AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER No. 93, Jan u ary 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 available on Internet at . Meeting in Columbus, Ohio (Nov. 1997): ALC Business Meeting Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana, MSU, 100 Library, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. Bibliography Committee Tel.: 517-432-2218; E-mail: lauer@pilot.msu.edu; Fax: 517-432-1445. Cataloging Committee Deadline for no. 94: March 15,1998; for no. 95: July 1,1998. ALC Executive Meetings ASA Publications Committee OTHER N EW S............................................................6 EDITOR'S COMMENTS News from other Associations Calendar This issue is dominated by reports from the annual African Studies ALA Association meeting in Columbus, Ohio. And it does not come close to SCECSAL capturing the full flavor of the sessions. The 40th Anniversary Confer­ SCOLMA Acquisitions Scheme ence of the Africana Librarians Council, organized by Nancy Schmidt, Free Materials Offered & Requested: pulled in a better than usual representation of librarians from outside the Resources at Libraries and Research Centers United States. Vacancy: Univ. of Iowa Summaries of the two dozen presentations made during this confer­ ence or by librarians on ASA panels could not be included. I have also put RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES................................... 7 off the CAMP reports and shortened the official minutes. The availability Books & Documents of an ALC homepage (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/amed/9asa.html), which Journals & Articles is expected to carry the full minutes, makes it unnecessary to repeat everything in print. Therefore, a policy that has been evolving since 1995 REFERENCE SOURCES............................................8 has been extended. Notes Many librarians contributed to the production of this issue, including New Reference Titles Joe Caruso, Moore Crossey, David Easterbrook, Karen Fung, Deborah LaFond, Elizabeth Plantz, Nancy Schmidt, Mette Shayne, and David NOTES ON MATERIALS & V EN D O RS............8 Tuffs. Vendor Announcements By now the process of putting ALN on the web has begun. It is not easy, Zimbabwe Book Fair and I have a sense that work on home-pages is slowing progress in many Literature on the Book Trade other areas. The little browsing I do raises old questions: How much Web Sites relisting (or shadow cataloging) is socially useful? Can a list that includes New Serials the repetitive "Greenwinkle" bibliographies on women in Africa be Videos called selective? Is time spent on bibliographies (print or web) an escape Selected New Books from real librarianship (i.e., cataloging)? I often wonder about lists, Special Issues of Journals including my quarterly list of dissertations in ASA News, that mostly repeat information available elsewhere. Why not put the added value into an existing national database? AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 2 JANUARY 1998 AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL / CAMP NEWS CALENDAR OF FUTURE MEETINGS Baumann named an advisory committee: Walsh, Caruso (chair), Lauer, Baumann and the chair of CAMP (Britz). Two Apr. 3-4,1998, Gainesville - ALC/CAMP Spring Mtg. faculty members were to be added. The committee will over­ Oct. 29-Nov. 1,1998, Chicago - ASA Annual Meeting see the revision of the proposal. Spring 1999, Washington, DC - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting Nov. 11-14,1999, Philadelphia - ASA Annual Meeting 5. ALC listserv (Finnegan's e-mail list): Spring 2000, Los Angeles - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting Schmidt suggested that ALC needs 2 lists: one only for ALC Fall 2000, ?Nashville - ASA Annual Meeting business and a general listserv for Africana reference queries, Fall 2001, ?Minneapolis - ASA Annual Meeting book ads, repostings from other listservs, etc. Finnegan's analysis of the list of 79 names indicated that 59 were active ALC participants. Of the remaining 20,8 are ALC members, 3 ALC BUSINESS MEETING foreign librarians, 6 Harvard bibliographers and 2 students. Agreed that future messages should carry clear labels, e.g.: Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 14,1997,9:30-12:00 ALC Business, ALC Reference, Repost. Edited from minutes distributed 23 Dec. 1997 Issue of a listserv was discussed. Finnegan does have a by Deborah M. LaFond (Acting Secretary) partial archive of ALC messages. However, Harvard does not currently have the computer support to allow him to comfort­ Helene Baumann (Duke U.), Ruby Bell-Gam (UCLA), Phyllis ably take on a listserv. Bischof (UC Berkeley), Simon Bockie (UC Berkeley), Christo­ pher Boyd (African Imprint Library Services), Dan Britz 6. ALC Electronic Resources: (Northwestern U.), Joe Caruso (Columbia U.), Jill Coelho 6a. Zellers reported that she just received the URL for the ALC (Harvard U.), Moore Crossey (Yale), Henrietta Dax (Clarke's Home page: . Bookshop, Cape Town), Andrew De Heer, (Schomburg Cen­ Zellers stated that she could accept documents that were ter), David Easterbrook (Northwestern U.), Greg Finnegan ready to put up on the Home page. Documents to be included (Harvard), Theodore Foster (Ohio University), Karen Fung on the Web should come from the Chair of each ALC commit­ (Stanford), Miki Goral (UCLA), Marieta Harper (LC), Dennis tee in either WordPerfect or HTML format. Timing of updates Hyde (U. of Pennsylvania), Al Kagan (U. of Illinois, Urbana- and exact format is yet to be determined. Champaign), Deborah LaFond (SUNY-Albany), Joe Lauer (Michigan State U.), Liz Levey (PIAC/AAAS), Ken Lohrentz 6b. ALN Report (distributed in advance from J. Lauer): (U. of Kansas), Peter Malanchuk (U. of Florida), Mary