AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER No. 94/95/96, April/July/October 1998 ISSN 0148-7868 TABLE OF CONTENTS Africana Libraries Newsletter (ALN) is published quarterly by the Michigan State University Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center. Those copying contents are asked to cite ALN as their source. ALN is produced to support the work of the Editor's Comments Africana Librarians Council (ALC) of the African Studies Association. It carries Acronyms reports on meetings of ALC, CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microform Project) and other relevant groups. It also reports other items of interest to Africana ALC/CAMP N E W S................................................. 2 librarians and those concerned about information resources about or in Africa. To Calendar of Future Meetings be made available on the Internet at . Meetings in Gainesville, Florida (April 1998) ALC Business Meeting Cataloging Committee Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana, MSU, 100 Library, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. Tel.: 517-432-2218; E-mail: lauer@pilot.msu.edu; Fax: 517-432-1445. Bibliography Committee Deadline for no. 97: Jan. 1,1999; for no. 98: March 15,1999. Title VI Africana Librarians Book Donations Committee CAMP Business Meetings in Columbus, Ohio (Nov. 1997) EDITOR'S COMMENTS 40th Anniversary Conference Proceedings Electronic Resources Panel This is the first issue since no. 93 (Jan. 1998). The regular quarterly CAMP schedule was disrupted by my preoccupation with my wife's failing New Appointments: Afeworki Paulos & health. She died on August 9th, and I appreciate my readers patience and Marion Frank-Wilson expressions of concern. Other Announcements: Howard, Virginia, Yale The bulk of this issue carries minutes from the Spring meeting in Gainesville, Florida, plus some further details on the Fall 1997 meeting in RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES...................................9 Columbus, Ohio. Details from the recently completed ASA meeting in Books & Documents Chicago will appear in the January 1999 issue. Librarians who contrib­ Journals & Articles uted to this issue include: Joe Caruso, Moore Crossey, David Easterbrook, Karen Fung, Deborah LaFond, Elizabeth Plantz, Mette Shayne, Elisabeth REFERENCE SOURCES......................................... 10 Sinnott, and David Tuffs. Notes The past months have seen many changes. There were two retire­ New Reference Titles ments, several new Africana librarians, numerous meetings, and a lot of discussion about union lists and periodical indexes. A personal highlight LETTERS & O PIN IO N S......................................... 11 was a 3-week trip to Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Eritrea in January- David Henige, African Historical Dictionaries February. NOTES ON MATERIALS & VENDORS 11 Vendor Announcements ACRONYMS liiili li ll l Book Awards ACRL - Association of College & Research Libraries (ALA) Literature on the Book Trade ALA - American Library Association (Chicago) Web Sites ALC - Africana Librarians Council (formerly Archives-Libraries New Serials Committee) of ASA Notes on Serials ARL - Association of Research Libraries Selected New Books ASA - African Studies Association (U.S.) CAMP - Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CRL) CRL - Center for Research Libraries (Chicago) IFLA - International Federation of 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/JULY/OCTOBER 1998 AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL / CAMP NEWS CALENDAR OF FUTURE MEETINGS 6. LC Report (Zellers): This past year there have been more programs, luncheons, April 29-May 1,1999, Washington, DC - ALC/CAMP workshops and outreach to Africanists in the area. Dr. Spring Meeting Billington asked bibliographers to select the best 4-5 books Nov. 11-14,1999, Philadelphia - AS A Annual Meeting published in the past year for each country. April 6-8, 2000, Los Angeles - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting The proposed Web page will be available on April 15. First Fall 2000, Nashville - ASA Annual Meeting draft of Business Meeting minutes should be sent to ALC Fall 2001, Houston - ASA Annual Meeting listserv. Corrected draft will be sent to list with a deadline for Fall 2002, Washington, DC, or Detroit - ASA Annual corrections. After the deadline, the corrected minutes should Meeting be sent to Zellers to mount on Web page. The statement "draft Fall 2003, Minneapolis - ASA Annual Meeting - ASA not yet approved by membership" will appear on minutes. Annual Meeting There is no change in the status of publishing area hand­ books. Those that are actually published are put on the Web, but there is camera-ready copy for 2-3 handbooks which are ALC BUSINESS MEETING not on the web. Members discussed a letter recommending Gainesville, Florida, April 3,1998 continued publication. [Abbreviated by editor from minutes by Deborah LaFond, 7. ARL Global Resources Project Report (Baumann): A draft, Secretary.] prepared with help from Walsh and Zellers, was distributed. Present: Helene Baumann (Duke U), Julianne Beall (LC), Ruby Text from the email message follow: Bell-Gam (UCLA), Phyllis Bischof (UC Berkeley), Joe Caruso The Africana Librarians Council (ALC) and the Coopera­ (Columbia U), Jill Coelho (Harvard), Moore Crossey (Yale), tive Africana Microforms Project (CAMP) of the Center for Greg Finnegan (Harvard), Beverly Gray, (LC), Karen Fung Research Libraries (CRL) propose creation of a searchable (Stanford), Miki Goral (UCLA), David Hogarth (Hogarth electronic union list of African newspaper holdings to be Books), Dennis Hyde (U. of Pennsylvania), A1 Kagan (U. of placed on a website, accessible to researchers world-wide. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Deborah LaFond (SUNY Al­ This union list will include newspapers published in Sub- bany), Louise Leonard (U. of Florida), Peter Malanchuk, (U. of Saharan Africa in all formats (paper, microform and electronic), Florida), Pamphil D. Mwaimu (Dar-es Salaam U.), Razia Nanji in all languages. Initially this list will consolidate holdings (U. of Florida), Loumona Petroff (Boston U), Elizabeth Plantz information for collections in the U. S., but will expand to (Northwestern U), Dan Reboussin (U. of Florida), Mette Shayne include or link to holdings and union lists in Africa, Europe ( Northwestern U), Elisabeth Sinnott (NYU), Andrea Stamm and the rest of the world. (Northwestern U), David Tuffs, (Michigan State University), While this essential database of African newspaper hold­ Gretchen Walsh (Boston U), David Westley (Boston U), Joanne ings is underway, we will explore two other vital aspects of Zellers (LC). providing access to this important body of research material: preservation of inherently ephemeral and fragile material, 1. Vice-Chair Zellers called the meeting to order. The chair and digital access to the content of African newspaper. (David Easterbrook) could not attend because of a major The final product will be: a centralized electronic finding Africana event at Northwestern University. aid for African newspapers held in U. S. libraries and else­ where; preservation of research material notorious for its 2. Minutes from ALC meeting in Columbus were approved. fragility; unprecedented access to the content of newspapers, enabling research of African political and social events to be 3. Future Meetings: Plans for Fall 1998, Spring 1999 and conducted with far greater ease than ever before possible. Spring 2000 discussed. Motion to mount ULAN (Union List of African Newspa­ 4. Nominations and Elections Committee: Finnegan will pre­ pers) in a database format as opposed to Web/HTML pare a slate for the fall meeting. document was voted on and approved. Walsh offered to create a pilot project with Boston 5. Brief Reports University's holdings to evaluate the design. Members agreed ALC Cataloguing Committee (Plantz) [see minutes] that a pilot project ought to be incorporated into the ARL ALC Bibliography Committee [see minutes] proposal. 