AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER No. 90, Aprii 1997 ISSN 0148-7868 TABLE OF CONTENTS Africana Libraries Newsletter (ALN) is published quarterly by the Michigan State Univer­ sity Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center. Those copying contents are asked to cite ALN as their source. ALN is produced to support the work o f the Africana Librarians Editor’s Comments Council (ALC) o f the African Studies A ssociation. It carries reports on meetings o f ALC, Acronyms CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microform Project) and other relevant groups. It also reports other items o f interest to Africana librarians and those concerned about information ALC/CAMP N E W S .....................................................2 resources about or in Africa. Calendar of Future Meetings Meseratch Zecharias Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana, MSU, 100 Library, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. John Bruce Howell Tel.: 517-432-2218; E-mail: lauer@pilot.msu.edu; Fax: 517-432-1445. W. David Rozkuszka Deadline for no. 91: July 1, 1997; for no. 92: Oct. 1, 1997. 40th Anniversary Conference CAMP Chair African Newspaper Union List and EDITOR’S COMMENTS Preservation Project The past quarter has had more than its share of sad news. Two colleagues died OTHER LIBRARY N E W S ........................................3 unexpectedly and business will not go on as usual. The Spring meeting at News from other Associations Syracuse was canceled because o f the death of Meseratch Zecharias, our host. Calendar John Howell’s death deprives us of his leadership with CRL projects and ALA International Relations Office electronic publishing. ALA/USIA Library Fellows I first met Meseratch during the 1973 ASA meeting in Syracuse, while visiting American Association of Law Libraries a classmate from the University of Wisconsin. While her other duties limited our Seminar on Accessing Information Resources in contacts until the 1990s, she impressed me as a positive and thoughtful person. Southern Africa John Howell said we first met in the late 1960s, when he was in the African Programs: AAAS & Mortenson Center language and literature program in Madison. That memory is vague; but no one Other Personnel News: Berman, Ezera could miss his presence and contributions with ALC over the past 15 years. One of my few achievements as chair o f CAMP in 1988-90 was to recruit the RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES & University of Iowa as a member and John as the new chair. I will miss his wide INFORMATION SCIENCE.......................................5 range of interests, his persistence, and his ability to stay on good terms with Book Reviews, by Phyllis B. Bischof everyone. Further details are on page 2. Chakava, Publishing in Africa Helene Baumann, Phyllis Bischof, Joseph Caruso, Moore Crossey, Karen Altbach, Challenge of the Market Fung, Nancy Schmidt, Mette Shayne, and others have contributed to this issue. Journals & Articles REFERENCE SOURCES........................................... 6 Notes ACRONYMS New Reference Titles ACRL - Association o f College & Research Libraries (ALA) NOTES ON MATERIALS & VENDORS............... 7 ALA - American Library Association (Chicago) Vendor Announcements ALC - Africana Librarians Council (formerly Archives-Libraries Events Committee) o f ASA Literature on the Book Trade APNET - African Publishers’ Network Online Files ASA - African Studies Association (U.S.) Serial Changes CAMP - Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CRL) New Serials CRL - Center for Research Libraries (Chicago) Selected New Books IFLA - International Federation o f Library Associations LC - Library of Congress MELA - Middle East Librarians Association MSU - Michigan State University SCOLMA - Standing Conf. on Library Materials on Africa U. - University UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 2 APRIL 1997 AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL / CAMP NEWS CALENDAR OF FUTURE MEETINGS brief hospital stay, on February 28,1997. He was 55. He is survived by his wife, Barbara. Canceled: ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting (Syracuse) Dr. Howell was a national leader in Africana librarianship, being Nov. 11, 1997, Columbus - ALC 40th Anniversary Conference especially active in ALC and serving as chair of CAMP since 1990. Nov. 12-15, 1997, Columbus - ASA 40th Annual Meeting He was the author of many bibliographies, ranging from several Apr. 3-4, 1998, Gainesville - ALC/CAMP Spring Mtg. works on Eastern Africa produced for the Library of Congress in the Oct. 28-31, 1998, Chicago - ASA Annual Meeting 1970s to the more recent Rural Health in Kenya (1989). He was co­ Spring 1999, Washington, DC - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting author of the Index to the African Studies Review/Bulletin and the Nov. 11-14, 1999, Philadelphia - ASA Annual Meeting ASA Review o f Books, 1958-1990 (1991) and was nearing comple­ Spring 2000, Los Angeles - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting tion on a subsequent volume. He recently co-authored Guides, Fall 2000, ?Nashville - ASA Annual Meeting Collections, and Ancillary Materials to African Archival Resources in the United States (1996). He was also the founder and editor of the new “Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography” on the World MESERATCH ZECHARIAS Wide Web. Howell received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1965, an Meseratch Zecharias, of Syracuse University (SU), died on Feb. 10, M.A. in Library Science from the University of Michigan in 1966, 1996, at her home. She was 51. She is survived by: her daughters, and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University Fana Tareke, and Seble Tareke; son, Sehul Tareke; her separated of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1984. He held several positions husband, Gebru Tareke; her mother, Maria of Addis Ababa, Ethio­ in the African Section of the Library of Congress between 1969 and pia; one brother; and three sisters. 1980, before earning his Ph.D. at Illinois and assuming duties at At the time of her death, Zecharias had begun to make major Iowa in 1985. At Iowa, he helped to establish important and vibrant contributions to the Africana Librarians Council (ALC). In 1995-96, institutional relations with Ibadan University, Nigeria, and with she served as a Member-at-large of the ALC Executive. In May, she many institutions in southern Africa. was to host the Spring 1997 meetings of the ALC and CAMP. John Howell was enormously kind, generous, and helpful to his As a librarian and a community leader, Zecharias’ accomplish­ many friends and colleagues in librarianship and to countless ments were numerous. Her impact on others was evident both researchers. His knowledge of the world o f archives and publishing locally and overseas. In Syracuse, she was active in the Lutheran in Africa and other parts of the developing world was greatly Synod of Upstate New York, the Black and Latino Faculty and respected; his advice on such matters was much sought after. His Professional Staff Association at Syracuse University (SU), and the sudden passing is a terrible loss for African and International Pan African Association of Central New York. Zecharias joined the Studies. SU Library in 1972 as a claims and replacement clerk. She continued Donations can be sent to: (1) an Africana memorial gift fund for working at the library as a technical associate in Area Studies the University o f Iowa Libraries (c/o The University of Iowa through 1976. In 1978, she was a graduate assistant in SU’s Foundation, Alumni Center, Iowa City, IA 52242); and (2) a Gerontology Program. Zecharias rejoined the library staff in 1979 as memorial fund for the Preucil School (524 North Johnson St., Iowa a part-time reference librarian. She was named Assistant Librarian City, IA 52245), a music school for stringed instruments from pre­ in 1981, Senior Assistant Librarian in 1983 and Associate Librarian school to high school. in 1988. For the last three years, she held a joint appointment with SU Libraries and SU’s Department of African American Studies, serving as Librarian at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library. W. DAVID ROZKUSZKA She received several degrees from SU: a bachelor’s degree in library science and international relations (1975), an MLS degree W. David Rozkuszka, a documents librarian at Stanford University, (1976) and a master’s degree in international relations (1980). died on Jan. 10, 1997. He worked at Stanford University’s libraries Before joining SU, Zecharias was deputy reference librarian at the from 1967 to 1994, serving as director of the Jonsson Library of John F. Kennedy Memorial Library at Haile Sellassie I University Government Documents, and most recently as international docu­ in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1968-72); and supervisor o f the U.S. ments librarian and African and Middle Eastern bibliographer. See Information Service’s Dire Dawn Reading Room in Addis Ababa. American Libraries, March 1997, p. 76. She earned a diploma in library science at Haile Sellassie I Univer­ sity in 1968. “Meseru”, as her friends knew her, was a passionate advocate for 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE Africana studies in the U.S. and an active supporter of Asmara Nov. 11, 1997, Columbus, Ohio University in Eritrea. Her passing is a great loss. Donations for the Meseratch Zecharias Memorial Fund may be Theme: Africana Librarianship in the 21st Century: made out to Syracuse University; and sent to the SU Development Treasuring the Past and Building the Future. Office, c/o Andrea Latchem, 820 Comstock Avenue, Syracuse, NY List of Confirmed Participants: 13210. Keynote speaker: Kay Raseroka, University of Botswana Panels: JOHN BRUCE HOWELL Collection Development: David Easterbrook (Chair), Northwest­ ern; Anaba A. Alemna, University of Ghana; Colin Darch, John Bruce Howell, International Studies (and Africana) Bibliogra­ University of the Western Cape; Beverly A. Gray, LC; John pher of the University of Iowa Libraries, died unexpectedly, after a Pinfold, University of Oxford. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 3 APRIL 1997 Cooperation: Phyllis Bischof (Chair), University of California, AFRICAN NEWSPAPER UNION LIST Berkeley; Ismail Abdullahi, Clark Atlanta University; Birgitta AND PRESERVATION PROJECT: Bergdahl, Uppsala University; Saliou Mbaye, Direction des PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL TO ARL Archives du Senegal; Regina Shakakata, World Health Organization, Lusaka ALC and CAMP are proposing to develop a web-based, searchable Reference/Bibliographic Instruction: Gretchen Walsh (Chair), union list o f African newspaper holdings, in all formats (paper, Boston University; Gboyega Banjo, Nigerian Library Associa­ microform and electronic), in all languages, organized by country. tion; Al Kagan, University of Illinois The proposed second step, led by Northwestern University, would Evening Program: Reminiscences of the Past and Predictions of be to expand preservation microfilming and explore digitization as the Future: Nancy Schmidt (Chair), Indiana University; Dan a means of both preservation and access. Britz, Northwestern University; John Mcllwaine, University of Our focus would-be the papers from Sub-Saharan Africa, includ­ London; Hans Panofsky, retired Northwestern University; ing South Africa, regardless o f date or language. We would start Michele Pickover, University of the Witwatersrand; Yvette with the holdings in the United States, to be expanded by holdings Scheven, retired University of Illinois. from Africa and other countries as time and funding allow. The new For m ore d etails, contact: N ancy Jeanne S chm idt project would combine the currently received titles (already com­ , Indiana University Library, Bloomington, piled and updated annually by M ette Shayne; see ) with holdings of newspapers that have ceased. It is expected that the web The 40th Anniversary Planning Committee is pleased to announce site will be available from African institutions. And that links can be the award o f a grant for $25,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation. created to updated lists produced in South Africa and elsewhere. This grant will be used for travel and expenses of foreign partici­ Plan of action: A temporary staff person, paid by the grant, housed pants and for other expenses connected with the conference. The at CRL, would combine the existing holdings lists from CAMP and Committee is exploring supplementary funding from several sources. the Library of Congress with Mette Shayne’s List; then augment it with the holdings of the major collections (Northwestern, Hoover, ASA’s International Visitor Program has provided funding to Yale, Boston, UCLA, Berkeley, Iowa, Columbia, etc.). bring Kay Raseroka, the keynote speaker to the conference. The Funding sought and other contributions: application for funding was a joint effort of ASA’s ALC and From ARL: $18,600 for salary for one staff person, housed at Women’s Caucus and the five institutions that Kay will visit before CRL, for 12 months part-time; the conference: University of Pennsylvania, University of Illinois at From CAMP: support preservation filming at a level to be Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, Duke University determined; and Hampshire College (on behalf of the Africa Studies Council, From ALC member institutions: staff time to collate the holdings Five Colleges). Kay will be the speaker for the Women’s Caucus information and ship papers. lunch and her activities at the 5 institutions mentioned above are Future support of the project: Funds will be needed to support being coordinated by Elisa Forgey, Al Kagan, David Easterbrook, microfilming and digitizing. Helene Baumann and Frank Holmquist. For more details, contact: Helene Baumann (Duke University; tel. 919 660-5847; ). CAMP CHAIR The CAMP Executive Committee is pleased to announce that Dan Britz has been chosen to fill out John Howell’s term on the Executive Committee. He was also asked and has agreed to serve as CAMP’s Chair in John’s place. OTHER LIBRARY NEWS NEWS FROM OTHER ASSOCIATIONS IFLA Annual Conferences: Aug. 31-Sept. 5, 1997, Copenhagen CALENDAR Aug. 1998, Amsterdam Aug. 1999, Bangkok ALA: June 26-July 3, 1997, San Francisco - ALA Annual Conf. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Jan. 9-15, 1998, New Orleans - Midwinter Meeting The International Relations Office, in cooperation with Confer­ June 25-July 2, 1998, Washington, DC - ALA Annual Conf. ence Services has developed cost effective travel packages in an Jan. 22-28, 1999, Philadelphia - Midwinter Meeting effort to increase the number o f international attendees at ALA Apr. 9-12, 1999, Detroit - ACRL National Conf. conferences, beginning with San Francisco in June 1997. The 1999, New Orleans - ALA Annual Conf. package consists of: 2000, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting • 4 nights accommodation; 2000, Chicago - ALA Annual Conf. • 4 American breakfasts; AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 4 APRIL 1997 • local taxes; SEMINAR ON ACCESSING INFORMATION • transfers from the hotel/airport; RESOURCES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: • ESA Voyages/Eurowest assistance at each hotel; and NATIONAL AND SUBREGIONAL • registration at the conference and a one-year ALA membership. BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL For the most part, it will be cheaper for the attendees to book their 11-13 September 1996, Jan Smuts House, travel through their local travel agents so airfare is generally not a University of the Witwatersrand part of the package. For more details, contact Carol Erickson . The Seminar on Accessing Information Resources in Southern Africa (SAIRSA) was organized by the Association of Southern ALA delegation, led by President-elect Barbara J. Ford, is being African Indexers and Bibliographers (ASAIB), the SAILIS Com- organized to attend the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, August .mittee for Bibliographic Control (CBC), the State Library, Pretoria, 2-9, 1997. and the Subdirectorate Meta-Information, Dept of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. The aim of the seminar was to promote national and collaborative programs of bibliographic control in ALA/USIA LIBRARY FELLOWS PROGRAM, 1997-98 support of economic and social development in the SADC (Southern ALA seeks applicants for the eleventh and most likely the final year African Development Community) region. The seminar was spon­ of the Library Fellows Program. The Program, funded by the United sored by IFLA ALP (Advancement of Librarianship in the Third States Information Agency (USIA) and administered by ALA, will World Programme) and the IDRC (International Development Re­ place U.S. citizens abroad beginning in August 1997. ALA is search Centre) Regional Office for Southern Africa. recruiting for 18 project assignments, subject to availability of funds. These include: The seminar was attended by about 50 participants, including • Botswana (Gaborone): 8 months. Library Education Fellowship delegates from eleven of the twelve SADC countries, and observers. involving the development of a Center of Information Management at the Center of Information Management at the Dept, of Library & The recommendations from the seminar were disseminated under Information Studies of the University of Botswana. the name “Gauteng declaration of the Seminar on Accessing Infor­ • Tunisia (Tunis): Higher Institute for Library Science. 4 months. mation Resources in Southern Africa.” Its recommendations included: Library Education, Automation, and Information Storage & Re­ • a formal role for SADC in support of bibliographic control; trieval Fellowship involving training staff on the use of the Internet • appropriate and effective legislation for legal deposit; and access to online databases, and teaching two intensive automa­ • arrangements for depositing the results of research in a particular tion and information storage & retrieval classes. Fluent French and/ country; or Arabic required. • repatriation or provision of copies of lost materials; • Uganda (Kampala): Parliament of Uganda, East Africa School of • emphasis on bibliographic control first at the national level; Information Science, and University Library. 8 months. Law • promote library associations and national information policies. Librarianship and Information Storage & Retrieval Fellowship involving the development of an effective legislative service for the Parliament of Uganda. PROGRAMS DEADLINE for applications: May 1, 1997 For more information, see American Libraries, March 1997; or AAAS’s (American Association for the Advancement of Science) ; or call Carol Erickson or April Brinkmeyer Sub-Saharan African Program stopped its distribution of journals to (312-380-3200/800-545-2433, ext. 3200/3201). African libraries at the end of 1996. In a September 1996 letter to a donating publisher, three factors were cited as behind AAAS’s 1996-97 fellows include: decision to not seek a renewal grant from Ford Foundation and • Carol Elliott (Univ. of Arizona); 10 months at the Judicial Service Carnegie Corporation of New York: in Accra, Ghana. 