AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER No. 70, April 1992 ISSN 0148-7868 Africana Libraries N ew sletter (ALN) is published quarterly by the Michigan State Univer­ TABLE OF CONTENTS sity Libraries and African Studies Center (East Lansing, MI 48824). Those copying contents are asked to cite ALN sls their source. ALN is produced to support the work of the Archives- Editor’s Comments Libraries Committee (ALC) of the African Studies Association. It carries the meeting min­ Acronyms utes of ALC, CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microform Project) and other relevant groups. It also reports other items of interest to Africana librarians and those concerned about information resources in or about Africa. ALC/CAMPNEWS......................................................... 2 Calendar of Future Meetings Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana Library, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. Iowa City Meeting Schedule Tel.: 517-355-2366; E-mail: 20676jjl@msu.bitnet; Fax: 517-336-1445. CAMP Business Meeting (Nov. 1991) Minutes Deadline for no. 71: July 1,1992; for no. 72: October 1,1992. Fall 1991 Panel on Journal Prices OTHER NEWS ................................................................7 News from other Associations: EDITOR’S COMMENTS Calendar ALA/USIA Fellows Positions Contributors to this issue include Moore Crossey, Onuma Ezera, John Howell, Conference on Library ... (Pretoria) Peter Malanchuk, Yvette Scheven, Nancy Schmidt, Gretchen Walsh, Dawn Free Materials Offered & Requested: Williams and Hans Zell. Children’s Book Support Scheme ALC and CAMP agendas for the April meeting in Iowa City are still in Oyo State College preparation. Topics include possible ALC involvement in the ARL Foreign Ac­ Resources at Libraries and Research Centers: Timberiake Papers (BU) quisitions Project and revision of the By-Laws. Those planning to attend are Pitts Theology Library urged to review the “ Proposed Amendments to the ALC By-Laws” listed in Royal Commonwealth Society Library ALN Oct. 1991, p.2-3. See also the minutes for the past two meetings. For those Personnel Changes & Vacancies: interested in bibliographies, the Binns article cited in the Research on Libraries Musiker section [p.9] is worth consulting. U. of Illinois at Champaign-Uibana Much of this issue contains matters left over from the fall meeting-CAM P minutes, a report on the panel, a statement on the LC West Africa Office. A new RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES & INFO. SCIEN CE......8 feature is a review of a directory in the Reference Sources section. I would like Thesis to add more short, critical reviews. Books and Documents I had hoped to include some comments about the use or non-use of Amharic Review Essay on Overlap in Bibliographies Other Journals & Articles transliteration tables, but this is being deferred. There are any number of other topics that could use some discussion. What is the case for more foreign REFERENCE SOURCES...............................................10 -continued on pa g e 15 Corporate Ties to South Africa: A Review of a Directory (Kagan) New Projects: Birth Traditions ACRONYMS Request for Editor New Reference Titles ABC - African Books Collective; or Africa Book Centre Data Available on CD-ROM ALA - American Library Association (Chicago) ALC - Archives-Libraries Committee (of ASA) LETTERS & OPINIONS.............................. ............... . 12 LC West Africa Office (ALC Executive Committee) ASA - (U.S.) African Studies Association CAMP - Cooperative Africana Microform Project NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS.............. 13 CRL - Center for Research Libraries (Chicago) Vendor Announcements & News IAI - International African Institute Book Awards IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations Literature on the Book Trade Serial Changes LC - Library of Congress New Serials MELA - Middle East Librarians Associations Videos MSU - Michigan State University Selected New Books SCOLMA - Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa Special Issues of Journals U. - University AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 2 APRIL 1992 ARCHIVES-LIBRARIES COMMITTEE / CAMP NEWS CALENDAR OF FUTURE MEETINGS COOPERATIVE AFRICANA MICROFORM PROJECT (CAMP) April 23-25,1992, Iowa City - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES November 20-23, 1992, Seattle - ASA Annual Meeting. Monday, November 24, 1991 Spring 1993, East Lansing, MI - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. Adam’s Mark Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri December 3-7,1993, Boston - ASA Annual Meeting. Fall 1994, Toronto - ASA Annual Meeting. The meeting was convened at 7:42 am by John Howell, chair, with Fall 1995, Orlando - ASA Annual Meeting. Karen Fung as secretary. Member institutions (and their representatives) present: Boston U. SCHEDULE FOR ALC/CAMP (Gretchen Walsh), Columbia U. (Elizabeth Widenmann), Dart­ MEETING IN IOWA CITY mouth (Gregory Fi nnegan), Duke U. (Helene Baumann, Jan Ewald), Indiana U. (Nancy Schmidt, Phyllis Martin), Library of Congress This meeting is simultaneous with the Ninth Triennial Symposium (Beverly Gray, James Armstrong, Marieta Harper, Valerie S. on African Art, April 22-25,1992, organized by the Arts Council of Mwalilimo, Ruth Thomas), Michigan State U. (Onuma Ezera, ASA. Their panel sessions will be at the Iowa Memorial Union, in Joseph Lauer), New York Public Library, Schomburg Center (Sharon the Triangle and Second Floor ball rooms. All Committee members M. Howard), Northwestern U. (Dan Britz, Bob Lesh, Hans Panofsky are invited to the panels of the Triennial and also the receptions. For [Emeritus], Mette Shayne), Princeton U. (Denise Shorey), Stanford details on the Triennial, contact Allen Roberts at 319-335-0522. U. (Karen Fung), U. of California, Berkeley (Phyllis Bischof), U. of California, Los Angeles (Ruby Bell-Gam), U. of Florida (Peter Thursday evening (April 23): Reception at the opening of the “ Art Malanchuk, Razia Nanji), U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (Yvette and Life in Africa* * exhibit at the University of Iowa Museum of Scheven), U. of Iowa (John Bruce Howell), U. of Virginia (Mary Art. Alice Kraehe), U. of Wisconsin (David Henige), Yale U. (Moore Crossey) and the Center for Research Libraries (Ray Boylan). April 24 (Friday): ALC meetings in Iowa Memorial Union (Fac­ Others present: Thomas Weissinger (Cornell U.), Roberta Selleck ulty-Staff Reception Rm, 3rd fl, off the Triangle Ball Rm) (Harvard U.), David Easterbrook (U. of Illinois at Chicago), Vin­ cent Ferrante (Norman Ross Publishing). Cataloging Subcommittee ................... 9:00-10:30am CAMP Members not represented: Howard U., Ohio U., Syracuse Bibliography Subcommittee ............. ll:00-12:30pm U., U. of Chicago, U. of Rochester, and U. of Waterloo. Business Meeting ................................... 1:45- 3:15pm Executive M eeting................................ 4:00- 5:00pm The Executive Committee was introduced: Baumann, Ewald (faculty representative) and Fung (secretary) were elected by mail ballot to Friday evening Reception in the Union, starting at 7:30. 1991/93 terms. Continuing (1990/92) members are Howell, Kraehe and Martin (faculty). Going off the Committee after the Fall April 25,1992 (Saturday): CAMP meetings in Main Library meeting are Crossey, Hunt Davis (faculty) and Lauer (past-chair). Conference Room (2nd floor) Ex-officio are the LC representative and the current ALC chair. Approved minutes of April 19,1991, business meeting as pub­ CAMP Business M eeting..................... 9:00-ll:00am lished in ALN, August 1991, p.7-8. CAMP Executive M eeting................. ll:15-12:30pm Financial Report. (Boylan): Conference hotels are Iowa House (319-335-3513; reservations [See CAMP Financial Statement, CAMP Materials on Order, under ‘ ‘African Art* ’) and Holiday Inn (319-337-4058). Among the CAMP Commitments, and CAMP Material Received printed be­ inexpensive motels in Coralville (20 minutes by bus) are Mar-Kee low.] Abalance of almost $37,000 is available. Some commitments (351-6131), Kings’ Inn (354-6000), and Motel 6. Air travel is via have not actually been ordered. Yale has deposited negatives of film Cedar Rapids. American Airlines has a discount through Meecham forwhich CAMP wi 11pri nt copies. Northwestern ’s fi 1m is estimated Travel (319-351-1360). to cost $2,667. The Congo newspapers sent by Lauer have not yet been processed. For details on local arrangements and the CAMP agenda, contact John Howell, Univ. of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA 52242; tel: OLD BUSINESS 219-335-5885. 1 .Drum. CAMP cannot buy the film as it did not have a prior For details on the ALC business, contact Onuma Ezera (Chair), subscription. Members discussed the different editions and where MSU Libraries, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048; tel: 517-355-2366. they might be available. 2. African Official Gazettes. CAMP agreed to purchase the South West Africa Official Gazette, 1915-1978 offered by Microform Academic on 29 reels for $1,885. Yale Law Library also bought a copy. AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 3 APRIL 1992 In answer to a question, it was noted that LC or New York Public 3. Tanzania Education Journal. Northwestern has 18 issues. CAMP are filming official gazettes. ACRPP (Association pour la Conser­ agreed to film at CRL. vation et la Reproduction Photographique de la Presse, Paris) has also filmed many. It was decided that future purchases would be 4. South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy 1962-1989. 439 fiche, made on a case by case basis. Ray Boylan will bring to the spring with a 2- volume finding aid; $3,900 from Chadwyck-Healey and meeting 1992 a list of gazettes available from LC and the New York the National Security Archive. CAMP agreed to buy. Other Public Library. libraries which have purchased: Indiana, Yale, UC Berkeley, Stan­ ford. University Publications of America had produced a similar 3. Sechaba (African National Congress) 1967-1990. CAMP agreed collection. to buy the UMI film (1972-1990, $864.50) and film missing issues. 