1998 Conover Porter Award (Caruso): A list of nomina­ tions was distributed at the Bibliography Committee meeting. 8. Electronic Resources Task Force Report (Caruso): Getting reviews on the nominated publications continue to The Task force met for the first time and would like to continue prove difficulty. as a focus, discussion group on e-mail. They emphasized the ASA Book Donations (Walsh): Annual competition for need to develop a project to coordinate the indexing of African limited funds; working with Ogedengbe, Schmidt, & Bell- studies material. Discussion included cooperative indexing, Gam. the NISC databases, coverage and record problems in the ASA Board: Caruso shared follow-up from 1997 meeting. databases, and what the group could do to encourage/pres­ ASA has decided to hold off on moving publications to com­ sure publishers to develop a comprehensive database for mercial publishers. Africanists. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 3 APRIL/JULY/OCTOBER 1998 EJAB Electronic Journal: Caruso encouraged members to Tuffs offered to have MSU design an automated listserv for seek manuscripts for electronic publishing and will keep ALC. Zellers asked Greg and Dave to develop a proposal that channels open with the University of Iowa who has agreed to includes "listserv groundrules" and report at the next meet­ act as a Web host for the journal. ing. 9. Title VI Librarians Report (Walsh): [see separate report 12. Announcements: below] LaFond noted an interest in SUNY universities to consider working with the National Summit on Africa. 10. Nairobi Meeting on African Dissertations (Lauer): Any proposed changes to the bylaws should be sent to (Email report on the African Theses and Dissertations Plan­ Easterbrook. ning Meeting, held in the Nairobi Hilton on 27-28 January 1998.) The meeting was organized by Lisbeth Levey (email: l.levey@fordfound.org) of the Project for Information Access ALC CATALOGING COMMITTEE MEETING and Connectivity (PIAC), which is sponsored by the Ford Gainesville, Florida, April 3,1998, 9:00-10:30am Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Participants in­ cluded 13 librarians/ academics from various institutions (Tade [Abbreviated by editor from minutes by Elisabeth Sinnott.] Akin Aina (CODESRIA), Ayorinde Ajayi (Population Coun- Present: Beall, Bell-Gam, Caruso, Coelho, Crossey, Fung, Goral, cil-Nairobi), Mary-Materu Behitsa (University of Dares Salaam Gray, Hyde, Kagan, LaFond, Leonard, Muaimu, Nanji, Petroff, Library), Margaret Crampton (National Inquiry Services Cen­ Plantz, Reboussin, Shayne, Sinnott, Stamm, Tuffs, Walsh, tre, Grahamstown, South Africa), Nancy Hafkin (UNECA), Zellers. Lucilda Hunter (World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa), Christine Kisiedi (University of Ghana), Joseph J. 1. Chair Plantz opened at 9:10, with Sinnott as secretary. Lauer (MSU, William Lyakurwa (African Economics Research 2. The minutes of the Columbus meeting were approved. Consortium, Nairobi), Gillian Ngola (African Economics Re­ search C onsortium ), M argaret Ngwira (U niversity of 3. Dewey Decimal Classification: Beall reported on the Namibia), Akilagpa Sawyerr (Association of African Univer­ progress of the work on the revision of the Dewey Decimal sities, Accra), Ruth A. Thomas (Library of Congress Regional Classification area table for South Africa. She provided two Office, Nairobi)) plus 11 employees of PIAC, Ford or handouts with comments from many South African librarians Rockefeller foundations (Lisbeth A. Levey, Margaret Mathai; on last year's draft. The new numbers which have been pro­ Mary Ann Burris, Richard Fehnel, Joseph Gitari, Nicholas posed for Venda and Ndebele languages were endorsed by Menzies, Katharine Pearson; David Court, John Lynam, Cheikh the Committee. Mbacke, Florence Muli-Musiime). 4. Africana Subject Funnel There were 17 presentations during 5 sessions which explored Plantz reported that there has not been a lot of activity since various aspects of the problem of making African research last fall. It was agreed to use IEN, the code for Northwestern, more widely known while also contributing to capacity-build­ for all future proposals. ing. Topics included lists of theses already compiled, regional The Africana Subject Funnel part of the ALC Web page was collections of African theses (e.g., Codesria gets a copy of the discussed. Plantz expressed her wish to have a link to and theses produced with its funding), problems and costs of from the SACO (Subject Authority Cooperative) Program databases created individually or cooperatively, and the pos­ description. sibility of a paying market (for either a database or hardcopy). Plantz thought that there were 116 headings accepted by There were also general sessions that designed the feasibility LC last year. She now has a better picture of what is expected study and discussed what should be expected in a pilot by LC, and she is able to catch a lot of problems before project. forwarding proposals to LC. Bell-Gam mentioned Africana headings established locally Besides the general endorsement of a feasibility study and at UCLA. Plantz mentioned that the Smithsonian also estab­ pilot project, the following were agreed to: Mary Materu- lishes headings locally and sends them directly to LC. Behitsa will assist Liz Levey with site visits as part of the feasibility study. Northern Africa is included within the scope 5. Cataloging Committee on the ALC Web page: Format and of the project.. The issue of copies was deferred to later. The contents was discussed. Plantz suggested Ethnologue, GeoNet AAU (Association of African Universities) will play a major and Bertelsen's Web pages as links. There is some concern role. It is expected that institutions in the developed world about pages that are no longer being updated and a desire to will provide the funds through subscriptions after the initial see documents by committee members loaded on the Web. grant. The database might include more than a basic citation. For the final product, the emphasis was on CD-ROM and 6. Updating Gail Junion's article ("A guide to reference tools online access. It is essential that African librarians contribut­ for cataloging Africana," Library Resources & Technical Ser­ ing to the database be paid. vices, vol. 26. No. 2, April/June 1982, pp. 109-21): Plantz questioned the value of such a comprehensive list. Catalogers 11. ALC Directory and Listserv: would be asked to list their favorite reference tools for catalog­ Finnegan will continue to update the ALC directory. Cur­ ing Africana. rently there are 84 entries. Not everyone on the e-mail list is on the printed directory. Finnegan will also continue to be the 7. Old business - DT revision: Plantz will photocopy the DT moderator of the ALC listserv. revisions concerning the Indian Ocean and East Africa and AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 4 APRIL/JULY/OCTOBER 1998 will send a note out. This is the third version of Caruso's to write on behalf of the group to U. of Iowa to reconfirm our original draft in addition to LC's comments. Caruso said that interest in keeping the journal alive and to keep in contact he still has some work to do on literary warrant. He will send with ALC when John Howell's replacement is in place. out explanations to Plantz, who will seek further assistance. 