Materu- Work on web site reported, and correction of errors in list of Behitsa (U. of Dar es Salaam), Saliou Mbaye (Archives regulars promised. The mailing list survey that went out in Nationales du Senegal), Sybil Moses (Catholic U. of America), Jan. /Feb. resulted in a 26 percent reduction in the mailing list. Razia Nanji (U. of Florida), Patricia Ogedengbe (Northwest­ Members are reminded of the 2-week deadline for meeting ern U.), Hans Panofsky (Northwestern U.), Loumona Petroff reports and are thanked for their contributions. Email contri­ (Boston U.), Elizabeth Plantz ( Northwestern U.), H. Kay butions are now preferred. Raseroka (U. of Botswana), Marlys Rudeen (CRL), Nancy Schmidt (Indiana U.), Regina C. Shakakata (WHO-Zambia), 6c. Nanji (co-Chair of Strategic Planning Committee) reported Mette Shayne (Northwestern U.), Ruth Thomas (Library of that the ALC Handbook is also on the ALC Web page. New Congress Office, Nairobi), Dave Tuffs (Michigan State U.), volunteers are needed. Gretchen Walsh (Boston U.), David Westley (Boston U.), Dor­ othy Woodson (SUNY-Buffalo), Joanne Zellers (Library of 6d. Action Plan on future of EJAB (Electronic Journal of Congress). Africana Bibliography). Since the University of Iowa will not provide HTML support, we need an editor to continue John 1-2. The meeting was called to order at 9:45 AM by Caruso, Howell's work. Chair, and the minutes were approved. Nancy Schmidt was Walsh mentioned some bibliographies being compiled at congratulated for organizing the just-completed 40th anni­ Boston U. including one on female genital mutilation. versary conference. Overview on future needs: The Electronic Resources Task Force was to meet and report on various issues, including 3. Elections of new officers: Goral and Fung distributed slate, mainstreaming Africana products. with one candidate per opening. There were no successful additional nominations from the floor. Members approved 7. Lisbeth Levey (Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Founda­ election of vice-chair/chair-elect: Zellers; members-at-large: tion, Nairobi) reported on various initiatives of The Project Phyllis Bischof, Al Kagan; secretary: Deborah LaFond. for Information Access and Connectivity (PIAC), which is jointly funded by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations and 4. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Global Resources works with grantees and program officers of both founda­ Project: Union List of African Newspapers. tions in eastern and southern Africa on issues pertaining to Baumann reported on the planned cooperative project. (De­ connectivity, information access, and the dissemination of tails in earlier nos.) There was an extended discussion on the African information. problems with digitized data, Mellon's refusal to fund micro­ a) PIAC is planning a feasibility study for a possible pilot filming, and possibilities for the future. project to index and abstract theses and dissertations from AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 3 JANUARY 1998 African universities. A planning meeting is scheduled for a full-time basis to manage the Library's Amharic collections. January 1998, in Nairobi. Levey would pay the per diem costs In October he finished "Ethiopian and Eritrean Newspaper of someone from ALC. Holdings in the Library of Congress" which lists 168 titles in b) In October 1997, PIAC organized a one-day workshop in the Section's custodial collections. Copies are available upon Johannesburg for participants, most of them documentalists, request by calling Mr. Tiruneh at (202) 707-4163. During the from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique first week of November, 811 retrospective Amharic book working in the area of gender. As a follow-on activity, they are records were added to the database. considering a small pilot project to collect and digitize infor­ Ms. Leila Mulgaokar, was appointed the new director of mation from African gender centers. the Library's Cairo office, assuming her position in August. c) The Ford Foundation is supporting a project at the Univer­ There is progress in acquiring Sudanese imprints. sity of Cape Town to digitize collections of African art and With the move to the Jefferson Building and a combined music. reading room for the three AMED sections (African, Hebraic, d) They are planning a full-text CD-ROM of social science and Near East), the catalog records of the reference collections materials on Mozambique. of each have been put on files searchable on GENBIB available through the Internet. The file names for each section's collec­ 8. IFLA Report (Raseroka): tions are afrref, nesref, hebref. For the next two years, the Chair of the IFLA Regional The Library's Federal Research Division reports the coun­ Section on Africa is Stan M. Made, University Librarian, try study for South Africa will be available in November, but University of Zimbabwe Library, P.O. Box MP45, Mount there are no funds to publish additional studies. All country Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe e-mail: Uzlib@mango.apc.org; studies published after 1987 are available on the LC home fax: 263-433-5383. page. The Ethiopia study is the only one to date with both text A bilingual journal is planned on African Librarianship and graphics. and Information Science. There will be a higher priority to Mr. Charles Mwalimu, Law Library, is preparing a report develop African library schools. Goals for next year are to re­ to Congress on the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for establish sub-regional library associations and get people to Rwanda. The report should be finished in the spring and appreciate the learning process. On-going staff development available to distribution to libraries. is a primary goal. Most African countries have established preservation committees. 