5. Suggestions from Crossey, adding to his letter of October 16 to 4. South African Freedom News (African National Congress) 1961- the CAMP Executive: 1968. CRL will film. a. Cahiers of the Ecole William Ponty, Dakar. Yale has negatives of the cahiers for Cote d ’Ivoire and will give it to CAMP. 5. South A frican Institute of Race Relations Records, Part II. There are others from French West and French Equatorial Africa in Crossey reported that Datafilm had filmed part. The U. of the IFAN, the largest amount being on Senegal. We would need to get Witwatersrand Library staff needs to arrange the last part. The a price estimate of costs. African Imprint Library Services, which estimated cost is a bit higher than originally stated. [In December, has a camera in Dakar, could film them if permission can be J.W. Outhwaite of Datafilm reportedly sent sets of the 75 reel film obtained. to the institutions which had ordered it. An inventory was included] b. Natal Colony Documents. LC, NYPL, and Northwestern have holdings. Northwestern has a good run of the Blue Book on native 6. Hilda K uper Papers. Bell-Gam reported filming is in progress. affairs and could possibly film as part of their preservation project. History professor, Alan Jeeves, at Queen’s U. in Canada would be NEW BUSINESS willing to participate in a joint project to film the Natal Bluebooks on Native Affairs. [He also wants Queen’s U. to join CAMP.] 1. African N ew spapers and Jo u rn als for Ballot Purchase. CRL c. Transvaal Colony/ South African Republic and Orange Free circulated a list of 11 serials to CAMP members who voted as State/ Orange River Colony Documents on Native Affairs. These follows prior to the meeting: are pre-1900 documents in Dutch plus possibly some for 1902- 1910. A few Iibraries have broken runs, and there is no known guide. R anked Tally Sheet d. Organization of African Unity Documents. Yale has some Est. 1964-65 publications (on the Rhodes House film of OAU docu­ Yes No Wait Cost ments), but has little from after 1965; and what they have is often on bad paper. LC may have a good collection, as the annual C ourrierd’Afrique, 1930-Mr. 1972 18 0 0 $1940 resolutions of the Foreign Ministry and Heads of State are routinely Cape Times, 1911-1913 17 0 0 105 available from the OAU office in Addis. South African Outlook, 1870-1970 15 0 2 1015 e. Karis-Gerhart South African Documents. Oxford U. Press will South African publish a volume of the documents dating from 1964/65 to 1990/91. Advertiser & Mail, 1824-1959 14 0 3 630 Yale U. will get the originals. There is an inventory on a PC. No Tsala Ea Batho, 1910-1915 14 2 1 35 action can be taken on this now. Weekly Review (Nairobi), f. E. S. Reddy Collection. Reddy was Director of the Centre Feb. 1975-1991 13 1 3 3661 Against Apartheid, United Nations. His private correspondence, Grassroots, 1980-1987 12 1 4 420 IDAF (International Defence and Aid Fund) material, and other Koranta Ea Becoana, 1901-1904 12 2 3 35 political material on South Africa and Namibia need to be organ­ Sun (Cape Town), 1932-1938 12 0 5 210 ized; he would like at least part of the material filmed and placed in Mafeking Mail, 1899-1917 11 0 6 1295 South African and Indian repositories. There is particularly good King William’s Town coverage on the Indian community in South Africa. Part of this has Gazette, 1956-1874 9 0 8 630 already been filmed and in CAMP (see on the list ‘ ‘CAMP Materials Received” “ Documents on (East) Indians in South Africa...” ). No Of the 11 titles, 10 were approved for purchase. Widenmann moved cost estimate is possible yet. and members voted to buy the King William's Town Gazette. g. Peter Katjavivi SWAPO /Namibian Collection. Katjavivi, a The Weekly Review may be filmed in the LC New Delhi office. historian, is now Rector of the U. of Namibia. Yale has part of the Ruth Thomas of the LC Nairobi Office is indexing this newspaper; material. The SWAPO collection may be nearly comprehensive. they are up to the letter N. Hilary Ng’weno will publish the index; Included are conference reports, materials copied from archives it will also be available on disk. Selleck inquired about future around the world on Namibian history, dissertations and seminar filming. It was agreed to purchase future film as it becomes papers from Western European Universities. Katjavivi wants the available. originals back in the Namibia National Archives. Further comments concerning the National Press Cutting Service 2. William Bascom Collection. Bischof reported that three Bas- (University of Orange Free State) and the filming of speeches by com field notebooks will probably not be included in the film, which African leaders were cut off due to lack of time. Walsh noted that is limited to the book collection. It is likely that no titles will be IFLA will publish a guide to African political party publications, eliminated due to copyright. CAMP agreed to buy this collection. and this should increase interest in these materials. AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 4 APRIL 1992 ANNOUNCEMENTS 4. CAMP members were reminded that material costing up to $200 will be purchased on demand. Requests should be sent to Ray 1. By-Laws. The following were approved by mail ballot: Boylan, who will order the material, with a copy of the request to the a. On ow nership of Project materials, section I.D changed to CAMP Chair. “ CAMP is administered by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) which owns the materials purchased with CAMP funds. 5. Thomas inquired if any library had newspapers from Mogadishu. Should CRL dissolve, all CAMP materials would revert back to CAMP with the CAMP Executive determining the location of The meeting adjourned at 8:55 am. CAMP materials.” The words “ CAMP-owned” in paragraphs II.D.3.a, II.D.3.b, and II.D.4 become “ CAMP-funded” . b. To include past-chair of CAMP on Executive Board, para­ CAMP MATERIAL ON ORDER graph III.A.2 added “ and the previous year’s CAMP chair (if not otherwise on the Executive Committee).” Paragraph III.A.3 modified Baraza Nairobi, 1966-1979 to “ The Executive Committee elects from among its members Colin Legum’s African Collection: 1. Press cutting, 1936-1987 (excluding an ex-officio past-chair) a chairperson to serve a one Colin Legum’s African Collection: 2. Writings, 1940-1980s year term, with re-election permitted.” Daily Times Blantyre, 1973-1979 Gironale dell'Eritrea Asmara, 3/1952-1955; 1967-1/1975 2. Non-book form ats at CRL: Put off to Spring meeting. Habari za mwezi (Tanzania), 1895-1911 Horoya Conakry, Guinea, 1970 3. Institute of Language Studies, Addis A baba University, has a Hilda Kuper’s field-notebooks on Swaziland & Swazi culture collection of Ethiopian post graduate dissertations written since Malawi News Blantyre, 12/31/1983-1/3/1986 1980 on linguistics, literature and teaching English as a foreign Moniteur africain Dakar, Apr. 1961-1978 language. They are available for copying. Howell will contact La Nation Djibouti Djibouti, June 1980-1983 Worku Geda to find out more about the collection. Presse d'aujourd'hui... Bangui, 1-6, 9/1962-1966 CAMP FINANCIAL REPORT (November 18,1991) FY 1991 September September closing Quarter (2) YTD (2) Notes: Fund Balance/July 1 $33,187.99 $36,704.25 $36,704.25 1. The Fund Balance, Revenues, and Expenses shown under each completed quarter are taken from Revenues the Center's accounding records. Each column Membership Fees $17,900.00 $17,900.00 $17,900.00 shows cumulative figures for the year. Income from sales 4.796.00 .00 (4) .00 2. The Revenues and Expenses shown in the YTD CRL Contribution 4,000.00 .00 (5) .00 (year to date) column combine the Center account­ TOTAL REVENUES $26,696.00 $17,900.00 $17,900.00 ing records and check vouchers issued up to the date o f the statement. Check vouchers run through Expenses October. Cost of sales $.00 $.00 (4) $.00 3. The Commitments are taken from the records Acquisitions 18,284.85 $657.50 $1,119.21 o f the Acquisitions Department and the project Business Expenses .00 .00 .00 coordinator and are intended to reflect projected Publications .00 .00 .00 costs of past decisions by the CAMP Committee and Travel 1,325.87 .00 .00 ongoing operations. Personnel .00 .00 .00 4. Income from sales and cost of sales reflect Processing Fees .00 .00 .00 pass through funds, with a small profit expected. Cataloging 3,569.02 1,824.50 1,824.50 Income from sales may reflect pre-payments. TOTAL EXPENSES $23,179.74 $2,482.00 $2,943.71 5. Transfer made by last quarter o f year or as needed. Revenue less Expenses $3,516.26 $15,418.00 $14,956.29 6. See list; includes materials received but not paid for. Commitments (3) 7. See list. Materials on order $.00 $10,833.71 (6) $10,648.00(6) 8. Estimated cataloging($5,000) and travel Materials approved .00 10,243.00 (7) $12,567.00 (7) expense ($800). Non-materials expenses .00 5,800.00 (8) $5,800.00 (8) TOTAL COMMITMENTS $.00 $26,876.71 $29,015.00 Available Funds $36,704.25 $25,245.54 $22,645.54 AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 5 APRIL 1992 Le Reveil de Djibouti Djibouti, July 1962-June 1980 realities in the library budget process, stating there is a financial line SAIRR II below which one can no longer pretend to maintain a research Sunday Standard Nairobi, Nov. 11, 1979-1984 collection. The same line exists above which the budget simply will 20th Century Commonwealth Pol. Ephemera. Pt 2. Central Africa not move, as library funds are finite. The recession has seriously impaired the ability of academic libraries to function as they have in the past. Causal factors include: CAMP COM M ITM ENTS a long term downward demographic trend; the post baby boom dip in population; fewer students able to afford college; a decline in Kesteloot collection in Dakar [or Paris] $6,000 university income generated by lackluster endowment investments, Congo Collection of Newspapers and News Bulletins $2,600 fewer grants and contracts; a weak dollar causing foreign book and Newspapers from LC in FY 1991 (July 1991-June 1992) $1,300 journal pricestoescalate; andacademicpublishersraisingsubscrip- Northwestern Preservation Project, FY 1991 (7/91-6/92) $2,667 tion prices to cover lower sales. Walsh suggested techniques and criteria to deselect Africana journals that included the review of their individual cost and CAMP MATERIALS RECEIVED percentage increases for the last three years, accessibility via other April-October 1991 regional library holdings, journal indexability and identified use, and relevance to the academic program. PURCHASES (r = reels) She characterized the journals cut at B.U. as one-third from a third Ashanti Pioneer. Kumasi, Ghana. N 21,1939-0 6,1962 .... 