5. World Bibliographical Series. We agreed that the bibliog­ 8. LC report raphies serve a very useful purpose, but that there would be Ann Della Porta's report on cataloging activity at LC was to be less interest in electronic versions instead of databases. The sent out on listserv. Chair would write the publisher with the concerns of the In response to a question about South African links, Della group. Porta reported that they were negotiating with the University of South Africa to join NACO (Name Authority Cooperative 6. Conover-Porter Award report* A list of the nominations for Program) sometime in 1999 and that aside from their already the Conover award was distributed. Baumann, Caruso and established relationship with UNISA, other South African Shayne (for the current Chair of ALC) would meet later to libraries are certainly candidates to join the funnel project. work on the selection of the winner of this award. 7. African Book Publishing Record . Shayne announced that ALC BIBLIOGRAPHY COMMITTEE MEETING the 1997 bibliography of reference works and bibliographies Gainesville, Florida, April 3,1998,10:45-12:45 recently was sent to the publisher, and that more volunteers were needed. Coelho agreed to edit next year's bibliography. [Abbreviated by editor from official minutes.] Present: Baumann, Beall, Bell-Gam, Bischof, Caruso, Coelho, 8. Newspaper list. Shayne agreed to update the List of Afri­ Crossey, Finnegan, Fung, Goral, Gray, Grosz-Ngate (U. of can Newspapers Currently Received in American Libraries Florida), Hyde, Kagan, LaFond, Leonard, Malanchuk, Mwainu, and the deadline for reporting to her is July 31st. Members Nanji, Petroff, Reboussin, Rhine, Shayne, Sinnott, Tuffs, Walsh, should give starting date for new titles and last date for titles Westley and Zellers. no longer received. Caruso volunteered to talk to New York Public Library about participating in this project, and Gray to 1. The meeting was called to order by Shayne, chair, with talk to Howard University. It was agreed that Shayne would Tuffs as secretary. Minutes from previous meeting were ap­ contact Afro-American listservs to announce the existence of proved. Agenda was rearranged, nos. 2 and 4 combined and this list on the web. no.3 moved to the end of the agenda. 9. Quality of Bibliographies. The Chair distributed a letter 2. Indexing of journals. Shayne presented her 38-page sur­ from Scarecrow Press, responding to comments from Henige vey of indexing services. At ends of discussion on possibilities and others. For ideas for new and needed bibliographies of cooperation, Caruso agreed to write John Mcllwaine and Nancy Schmidt's list from 1995 would be revisited, and an John Pinfold on this subject. Responses to NISC were also updated list attached to this year's minutes to be available on encouraged. the web. Caruso reported on behalf of the Electronic indexing task force that he had written to producers of the most important 10. Web page. Ideas for the Bibliography Committee web page indexes, but only heard from the African Studies Abstracts included: minutes, link to Newspaper list, and Shayne's com­ editors in Leiden. They had plans to put their library catalog parative indexing study. Other links suggested: Berkeley has on the web, but not their database. a new accessions list and several bibliographies, Columbia Discussion of the LC-Nairobi index followed. Zellers did has the directory of Africanist scholars. not know of any discussion about putting the Nairobi index on the web. Ruth Thomas had expressed the possibility of 11. Announcements: adding indexing of journals from West Africa as an adden­ Malanchuk announced the recent arrival of latest edition of dum to the Nairobi index. Magazines for Libraries. The publisher seeks new editors for There was continued interest in a list of unindexed journals next edition. published in Africa. [Northwestern distributed a 4-page list.] Tuffs asked about interest in new edition of the Student Tuffs agreed to check RLIN and OCLC for a survey of how Africanist Handbook. many libraries subscribe to the major indexes (IAB, LC-Nairobi, Easterbrook sent a report from Northwestern University's Africa Bibliography, African Studies Abstracts, & Codesria) 50th anniversary of the Program of African Studies and the surveyed by Shayne. exhibit about Herskovits. Northwestern will implement Voy­ ager, a web-based online catalog this summer. It will make it 3. Database on African theses: Walsh reported on Lauer's possible to offer accession lists as well as make the content of trip to Kenya and the discussion of a database of abstracts of the library's vertical file material searchable. The library has African dissertations. The Ford Foundation and Liz Levey received from Ivor Wilks the Asante Collective Biography would want this database to become a viable commercial Project archives. The core of the collection is some 12,000 cards product which may be unrealistic with a small market. To that document information drawn from a wide range of have such a database if one cannot obtain the dissertations sources. seems frustrating. Walsh urged members to check their copies of her book The Media in Africa and Africa in the Media as many volumes had a 4. Electronic Journal of African Bibliography. Iowa Univer­ defective index. sity would like to keep this journal on the web. Caruso agreed AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 5 APRIL/JULY/OCTOBER 1998 [Extract from Trip report by Lauer distributed in advance.] BOOK DONATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING I visited 4 countries in 3 weeks. After a January 27-28 meeting Gainesville, Florida, April 1998 in Nairobi (see report on database of African theses), there were preliminary discussions at the University of Zimbabwe The Book Donations Committee met to regroup and assess its and elsewhere concerning the possibility of acquiring photo­ role and future activities. The committee now comprises: copies of African theses in exchange for cash or American Easterbrook, Harper, Kagan (Chair), LaFond, Malanchuk, materials such as dissertations about Africa. In Ethiopia and Walsh (co-chair through spring 1999, ex-officio thereafter). Eritrea, the emphasis was on discussions with individuals The Committee was established in 1995 when the ASA acted who will supply the MSU Library with local publications, on a suggestion of ALC's Book Famine Task Force to use including publications in the Geez script. proceeds from the Endowment Fund, up to $3,000, to fund book donation projects for African libraries. The committee developed procedures, reviewed applications and recom­ TITLE VI AFRICANA LIBRARIANS MEETING mended recipients of the award to the ASA Board. April 4,1998, 2:00pm - 3:30pm [Minutes by Caruso; shortened by editor.] Present: Crossey, Caruso, Tuffs, Westley, Kagan, Bischof, CAMP BUSINESS MEETING Hyde, Goral, Petroff, Bell-Gam, Fung, Malanchuk, Walsh. Gainesville, Florida, April 4,1998 Absent: Schmidt (Indiana), Henige (Wisconsin), Ted Foster (Ohio). [Editor's summary from Minutes.] The meeting was chaired by Zellers in the absence of Britz, the Walsh, serving as "Coordinator" for the Title VI Africana chairman, with Malanchuk as secretary. Librarians, called the meeting to order and distributed several Member institutions (and their representatives) present: hand-outs: Agenda, "Countries Selected for Dissertation Boston Univ. (Walsh, Westley, Petroff), Center for Research Project", "Division of Title VI Funds," "Title VI Directors and Libraries (Marlys Rudeen), Columbia Univ. (Caruso), Duke Librarians," and "Dissertation Overlap." Acting on a sugges­ Univ. (Baumann), Harvard Univ. (Coelho, Finnegan), Library tion made by Kagan, Walsh called for volunteers to serve as of Congress (Gray, Zellers, Beall), Michigan State Univ. (Tuffs), Member-at-Large (Kagan volunteered) and Secretary (Caruso New York University (Sinnott), Northwestern Univ. (Shayne, volunteered). A call for volunteers for all three offices (Coor­ Plantz, Stamm), Stanford Univ.