1) funding sources did not envisage an indefinite project when it • Marie Pavie (Univ. of Utah); 6 months at the National Library in started in 1987; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2) several publishers have become reluctant to donate journals; and 3) CD-ROMs and other electronic access have provided realistic alternatives and coping strategies for African libraries. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES Annual Meeting, Baltimore, July 19-24, 1997, includes following The Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at program: Covering the Waterfront—Africa: A Role for American the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to an­ Law Librarians in Developing Library Services in Africa. nounce that they are now accepting applications for two positions in In 1994 the United State Information Agency provided funding to a four-month professional development program for librarians from support the American Bar Association’s efforts to encourage closer outside the United States. This program will begin in January 1998. ties between U.S. and African law schools. Since the program Applicants from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and South America began, several U.S. law librarians have traveled to Africa to conduct (regions that have not been well-represented in previous years of the needs assessments of African law school libraries and to share their program) are especially encouraged to apply. Applications must be expertise in areas ranging from collection development to automa­ received by September 1,1997. Information about the program and tion. The speakers will discuss the African Law Initiative, the application form may be found at: or The Mortenson Center for In­ ternational Library Programs, Room 246J Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 5 APRIL 1997 OTHER PERSONNEL NEWS (See also ALC News section.) Sanford Berman, head cataloger at the Hennepin County (Minn.) Library, has been awarded the 1996 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award by the faculty of the Graduate School o f Library and Information Science, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Onuma Ezera (Head, Africana Library, Michigan State Univer­ sity) began a long term medical leave of absence on April 1, 1997. RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE BOOK REVIEWS an African Publishing and Resources Center in Harare, to which by Phyllis B. Bischof (University of California, Berkeley) Hans Zell has generously donated his unparalleled archive on African publishing assembled over 30 years. Not least of the Chakava, Henry. Publishing in Africa: One M an’s Perspective. achievements of the Bellagio Group, of course, is the publication of [Chestnut Hill, Mass.?: Bellagio Publishing Network; Research and this excellent, highly informative series. Information Center in assn, with the Boston College Center for International Higher Education, 182 pp., 1996. (Bellagio Studies in Publishing: 6) ISBN 0964607816 $21.50/£11.95. The Challenge o f the Market: Privatization and Publishing in For anyone who cares about African publishing, reading the Africa, ed. by Philip G. Altbach. [Chestnut Hill, Mass.?: Bellagio Bellagio Studies is de rigueur. The present volume traces the Publishing Network; Research and Information Center in assn, with thinking and documents the experience of Henry Chakava, whom the Boston College Center for International Higher Education; Chinua Achebe cites as “one of the most pivotal indigenous publish­ African Books Collective [distributor], 1996. 114 pp. (Bellagio ers in Africa.” The book is chockfull of wisdom acquired over some Studies in Publishing: 7) ISBN 0964607824 $19.50/£11. four decades of Chakava’s thoughtful, enormously fruitful engage­ Given current international trends toward privatization in pub­ ment in the field. Eight essays, most written from 1985 to 1995, and lishing, this collection of essays by savvy observers and practitioners five appendixes range over the landscape. Ten pieces originally of African publishing could not be more timely or more welcome. published as chapters in books or in journals such as Logos or the Reading through these essays is undoubtedly as instructive as taking African Publishing Review are reprinted herein without revision; a survey trip through the various countries most discussed— Ghana, several appendixes are essays forthcoming at the time of publica­ Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Cote d ’Ivoire— and enriched by tion, and bring up-to-date such topics as “An Indigenous African a visit to the contrasting region of Central Asia. Ubiquitous needs Book