29r world global scope, one-quarter in French language, and one- Baily, A.P. Land tenure; its sociological implications quarter combining other world subregions with Africa. Some with specific reference to Swahili-speaking peoples unique titles to the region were canceled with excessive cost as the ...east African Coast. London MA thesis. 1965 ............... l r principal rationale for deselection. Daily Listener Monrovia. May 22,1950-Aug. 1951............... lr In lean years African studies budgets suffer primarily since their IlangalaseNatal. 1925-1978 (Claimed 1924) ................... 79r traditional base is assigned with the social sciences and humanities, Michigan State Preservation C o p ies.................................... 30r two major areas that are chronically underfunded when compared Nigeria. Constitution Review Comm. Official record with the hard sciences. Moreover, in international affairs, Africa of Proceedings. Abuja. (Oct. 1987-Feb. 1988) ...... 63 fiche currently is considered of lesser importance. Northwestern Preservation Project ..................................... 277r Walsh argued for a rigorous scrutiny of existing and new journals Pioneer Kumasi, Ghana. My 1968-1974; 1976-1981.......... 17r to determine what should be collected. She suggested evaluating the Times Blantyre. 1943-1946; [1955-1956]; 1965-1972........ 18r journal collection by grouping them into three categories: current Times of Swaziland. 1897-1909; 1931-Aug. 1 9 6 2 ................. 9r events, information^ibliographic indexing, and scholarly journals. Uhuru Dar es Salaam. 1969-1973 ............................................ 7r A1 should be surveyed for geographic coverage and the scholarly category for discipline coverage. DEPOSITS OF NEGATIVES BY YALE To preserve some semblance of the research collection, aca­ Flash Collection (S. African Indian documents) 1 reel demic libraries must embrace electronic technologies including William McGregor Ross papers (Rhodes House Library, Oxford) 4r CD-ROM, consortium access through electronic networks, and David Wallace Robinson Collection (MS on Senegal) 9 reels interlibrary loan requests via OCLC and fax delivery. Malian Arabic Manuscripts Microfilming Project (MAMMP) 34r A major hindrance for Africana articles is so little is indexed and Univ. of Birmingham Centre ofW est African Studies. Arabic MSS that journals deselected on the basis of relative indexability can selected by Dr. A.A. Batran (western Sudan). 4 reels result in Africana resources being denied to the user. She intends to Revolution democratique africaine nos. from 1975/76.1 reel develop some in-house indexing. She concluded by recommending Documents on (East) Indians in South Africa; collected by E.S. “ continued communication with faculty, publishers, and one an­ Reddy. 2 reels other, combined with alertness to the possibilities which electronic Anglo-American Corp. Commission of Enquiry...Vaal Reefs. 6 r technologies may offer.** “ Journal Costs Then and Now, with Alternatives and Possible Solutions for Academic Research of the Future.** FALL 1991 PANEL ON JOURNAL PRICES C harles H am acker (Assistant Dean for Collection Management, Louisiana State University) P eter Maianchuk, Panel Chair, prepared the following summary o f the papers and discussion at the session called “ African Journals: An Endangered Species? Coping with Periodical Costs, Cancellations, Resource Sharing and Hamacker reviewed the changing climate of publisher, vendor and New Forms of Publication.' ’ This was held on November 23 as part o f the 34th library relations, contrasting the issue of cooperative cancellations Annual M eeting o f the A frican Studies Association, in St. Louis, Missouri. The of selected journal titles by libraries in 1986 with the current scene. full texts will appear as p a rt o f the Annual Conference Papers of ASA. Then it was considered collusion for libraries to employ such a tactic while currently it is gaining acceptability among the major research “ Cutting Serials Titles: Experiences from the Chopping Block.’* libraries. Princeton University’s move towards canceling Perga- G retchen Walsh (Boston University) mon subscriptions in November 1991 reflects the considered view of the real limits to what a library should pay for a journal. Walsh presented a realistic, yet bleak viewpoint regarding the Hamacker cited comparable journal statistics from 1986/1991 current journal/serial crisis for African studies in academic librar­ that described journal price increases of 142% by Springer Verlag, ies. She cited the difficult problem of reconciling conflicting 133% by Elsevier, and 108% by Pergamon, with negligible in­ AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 6 APRIL 1992 creases in journal coverage by volume and size which ranged from information in a real sense and permitting us different information only 2.52% to 12%. The myth that you were charged more for access scenarios. The burgeoning of CD-ROMs in the library increased journal coverage was exposed. information market place since 1985 and the networked electronic The journal increases were from a very select group of journal journal are two examples. Publishers will continue to expand in titles in 1987-1991. 13% of the journal titles are responsible for these areas. 50% of the journal cost increases and these periodicals doubled in The nagging question that remained unanswered throughout his price in five years. Hamacker posited that where serial costs presentation and during the subsequent discussions with ALC increase dramatically, other formats of resources suffer. He argued members from the floor was how and when will African studies be that the most expensive journals should be cut because we are represented within these technologies. Current CD-ROM resources cutting the unique collections that support research in areas other have a we 11-recognized paucity of African related sources and topics than the sciences. These items have been uniquely collected within their databases. because we have projected a long term need for them. He argued not Brown closed his presentation with the statement that for the to destroy the diversity in our national and local collections as a 1990,s, vendors will be challenged to cooperate and collaborate result of a very small number of publishing companies. He stated with users and become more central to the research and knowledge that academic libraries had four years of relief from sizable journal formation process. He suggested that individual institutions and cost increases from Pergamon as a direct result of the willingness of their libraries must resort to and foster collaboration and interde­ U. S. academic libraries and academics to cancel overpriced sub­ pendence without sacrificing autonomy and individual initiative. scriptions. Hamacker argued that across the board journal cuts as well as Discussion comments included G. W alsh's concern regarding the subject based approaches are dangerous to the collection. He urged lack of evaluation of the quality of African studies journals. Nancy that if area studies bibliographers could demonstrate their periodi­ Schmidt suggested requiring reviewing sample issues before cals did not suffer large price increases, then such titles should purchase and some type of cooperative review mechanism, possibly remain excluded from a system-wide cut. Titles that have not by ALC. Hamacker suggested using BITNET and some shared increased should not be cut. He stated that journals with the most strategies to review new titles. African bibliographers should do expensive subscription rates and the highest percentage increases in more to convince publishers to include more African published the last few years should be the prime candidates for deselection. materials in their electronic and paper indexes. Hamacker urged He recognized the differences and difficulties in tracking continental that Africana bibliographers and librarians cooperatively index African published journals but called for the bibliographers to find African journals and seek grant support to do so. a way to establish a pricing and cancellation database for African studies. He suggested it could become a model for all area studies programs and suggested approaching CRL and ARL. Hamacker closed his presentation by providing a glimpse of the immediate future with regard to journal merchandising. Elsevier is providing full text access to 36 journals to a select group of American research libraries over the next three years. They are looking for a charging algorithm, since commercial vendors do not know what to charge for onl i ne access. He stated the publ ishers have suggested that only 10% of what they produce is wanted, but they are unsure which 10% it represents. This poses a real problem for them as they enter i nto an online system of on-demand user requests. “ The Role of Information Supplier: Access, Analysis, and Service in the Electronic Information Age.” Gary Brown (Faxon Company) Using the Faxon database, Gary Brown demonstrated the relative price increases for U.S. journals over the last decade ($74.50 for 1981 and $182.00 for 1991). Foreign subscriptions averaged $161.00 in 1981 and $330.00 in 1991. He suggested we are in a situation where further price escalations would occur before there were improvements. He stated, “ If we have double-digit inflation during the next three years with regard to journal prices, coupled with a five percent decrease in the overall buying power, it will force all of the players within the system of scholarly communication to analyze what it is we are doing and that it no longer functions. It will force us to take other routes. They include journal and information access via the Internet and other new technologies. Such technolo­ gies will allow us the reality of the digitized word and, when networked, will allow us some strategies to cope with spiraling journal costs and the publications revolution.” Brown views the digitization occurring now as providing a platform for access to this AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 7 APRIL 1992 OTHER NEWS NEWS FROM OTHER ASSOCIATIONS during 4 months at the Institute of Southern African Studies, National University of Lesotho. Wendy A. Simmons (University of CALENDAR Maryland-College Park) taught in the University of Botswana’s ALA: Department of Library and Information Studies. June 25-July 2, 1992, San Francisco - ALA Annual Conf. Sept. 4-7,1992, Columbus - Black Caucus National Conf. Conference on Library and Information Services for Future De­ Jan. 23-28,1993, Denver - ALA Midwinter meeting. velopment of Southern Africa will be held 6-8 May 1992 at the June 24-July 1,1993, New Orleans - ALA Annual Conf. HSRC Conference Centre, Pretoria. Preliminary program includes participants from Botswana, Ghana, Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, Canadian Association of African Studies: Zambia and Zimbabwe. Direct all enquiries concerning registration May 13-16, Montreal - Annual Conference and the program to Trudie Coetzer, Info Africa Nova, POB 4649, Pretoria 0001; tel & fax 012-662-1588. IFLA Annual Conference: Aug. 30-Sept. 5,1992, New Delhi. Future: 1993, Barcelona; 1994, Havana; 1995, Istanbul; FREE MATERIALS OFFERED AND REQUESTED 1996, Bejing; 1997, Geneva; 1998, Edmonton. Children’s Book Support Scheme will donate over 10,000 chil­ dren’s books from African Books Collective (ABC) member pub­ American Library Association Fellows Positions lishers to children’s libraries, rural community centres, orphanages Applications are being accepted through April 15 for the 1992-93 and primary schools in Africa. With the support by of the Nether­ Library/Book Fellows Program. Thisjoint program of ALA and the lands’ Ministry for Development Cooperation, this project has been U.S. Information Agency (USIA) has funding for 15 positions, to be launched as a component of the Intra-African Book Support Scheme selected among 21 possible posts. (LABSS). Participating publishers are Fourth Dimension, Ghana Stipends for fellows are $30,000 per year. Travel expenses Publishing Corp., Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria), Heine- (fellow and one dependent) to and from host country will be mann Kenya, Ibadan University Press, New Horn Press, Saros reimbursed; health insurance and a small housing subsidy are International Publishers, Skotaville Publishers, Spectrum Books provided. Requirements: U.S. citizenship; language skills of the and Woeli Publishing Services. The books will be sent to national host country; and education and experience in library or information library services and other distributors (with links with Ranfurly science, publishing or other fields directly related to the interests Library Service) in Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, and needs of specific projects with demonstrated competency as Sierra Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe. For more information, required. If selected, certification from a physician attesting contact Hans M. Zell or Mary Jay, ABC, The Jam Factory, 27 Park physical and emotional soundness to conduct the fellowship will be End St., Oxford OX1 1HU; or Sara Harrity or David Membrey, required. Persons who have lived abroad for a 10-year period Ranfurly Library Service, 2 Coldharbour Place, 39/41 Coldharbour immediately preceding application are not eligible. Lane, Camberwell, London SE5 9NR. The positions available in Africa: Lesotho National Library Services (Maseru): Sept. 1992-Aug. Oyo State College of Education, Ilesa, has a few valuable Nigerian 1993. Provide in-service training for school librarians; help plan a books and government publications to offer in exchange for books library science curriculum for the teacher training college and the in the applied and pure sciences and education. Contact Akin National University. Oluwakuyide, College Librarian, OSSCE, P.M.B. 5089, Ilesa, National University of Benin (Cotonou): Four to six months, Nigeria. beginning October 1992. Survey, evaluate and analyze collection; write automation plan for an online public access catalog. French required. RESOURCES AT LIBRARIES University of Ibadan. Dept, of Library, Archival & Information AND RESEARCH CENTERS Studies: Oct. 1992-Aug. 1993. Teach introductory courses in library automation. Boston University has acquired the papers of Clare Hayes Timber- University of Malawi (Zomba): Sept. 1992-Aug. 1993. Teach lake, the first American ambassador to Zaire. Included in the 8 courses in cataloging and LC classification; provide training for boxes are personal and business correspondence, information and staff; and assist in development of automation. reports on work with the State Department in India, South America To apply, send resume with a cover letter briefly stating desired and Africa. position, foreign-language skills, subject expertise and maximum placement service length (no application forms are available) to: Pitts Theology Library has a collection of religious periodicals Robert P. Doyle, Director, Library/Book Fellows Program, ALA, published in Africa. Undertaken as an area of concentration in the 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Tel: 1-800-545-2433, ext. mid-seventies, the library currently receives285 titles, with holding 3200. for more than 400 periodicals. Materials from 45 countries range in See also the insert in the March issue of American Libraries, type from scholarly journals to individual parish bulletins. While which carries reports about 1990/91 fellows. Mary M. Wagner most items are Christians, Islam is also represented. In preparation (College of St. Catherine) worked on Lesotho Index and other tasks isa union list, which already includesbibliographicrecords for 1000 AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 8 APRIL 1992 titles contributed by 12 partici pati ng 1ibrari es i n Europe, Africa, and The Africana Bibliographic Unit is part of the Library’s Area the United States. During the past decade Pitts Library has Studies Unit and part of the General Services Faculty. The staff expanded its interest in African religious publications to include consists of one FTE librarian, support staff, and graduate assistants. monographs. It is a contributing institution to the American The Africana collection is located throughout the University of Theological Library Association’s International Christian Literature Illinois library system, with the majority of materials in the main Documentation Project. stack collection. The holding on the nations of Sub-Saharan Africa For more information, contact Cynthia Runyon, Periodicals Li­ include approximately 90,000 books, 2,200 journals, 45,000 maps brarian, Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA and 4,000 microforms. 30322-2811. Tel: 404-727-4166. Required qualifications: M.L.S. from an A.L.A. accredited li­ brary school or an equivalent; familiarity with bibliographic re­ Royal Commonwealth Society Library has closed, and a sale by sources on Africa; familiarity with African book trade; comprehen­ area sections is being considered. According to T.A. Barringer (the sion of written French; ability to work effectively with a research- Librarian), Africana would be virtually the last region to be moved, oriented faculty and student body; ability to work in a collegial and the Society is committed to keeping the photograph collection environment; evidence of research orientation and ability to meet together in an institutional home in the UK. university requirements for promotion and tenure. Preferred: professional experience in African Studies librarianship, including reference and collection development; comprehension of PERSONNEL CHANGES AND VACANCIES written German and/or Portuguese; understanding of one or more major African languages. Those emphasized by the Center for Reuben Musiker retired in December 1991 at age 60 after 19 years African Studies are Arabic, Bambara, Lingala, Swahili, Wolof, and as the University of the Witwatersrand University Librarian and Zulu. Desired: advanced degree or strong academic background in Head of the Department of Librarianship and Information Science. African Studies. Appointment at assistant, associate, or full professor. Salary $23,500 upward depending on qualifications, experience and ap­ University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana seeks a Bibliogra­ pointment rank. Librarians must demonstrate excellence in job pher for African Studies. Reporting to the Director of Area Studies, performance, research, publication and university/professional/ the incumbent is responsible for administration of the Africana community service in order to meet university standards for tenure Bibliographic Unit and for collection development; administration and promotion. of several materials budgets; provision of reference, information Send letter of application and complete resume, with the names, and other bibliographic services concerning Africa, with an empha­ addresses, and telephone numbers of five references to Allen G. sis on social sciences and humanities and on the Sub-Saharan area Dries, Library Personnel Manager, University of Illinois Library of the continent; supervises library technical staff and graduate (U-C), 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois, 61801. Phone students; serves as liaison with African Studies faculty; teaches (217)333-5494. Deadline: May 1,1992. African bibliography course. RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE The following items have come to the attention o f the editor. Compact Disc Technology for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation. 