-Hoover Institution (Fung), dinator, Member-at-Large, Secretary) will be made in Fall Univ. of California, Berkeley (Bischof, Bockie), Univ. of Cali­ 1999. fornia, Los Angeles (Bell-Gam, Goral), Univ. of Florida (Malanchuk, Leonard), Univ. of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign There was a request for clarification on the cycle of funding (Kagan), Univ. of Pennsylvania (Hyde), and Yale Univ. and the need for voting every year on the division of funds (Crossey). between the "Senegal project" (the microfilming and acquisi­ Others present: David Hogarth, Deborah LaFond (SUNY- tion of film copies for the CRL of "Justice indigene, sous serie Albany), Pamphil Mwaimu (University of Dar es Salaam). 6M "— colonial court records from the National Archives of Senegal) and the "Dissertation project" (the acquisition of 1. Minutes were approved by the membership. African dissertations by US libraries in return for American dissertations or other compensation). Walsh stated that it was 2. CAMP Budget Review (Rudeen): [see attached] for each institution to decide on its division for the coming Notes: The new budget for FY 1998-99 will be $35,000. The fiscal year. CRL will be sending to each of the Title VI African $2300 budgeted for Northwestern and Michigan State micro­ Studies Centers an invoice for the "Senegal project" for the forms projects will be released to the general CAMP budget amount promised by the institution either at the November during FY 1998, since filming for both projects has been 1997 meeting of the Title VI Africana Librarians or subse­ completed. CRL's contribution of $4000 will be made in April. quently over e-mail. In some cases, adjustments were made. $21,000 will be added to the budget in October 1998. After a few brief comments, it was suggested that unspent 3. Title VI - Senegal Project Report and Foreign Dissertation monies be deposited with CRL for the "Dissertation project" Project (Caruso, Bischof, Walsh): be kept separate from the funds for the "Senegal project". The CAMP has paid $43,959 for filming (four payments, 8/96- Walsh agreed to verify with CRL's Rudeen if CRL would be 12/97), $2433.90 for travel and $841 for samples and shipping willing to disburse funds to individual African institutions for a total of $47,234.33. The Title VI Centers provided $58,650 for the "Dissertation project." ($19,550 per year for FY1995, FY1996, and FY1997). Antici­ pated costs are $5600 for a duplicate negative and positive for The idea of creating a second copy of an African thesis for CRL Dakar and $700 for shipping. was put off because of concerns over copyright. Walsh then The 140 reels of negative film received in November 1997 asked for summaries from the members on the current state of essentially completed the first phase. The question is now negotiations between Title VI and African libraries on the whether to continue the project in a second phase, add a "Dissertation project." Most reported only preliminary work, second project (foreign dissertations) and divide the resources and none had theses in hand. between the two programs, or move toward full support of the foreign dissertation program. The consensus was to continue dividing resources between the two programs. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 6 APRIL/JULY/OCTOBER 1998 4. Skioeyiya Commission Transcripts (Crossey): Crossey re­ nominations committee of Bischof and Fung was formed to ceived an inquiry from John Seiler as to CAMP's interest in the solicit candidates for the Summer/Fall election to the Execu­ proceedings of a commission in Bophuthatswana Northwest tive Committee. Province that dealt with corruption in the Homelands. There are two parts of the commission transcripts, some 1,000 pa­ 10. SWAPO Documents, Peter Kativivi, Namibia Materials - pers, in CD-ROM format and 4,000 pages on three-inch disks. Crossey asked that SWAPO materials held at Yale and in a The issue was deferred to the fall meeting. Lutheran seminar in Dubuque, Iowa be filmed. There are two boxes of conference papers and four boxes of SWAPO docu­ 5. CAMP Brochure (French) - Shayne volunteered to review ments, circular letters, and typescripts of letters and some the draft and update the brochure and add web site URLs. originals. Kagan moved to film the materials, Walsh sec­ onded, and the motion carried. Yale and CRL will coordinate 6. Eritrean Research and Documentation Center (Caruso): the project's completion and return of materials to Windhoek. Letter forwarded from Tom Weissinger (Cornell) requests CAMP's help with equipment for preserving their collection 11. Yale Materials to CRL: The Dunbar Moodie materials on of books, documents, reports, etc. Discussion followed. South African mine workers will be transferred to CAMP (one In a related issue, Zellers and Gray suggested donated box). Public health records of Alexander Township, South memberships for foreign libraries to have them become full Africa, will be filmed. Materials from Conakry, Guinea, in­ CAMP members. cluding prefecture archives, agricultural documents from district officers, and materials from the National Archives, 7. Status of Cooperative Studies Council (Bischof): Meeting which are mostly photocopies that have been filmed, will be scheduled for April 15,1998. sent to CAMP. 8. Thesis Proposal - Hogarth offered to provide copies of 12. Other Business: Nigerian history theses with limited copying possibilities. Bell-Gam suggested that any single issues of Rwandan newspapers be sent to Ruth Thomas. 9. CAMP By-Laws: Kagan moved to add a vice-chair/chair- UCLA has acquired materials (1900-1956) on various coun­ elect to the CAMP officers group and to review the current tries in eastern, southern, and western Africa from the White by-laws. The motion was seconded, and a by-laws committee, Fathers in Rome. They also acquired a Sudan linguistics including Bell-Gam, Walsh and Baumann, was formed. A collection from Roland Stevenson, covering his entire career. CAMP PROJECT FINANCIAL STATEMENT (APRIL 4,1998) June 97 Dec. Feb. N o te s: FY 97 Qtr. YTD 1. Figures do not include Grant Revenue or FUND BALANCE $18,970.16 $23,632.16 $23,632.16 Grant Expenses lines. 2. Commitments and on order items follow. REVENUES 3. Non-material expenses: Cataloging: $2000 ; Travel: $800. Grant Income $19,550.00 - - 4. Available Funds = (Fund Balance + Membership Fees (6) $25,000.00 $21,205.00 $21,205.00 Revenues) - (Expenses + Commitments). Income from Sales $ 9,696.00 $ 4,170.00 $ 4,170.00 5. Acquisitions fo r Feb. YTD includes a charge TOTAL GEN. REVENUES (1) $34,696.00 $21,205.00 $21,205.00 for $1389 (Niger health theses) which was mistakenly posted to SAMP in FY97. EXPENSES 6. CRL's contribution o f $4000 will be made Grant Expenses $13,929.00 $31,714.00 - in April. Cost of Sales $ 4,127.00 $ 109.00 $ 109.00 C A M P C o m m itm e n ts fo r F Y 9 8 : Acquisitions (5) $18,950.00 $ 6,642.00 $ 8,031.00 Tanzanian N ew s ............... $467.50 Business Expenses $ 3,662.00 Nairobi News (LC) Publications Liberian N ew s ................... $510.88 (LC files) Travel $ 638.00 $ 394.00 $ 394.00 Northwestern mf...........$1000.00 Personnel (Cataloging) $ 2,657.00 $ 1,448.00 $ 1,448.00 Michigan St. U. film ..... $1300.00 TOTAL GEN. EXPENSES (1) $30,034.00 $ 8,593.00 $ 9,982.00 Echos (Bamako)............... $152.10 ASA papers..................... $143.00 $11,223.00 Malawi N ew s .................. $3791.22 REVENUE LESS EXPENSES $ 4,662.00 $12,612.00 Karis-Gerhard Coll..... $10000.00 COMMITMENTS (2) Materials on Order $ 6,040.00 Materials Approved $17,364.70 Non-Material Expenses (3) $ 2,800.00 TOTAL COMMITMENTS $26,204.70 AVAILABLE FUNDS (4, 6) $ 8,650.46 AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 7 APRIL/JULY/OCTOBER 1998 ALC/CAMP DURING 1997 ASA MEETING Library of Congress (Zellers, Thomas), Michigan State Univ. (Columbus, Ohio, November 1997) (Lauer), New York Public Library-Schomburg Center (deHeer), Northwestern Univ. (Britz, Easterbrook, Ogedengbe, Shayne), 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Ohio Univ. (Foster), Stanford Univ.