Publishing Industry,” and “Reading Promotion.” Included are one finds on this tour include national publishing policies, or such jewels as a description of Chakava’s relationship with Ngugi utilization of them [in rare instances in which they exist], knowledge over many years, with such details as the time when Chakava made of market economies, distribution systems for the sale of books available to Ngugi a desk at his office where Ngugi could write in outside major cities. The contrast with Central Asia is particularly peace. “International Copyright and Africa: The Unequal Exchange,” striking in regard to the status of literacy and libraries in that region, discusses in accessible language the complexities and implications until recently a part of the former USSR. In that region exists a of changes in this arena, particularly those relative to the new so- vibrant reading culture with a proliferation of books and treasured called information age. libraries, an opposite condition to that of Africa. At the same time, A fine essay summarizes the work of the African Publishers’ all regions cited undergo major change as they move from state- Network (APNET) and offers a succinct overview of the accom­ owned or managed economies to privatize their economies. plishments of this group, an umbrella organization of national Themes throughout the continent include the great preponderance associations from over twenty countries, founded in 1991 subse­ of textbook publishing in market share (as much as 90% for Cote quent to a conference in Bellagio, Italy. Its widely circulated d’Ivoire, as against 15% for a country like France). Governments newsletter, African Publishing Review, informs and facilitates fur­ need to enact national plans to create a more predictable environ­ ther interactions among African publishers, and circulates outside ments in which publishing can progress. For complex activities like the continent as well. Especially valuable is Appendix 4, “The publishing, policies, guidelines, and rules tend to regularize plan­ World Bank and African Publishing.” Chakava challenges the ning, investment, and carry-through. The transition from state or World Bank to cease financing the purchase of textbooks from parastatal publishing in economies which possess little capital for multinationals and to begin support of mid-to-long term policy any investment— let alone for activities little understood, like pub­ approaches to strengthen African publishers. While the Bank insists lishing— can be smoothed by a number of governmental policies on dealing with governments only, as opposed to a group like such as abolition of import duties on raw materials and technology APNET, nonetheless, representative from APNET have met with required by publishers, subsidy of training of needed professionals, Bank officials, and the resulting dialogue has improved understand­ provision of low-interest loans, the requirement of a certain percent­ ing on the parts of both. The Network has also worked to identify age of indigenous ownership, etc. Making clear the role of publishing training programs and to standardize them. Finally, it has founded as a vital component of the development process overall is one AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 6 APRIL 1997 contribution of this book. It is also clear, however, that much work JOURNALS & ARTICLES remains to be done in convincing various governments of the value TO THEM and their societies of support to the book and publishing African Research & Documentation, no. 72 (1996) includes: industries. • Schmidt, Nancy J. “The Challenges of African Film Bibliogra­ Monies from NGOs and other foreign assistance have sometimes phy: Content and Audience,” pp. l-8.PaperpresentedatSCOLM A’s been less efficaciously used than they might have been, given the annual conference, 21 May 1996. lack of long-term policy guidelines. Paul Brickhill points out that in • Kotze, Antoinette. “The Index to South African Periodicals cases of a lack of national infrastructure or capitalization, although (ISAP) on the South African Studies (SAS) CD-ROM as an Example regional solutions might prove beneficial, they have rarely been of Database Publishing,” pp. 9-15; explored. Publishers might seek regional trade, which remains so •, Kisor, Judith, John Mcllwaine & Andrew D. Roberts. “Photo­ low as to be essentially non-existent. An innovative strategy men­ graphs of Africa: A Preliminary Bibliography,” pp. 16-39; tioned to this reviewer by G. Mutemari, publisher of Development • Musiker, Reuben. “South African Bibliographical Notes and Dialogue, is his barter offer of free advertising in his publication to News,” an African airline, in return for transport by air of Development • Raseroka, H.K. “Acquisition of African Published Materials.” Dialogue to other