12. Other Brief Announcements Henrietta Dax (Clarke's Bookshop, Cape Town) announced 9. 40th Anniversary ALC Symposium Proceedings (Schmidt): the following arrangement between Clarke's and Hogarth: These w ill ap pear in the M onog rap hs on A frican a Orders for books published in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Botswana Librarianship Series, from the African Studies Program, Indi­ & Swaziland should be sent to Hogarth. Orders, blanket or ana University which will provide free distribution to Africa. single orders, for books published in South Africa & The proceedings will be out in May 1998, with summaries on Mozambique should be sent to Clarke's. Orders for Namibia the Home Page. There were no volunteers to be editor. Zellers can be sent to either Clarke's or David Hogarth. and Plantz volunteered to assist. Christopher Boyd of African Imprint announced the web site (http://www.Africanbooks.com) and offered some old 10. Spring 1998 Meeting at University of Florida, April 2-5 stock they are about to discard. 1998: see and make hotel reservations by March 2nd, 1998. exhibits were limited to two days. Consensus from group was to have a letter from Chair to ASA Board. 11. Library of Congress Report (Zellers; submitted in ad­ Walsh announced the ASA book donation project contin­ vance by e-mail): ues, providing there is funding, and issued a call for volunteers. The African Section moved to larger quarters in the Tho­ Regina Shakakata from the Association for Health Infor­ mas Jefferson Building and added professional staff. Ms. mation and Libraries in Africa, invited ALC members to Marieta Harper joined the Section as an area specialist in Lusaka, Zambia Sept. 14-18,1998 (who@zamnet.zm). January, after serving in the Overseas Operations and Order Kagan volunteered to compile and share a list of US-Africa divisions. Dr. Angel Batiste was promoted from bibliographic university and library related linkages (including web pages). assistant to reference librarian/bibliographer in July. Michigan State Univ. Library report (e-mail submission Ms. Laverne Page, the area specialist for Southern Africa, from Lauer): the distribution of the acquisitions list was traveled July 29 to September 9 to South Africa on an acquisi­ suspended and work on web access to ALN and "Recent tion trip and also attended part of the Zimbabwe Book Fair. Doctoral Dissertations" was delayed due to staff shortages. Parts of the African Section's pamphlet collection are being The flow of newspapers from an agent in Liberia has resumed, filmed, starting with miscellaneous papers from the Univer­ after stopping in April 1996. There has been some progress sity of Nairobi and the University of Dar es Salaam. Those with the backlog of Amharic titles and name authorities. from the University of East Africa and Makerere University Other MSU projects of interest: H-Net and the training Afri­ are being prepared. cans in the creation of homepages; a database and workshops U.S. Imprints on sub-Saharan Africa was suspended, with on African films and videotapes. vol. 8 (1992) being the last to appear. The Section is consider­ ing an electronic version, with a vol. 9/13 covering 1993/97. Meeting was adjourned at 12:10 pm. In June the Hebraic Section hired Mr. Fentahun Tiruneh on AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 4 JANUARY 1998 ALC BIBLIOGRAPHY COMMITTEE 10. Conover Porter Award (Shayne). Because of delays in the Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 1 2 ,4:00pm-6:00pm. announcement, she suggested a delayed timetable for the Edited from minutes distributed by Chair. award committee of Baumann, Caruso and Easterbrook. ALC members were urged to send nominations to Shayne. The meeting was called to order by Mette Shayne, chair. Present (in addition to those at the Business Meeting): Abdul 11. Quality of bibliographies: The Committee found the Scare­ Alkacimat (U. of Toledo), Christine Ayorinde (Centre for the crow Press b ibliograph y of N orth East A frica to be Study of African Economics, Oxford, UK), Gboyega Banjo disappointing, inconsistent, not well arranged, without sub­ (British Council, Nigeria, Nigerian Library Association, ject index or annotations. Schmidt said critical reviews of poor Julianne Beall (LC), John Mcllwaine (University College, Lon­ quality works and letters to publishers are needed. don), Wonki Nam (Central State U., Ohio), Yvette Scheven (Champaign, IL), Andrea Stamm (Northwestern U.). 12. Annual list of Reference Books (African Book Publishing Record): Compilers (Bischof, Coelho, Malanchuk, Shayne and 1. Introduction and announcements. Westley) asked for new titles, especially government docu­ ments. This is Shayne's last year as editor and new volunteers 2. Electronic indexing was discussed by Shayne, Walsh, are sought. Finnegan and others. Northwestern is exploring a project with CODESRIA. Walsh noted H-Africa's table of contents 13. Institutional reports: feature. Schmidt pointed out the time commitment at Indiana Library of Congress (Zellers) [see Business meeting min­ for indexing folklore material for MLA. Caruso stated that utes] HAPI was basically a product of one person getting the grant Northwestern U. (Easterbrook): AFRC, the conference pa­ money and being committed to doing a specific project. To per index now has nearly 73,400 papers from 4,023 conference start such a project you need a center which will sponsor it and proceedings. Through the CIC's cooperative preservation a coordinator and a technically-inclined person who will program, Northwestern has applied for NEH funding to know what is needed to set up a web-based database. microfilm Africana newspapers. With the migration of its It was decided that since the