-Hoover Institution (Fung), Africana Librarianship in the 21st Century: Treasuring the Past Univ. of California, Berkeley (Bischof, Bockie), Univ. of Cali­ and Building the Future: Proceedings of the 40th Anniversary fornia, Los Angeles (Bell-Gam, Goral), Univ. of Florida Conference of the Africana Librarians Council. Nancy J. Schmidt, (Malanchuk, Nanji), Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Editor. Bloomington: African Studies Program, Indiana Uni­ (Kagan), Univ. of Pennsylvania (Hyde), and Yale Univ. versity,1998. (Monographs on Africana Librarianship No 6) (Crossey). ISBN 0-941934-77-2. $8 US, $10 overseas, price includes post­ Guests present: Saliou Mbaye (Archives du Sénégal), Ken age. Order from: Publications, African Studies Program, 221 Lorentz (University of Kansas) Woodburn Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405 CAMP members not represented: Cornell University, or jecole@indiana.edu Dartmouth College, Emory University, Hebrew University - Harry S. Truman Research Institute, La Trobe University ELECTRONIC RESOURCES PANEL: (Australia), New York University, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Joseph Caruso (Columbia University) gave a presentation on Ohio State University, Princeton University, Queen's Univer­ "Towards an Africana Library Without Walls and Emerging sity at Kingston (O ntario), South African Library, Syracuse Learning Styles in the Hypertext Era," at the 1997 ASA Annual University, Temple University, University of Cambridge- Meeting. The paper was part of a larger panel "Towards African Studies Centre, University of Chicago, University of Enhancing Electronic Resources about Africa," organized by Kansas, University of Iowa, University of London - School of the Electronic Technology Group, chaired by Ali Dinar (Uni­ Oriental and African Studies, University of Minnesota, Uni­ versity of Pennsylvania). versity of Rochester, University of Tasmania, University of In his presentation, Caruso pointed to trends in the teach­ Virginia, University of Western Australia, University of Wis- ing of reading and writing which seem to coincide with the consin-Madison. development of the Internet and the significant role that electronic mail (e-mail) is playing the everyday lives of library Election - Ballots for open slots on the CAMP Executive users. Caruso argues that one of the combined impacts of the Committee will be mailed to members. The candidates are: for Internet and current academic fashions is the over-emphasis Secretary, Baumann & Malanchuk; for Member-at-Large, being placed on quick and easy search results to the detriment Coelho & Fung; for Faculty Representative, John Hanson of the quality of scholarship; especially in foreign area studies. (Indiana University) & Ebere Onwudiwe (Central State Uni­ Caruso suggests that African studies faculty and librarians versity, Ohio) need to work more closely together to restore an emphasis on basic library skills and the vital importance of building a I. CRL Report - (Rudeen): [Financial Report and list of com­ foundation of knowledge in African studies prior to advanced mitments available from CRL.] levels of research and training. This effort must also encom­ Grant income and expenses are not tallied with the general pass the use of the Internet. funds. Revenues shown are through October 1997, and reflect As an African Studies Librarian and junior webmaster, the loss of the University of Rochester as a member. Commit­ Caruso is attempting to organize links and compile bibliogra­ ments show what CAMP will have to pay for filming. $1500 phies on the Internet which remind the "e-mail centered needs to be added for Tanzanian newspapers. individual" that the bulk of sources for the study of Africa are The proceedings of the ASA general meeting for 1996 and in traditional formats, i.e., conventional, linear texts. Evaluat­ forward will be available only on CD-ROM and therefore ing these texts requires an accumulation of knowledge through cannot be filmed. Caruso will ask the ASA board about this the critical reading of historical texts and knowing how to cite problem. Northwestern agreed to ask for the originals of them properly. Web links should be annotated and connect papers and keep them as long as necessary. the reader/surfer directly to online documents, rather than just to other Web sites. See Columbia University's African II. Symposium on Access to and Preservation of Global Studies Internet Resources at , taking special note of: The symposium was sponsored by CRL, ALC and LC and "Basic guide to research in African Studies at Columbia" and hosted by LC. The purpose of the symposium was to gather a "International Conflict Resolution" under "African Studies group whose discussions would build a foundation for action Resources by Topic." on the general problem of newspapers. Librarians, bibliogra­ phers, micropublishers and faculty members each talked about their take on the problem. The decision was to form a task CAMP BUSINESS MEETING force to come up with specific action plans. Among the issues (Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 14,1997) discussed: U.S. libraries are getting around 5% of world news­ papers, and filming even fewer. Though the consensus is that [Summary from minutes] filming is still the best preservation technology, digitization The meeting was convened by Dan Britz as Chair, with Jill needs to be looked at. The NEH is willing to consider filming Young Coelho as Secretary. newspapers under its brittle books plan, and the ARL is Member institutions (and their representatives) present: publicizing its plan for Africa. Boston Univ. (Walsh, Westley), Center for Research Libraries During discussion, Rudeen added that any proposal to (Marlys Rudeen), Columbia Univ. (Caruso), Duke Univ. digitize should always include a microfilm copy as a safety (Baumann), Harvard Univ. (Coelho), Indiana Univ. (Schmidt), net. There are a number of ways to digitize a page. Some AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 8 APRIL/JULY/OCTOBER 1998 critical questions to be answered include the preservation of Schmidt moved that the CAMP Executive check out the aspects of the image like the original typeface and advertise­ question of the inventory and guide. If the standards are ments, and problems of copyright for scanning and Web equivalent to Carter-Karis and if it can be made available in access. print or on the Web, the Executive will authorize the alloca­ tion of $10,000 and inform the CAMP membership. Approved. III. Title VI/CAMP Senegalese Archival Microfilming Project (Caruso): 3. South African Communist Party archives: Two suitcases Filming is nearly complete on the pilot project. CRL has of materials are now held by Gale Gerhart. Britz requested received 140 rolls of film; 30 more rolls will conclude the pilot that $1500 be allocated. Approved. project, which represents two-thirds of the complete collec­ tion of colonial court records. 4. People's Voice (H arare).- Schmidt requested a commit­ Discussion concluded by noting that this has been the first ment from CAMP to continue filming. A motion was made successful program, and CAMP would be interested in hear­ and approved to purchase Indiana film of People's Voice ing from Ghana, for example, regarding materials to film and through 1997. equipment available. 