26p. 1991? Available free of charge from CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation), Postbus 380, 6700 AJ THESIS Wageningen, Netherlands. Describes CTA project to provide KIT’s TROPAG & RURAL, Nussbaum, Donna Elaine. “ Operational conceptualization and FAO’s AGRIS, CAB Abstracts and other databases on CD-ROM to implementation of an Educational Materials Center, Egerton Uni­ 21 sites, including the following in Africa: versity, Njoro, Kenya.” Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, 1991. 167p. UMI order no. 9203985. • Centre National de Documentation Agricole (Ouagadougou) Looked at the process of establishing and operating an educa­ • Centre de Doc., Ministfcre de TAgriculture (Yaounde) tional materials production center which produced locally relevant, • University Centre of Dschang (Cameroon) affordable instructional materials.-DAI52A:2810. • Centre de recherche appliquSe (Enseignement sup., N ’Djamena) • ADRAO/WARDA (Bouake, Cote d ’Ivoire) • Institute of Agricultural Research (Addis Ababa) BOOKS & DOCUMENTS • Library & Documentation Serv. (Ministry of Agric., Nairobi) • Institut du Sahel (Bamako) Nweke, Ken M.C. Information-Seeking and Use by Human and • University of Ibadan Veterinary Medical Scientists (HVMS) in Africa: Case Study from • National Agricultural Documentation Centre (Freetown) Borno State, Nigeria. Bloomington, IN: African Studies Program, • National Documentation Centre (Khartoum) Indiana University, 1992. (Monographs on African Librarianship, • Sokoine University of Agriculture (Morogoro, Tanzania) 2). $5 from Program (222 Woodburn Hall, 47405). • Mount Makulu Central Research Station (Chilanga, Zambia) • Ministry of Lands, Agriculture & Rural Resettlement (Harare) AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 9 APRIL 1992 Degife Gabre Tsadik. “ National Archive for Ethiopia and the role 40% of the entries in one are also in the other. And IAB editors of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies.” Proceedings of the First admitted (v.22, n o .l) that they covered less than half the relevant National Conference o f Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, April 11- literature. Their solution is to list monographs separately without 12,1990, edited by Richard Pankhurst, Ahmed Zekaria & Taddesse any subject indexing, starting with the 1992 issues. Other possibili­ Beyene. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa ties should be explored. University, 1990, pp. 143-163. Reviews history of Archives, sur­ veys records held in 20 government ministries, and outlines a plan The major concern of the IAI project “ was with research work for improvement. carried out by Africans in universities and research institutions within Africa, and written up either in the form of unpublished Stafford, Beth, and Yvette Scheven. “ Women in Developing theses or research reports, or published in African journals.” The Countries Online.’ ’ Women Online: Research in Women*sStudies conclusions about poor coverage are well founded, if a bit exagger­ Using Online Databases, edited by Steven D. Atkinson & Judith ated. The idea that a seminar or workshop organized in England Hudson (New York: Haworth Press, 1990), pp. 315-349. Search for could even begin to solve the problem suggests the need for a more 1984-86 publications found almost no overlap between online thorough review of previous efforts. databases (AGRIS International, CAB Abstracts, ERIC, LABOR- DOC, AGRICOLA) and two printed indexes ( Women Studies The article certainly deserves a careful reading. Comments should Abstracts and Studies on Women Abstracts), with important WID go to the ARD editor, Maureen Mahoney, Documentation and materials missing from both. Library Centre, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RE. Wright, Marcia. “ Ecclesiastical Records and their part in an Eastern African Data Bank: A programmatic essay.” Histoire sociale de VAfrique de l*Est (XlXe-XXe siecle): Actes du Colloque OTHER JOURNALS & ARTICLES de Bujumbura (17-24 octobre 1989), Departement d ’Histoire de l’Universite du Burundi (Paris: Editions Karthala, 1991), pp. 437- International Library Review, v.23, no.4 (Dec. 1991), included: 451. Proposes an African Data Bank, modelled on the Medieval and “ Setting up a Bibliographic Data Base The CIDST Experience Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB). Focuses on data about vital in Madagascar,” by L.M. Andriamparany & J. Ratsimandrava; events, mortality, birthspacing, fertility and remarriage in the “ Directions of the Information Professions in Africa as Reflected records of the White Fathers. in the Literature,” by L.O. Aina; “ The Institute of Ethiopian Studies Library and its Documentation Services,” by S. Gupta; “ Libraries in Ethiopia before 1900,” by M. Ourgay; ‘‘Librarians in REVIEW ESSAY ON Ghana: A Survey of Their Social Origins and Status,” by A.A. OVERLAP IN BIBLIOGRAPHIES Alemna; “ Academic Libraries and Curriculum Development in Nigeria,” by C.O. Enyia. The issue of overlap (or lack of overlap) in the various Africanist bibliographies was a major but not exclusive theme of two recent Journal Distribution Program Notes (AAAS Sub-Saharan Africa articles: Journal Distribution Program), v. 1, no. 2 (December 1991), carried notes on “ CD-ROM at the University of Ghana Medical School,” Binns, Margaret. “ The Documentation of African Research.” by Daniel Addo, and a report on the 3rd Biennial Congress of the African Research and Documentation, no. 56 (1991): 1-34. Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (Harare, 7-12 July 1991). Hertefelt, Marcel d \ “ Bibliographies africanistes courantes: une comparaison.” Afrika Focus, v. 7, nr. 1 (1991): 49-58. Scientometrics, v. 23 (Jan. 1992) included: “ Access and Retrieval of Information as Coordinates of Scientific Development and Hertefelt (Tervuren) compared the 1984-1985 and 1986-1987 vol­ Achievement in Nigeria,” I. Adamson, p.191-200; “ Access to umes of Bibliographic de l *Afrique sub -saharienne (Tervuren) with Third-World Science in International Scientific and Technical 1988 volumes of Documentatieblad(Le\den),InternationalAfrican Bibliographic Databases,” G. Whitney, p.201-220; “ Representing Bibliography (London) and Africa Bibliography (Manchester), and Scientific Activity by Structural Indicators: The Case of Cote- the 1986 volume of Bibliographic des travaux en languefranqaise dTvoire, 1884-1968,” Y. Chatelin & R. Arvanitis, p. 235-248. sur VAfrique au sud du Sahara (Paris). Setting aside the London title which does not list serials covered, the author found 996 Third World Libraries (Rosary College), v. 2, no. 1: periodical titles of which only 18 were included in each bibliography. “ The Challenge of Medical Librarianship in Africa,” by Daniel Overlap between any two bibliographies ranged from 11 to 23 Newton Obaka, p. 14-16; percent; while the Manchester and Paris titles combined covered “ Information for Successful Agriculture,” by L.O. Aina, p. 49-53 85% of the 996 titles. [notes on extension officers in Africa]; “ A Book Buyer in Tunisia,” by Abazar Sepehri, p. 54-60 [part one Binns reported the results of a major survey, sponsored by the of a report of a library acquisitions trip made in 1990 for the International African Institute (IAI) and based mainly on resources University of Texas]; and in the library of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in reviews by Diana Rosenberg, with notes on the Kenyan scene, of Sussex. Among the many useful comments on existing bibliogra­ Ifidon, Collection Development in African University Libraries and phies is an estimate of only 25% overlap between Africa Bibliogra­ by A.M. Oyinloye of Nigerian Periodicals Index. phy and InternationalAfrican Bibliography (IAB). This is more or less confirmed by my own preliminary surveys, which found 30- AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 10 APRIL 1992 Aiyepeku, W.O. “ The Challenge of Implementing an African Nyahoda, Phillip. “ Towards an Indigenous Southern African Programme in Information Science - TRARECON.” Journal of Thesaurus.” African Research and Documentation, no. 56 (1991): Information Science, v. 17 (1991): 315-320. 43-45. Reports work of Harare Thesaurus Group to develop a supplemen­ Ephraim, P.E. “ The Development of CD-ROM and its Potential for tary thesaurus of appropriate terms that have been excluded in African Researchers.’* Journal of Information Science, v. 17 conventional thesauri. (1991): 299-306. Odi, A. “ The Colonial Origins of Library Development in Africa: Henige, David. “ Waiting for the Great Pumpkin? On the Where­ Some Reflections on Their Significance.” Libraries &. Culture, abouts of Justification in Library Research.” Journal of Academic v.26 (1991): 594-. Librarianship, vol. 17 (1992): 348-350. Lead article is a “ Symposium” discussing his “ Epistemological Schmidt, Nancy J. ‘ ‘Research without Theory: Data Collection as Dead End and Ergonomic Disaster? The North American Collec­ an End in Itself.” Journal o f Academic Librarianship, vol. 17 tions Inventory Project,” JAL, v. 13 (1987): 209-213. (1992): 357-8. Last of seven articles commenting upon Henige’s 1987 article. Henige, David. “ Value and Evaluation.” Collection Management: A New Treatise, edited by Charles B. Osburn and Ross Atkinson Tiamiyu, M A “ Importance of Information Sources to the Information (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc.(Foundations in Library and Infor­ Requirements of Work Activities in Nigerian Government Minis­ mation Science, v. 26), 1991), pp. 111-124. tries.” Journal o f Information Science, v. 17 (1991): 345-356. Raises doubts about the validity of evaluation procedures. Malanchuk, Peter. *‘African Acquisitions: Strategies to Locate and Acquire Current and Retrospective Africana.” Library Acquisi­ tions: Practice & Theory, v. 15 (1991): 453-462. REFERENCE SOURCES CORPORATE TIES TO SOUTH AFRICA: information, whether information came from an outside source, or A REVIEW OF A DIRECTORY whether the companies acknowledged a presence in South Africa by A1 Kagan but declined to provide details. (Homer Babbidge Library, U. of Connecticut) The appendixes are quite interesting. For example, checking by country, we can determine that companies from 24 countries are Cooper, Alison. International Business in South Africa 1991: a involved and that the United Kingdom and Germany are the biggest Directory ofNon-U.S. Corporations with Business Links to South investors. France, Switzerland and Japan make up the second tier. Africa. 5th edition (annual). Washington, DC: Investor Responsi­ We may also check investment by industry sector, companies not bility Research Center, Inc., 1991. 341 pages. $250. listed in Section I but that sell products to South Africa, companies The Investor Responsibility Research Center, Inc. (IRRC) is an that have divested, companies that have divested but still have non­ independent, not-for-profit corporation founded by and for institu­ equity links, etc. tional investors. It claims to present the results of its research on Appendix K presents information on international sanctions and various topics without making recommendations. The data for this employment codes, including a table showing kind of sanctions by volume was compiled from various printed sources and organiza­ country. The European Community, Nordic Countries, and Com­ tions. Research was provided by SVP (a South African firm), and monwealth sanction codes are explained and individual country direct requests for information were sent to the corporations listed, sections detail the status or sanctions. The EC and Australian codes as well as to Canadian and British government bodies and consultants are given in full, but the section on the United Nations is misleading and to the embassies of 11 countries. because it only deals with the Security Council resolutions on the The IRRC also published a companion volume, U.S. Business in arms embargo. This is not “ the only mandatory restrictions.” For South Africa 1991, and provides a monthly South Africa Review example, U.N. General Assembly resolution 31/6H of 1976 “ Calls Service with several newsletters and reports to update the annual upon all Governments to take effective action to prohibit all loans directories. [See Selected New Books section, p.15.] to or investments in South Africa by bank and corporations....’ ’ And This international volume provides inform ation on 714 corpora­ General Assembly resolution 34/93 of 1979 calls on governments tions: 454 with direct investment or employees in South Africa, 172 “ To sever diplomatic, military, nuclear, economic, and other companies that have non-equity links with South Africa, and 188 relations with the racist regime of South Africa...” This oversight companies that have divested. The volume begins with a table of is more than troubling. contents and an alphabetical list of the companies included with The IRRC is well-known and has acquired significant legitimacy page numbers and see references. There are 2 main sections, 12 for the quality of its research. But the rising cost of its publications appendixes, and an index. Section I includes ultimate parent put them out of reach of many potential users. The volume sold for companies with direct involvement, and Section II includes compa­ $200 in 1990 and now sells for $250. The cost of the monthly nies with non- equity links. Listings include percent equity held by updating service is not given in any of the accompanying literature; ultimate parent, number of employees by South African racial one must call [202-234-7500] for information. Perhaps the institu­ categories, and often some narrative comment. Entries are anno­ tional investors have found a way to address their social responsi­ tated to show whether companies declined to confirm or correct bilities, but when even libraries are excluded because of the high AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 11 APRIL 1992 cost of their publications, we may ask if they are excluding other Merrett, Christopher. Thesaurus of South African Socio-Political social responsibilities. It would be refreshing to see special reduced and Economic Terms from an Anti-Apartheid Perspective. 2nd rates for library acquisitions. edition. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of natal Library In general, the format and arrangement of the volume is quite (Publication series no. 3), 1991. 44p. straight-forward, but one small enhancement would make it much Includes such new headings as Destabilization, Disinformation, easier to use. The appendixes need headers. Regarding manufac­ Internal colonialism, and Weapons. The Weekly Mail was the ture, the book meets ANSI standard Z39.48-84 for ‘‘Permanence of primary source. Paper for Printed Library materials.” However this is not stated on the verso. The grain of the paper runs parallel to the spine so the Senegal: bibliographie realisee a partir de la banque de donnees book opens well and stays open for easy reading. Ibiscus, tri£e par grands domaines par Pascal Hue. Paris: Ministfcre de la cooperation et du dSveloppement, 1991. 295p. (Reseaux documentaries sur le developpement). 211FF NEW PROJECTS Union Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations o f the South African Birth Traditions Survival Bank. Dr. Jacky Vincent Priya (Private Universities, 1918-1989 = Gesamentlike Katalogus van Proefskrifte Bag 2, Mtunthama, Malawi) plans to created a databank and en Verhandelinge van die Suid-Afrikaanse Universiteite, 1918- promote research on birth traditions worldwide. Those interested in 1989. Microfiche ed. Potchefstroom: Potchefstromse Universiteit joining the Network and receiving a quarterly newsletter should vir Christelike hoer Onderwys, 1990. Available at R25 from send a check/international money order for £20 or $35 to Dr. Priya. Potchefstroom University: attention Prof. C.H.L. Lessing. University of Orange Free State's Institute for Contemporary REQUEST FOR EDITOR History (2320 Bloemfontein 9300) has 452 inventories or catalogs for private document collections housed at the Institute. Of these, Clio Press is looking for compilers for the volumes on Guinea and 15 (totaling over 1500 pages) have been distributed to local univer­ Kenya (2nd ed.) in its World Bibliographical Series. Contact Robert sities. Photocopies are available at $1 per page. G. Neville, Executive Editor, Clio Press Ltd., 55 St. Thomas St., Oxford 0 X 1 1JG, England. DATA AVAILABLE ON CD-ROM NEW REFERENCE TITLES CD-DIS:A.I.D. *sDevelopment Information System isbeing distrib­ uted by A .I.D .'s Center for Development Information and Evalu­ The following items or issues are noted. For more titles, see the annual ation (CDIE). This CD-ROM (compact) disk contains the complete “Africana Reference B ooks” in The African Book Publishing Record, no. 2. AID document and project databases and the full text of selected \ reports and publications. The databases list over 7000 projects ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non- initiated since 1974 and 65,000 project and technical reports. No. Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the 1 (March 1992) has data current through December 1991, and it will American Library Association; tables compiled and edited by be updated four times per year. Requires an IBM-compatible PC Randall K. Barry. Washington, 1991. 216p. with 640K RAM and a CD-ROM reader with Microsoft extensions Includes Arabic (with extensive Rules of Application), revised to DOS 2.0 or later. Amharic and new Tigrinya tables. A rearrangement, with some Cost is $50 for a single copy or $120 for a year's subscription. It corrections, of the now superseded tables published in the Catalog­ is free to AID offices and missions and qualifying host country ing Service Bulletin. Available for $24 from LC, Cataloging institutions in AID- supported countries. Contact U.S. Agency for Distribution Service, Customer Services Section, Washington, DC International Development, Development Information Services 20541-5017. Clearinghouse, POL/CDIEI/DI, Attn: CD-DIS, 1500 Wilson Blvd. Suite 1010, Arlington, Va 22209-2404. Fax: (703)351-4039. Annuaire des pays de TOcean Indien, vol. 11 (1986-1989) has appeared after a substantial hiatus. Along with the usual studies, Svinga: A Zimbabwe Encyclopedia , by Tony Mechin, Paul Mes- Survey and documents, there is a good, complete bibliography for siter-Tooze and Maulosi Nyakuwa (Harare: Media Technology, 1984-1989 publications. This covers the Indian Ocean in general, 1990), is a CD-ROM product, requiring a Macintosh computer with Madagascar, Reunion, and the French overseas departments and the HyperCard program. “ A multimedia journal through Zim­ territories. babwe, incorporating the Tabex Encyclopedia of Zimbabwe.” Cost in the US is $69 from CD ROM, Inc., 1667 Cole Blvd., Suite DOMES (Digest of Middle East Studies) is a new quarterly review 400, Golden, CO 80401-3313. Tel: 303-231-9373 or 800-821-5245. journal edited by Mohammed M. Aman, covering books and non­ Media Technology (Pvt) Ltd (200 Harbert Chi tepo Ave., POB HG print publications about Islam and the Middle East. Vol. 1, no. 1 328 Highlands, Harare, Zimbabwe) also offers an upgrade for $50 (Winter 1992), had a feature article and reviews of 27 titles. ISSN to registered users. This QuickTime version includes hundreds of 1060-4367. Subscription of $50 per year from School of Library and color images and over 60 color movies, and it requires a color Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,POBox Macintosh system. (QuickTime synchronises up to 24 different 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201. channels of inform ation-voice, video, data, etc.) Publisher can be reached at media_tech@p50.fl.n721.z5.fidonet.org (E-mail) or Marsot, A.L.A. “ Survey of Egyptian Works of History.” Ameri­ (2634) 702009 (phone). can Historical Review, v.96 (1991): 1422-34. AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 12 APRIL 1992 LETTERS & OPINIONS In this section, the editor hopes to publish letters and essays. No necessary collections which are less strong than they might have been had a endorsement by the editor or M SU is intended. The following letter to the West African Office been established in the mid sixties when editor was received March 20. originally envisioned. In addition, other American research libraries with substantial Africana holdings have been denied participation^ LC W EST AFRICAN OFFICE: cost-saving foreign acquisitions programs available to other regions ALC SUPPORT STATEM ENT OF SUPPORT of the world, such as the Middle Eastern and Asian programs of the Overseas Operations Division of the Library of Congress. The establishment of a Library of Congress West African Office has received considerable attention in three previous numbers (67-69) It is a truism that this is an information age. It is also self-evident otALN. Included in the January 1992 issue were minutes of an that the Office would serve our national interest by enabling extended discussion which occurred during the Archives-Libraries Congress and other policymakers to base their decisions on infor­ Committee (ALC) Business Meeting at ASA on November 24, mation garnered from a broader representation of West African 1991. As ALC chair, I encouraged all interested parties to express resources. We are increasingly aware of the inter-relatedness of their views publicly during that meeting. The minutes of that environmental, economic, health and political concerns for the discussion represent a true reflection of comments made. In my entire planet. West Africa acutely needs to be a part of this global capaci ty as then chai r of ALC, I wi sh to state uneq ui vocal ly the ALC information and research network. Access to most recent publica­ Executive Committee’s full support for the establishment of this tions from the region providing West African views on such vital office. The elected members of the combined Executive Committee issues as human rights, structural adjustment, and climatology is of 1990/91 and 1991/92 and the past chairs have recorded their essential to informed decisionmaking. Neither the U. S. govern­ support for this issue by signing this letter. ment nor its citizens can afford to be without these materials or be denied access to them. Nonetheless, at present a significant number Efforts to create the Office have received broad-based support from of these items do not reach our Africanist research libraries. The Africanist scholars, African studies center directors, Africana li­ establishment of the West African Office would improve the brarians, and from research library directors. Hundreds of letters of availability of publications urgently required by governmental support, including the staunch backing of ASA members, the policymakers, researchers, business people, and students. Congressional Black Caucus, the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, and the Pacific Coast Africanist Association were sent to ALC members are working to create a program panel for the key Congressional leaders responsible for reviewing this proposal. national meeting of the American Library Association. The purpose Important testimony was given in support of the Office before the of this panel is twofold: first, to inform non-specialist academic and U. S. House Appropriations Sub-Committee charged with budget­ public librarians regarding existing channels available for the ary review for this proposal by ASA’s Executive Director, Dr. Edna acquisition of Africana and diasporan materials and second, to G. Bay, by Dr. Joseph A. Boisse, on behalf of the American Library promote the work of Africana book vendors and to disseminate Association, and by knowledgeable Africana librarian and bibliog­ Africana more widely. A representation of current Africana dealers rapher colleagues. will be invited to participate on that panel. The American Library Association is also publishing an important work entitled “ Selec­ The rationale for the establishment of the Office is multifaceted. It tion of Library Materials for Area Studies,” which includes a includes improved acquisitions, enhanced bibliographic control of section on collecting Africana. The efforts of both Africana vendors material issued in the region, and the provision of cataloging data and the West African Office will be critical to improved access to from the region. At the St. Louis meeting a consensus of Africana West African publications. librarians identified categories of publications particularly needing additional acquisitions support. The microfilming of newspapers Cooperation and the combining of our many talents should be the and the acquisition of selected government documents, political tenet upon which we move forward, thereby ensuring the mutual party publications, grey literature, maps, and serials are among benefit of all. We look forward to the establishment of the Library these materials. In addition, an accessions list for West Africa of Congress West African Office, a development eagerly awaited comparable to the highly valued Library of Congress Accessions by this country’s Africanists for more than twenty-five years. List Eastern Africa would serve as a de facto national bibliography for some countries at present without such bibliographical control. Respectfully submitted, This list would enable American libraries to identify and acquire local publications. The result will be richer and more complete Peter Malanchuk collections from West Africa, a region vital to the shaping of our Onuma Ezera country’s history and to the understandi ng of our multicultural roots Ruby Bell-Gam and heritage. Elizabeth A. Widenmann Sharon Howard It is, in fact, our considered judgment that the lack of a West African Robert Lesh Office to gather publications has cost American taxpayers rather Mette Shayne dearly. Publications from this area and their cataloging have been Nancy Schmidt more costly than they would have been had they been acquired by Phyllis Bischof a field office. It is not, however, only Library of Congress AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 13 APRIL 1992 NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS VEND O R AN NO U N CEM EN TS & NEW S South A frican L ib rary (P.O. Box 496, 8000 Cape Town) has the microfilm masters oiDieBurger for November 1987 to the present. African Books Collective Ltd (The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., The film of the “ Laaste” edition is about one reel per month. The Oxford 0X 1 1HU) has issued ABC Newsline: An Occasional separate film of the “ Laat” (white country readership) and “ Ekstra” Newsletter, no. 1 (November 1991), which was mailed in January (Black and coloured readership) editions fills two reels per month. with ABC’s Catalogue no. 4. In addition to the publishers listed in A third film consists of the tabloid ‘ ‘magazine’ ’ and small advertis­ ALN, Oct. 1991, p.5, the following joined the program during 1991: ing sections of little general interest. The years 1914 to October 1987 of Die Burger were filmed by Foundation for Education with Production (Gaborone) Microfile Ltd, under contract to Nasionale Pers, with all editions Heinemann Education Books (Nigeria) Ltd. (Ibadan) being filmed in one sequence. This is now available from Southern Sankore Publishers (Lagos) Africa Information Services (P.O. Box 479, Highlands North, 2027 Saros International Publishers (Port Harcourt) South Africa). Spectrum Books Ltd. (Ibadan) Tanzania National Scientific Research Council (Dar es Salaam) S tate L ib rary (PO Box 397, Pretoria 0001) no longer offers a weekly card service. As of 1 January 1992, subscribers to the SANB A frican Im p rin t L ibrary Services, (AILS) P.O. Box 350, West weekly service had two options: Falmouth, MA 02574, continues to distribute lists of “ Titles 1. Photocopies of computer printout at R379,50 per year plus Recently Received” by country and subject. These are generated postage; or whenever they receive a shipment from a country, and they are 2. Machine-readable records with SAM ARC coding at R0,444 per automatically sent to regular customers. Others can get on the record plus cost of tape/disk and postage. mailing list by writing or calling 508-540-5378. AILS currently New reference publications: receives about 15-20 shipments per month, and Cameroon is among South African Newspapers Available on Microfilm, 1991 ed. the countries for which there is a substantial improvement in recent Directory of South African Publishers, to be issued biannually from coverage. November 1991. C larke’s Bookshop (211 Long St., Cape Town) has issued Cata­ U niversity Publications of A m erica has announced the following logue 81 (1991), with 894 titles. About half are current books. new publications of records of the Dept, of State from the National Archives, Record Group 59: Infodata Limited (P.O. Box 52126, Falomo-Ikoyi, Nigeria) issued British Africa: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1945- (December 1991) a new price list. Dailies available each for $1260 1949. 14 reels with printed guide. $1440. per year: Daily Times, The Guardian, Concord, New Nigerian British Africa: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1950- Champion, Tribune, Vanguard. Weeklies available for $750 each: 1954. 29 reels with printed guide. $2985. African Concord, African Guardian, Times International, Newswatch, British Africa: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1955- Tell, Classique (Women), Hints (Women), TSM (Society). 1959. 