ALC voted last year to work catalog to Endeavor by summer 1998, plans to provide access on funding for a newspaper project, we should wait a year to to the vertical file or current acquisitions have been deferred. explore the possibilities for funding from NEH, Rockefeller or U. of Florida (Malanchuk). Malanchuk and Nanji finished Mellon. Finnegan suggested that in the meantime a list be their work on Magazines for Libraries (1998) and the editor is made of journals not covered anywhere and which need looking for people willing to work on the next edition. indexing. Shayne asked for volunteers to work with her on LC, Nairobi (Thomas). The office moved and is now in a compiling a list of what needs to be indexed to present at the residential area. The office is adding four countries to their spring meeting. collection area (Senegal, Gabon, Cameroon and Ghana). These countries would not be part of the participant program. 3. Duplicate lists distributed by U. of California Berkeley U. of Kansas: Lohrentz will travel to Senegal (especially (Phyllis Bischof and Simon Bockie). Those present overwhelm­ Saint-Louis), Togo, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso. ingly felt they should continue, perhaps with some changes. 4. The Northwestern initiative to cooperate with CODESRIA ALC CATALOGING COMMITTEE was mentioned. Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 1 2 ,1 9 9 7 ,2:00-4:00pm Edited from full minutes. 5. Newspaper list. Shayne reported that the 1997 revised list of newspapers currently received in American libraries was Present: Beall, Banjo, Bockie (UC Berkeley), Dorothy Bothman available. A new compiler of this list must be found by next (Cape Metropolitan Library), Britz, Caruso, Coelho, deHeer, year. Fung, Goral, LaFond, Lauer, Lohrentz, Wonki Nam (Central State University Wilber force), Nanji, Panofsky, Petr off, Plantz, 6. Electronic Journal of African Bibliography (EJAB). Scheven Schmidt, Shayne, Andrea Stamm (Northwestern U.), Thomas, reported that Iowa will provide server space, but an editor Tuffs, Walsh, Zellers. must be found. This was referred to the business meeting. 1. Introductions and announcements 7. Zambiana dissertations and theses. Shayne announced the Chair Plantz opened at 2:10, with Lauer as meeting secretary. availability of a disk with Zambiana dissertations from the beginning up to 1996, prepared by Use Mwanza. 2. Minutes of the Nov. 1996 San Francisco meeting were approved. 8. Filming newspapers: Bischof raised the issue of duplicate filming. It was agreed that any institution filming newspapers 3. Follow up on request to African publishers and APNET to should notify CRL and LC. provide translations of title page information for publica­ tions in African languages: College Press (Zimbabwe) replied, 9. Gaps in reference coverage (Bischof): Walsh will send out pointing out its policy of providing a summary on the back a call for titles needed and will draft a letter for Jeune Afrique cover of African-language publications. to urge an update. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 5 JANUARY 1998 4. Follow up on DT classification schedule expansion NACO: A series of decisions made by South African librar­ (Caruso): LC comments to be incorporated and volunteers ians in 1997 will serve as the foundation for collaboration with sought by chair. the Library of Congress. This year major research libraries in South Africa announced that they would adopt USMARC. 5. Dewey Decimal discussion paper on the area table for The State Library (Pretoria) has received a request from its South Africa (Beall): library community to create an LCSH office in South Africa to A 38-page document had been distributed for comments, assist in the creation and development of standardized South preparatory to the Dewey Editorial Policy Committee meet­ African headings. The University of South Africa has indi­ ing on Nov. 13th. The editors were interested in comments cated its intention to join NACO within the next few years. concerning organization and the use of the Standard Code These actions in the field of technical services combined with List Of Areas (Sea), 12th Ed., 1994, and the units given In the a new, united library association (LIASA) will increase the South African Labour Statistics 1995. Are these units valid? potential for cooperation and sharing of bibliographic data, Need current input from South Africa. Catalogers at North­ both domestically and internationally. western had reviewed the document and noted that it followed SACO: The Africana Funnel Project, coordinated by North­ previous recommendations from the Committee. western University, proposed 116 new subject headings that were added to LCSH, an almost 400% increase over last year. 6. ALC Home Page: Chair will gather some documents and Twenty headings were changed based on the recommenda­ work with Zellers in getting them on the ALC page. Ideas tion of funnel project participants, almost doubling last year's included a list of useful web sites and an update of Gail Junion, total. Clearly this project has developed and matured into a " A Guide to Reference Tools for Cataloging Africana," Library highly successful endeavor. LC acknowledges the significant Resources & Technical Services, April/June 1982, pp. 109-121. improvements that the members of the Africana Funnel Project have made to LCSH. 7. Africana Subject Funnel Project: a) LC's Proposal to code 040 with IEN rather than a code for 9. ALA/COAAM report - none the funnel (which made it hard to compile statistics) was accepted. 