African countries. The writing of national book The University of Botswana experience. policies, initiation of regional projects, and inter-African trade in • Pinfold, J.R. “Acquiring Books from Southern Africa.” books are all avenues which warrant further study and action— There are also reports on the activities of IFLA’s Africa Section in perhaps donor funded. R. Palmeiri cites (p. 91) a successful USAID Beijing; the meeting of the Joint Committee for Preservation in initiative in the 1960s Alliance for Progress of joint ventures with Africa (JICPA), held in Dakar in February 1996; and the Seminar on local publishers in Mexico and Argentina: “ ...exactly what is Accessing Information Resources in Southern Africa (Johannesburg, needed now in places like the Cote d ’Ivoire. ... Eventually the Sept. 1996). funding was reduced and the American publishers withdrew, leav­ ing a more vigorous publishing industry in place.” Lewis, Mark. “Shelving Access to USIA Libraries Abroad”Ameri­ In spite of the dire straits of so many African economies, and the can Libraries, Feb. 1997, p. 49-50. Describes 1960s impact of USIA acknowledged problems faced by those who seek an increase in library in Ghana and protests USIA’s closing of some libraries in indigenous African publishing, tangible progress has occurred. favor of a “philosophy of remote access.” Witness the increase in Ghanaian publishers from 14 in 1991 to 52 in 1996! This volume succinctly documents present conditions of Lor, Peter Johan. “A Distant Mirror: The Story of Libraries in South publishing and provides significant historical background for it. It Africa.” Daedalus, 125, no. 4 (1996): 235-265. In Special issue also offers a host of practical policy proposals intended to ameliorate (Books, Bricks, and Bytes) on new models for libraries and the transition to a privatization of African publishing. This reviewer librarianship in the US and abroad. Other authors include: Peter hopes these proposals will help to stimulate appropriate, concerted Lyman, James H. Billington, Ann Shumelda Okerson, Kenneth E. action on the part of publishers, governments, and donor agencies. Carpenter, Peter R. Young, Donald S. Lamm. REFERENCE SOURCES NOTES Contains over 4500 names for 2000 peoples. Includes references to books published from the 1950s to 1996. Authors give preference The editors of RILM Abstracts, an annotated international bibliog­ to current usage, with th ^Library o f Congress Subject Headings and raphy of scholarly literature on music, seek to increase their coverage the Art and Architecture Thesaurus also being considered, and do of African publications. Contact: Zdravko Blazeckovic, RILM not attempt to list all variants. The choice of “Ngere,” for the people Abstracts, Dept of Music, CUNY - 33 West 42nd St., New York, known as Wè (or Guéré-Wobé) in Cote d ’Ivoire and Kran in Liberia, NY 10036. shows a preference for terms used in the older art literature. Kom, Ambroise. Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de langue African Universities: A Handbookfo r International Scholars, comp, française en Afrique au sud du Sahara. International Scholars by Geremie Sawadogo. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.226pp. Publications, 1996.2 vols., at $150 each. Vol. 1 is a reprint of Kom’s 1983 work:Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires négro-africaines de Bibliographie historique du Zaire à l'époque coloniale (1880- langue française des origines à 1978. 1960): Travaux publiés en 1960-1996, J.L. Vellut, dir., Fl. Loriaux and Fr. Morimont. Louvain-la-Neuve-Tervuren, 1996, 325p. 3985 items. Price: 990 Belgian Fr. + postage & handling. Orders to: NEW REFERENCE TITLES Institut Africain, Service des Publications, rue Belliard 65, B -1040 Brussels (Belgium); or: Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, Service African Ethnonyms: Index to Art-producing Peoples o f Africa, by des Publications, B-3080 Tervuren (Belgium). Daniel P. Biebuyck, Susan Kelliher, and Linda McRae. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. 378 p. Hall, David E. African Acronyms and Abbreviations: A Handbook. London: Mansell, 1996. 364p. ISBN 0720122759. £60.00. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 7 APRIL 1997 NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENTS Randle and Ciaran MacGlinchey, Donna Anderton, Chukwuemeka Ike, Sr. Teresa Marcazzan, S.K. Ghai; and commentary on publish­ ABC (African Books Collective, The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., ing by Paul Brickhill, Ansu Momoh (Sierra Leone), Jacob Jaygbay Oxford 0X1 1HU, UK) issued a “Complete Stock List, as at Nov. (Senegal), Sally Taylor, and Victor Nwankwo. 