5. ANC archives at Fort Hare - Crossey said he would find out IV. Malawi Newspapers (Thomas) [new business]: Besides who to contact to request permission for CAMP to buy a copy the funds already committed for funding Tanzanian newspa­ of the microfilm. pers, the LC-Nairobi office seeks CAMP funding to film the remaining Malawi newspapers. Britz asked the group to vote 6 Other New Business: on the proposed allocation of $6,000. Approved. A. Lohrentz is working on an article entitled "Africana at CRL: a Survey of Holdings and Access." Its primary focus is V. OLD BUSINESS to point scholars beginning research careers in Africana to the 1. Results of the mail ballot (see attached report) - Rudeen CAMP collections. requested feedback on the CRL method of priorities to weight B. At Britz' request, the group agreed to postpone a decision votes on mail ballots. on a proposal to purchase the Rivonia trial archive films. C. Walsh said that we cannot proceed with dissertation film­ 2. Judges' notebooks from Nigeria - Rudeen reported that ing before we know what the CRL parameters are. five reels had been received, but they had "vinegar syn­ D. Caruso said that Columbia has two newspaper subscrip­ drome", a sign of decomposition. The pages were nearly tions funded by Title VI that need to be sent for filming. illegible, and she recommended not going forward. The $10,000 allocated had all been spent and there was no recourse other than lessons to be learned. NEW APPOINTMENTS 3. Bamenda Project - Nothing to report. The University of Iowa Libraries appointed Afeworki Paulos to the position of International Studies Bibliographer at the 4. Preservation microfilming from Northwestern and Michi­ University Libraries. He will be responsible for developing gan State - The question rose whether CAMP funds should be collections and information resources in African Studies, South used to buy copies of film already at Northwestern and MSU, Asian Studies, and a variety of other international studies and whether CAMP should buy only the film of newspapers. programs. In any case, Northwestern plans to film an extra copy for A native of Eritrea, Dr. Paulos received his bachelor's CAMP. Britz ended the discussion by asking that a list of degree in Political Science from the University of Ghana, newspapers being filmed be brought to the next meeting, and master's degrees in Educational Counseling and Public Ad­ that monographs already in the pipeline not be eliminated. ministration from Northern Michigan University, and a 1987 Ph.D. in Political Science from the George Washington Uni­ 5. Liberian newspapers - Rudeen requested an additional versity. Dr. Paulos worked most recently at the University of allocation of $1500, as costs are higher than earlier estimates. Virginia, where he was a selector for African politics and Approved. history, a cataloger, and also taught political science. VI. NEW BUSINESS 1. Rivonia Trial Record - The Brenthurst Foundation has The Indiana University Libraries has announced the appoint­ agreed to let the South African National Archives film the ment of Dr. Marion Frank-Wilson to the position of Librarian entire collection. Britz would inquire about a copy. for African Studies, effective September 1,1998. She comes to the IU Libraries from the University of North Carolina-Greens- 2. Karis-Gerhart Collection (Crossey): The collection was boro, where she is completing a Master of Library and begun five years ago with students collecting and copying Information Science degree while also serving as a reference materials from various institutions. A preservation copy was assistant. Her Ph.D. is in English and African Literature, with made three years ago and is on deposit at Yale. More collecting minors in Comparative Literature and African Linguistics. has been done since, including a significant number of inter­ Her dissertation served as the basis for her book, AIDS Educa­ views with political figures. The filming is being done by a tion through Theater. Case Studies from Uganda (Bayreuth: firm called DataPoint. There are three volumes of documents, Bayreuth African Studies 35,1995) as well as various confer­ essays, etc. A final version of the guide will be ready next ence papers and articles. Her extensive doctoral field research spring, arranged chronologically by genre. in Uganda and Nigeria was funded by a highly competitive AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 9 APRIL/JULY/OCTOBER 1998 grant from the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation. In addition OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS to fluency in German and English, she has a working knowl­ edge of French, Swahili, Luganda, and Spanish. Howard University's Moorland-Spingard Research Center At the Indiana University Libraries, Dr. Frank-Wilson is (500 Howard Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20059) adver­ responsible for collecting materials related to and/or emanat­ tised for a cataloger with familiarity with African-American, ing from Africa, serving as the liaison to the African Studies African or Caribbean history and culture. Program and teaching a required graduate-level course, "In­ troduction to the Bibliography of Sub-Saharan Africa." She University of Virginia Library announced the Mary Alice will also contribute to cooperative projects nationally and Kraehe Memorial Fund for Books on Africa has been en­ internationally. dowed. Mrs. Kraehe retired in 1994 after 24 years of service With this appointment, the Indiana University Libraries and was active in ALC. She died in 1995. also wishes to recognize the exemplary contributions of Nancy Schmidt, who devotedly nurtured their Africana collections John (Moore) Crossey retired on Aug. 31,1998, from the Yale and the needs of scholars worldwide from 1984 to August University Library after 35 years of distinguished service. 1998. Alan Solomon, Head of the Yale Library's Research Ser­ vices and Collections Department, added a part-time acting role as Africana Curator, while the search for a replacement continues. Solomon received his MA in history with an em­ phasis on East Africa from Syracuse University in 1974. Among his contributions to the field were a Bibliography for the Study of African Politics, Vol. 2, and A Guide to the Kenya National Archives, Nyanza Province. He has also worked at the Library of Congress (reader services, social sciences, microforms). RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES & INFORMATION SCIENCE BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS JOURNALS & ARTICLES Academic Book Production and Distribution in Africa: Support African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, v. 8, from Nordic Countries. Fantoft, Norway (Fantoftvergen 38, N- no.l, April 1998: 5036): Chr. Michelsen Institute, 1997? 112p. Report from a • Alemna, A.A. "An Overview of the Library and Informa­ conference at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, 10-11 April tion Research Scene in West Africa." 1997. Panels on Publishing in Africa; Book Production in • Leo, Njongmeta and F. Ehikhamnor. "Health Information Africa; Book Distribution in and Out of Africa; African Schol­ Needs and Services in Cameroon." ars in International Publishing; "Where to Go From Here." • Okocha, K. "An Analysis of the Inadequate Treatment of Contributors include: Walter Bgoya, Eve Horwitz Gray, Mar­ African Staple Crops in Literature by Dewey Decimal garet Ling, Woeli Dekutsey, Robert Molteno, Helge Ronning, Classification Scheme." Kingo J. Mchombu, Mary Ray, Terence Ranger, Paul Tiyambe • Shibanda, G. "Book Publishing and Library Partnership Zeleza. in Kenya." • Ogunrombi, S. and Adio, G. "Relationship between Public Libraries in Developing Countries, edited by P.K. Librarians and Book Vendors: the Nigerian Experience." Mahapatra & V.K. Thomas. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1996. The Dr. B.P. Barua Festschrift volume includes: African Research and Documentation, no. 74 (1997): • Hurrynag, Bilinda. "Public Libraries in Mauritius." • Orosz, Kenneth J. "Sources for Cameroonian Colonial pp. 32-35; History in Western Archives and Libraries." • Adimorah, E.N.O. "Public Libraries in Nigeria." • Musiker, Reuben. "Achievements of a South African pp. 36-58; Bibliographer." • Kedem, Kosi A. "Forty Year of Pro-active Public • Adeya, Nyaki. "Access to Electronic Information in Librarianship in Ghana, 1928-1968." pp. 71-81. Africa." The Quiet Struggle: Information and Libraries for the People of African Research and Documentation, no. 75 (1997): Africa, by Paul Sturges (Loughborough University) and Rich­ • Stuart-Mogg, David T. "The Chamare Museum, Mua ard Neill (University of Botswana). 2nd ed. Mansell, 1998. Mission, Malawi." 272p. ISBN: 0 7201 2293 7. $85. First ed. in 1989. Contents: • Sam, Joel. "National Bibliography in Ghana." Africa's Information Environment - Information needs and • Mcllwaine, J.H. "Birds of Africa: a Guide to Reference responses - An alien implant - The search for relevance - A Material." foundation for the future - New information services for the Plus reports on IFLA 1997 (Mcllwaine) and the 1997 Zimba­ whole community - Conclusion - Index. bwe International Book Fair (Tony Olden). AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 10 APRIL/JULY/OCTOBER 1998 Libri (International Journal of Libraries and Information Polman, Katrien. "Evaluation of Africa-Related Internet Re­ Servives), Vol 48(1998), no 1: sources." African Affairs, no. 388 (July 1998): 401-8. Focus is on • "A study of University Libraries' Home Pages in Sub- 4 sites: Saharan Africa," by Justin Chisenga; African Studies WWW (Univ. of Pennsylvania): http:// • "The Role of Libraries in Somalia's Reformation," Ali D. www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html Abdulla. Index on Africa (Norwegian Council for Africa): http;// www.africaindex.africainfo.no/ Africa South of the Sahara (Karen Fung; Stanford Univ.): Fourie, Ina, and Shirley J. Behrens (University of South Af­ h ttp :/ / w w w -s u l.s ta n fo rd .e d u / d e p ts / s s rg / a fr ic a / rica). " South African Studies: a Review of NISC's Anthology guide.html CD-ROM," S.Afr.J.Libr.Inf.Sci., v. 65 (1997): 116-123. African Studies Internet Resources (Joseph Caruso; Co­ lumbia Univ.): http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/ indiv /area /Africa REFERENCE SOURCES NOTES NEW REFERENCE TITLES Africa Contemporary Record, vol. 23 (1990-1992) was published For more titles, see the annual "Africana Reference Books" in 1998 with the following note by Colin Legum: Beginning in The African Book Publishing Record, no. 2. with this volume, ACR will be providing two-year coverage of the continent. This format ... will continue for several Bailey, Adrian J. "Internal Migration in Kenya: A Bibliogra­ volumes, eventually resuming annual coverage.... [Work on phy." Africana Journal, v. 17 (cl998): 307-331. volume 24 (April 1992-March 1994) is already underway. Gundu, G.A. "Select Bibliography of Tiv Language Studies." Vol. 6 (Subject and Title Indexes) of A South African Bibliogra­ Africana Journal, v. 17 (c l998): 363-371. phy to the Year 1925 was published in 1997 (Cape Town: South African Library). Liyai, Hudson A. "Bethwell A. Ogot: A Bio-Bibliography." Africana Journal, v. 17 (cl998): 332-362. Index Islamicus on CD-ROM will cover literature from 1906 to 1996; over 190,000 records. Available for $3445 ($2755 before Musiker, Reuben and Naomi. Guide to South African reference end of 1998) from University Publications of America (4520 books. 6th ed. London: Mansell, 1997.240 p. Includes extensive East-west Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814). annotations. Middle East Abstracts and Index includes an odd collection of Russell, Sharon A. Guide to African Cinema. Westport, Conn.: very long summaries about African topics. Part D (Maghreb- Greenwood Press, 1998.183p. Sahel-Horn) of Vol. 20 (1997) covered following countries: Maghreb: Algeria, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Stanley, Janet L. (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Sahara; Institution, Washington, DC.) Modern African Art: a Basic Sahel: Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger; but not Senegal, Reading List is available at . . Clarke's has been divided: the Africana & Rare Books will operate from private premises in Constantia (a suburb of African Publishing Review, v. 6, no. 5 (Sept. /Oct 1997) includes: Cape Town) where visitors are welcome (please phone first). "Women in Publishing: Profiles from Ghana," by Akoss Ofori- The shop in Cape Town will deal with new books about Mensah. Southern Africa, general second hand books and some of the more recent Africana. Bellagio Publishing Network Newsletter, no. 22 (July 1998) re­ ports on various meetings including the African Writers- Heinemann (88 Post Road West, PO Box 5007, Westport, CT Publishers seminar at Arusha, 23-26 Feb. 1998. There is also a 06881) distributed its "African Studies 1998" catalog. critical commentary by James Tumuslime on the virtual ab­ sence of local publishers in the thriving Ugandan market for McBlain Books (PO Box 185062, Hamden, C T 06518). Catalog school books. 141 (Sub-Saharan Africa) lists 1449 out of print titles. No. 21 (Dec. 1997) included a note by Samuel Kasankha on the revival of the University of Zambia Press (PO Box 32379, Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, Richard, Surrey TW9 3AE, Lusaka 10101). UK): Dorr, Laurence J. Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. 1997. Books (524p.) for £58; CD-£27.60. New Book and Serial Vendors for Africa and the Middle East: Results of supplier in the US: Balogh Scientific Books, 1911 No. Duncan a Survey of ARL Libraries, edited by Karl E. Debus. Chicago: Rd., Champaign, IL 61821; balogh@balogh.com. Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, ALA, 1997.138p. (Foreign book and serial vendors directories; vol. Triumph Library Supplies & Services Limited (N5B/2121 2) Lamidi Ajadi St. Monatan PO 27400, Agodi, Ibadan, Oyo Based on questionnaires distributed in Sept. 1993; com­ State, Nigeria; fax: 2344-2-2413385) distributes academic/ piled, 1994-1996. professional titles to colleges in Nigeria and to overseas librar­ ies. The Chief Executive, Ezekiel M. Ojo, retired in December Zell, Hans M. A Handbook o f Good Practice in Journal Publishing, 1997 from Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria). 2nd. rev. ed. London: International African Institute, 1998.xiv, 173, [53] pages. ISBN 085302085X. Covers various aspects of the work involved in the editing, producing and distributing BOOK AWARDS scholarly journals. Includes bibliographical references, index, and model forms. Pilot edition of 1996 revised after use in Neustadt International Prize for Literature for 1996 went to workshops in Addis Ababa (May 1996) and Harare (July Nuruddin Farah of Somalia. 1997). Distributed by African Books Collective, 27 Park End St., Oxford OX1 1HU. £28 within the UK; $63/£35 elsewhere Noma Award for Publishing in Africa: outside Africa. (Free in Africa.) Peter Adwok Nyaba's The Politics of Liberation in South Sudan: an Insider's View (Kampala: Fountain, 1997) is the 1998 winner. The $10,000 Award will be presented at a special WEB SITES ceremony to be held in Africa in early 1999. Two further books were jointly awarded Special Commen­ African Journals Online, which is managed by INASP (Inter­ dation: national Network for the Availability of Scientific Publica­ Combat pour le sens: un itinéraire africain, by Paulin Hountondji tions) with initial funding from UNESCO, offers access to (Cotonou: Les Editions du Flamboyant, 1997); either the tables of contents or the full text of African journals Manufacturing African Studies and Crises, by Paul Tiyambe in science, technology and medicine published since 1997. Zeleza (Dakar: Codesria, 1997). Tables of contents of seven journals in science and technology One further book was singled out for Honourable Mention: (African crop science journal; Bull, of the Chem. Soc. of Ethio­ Women, Presbyterianism and Patriarchy: Religious Experience of pia; Discovery and innovation; Ghana jo. of agr. sci.; Insect sci. Chewa Women in Central Malawi, by Isabel Apawo Phiri (Zomba: and its application; SINET; Zimbabwe vet. jo.) are available at: Christian Literature Association in Malawi, 1997). . Expansion is The jury, consisting of Walter Bgoya (chair), Thandika planned and a further ten journals have been approached. Mkandawire, Kole Omotoso, Kay Raseroka, and Mary Jay, Photocopies of the articles may be purchased from INASP, reviewed 107 titles from 65 publishers in 18 African countries, with profits to be remitted to the journal concerned. in 12 languages. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 13 APRIL/JULY/OCTOBER 1998 The full text of three medical journals (Afr. jo. of neurologi­ NOTES ON SERIALS cal sci.; Central Afr. jo. of medicine; East Afr. medical jo.) are available as part of the Bioline service at: . Users of Bioline can subscribe to reviews to works published in 1987 or earlier. Vol. 16 ap­ a journal or pay for the full text of individual articles. peared in 1994, reviewed books from 1985 and 1986. Vol. 15 appeared in 1990. Its last appearance as a quarterly was The African Centre for Technology Studies has a new website volume 14 (1983), which came out in 1986/87. at: ACTS is an international inter-govern­ mental policy research and training organization located in African Philosophy, vol. 11, no. 1 (June 1998)-, is available from Nairobi. The website provides detailed information about the Carfax Publishing (875 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA Centre's activities which focus on the implementation in East 02139-9921; or, POB 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshsire OX14 3UE). African countries of Agenda 21 and related conventions on ISSN 1369-6823. Subscription (2 issues): $112 for institutions; biological diversity, climate change, and desertification. $32 for individuals. Numbering continues that of the Society for African Philosophy in North America's SAPINA bulletin The Electronic African Bookworm is a web navigator created (also known as SAPINA newsletter). by Hans Zell Publishing Consultants for use by the book professionals in Africa and by African writers and scholars, East African Geographical Review has been revived with Vol. 19 particularly those who may be new to the Web. It should also (1997). Subscriptions ($35 in America & Asia; £15 in Africa & be of interest to librarians and scholars outside of Africa. It Europe) can be placed with Bakama Bakama Nume (co-edi­ started in February 1998 with 400 links, and expanded rapidly tor), Dept, of Geography, Texas A&M University, College to over 1000 links. As of Oct., it can be found at . 7141. A hardcopy version is available to the African book com­ munities free of charge through the Bellagio Publishing Net­ Journal of Psychology in Africa (south of the Sahara, the Carib­ work Secretariat, Oxford. Email: bellpubnet@gn.apc.org. bean, and Afro-Latin America), which was started in Enugu (1988) as the Journal of African psychology, is now published by Multilingual Books has materials to learn languages, includ­ IKO - Publishers (P.O. Box 900421, D-60444 Frankfurt, Ger­ ing many African languages, which are listed at http:// many). Annual subscriptions (2 issues) are DM98 plus p&p www.esl.net/mbt. for institutions; DM62 for individuals. First Monday, a peer-reviewed journal on the Internet, is available at: . Recent articles SELECTED NEW BOOKS include: • "Africa Connected," by Martin Hall. Vol. 3 No. 11 Limited to titles outside the regular book trade or titles received by the editor. (November 2,1998); Many more titles and/or details on publisher addresses can be found in The • "Power to the People : The Role of Electronic Media in African Book Publishing Record (Hans Zell Publishers), American Promoting Democracy in Africa, " by Dana Ott. Vol.3 Book Publishing Record (Bowker), Accessions List: East and Southern No.4 (April 6,1998) Africa (LC Office, Nairobi), or in one o f the many lists o f current imprints. P. Schlettwein Publishing (PSP) is an independent publisher, NEW SERIALS connected to the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Address: Klosterberg 21, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland. Fax: +41 61 271 Africal Journal of International Affairs = Revue africaine des affaires 3155. email: epsch@bluewin.ch. Recent publications include: internationales. Vol. 1, no. 1 (1998)-. A bi-annual journal of the Ngavirue, Zedekia. Political parties and interest groups in CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science South West Africa (Namibia): A study of a plural society (1972). Research in Africa). ISSN 0850-7902. Subscriptions: Africa: 1997. (Basel Namibia Studies series; 1) 330 pages. D.Phil. $15 for individuals, $20 for institutions; elsewhere: $30 and thesis, University of Oxford, 1972. Reset with minor changes. $40. Introduction by Christopher Saunders. ISBN: 3-908193-00-1. Price: CHF52.00. The International Journal of African Studies, v. 1, no. 1 (Fall Werner, Wolfgang. "No one will become rich": economy and 1997)— . ISSN 1092-6399. Published twice a year by the Center society in theHerero Reserves in Namibia, 1915-1946.1998. (Basel for African Studies, Central State University, Wilberforce, OH Namibia Studies series; 2) 254 pages. ISBN 3-908193-02-8. 45384. Subscriptions ($30, individuals; $60, institutions) to: Price: CHF 48.00. Reissue with a names index of: "An eco­ Dr. Parviz Morewedge, Managing Editor, IJAS, Office of the nomic and social history of the Herero of Namibia, 1915-1946" Schw eiter Chair, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989). Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. Dobell, Lauren. SWAPO's struggle for Namibia, 1960-1991: war by other means. 1998.. (Basel Namibia Studies series; 3) 175 pages. ISBN 3-908193-01-X. Price CHF 48.00. Reissue, with an index, of "New lamps for old?" (Master's thesis, Queen's University (Ontario), 1992). AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 14 APRIL/JULY/OCTOBER 1998 Meintjes, Graeme. Manhood at a price: socio-medical perspectives on Xhosa traditional circumcision. Grahamstown, South Africa: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes Univer­ sity, 1998.132p. (ISER working paper. New series; no. 1) ISBN 0868103349. Price: R40, plus postage & packing. Vydrine, Valentin. La langue, l'Afrique, les Peuls : recueil d'articles dédie à Antonia Koval. Moscow & St. Petersburg: Evropeisky Dom, 1998.352p. Available for $13 from author at: ul Marshala Kazakova 28/1, apt. 437, St. Petersburg 198 332, Russia. Weissman, Stephan R. Preventing genocide in Burundi: Lessons from international diplomacy. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1998. 36p. (Peaceworks; 22) Address of publisher: 1550 M St. NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005- 1708; email: usip_requests@usip.org Dierckx, Xavier. 45 ans au Kivu. Beersel: Clepsydre, 1998.1,392 B elgian fran cs in clu d in g p ostag e. O rd er from or . Youth in danger : reproductive health in the Sahel : results of a regional survey in five West African countries. Bamako, Mali : CERPOD, 1997.48p. This is distributed by the SARA Project, Academy for Educational Development, 1255 23rd St., NW, Washington, DC 20037. ‘UOiWMSUi hiiunvoddo-jvnbd 'uoipv-dai}vuuiffv uv si fiS W IZ ’OMliuuaj Ç£OI“t^88h ireSupipM ‘Suisuin ^ 3 ‘âuisireq 3 J3JU33 tEuopeujoiui 001 cn v d XysjOAiuQ om s ireSxipij^ aovxsod s a H3LNHD SHiaOLS NVORHV •Sao Hjoid-uojq