10. Other/New business: Lohrentz suggested a handbook for b) Recent activity and questions: Chair distributed list of catalogers of Africana, perhaps for a web site. Lesh, former heading submitted since last update (June 5,1997) and with chair of the Committee, is now volunteering 2 mornings a "FYI: Notes and Helps" which details the answers of the week in the Northwestern cataloging dept. SACO liaison (at LC) to questions raised. For example, literary warrant (if strong) can supersede Ethnologue; Catalogers Closed at 3:58. must be cautious with headings coded sh85-. c) Funnel survey and issues raised: The complete report was distributed to participants and LC called to discuss. Future FIRST ALC EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING improvements might include inputting a draft into a save file Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 12., l:00-2:00pm in a database (e.g., OCLC) which can handle diacritics, etc. Report by editor. d) Recommendations for establishing African languages: Chair revised and distributed guidelines distributed by Lauer in Debra LaFond (SUNY-Albany) volunteered as acting secre­ Nov. 1996. tary for the meetings in Columbus. e) Follow up to SF discussions: Chair distributed a letter to the ASA Publications Committee, Indiana and Smithsonian are sending subjects directly to LC. opposing outsourcing of ASA journals. Northwestern's work with headings in its local database of Chair distributed a draft response to ASA President Sandra subjects not in LCSH is taking longer than expected. Greene's request for ideas on how ASA might enhance its ability to reach out to the general public, the American media 8. LC Report: Cooperative Cataloging Update (Ann Della and policy makers, and scholars in Africa. Porta (LC Cooperative Cataloging Team Leader) [excerpts]: Committee reviewed agenda and chair's notes for a report to The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) and CONSER the ASA Business Meeting. were consolidated on October 1st. In FY97 NACO partici­ pants contributed 137,494 new NARs (an increase of 40% over FY96) and 9,364 new SARs (an increase of 16% over FY96). SECOND ALC EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING SACO participants had 2088 subject authority records ap­ Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 14,1997:12:00-1:00pm proved (an increase of 3%) and 685 new classification numbers Report by editor. (a decrease of 12%). The BIBCO libraries contributed over 100% more bibliographic records than in FY96. LC has used Endorsed letter to Greene (drafted by chair), noting ALC's 55% of the bibliographic records contributed by BIBCO par­ outreach work; ticipants; 42% of the name authority records contributed by Discussed Conover-Porter Award procedures, Spring meet­ NACO participants; and 42% of the subject headings contrib­ ing, Fall meeting; and ARL project; need for revisions to uted by SACO participants. handbook; and bylaws review (to be started by Easterbrook). Noted dissatisfaction with 2-day exhibit schedule. Thanked Schmidt for work on 40th Anniversary. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 6 JANUARY 1998 ASA PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING sue) there were five bidders (NISC, Trans Action, University Columbus, Ohio of Rochester Press, Indiana University Press, Lynne Rienner), Report by David Henige (Univ. of Wisconsin), with the last two getting the closest look. As the discussion ALC representative developed it was noted that either of the two proposals under (shortened by editor) consideration would have cost about twice what ASA pres­ ently pays for the production and distribution and would The meeting was chaired by Iris Berger and included, besides have required a commensurate increase in fees since the the other official members of the committee, editors of ASA Secretariat was proposing not to eliminate any FTEs. Mem­ journals. bers of the Committee were quite sympathetic to the ALC's A major item was the proposed outsourcing of ASA publi­ arguments about the devastating effects of escalating serial cations, other than History in Africa which would continue prices. The matter was not fully resolved, as the meeting was with the editor providing ASA with camera-ready copy. For cut short by time constraints. the remaining publications (African Studies Review and Is­ OTHER NEWS NEWS FROM OTHER ASSOCIATIONS Institutional specializations by area and/or subject: • British Library Document Supply Centre: All significant CALENDAR English language monographs in all subjects and all signifi­ ALA: cant serials in all subjects and languages; June 25-July 2,1998, Washington, DC - ALA Annual Conf. • Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Mauritius, Seychelles; Jan. 22-28,1999, Philadelphia - Midwinter Meeting • Institute of International Visual Arts, London: Contempo­ Apr. 8-11,1999, Detroit - ACRL National Conf. rary visual arts and cultural studies; June 24-July 1,1999, New Orleans - ALA Annual Conf. • Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Midlothian, Scot.: Environ­ July 19-22,1999 - Black Caucus of the ALA Conf. ment, forestry; Jan. 14-19, 2000, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting • London Guildhall, Fawcett Library: African woman (esp. July 6-13,2000, Chicago - ALA Annual Conf. Commonwealth); Feb. 9-14,2001, Washington, DC - Midwinter Meeting • University of Birmingham: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, June 14-20,2001, San Francisco - ALA Annual Conf. Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo; 2003, ?Toronto - ALA Annual Conf. • University of Bradford, Development and Project Planning 2004, Orlando - ALA Annual Conf. Centre: Economic development, biodiversity and environ­ ment, trade, finance, agricultural/rural development, aid and IFLA Annual Conferences: projects; Aug. 16-21,1998, Amsterdam • University of Durham: Sudan; Aug. 19-28,1999, Bangkok • University of Edinburgh: Malawi, Zambia; • University of Exeter: Ghana; • University of Greenwich, Natural Resources Institute: Ge- AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ology, geomorphology, meteorology, hydrology, soil science, The ALCTS International Relations Committee will be put­ vegetation studies, land use, land capability; ting on a program at the 1998 annual conference entitled • University of Leeds: Burundi, Rwanda, DR of Congo (Non­ "International Book Fairs as Intercultural Catalysts for Librar­ social science), Commonwealth Africa (literature, history, ies and Publishers: Frankfurt, Guadalahara, Zimbabwe & politics, geology); Geology; Beyond". • University of London, British Library of Political and Eco­ nomic Science: South Africa (politics, economics, sociology); SCECSAL • Univ. of London, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies: Law The Kenya Library Association is hosting the 13th Standing (Anglophone Africa); Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Librar­ • Univ. of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies: ians (SCECSAL-13), 27-31 July 1998, in Nairobi. THEME: Gambia, Sierra Leone; Trade unions, political ephemera (Com­ Information for Sustainable Development in the 21st Century. monwealth Africa); Fee: US $ 130 • Univ. of London, Institute of Education: Anglophone Afri­ Contact the secretariat; fax: (254) 2 214 917 can education (esp. South African); • Univ. of London, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medi­ STANDING CONFERENCE ON cine: Medicine; LIBRARY MATERIALS ON AFRICA • Univ. of London, School of Oriental and African Studies: The SCOLMA Acquisitions Specialization Scheme was re­ Algeria, Libya, Morocco, T unisia, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Eritrea, vised in August 1997. This cooperative scheme began in 1966/ Djibouti, Somalia, Nigeria, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, 67 as the SCOLMA Area Specialization Scheme, which was Zimbabwe, Madagascar (humanities and social sciences only); first revised in 1977/78. Among the changes: African vernacular languages; 1. Participating libraries are taking on responsibility as much • University of Manchester, John Rylands Library: Angola, for subjects as for regions; Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Madeira, Mozambique, Principe, 2. Concentrates on material, wherever published, relating to Sao Tome; Africa. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 7 JANUARY 1998 • University of Oxford, Dept, of Plant Sciences: Forestry and VACANCY allied subjects; • Univ. of Oxford, International Development Centre: The University of Iowa Libraries seeks an International Stud­ Namibia (politics, economics, social studies); ies Bibliographer. Duties include: (1) select materials relating • Univ. of Oxford, Rhodes House: Namibia, St. Helena (so­ to African studies, South Asian studies, and other area studies cial sciences); fields (chiefly for developing countries), global health and • University of Reading, Agricultural Extension and Rural development, and other social science fields; (2) provide bib­ Development Dept.: Grey literature; liographic and reference assistance; (3) coordinate and, as • University of Sussex, Brighton, British Library for Devel­ necessary, implement user education; (4) serve as liaison to opm ent Studies: Burundi, Cam eroon, Central African faculty in a variety of international studies programs; (5) work Republic, Chad, PR of Congo, DR of Congo (ex-Zaire), Gabon, with the Preservation Librarian; (6) represent the University Rwanda, South Africa (social sciences); Libraries in appropriate on-campus groups and national and • University of Wales, Thomas Parry Library: Librarianship regional organizations. (east and west Africa); Required qualifications: ALA-accredited MLS or equiva­ • U niversity of W estm inster, D uston Centre Library: lent; familiarity with international and global studies; expertise Francophone Africa (social science, creative literature). in either African studies or South Asian studies; excellent • Westminster College, Cambridge, Henry Martyn Mission communications skills; minimum of two years relevant pro­ Studies Library: Christian mission in Africa; fessional experience; evidence of an understanding of the publishing and book selling trades in Africa and South Asia; demonstrated ability to work effectively with library col­ FREE MATERIALS OFFERED AND REQUESTED leagues; some reading knowledge of French; commitment to Notes on requests for books are listed as received, professional involvement. without any endorsement by the editor, M SU or ALC. Desired qualifications: Some knowledge of African or South Asian languages (especially Hindi); knowledge of European The Mudzi Rural District Council Library (PO Box 90, Mudzi, languages besides French; advanced work in African studies, Zimbabwe) requests free materials or funds to assist them in South Asian studies, or international development. servicing the schools and government agencies in the district. The salary range for this position is $31,810 - $52,000 for an appointment at the Librarian II or III level. Applications before March 15, 1998 to: Janice Simmons- RESOURCES AT LIBRARIES & RESEARCH CENTERS Welburn, Coordinator for Personnel and Diversity Programs, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA 52242-1420 (319) The Jan Smuts House Library closed on 28 November 1997. 335-5871. The governing body of the South African Institute of Interna­ tional Affairs (SAHA) has decided to retain a small research collection in the Institute. The remainder of the collection is being integrated into the collections of the University of the Witwatersrand, where it will be accessible to the community of scholars. RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE The following items have come to the attention of the editor. Also in French as: La diffusion de l'information dans les communautés rurales en Afrique : actes du Séminaire tenu à BOOKS & DOCUMENTS Gaborone, Botswana, 22-25 juin 1994. Dakar, Senegal: B.L.D., Bibliothèque, lecture, développement, 1996. 