1996.” Arranged by subject, with an author index. Also available at: < http://w w w .sas.upenn.edu/A frican_S tudies/P u b licatio n s/ Akindes, Simon Adetona. “The African publisher: the cultural ABC_Menu.html> politics of indigenous publishing in Benin and Côte d’Ivoire.” Ph.D. thesis, Ohio University, 1996. Africa Book Centre (38 King St., L. Publishing Record, v. 22 (1996): 251-5. Discusses needed commit­ ments from the state, publishers, writers, educational institutions, Forkpa Kemah (Medical College Library, Univ. of Liberia, PO Box libraries and the reading public. 9020, Monrovia, Liberia) can supply newspapers and other material from Liberia. ONLINE FILES Gerald Rilling (1315 Ryan St., Machesney Park, IL 61115-1844; tel.: 815-654-0389) distributed a list of over 100 out of print books Africa Bureau Information Center (ABIC) has full text copies of the on East Africa. Office o f Sustainable Development’s 3 newsletters, African Voices, SD Abstracts, and SD Developments, on USAID’s web at . (North Africa and the Middle East), an indexed list of 1478 items. African Studies Quarterly is an interdisciplinary, fully-refereed, St. M artin’s Press, Scholarly & Reference Division (257 Park Ave. publication. The inaugural issue of the journal will be published on South, New York, NY 10010) issued “African Studies 1996-1997” the World Wide Web May 1,1997. The address for the journal will which includes Radcliffe Press titles which they distribute in North be . For more information America. write: Editorial Committee, African Studies Quarterly, Center for African Studies, 427 Grinter Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611; or email . EVENTS Newspapers online include: Foire Internationale du Livre de Dakar (FILDAK), 4-11 nov. 1997. La Voie (Abidjan) - http://www.africaonline.co.ci/AfricaOnline/ Contact: Amadou Sy, FILDAK, BP 8166, Dakar. infos/lavoie/lavoie.html La Jour (Abidjan). Second Ghana International Book Fair, 4-10 Nov. 1998, Accra. Contact: Director General, GIBF, PO Box 111, Trade Fair Centre, UN’s EC A has finally brought up a WWW site: (http://www.un.org/ La-Accra, Ghana. Depts/eca/). It includes, amongst other things, the texts of Confer­ ence of Ministers documents, documents from ECA Divisions and Third Annual National Book Week, 21-27 April 1997. Contact: Programs and speeches by the ECA Executive Secretary. Deputy Chief Programme Officer, Nigerian Book Foundation, PO Box 1132, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. SERIAL CHANGES Sixth Pan-African Children’s Book Fair, 25-31 May 1997. Contact: Co-ordinator, PACBF, POB 61301, Nairobi, Kenya. African Journal o f Political Science continues the African Journal o f Political Economy, effective June 1996. Price per issue (2 per Zimbabwe International Book Fair, 2-9 August 1997, Harare. year): $15 for African institutions; $20 for non-African institutions. The theme for ZIPF97 is “Libraries”. More information available at NEW SERIALS LITERATURE ON THE BOOK TRADE African Journal o f Languages and Linguistics, v. 1, no. 1 (1996). $60 for institutions; $16, individuals. Editor: African Institution, Partners in African Publishing is available on the web at Journal o f Research Methodology and African Studies, vol. 1, no. 1 Bellagio Publishing Network Newsletter, no. 19 (March 1996 [sic, (1996). $60 for institutions; $16, individuals; from: African Institu­ 1997]) includes reports by Philip G. Gltback, Katherine Salahi, Ian tion, 7532 8th St., NW, Washington, DC 20012. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 8 APRIL 1997 EIS News reports on the Program on Environment Information Tomaselli, Keyan G. Appropriating Images: The Semiotics o f Vi­ Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, a World Bank initiative. It is sual Anthropology. Aarhus: Intervention Press, 1996. 332p. ISBN currently based at CISR-Environmentek, POB 395, Pretoria 0001, 87-89825-05-5. Available from: Smyrna Press, Box 021803-GPO, South Africa. There is a web site at . University of Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa. Zimbabwean Review is a quarterly that started in April 1995. In a newspaper format, it carries reviews of books, films and exhibitions; plus articles on current issues, poems, and short stories. Annual subscriptions (outside Africa): £20/Z$260 (more by air). Contact: P/ Bag A 6177, Avondale, Harare. SELECTED NEW BOOKS Ajustement structurel et emploi au Sénégal, sous la direction de Babacar Fall. Dakar: CODESRIA, 1997. ISBN: 2-86978-062-1. Seyoum Hameso. Ethnicity in Africa: Towards a Positive Ap­ proach. London: TSC Publications, 1997.120p. ISBN 0953020401. £11 or $19.50 + $2 for handling. Available from publisher at POB 12879, L ondon W13 8SW; or author at < ham eso_a27@ oewyn.tvu.ac.uk>. Diamond, Larry. Prospects fo r Democratic Development in Africa. Stanford: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, 1997. 55p. 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