr, We Spend Our Lives as a Tale that is Told: African Voices, a quarterly newsletter from USAID (U.S. Agency Oral Narrative in a South African Chiefdom (Heinemann, for International Development) for African NGOs and NGOs James Curry, Witwatersrand Univ.); receiving USAID funding, can be found at gopher.info.usaid.gov in • T. Dunbar Moodie with Vivian Ndatshe, Going for Gold: the folder “Documents and Publications”, subfiled under “USAID Men, Mines and Migration (Univ. of California). Newsletter” and then “Africa Bureau Newsletters.” Contact: John Engels, Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, SA-18, Room Children’s Book Award, which is a project of ASA’s Outreach 203-J, W ashington, DC 20523-1820; tel: 703-312-7194; Council, went to: jengels@usaid.gov. • Jane Cowen-Fletcher, It Takes a Village (Scholastic), for best elementary level book; • Joyce Hansen, The Captive (Scholastic), for best secondary SERIAL CHANGES & NOTES level book. Africa South & East was suspended in February 1994 (no. 38). In Text Prize of ASA honors the translator, compiler or editor of the 1995, its publishers issued a pilot ed. of African Agenda, a monthly best critical edition or translation into English of primary source for the Third World Network. material on Africa published in 1993 or 1994. Winner was: Douglas H. Johnson, for Governing the Nuer: Documents in Nuer Educamus (Pretoria) ceased with vol. 40 (1994), no. 3. There were History and Ethnology, 1922-1931, by Percy Coriat (JASO, 1993); nine issues in 1989, ten in 1990, nine in 1991, seven in 1992, and four in 1993. Other finalists: • Allen Christelow, for Thus Ruled Emir Abbas: Selected Cases Horn o f Africa Bulletin (HAB), which in recent years has appeared AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 10 JANUARY 1996 as an insert in Life & Peace Review (LPR), is being discontinued VIDEOS after vol. 7, no. 6 (Nov-Dec 1995); v. 9, no. 4 of LPR). The publishers (Life & Peace Institute, S-751 70 UPPSALA, Sweden) California Newsreel’s Library of African Cinema now has 25 plan to replace it with a new quarterly journal, CrossCurrents ($25 titles from 12 countries, including 10 new releases. For its 1995- for annual sub.), plus other publications. 96 catalog, contact: California Newsreel, 149 Ninth St./420, San Francisco, CA 94103. 415-621-6196. Leadership magazine (South Africa) has been sold to Daimler- Benz. As it goes international, Millennium Magazine has been Cinema Guild (1697 Broadway, New York, NY 1019-5904; 212- revived (with the August 1995 issue) for the South Africa market. 246-5522) has announced discounts for No East Walk, a three-part video series on African history. South African Review of Books is available on microfiche from: Rob Turrell, Mozartstrasse 25, 89075 Ulm, Germany. Issues 1-31 (1987-1994) available for DM 225. Contact: robert.turrell @ SELECTED NEW BOOKS humboldt.uni-ulm.de This section is generally limited to titles outside the regular book trade, or titles received by the editor. Many more titles and/or details on publisher NEW SERIALS addresses can be found in Joint Acquisitions List of Africana (6 issues per year available fo r $50 from Northwestern University Library), The African African Newbreed, “Window to global Africa,” is available for $35 Book Publishing Record (Hans Zell Publishers), American Book Publishing Record (Bowker), Accessions List: Eastern and Southern Africa(LC Office, (institutions; $25, individual) from 4554 N. Broadway, Suite 256, Nairobi), or in one o f the current national bibliographies. Chicago, IL 60640; 312-784-0470. The August 1995 issues (no. 56) had considerable material on Nigeria. Grant, Sandy & Elinah. Decorated Homes in Botswana. Mochudi, African Publishing Review is the newsletter of the African Publish­ Botswana: Phuthadikobo Museum (PO Box 367), 1995? 140p. ers’ Network (APNET), published six times a year. Now in its fifth $34, plus postage. year, it is available outside Africa for $40 per year ($50, airmail) N’gbanda Nzambo-ko-Atumba. La transition au Zaire: le long from APR, P.O. Box 4209, Harare. tunnel. Kinshasa-Limete: Editions Noraf, 1995. 418p. $20 from Jean Hunda (31 Forrest Dr., Bloomfield, NJ 07003; tel: 201-748- 0321). •uoiimpsui faiunuoddo-ivnbs ‘uonov-dmvuuijfv uv si flSPV \Z 'O N }lU U^¿ S iO V P Z M P unSiqoipv ‘Suismn jsng Ij^ ‘Suxsunq g J3JU33 tnuopmiiojui 00I aivd X j i s j O A i u n o jn js u u 8 u p ip \ [ 3 9 V lS 0 d STL H3XNHD saianis nvdihhv • g j Q JIJOJJ-UOM