205p. (Project Seminar on Information Provision to Rural Communities in report no. 8 / Advancement of Librarianship in the Third Africa: Proceedings of the Seminar held in Gaborone, World Programme) Botswana, 22-25 June 1994. Uppsala University Library, 1995. 149p. (Project report no. 3 / Advancement of Librarianship in the Third World Programme) JOURNALS & ARTICLES Presentations by J.M. Melamu, Abdelaziz Abid, Rémi Sagna, E.N.O. Adimorah, S.M. Made, Kasama Varavarn, Jenni Innovation: appropriate librarianship and information work in Karlsson, Obadiah Moyo, Marty Legwailia & Basiamang Southern Africa, no. 14 (June 1997) is a special issue on: Muse­ Garebakwena, Fatogoma Diakite, Raphael Bligui Lebry, An­ ums, archives, oral history and transformation. tonio P ila le , R ina K u ku ri, A li F atta h i, L. Raonizainarivo-Rakotomahazo, Antoinette Fall Corréa, An­ Gupta, Sushma, and Davendra K. Gupta. "Development of drew Kaniki, Shirley Giggey, Djibril Ndiaye, Kingo Mchombu, Library and Information Science Education in Africa. Intl. Sissel Nilsen, Diana Rosenberg, Kgosi Linchwe II. Inform. & Libr. Rev., v. 29 (1997): 95-107. Review excludes Available from Advancement of Librarianship in the Third Egypt, South Africa and non-English speaking countries. World Programme (IFLA/ALP), c/o Uppsala University Li­ Formal programs began with Ibadan in 1959. Another 5 schools brary, Box 510, S-751 20 UPPSALA, Sweden. started during 1960s; four during 1970s; and six during 1980s. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 8 JANUARY 1998 REFERENCE SOURCES NOTES NEW REFERENCE TITLES The new 5th edition of African Books in Print/Limes Africains For more titles, see the annual "Africana Reference Books" disponibles is scheduled for publication in December 1998. in The African Book Publishing Record, no. 2. Estimated price for 2 vols (1900p): £350/$575. For more infor­ mation: Hans Zell Publishers, Maypole House, Maypole Road, Institute of Kiswahili Research (TUKI). English-Swahili dictio­ East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 1HU, UK. nary = Kamusi ya Kiingereza-Kiswahili. Dar es Salaam: Mkuku na Nyota Publishers, 1997. Distributed by ABC. ISBN The Getty Information Institute is pleased to announce the 9976911297. 883p. $108. release of its latest vocabulary tool, the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN). The Web version is available at . The relational tables and tagged ASCII files will be available upon request in early 1998. Potential contributors to the TGN should contact the Getty Information Institute's Vocabulary Program at (310) 440 6364 or send e-mail to . NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENTS Gerbermedia Industries (PO Box 1873, Upland, CA 91785- 1873) announced a new African video series: Priesthood and AAIC International Books (454 Dean St., Brooklyn, NY 11217) ritual in Ghana, produced by Kathleen O'Brien Wicker and offers several titles by Professor Edward L. Nyankanzi. Kofi Asare Opoku. African Association of Political Science (M P 1100, Mt Pleas­ Gerald Rilling (1315 Ryan St., Machesney Park, IL 61115- ant, Harare, Zimbabwe) offers several new titles: 1844; 815-654-0389; eafricbk@ix.netcom.com) issued "Out of • The state & democracy in Africa, edited by Georges Nzongola- Print Books on East Africa," listing 210 titles. Ntalaja & Margaret C. Lee. $20 + $6 postage. • Occasional paper series: v. 1, no. 1 (1997): Ghana's 1996 Bennett-Penvenne (162 Oak St., Duxbury, MA 02332; bennet- General Elections: a Post-mortem; v. 1, no. 2 (1997): Oil Conflict l@idt.net) distributed List no. 59 (Livros: Books & Pamphlets and Security in Rural Nigeria: Issues in the Ogoni Crisis. Each $5 on Africa & the Portuguese & Spanish Worlds). + $2 postage. Book Aid In te rn a tio n a l (39/41 C old h arb o u r Lane, African Books Collective (The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., Camberwell, London SE5 9NR, U.K.) issued "NGO Manage­ Oxford OX11HU, UK) issued its Autumn 1997 Catalogue and ment Resources, 1997-98," a catalogue of selected materials on the 23rd batch of cards. They now distribute "Perspectives on management & related issues for NGOs available from Inter­ African book Development," produced by the ADEA (Asso­ mediate Technology Publications. ciation for the Development of Education in Africa) Working Group on Books and Learning Materials. James Currey Publishers (73 Botlwy Rd., Oxford OX2 OBS, U.K.) issued its 1998 catalog of new books and backlist on African Studies Association (Rutgers, the State University of Africa, Caribbean & Third World. New Jersey, D ouglass Cam pus, 132 George St., New Brunswick, NJ 09901-1400) is selling its Annual Meeting Pa­ Lynne Rienner (1800 30th St., Suite 314 (B2-3), Boulder, CO pers Collection 1993-1996 on CD-ROM for $99 (institutions; 80301-1026) issued its "Books on Africa, 1997-1998." $65, individuals). The Nordic Africa Institute's 1997/98 catalogue is called AILS (African Imprint Library Services) distributed list of "Books on Africa." Contact Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, PO Box "Titles Recently Received from Senegal" and has site for 1703, SE-751 47 Uppsala, Sweden. ordering: . Norman Ross Publishing Inc (330 West 58th St., New York, ARED (Associates in Research & Education for Development) NY 10019; 800-648-8850) issued its "African Studies 1997 & GIPLIN (Groupe d'initiative pour al Promotion du livre en Microform Catalog," a 16-page list of materials they distrib­ langues nationales) publish short books in African languages, ute. Some annotations, but no indications of date or publisher including Wolof and Pulaar. Address: Centre Amadou Malick of the microform edition. Gaye (ex-Bopp), BP 10737, Dakar-Liberté, Senegal; email: ared@enda.sn. Randall House (835 Laguna St., Santa Barbara, C A 93101; 805- 963-1909), dealers in rare books and manuscripts, issue "Africa, Big Game" which lists 35 titles. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 9 JANUARY 1998 University of Zambia Press (PO Box 32379, Lusaka 10101; The Sukum a M useum site, lo cated at ch ttp :/ / skasankha@admin.unza.zm) has resumed its publishing ac­ www.photo.net/sukuma>, features hundreds of images, along tivities. The Zambia Law Journal, vol. 25-28, came out in May with comprehensive text. 1997.— Partners in African publishing. AFRICULT, Forum for African Affairs, publishes journalistic articles in the area of Politics, Culture and Society as well as EVENTS scientific papers, project reports, and literary work (prose & poems) in English, German, French and African languages. The Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF98) will be held This e-zine can be read at: . To subscribe, please e-mail to: . In the subject line please write only the word • An academic research seminar on Children in Africa, sched­ "subscribe". uled for 30-31 July (immediately before the Indaba that opens the ZIBF98 programme) and hosted by the University of Zimbabwe; NEW SERIALS • An academic and scholarly special interest workshop stand within the ZIBF98 Indaba on Books and Children, 1-2 August Oromia OutlooK, v. 1, no. 1 (July-August 1997)-. Bimonthly in at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Monomatapa Hotel, Harare; English and Oromo. Available from: Dabala Olana #234,5149 • A one day workshop on scholarly book and peer review, to Country Hills Blvd., NW, Suite no. 235, Calgary, Alberta T3A be held in Harare later during the ZIBF98 period (5 or 6 5K8, Canada; dolana@acs.ucalgary.ca. Sub.: $20 (individu­ August) and organised by the Southern African Book Devel­ als); $30 (institutions). opment Education Trust (SABDET) in conjunction with the ZIBF. For fu rth er in fo rm atio n , co n tact: M argaret Ling VIDEOS . California Newsreel (149 9th St., #420, San Francisco, CA 94013; tel.: 415-621-6196; ) has LITERATURE ON THE BOOK TRADE released its 1998 Library of African Cinema resource guide. Among the 40 African films, documentaries and television Bellagio Publishing Network Newsletter, no. 20 (Autumn 1997) production are 12 new releases. The 48-page guide also has an includes reports by Eric Ofei (publishing in Ghana), Gillian essay by Prof. Mbye Cham, a thematic index, and an index to Nyambura, Agnes Katama, Philip Altbach, and Victor MSU's African Media Program database. Nwankwo. It also has an index to nos. 1-20. Web site: . SELECTED NEW BOOKS Book and serial vendors for Africa and the Middle East: results of a survey of ARL libraries, edited by Karl E. Debus. Chicago: Adewoye, Alice Ayanrinola. The drop-out. Osbhogbo, Nigeria: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, SUMOB Publishers, 1996. ISBN 978-31181-2-9. American Library Association, 1997.138 p. (Foreign book and serial vendors directories; v. 2) Can Nigeria make a peaceful transition to democratic gover­ nance? Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, Cost-effectiveness of publishing education materials in African 1997. 9 p. (Special report) languages, edited by Maureen Woodhall. Oxford: ABC, 1997. 144pp. (Perspectives on African Book Development, no. 1) Senait Haile. [If Patriotism Could be Inherited.] Washington, $21; £11.95. D.C., 1986. 279p. Story with letters of the opposition of Haile Wolde Rufe and Ayele Haile to the Italian occupation of Economics o f publishing educational materials in Africa ,b y Walter Ethiopia, 1936-1941. Amharic text followed by English trans­ Bgoya, et al. Oxford: ABC, 1997. 147pp. (Perspectives on lation, with English title page. Available for $20 (+$2 s&h) African Book Development, no. 2) $21; £11.95. from: 13410 Preston Rd., #G, Dallas, TX 75040; tel.: 972-386- 8620. Zell, Hans M. A bibliography of publishing and the book chain in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oxford: ABC, 1997.89pp. (Perspectives on Wilberforce Conference on Nigerian Federalism, edited by African Book Development, no. 3) $30; £16.75. Peter P. Ekeh. Buffalo, New York: Association of Nigerian Scholars for Dialogue, 1997.69 p. Report on a conference held at Central State University on May 29-30, 1997. $5.00 ISBN WEB SITES 0966072502. Available from the Association of Nigerian Schol­ ars for Dialogue, PO Box 2032, Buffalo, NY 14226. Anthropological Index Online is available at chttp:// lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai/Anthlndex.htmlx They are also pilot test­ ing email access at acol@lucy.ukc.ac.uk, with help as the SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS message. Elections in Africa, edited by L. Adele Jinadu, African Journal of Political Science, v. 2, no. 1 (June 1997). AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 10 JANUARY 1998 ACRONYMS ACRL - Association of College & Research Libraries (ALA) ALA - American Library Association (Chicago) ALC - Africana Librarians Council (formerly Archives-Libraries Committee) of ASA ARL - Association of Research Libraries 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 - M ichigan State University SCOLMA - Standing Conf. on Library Materials on Africa U. - University UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles •uoi;n;ipui fyiunpoddo-ivnbd 'uoipv-dai^miuiffv uv si fiSW \Z -on iiu u a j Ç£0I-t'Z88t’ iregiipiw ‘Suisireq iseg l\ft ‘Suisireq g J3JU33 [THionmuomi ooi Â)IS.I3A|lin 3JB JS ir e S iip ip ^ arv d 39VLSCM STL saianis n v d r l j v g jQ UJOJd-UOjsI