39 reels with guides forthcoming. $4015. South Africa: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1950-1954. In ter Documentation Company (IDC) catalogs of microfiche ma­ 23 reels with printed guide. $2365. terial are available from P.O. Box 11205, 2301 EE Leiden, The Netherlands. Recent catalogs include: National Development Plans: Supple­ BO O K AW ARDS ment 1991, with 30 African entries, including many state and interim plans; National Statistical Reports: Supplement 1991, with 1991 Joel G regory Prize to Bruce Berman for his Control and Crisis many bank and state reports among the 37 African titles; Rural and in Colonial Kenya: the Dialectics of Domination (Athens: Ohio Regional Development, a collection with 192 African documents; University Press; London: James Currey; Nairobi: Heinemann Human Rights Documents, 1980-1988. Kenya, 1990). --CAAS Newsletter, Fall 1991. Leishman & Taussig announced their 1992 schedule in a January Co-winners of A SA ’s 1991 Melville J. H erskovits Award: Johan­ 27 circular. After visiting only three countries in 1991, they nes Fabian, Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations completed a trip to Zambia and Malawi in January. They plan to through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire (Madison: visit South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland in April/May; Zimbabwe University of Wisconsin Press, 1990) and Luise White, The Com­ and Kenya in August; and Namibia and other southern African forts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (Chicago: Univer­ countries in November/December. More details are available from sity of Chicago Press, 1990). 2B Westgate, Southwell, Notts., UK, NG25 0JH. 1991 Noma Award Winner: Niyi Osundare, Waiting Laughters Schoenhof’s Foreign Books(76 A. Mount Anburn St., Cambridge, (Lagos: Malthouse Press Ltd., 1990). MA 02138) is the US distributor for the publications of CEDA Special Commendation: Dambudzo Marechera, The Black Insider, (Centre d ’Edition et de Diffusion Africaines, 04 BP 541 Abidjan). edited by Flora Veit-Wild (Harare: Baobab Books, 1990). AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 14 APRIL 1992 Honourable Mentions: Kalahari Review (ISSN 1060-0310) is a new literary journal de­ Chirikure Chirikure, Rukuvhute. voted to the writing and artwork of the people from southern Africa. Oladapo Fafowora, Pressure Groups and Foreign Policy. The premier issue (Winter 1992) includes an interview with Mark Sindiwe Magona, To My Children’s Children. Mathabane, art by Garth Erasmus and Elias Mathonse, an essay by Gcina Mhlophe, Queen o f the Tortoises. Chenjerai Hove, and poetry by Jennifer Ann Sharpe, Amanda -ABPR, v. 17, no. 3 (1991) Hammar, Dorian Haarhof, and Musa W. Dube. Subscriptions for 3 issues per year are $24 and $30 (institutions) Booker Prize: Ben Okri, The Famished Road (London: Cape, 1991). from The Kalahari Press, Inc., 4000 Cathedral Ave., NW, #138B, Washington, DC 20016. Commonwealth Writers Prize for “ Best First Book” : Karen King-Aribisala, Our Wife and Other Stories (Lagos: Malthouse, Nordic Journal of African Studies. First issue due April 1992 from 1990) . Department of Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki (Hallituskatu 8, 00100 Helsinki, Finland). This absorbs Lugha Grand Prix Litteraire de 1’Afrique Noire (1991): Kama Kamanda, (Uppsala) which ceased with volume 4. La nuit des griots (Paris : Harmattan-A. Degive). VIDEOS LITERATURE ON THE BOOK TRADE Alter-Cine (5371 Esplanade, Montreal (Quebec) H2T 2Z8; tel: The African BookPublishing Record, vol. 27, no. 3 (1991), includes 514-273-7136) has produced the following films: a report on the Ghana National Book Congress (Accra, March • Horn of Africa series: The Forbidden Land (55 min.); Night and 1991) , by A.A. Alemna, pp. 205-6. Silence (48 min.); & Out of the Ashes (50 min.). • Winning the Peace (29 min.; 1991 documentary about Eritrea) Vilasco, Gilles (U. d ’Abidjan), & Zidouemba, Dominique H. (IFAN- Ch.A. Diop, Dakar). “ Books and Publishing in Francophone Cinema Guild (1697 Broadway, NY, NY 10019; tel: 212-246- Africa.” UNESCO-Africa, no. 2 (July 1991): 26-41. 5522) has announced the following new releases: Notes economic difficulties for African publishers and hopes that • No Easy Walk - a series of 3 documentaries on Ethiopia, Kenya micro-publishing techniques would make it possible to produce the and Zimbabwe; each 60 minutes. low-cost reading materials that are needed to promote literacy and • Songololo: Voices of Change (54 min.; dir. Marianne Kaplan). expand potential readership. • Namibia: Rebirth of a Nation (45 min.; dir. Kevin Harris) • Images in Struggle (28 min.; dir. Barry Feinberg) SERIAL CHANGES * SELECTED NEW BOOKS AFPress Clips was discontinued by the Bureau of African Affairs, US Department of State. The last issue was v. 26, no. 25 (June 28, This section will be generally lim ited to titles outside the regular book trade. 1991). M any more titles and/or details on publisher addresses can be found in Joint Acquisitions List of Africana (Northwestern University Library), The African Book Publishing Record (Hans Zell Publishers), American Book Publishing ISAP: Index to South AfricanPeriodicals = RSAT: Repertorium van Record (Bowker), Accessions List: Eastern Africa (Library o f Congress Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrifartikels for 1987-1990 is available on Office, Nairobi), or in one o f the current national bibliographies. magnetic tape. About 440 periodicals are covered with over 75,000 entries. Pre-1987 entries are on microfiche. Enquiries to Publica­ AAAS Sub-Saharan African Program (1333 H St., NW, Washing­ tion Sales Section, State Library, PO Box 397,0001 Pretoria, South ton, DC 20005) offers following free publications: Africa. Malaria & Development in Africa: A Cross Sectoral Approach. Science in Africa: Achievement and Prospects. Library Notes (Royal Commonwealth Society) ceased with no. 306 (November/December 1991), with the closing of the Library. Amare Getahun, Kedir Reshid & H. Munyua. Agroforestry for Development in Kenya: An Annotated Bibliography. Nairobi [POB Proswa (Windhoek) has ceased publication, per Argo Publications. 30677]: ICRAF, 1991?. 228p. $6.50 plus postage. SA. News Summary (Johannesburg) ceased publication, per Argo Centre International du Commerce Exterieur du Senegal (CIES, Publications. BP 8166, route de TAeroport, Dakar-Yoff) has issued: LeSdneg al, lere edition, 1990-1991. Loose-leaf. 40000 FCFA ClCES -Informati ons. NEW SERIALS Clough, Michael. Free at Last? U.S. Policy Toward Africa and the See also new serials in the References Sources section. End of the Cold War. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1992. 145p. $14.95. Address: 5 8 East 68thSt., NYC 10021. Bookmark = Boekmark. No. 1 (Summer 1991). News Magazine of Tel: 212-734-0400. Associated Booksellers of Southern Africa. Edited by Maureen Hargraves, Atrium Bookshop, P.O. Box 23832, Claremont 7735, South Africa. AFRICANA LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 15 APRIL 1992 Gill, Dennis. The Coinage of Ethiopia, Eritrea andltalian Somalia. SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS Garden City, NY: D. Gill, 1991. 342p. $25 plus $2.50 for postage. Address: POB 175, Garden City, NY 11530. Tel: 516-333-5613. AIDS Analysis Africa, vol.2, no.l, is devoted to the Sixth International Conference on AIDS in Africa, held in Dakar in December 1991. IRRC (Investor Responsibility Research Center Inc., 1755 Massa­ The 12-page issue was written by Rex Winsburg, the editor/ chusetts Ave., NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202- publisher. This bimonthly has a full subscription of £115/$235, 234-7500) issued the following new editions or titles in 1991: with a rate of £80/$ 165 for educational or charitable organizations. U.S. Business in South Africa 205p, $200 ($250 for 1992 ed.); Address: 38 Charterhouse St., London EC1M 6JJ. International Business in South Africa 34 lp, $250; Guide to American State & Local Laws on South Africa 116p,$95; “ Gendering Social Science.” CODESRIA Bulletin, No. 4,1991. A U.S. Business in Post-Sanctions South Africa 24p, $35; and report on the CODESRIA Workshop on Gender Analysis and Corporate Responsibility in a Changing South Africa 65p, $35. African Social Science, Dakar, 16-21 September 1991. [See also review on p.10.] Jowitt, David. Nigerian English Usage: An Introduction. Ikeja: Longman Nigeria Ltd., 1991. ISBN 9781396393 Shows that English in Nigeria has adapted to the local situation and evolved a set of indexical markers. E d ito r’s Com m ents, continued from p. 1. Norstrom, Wanda. An American Artist in Africa, 1937. South Portland, Maine (245 Broadway, no. 403, 04106): Pearl Shedding materials (compared to US-UK imprints) in our libraries? Press, 1991. ISBN 0-9630357-0-3. $19. What is an appropriate level of Africana in the various indexes, bibliographies and CD-ROMs? Do trip reports and O ’Neil, Robert J. Mission to the British Cameroons. Mill Hill, acquisitions lists promote excessive duplication of low use London : Mission Book Service, 1991. 185p. ISBN 0950788899. resources? Have special interests made the Conspectus Covers the work of the St. Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill. unusable? Will African libraries without book funds be able Address of publisher: St. Joseph’s College, London NW7 4JX. to survive on gifts? Is the Association of Research Libraries a better vehicle than CRL for a foreign materials proposal? Pelissier, Rene. Du Sahara a Timor: 700 livres analyses (1980- Should this column be renamed “ Parting Shots” ? 1990) sur TAfrique et VInsulinde ex-iberiques. 1991? 350p. Avail­ Other potential features that have been put off: Brief list able for 400FF from Pelissier, Montamets, 78630 ORGEVAL, of ALC (and other) members; List of currently received France. newspapers; List o f latest (recent) national bibliographies; List of latest statistical annual (or substitute); Notes on gaps South Africa, 1991-92: Official Yearbook has been distributed by in microfilm holdings of newspapers. the South African Government. This 17th edition appears in a new, shortened (266p.) version, and it is based on December 1990 data. Non-Profit Org. AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER U.S. POSTAGE Michigan State University PAID 100 International Center E. Lansing, MI East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1035 Permit No. 21