AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER No. 72, October 1992 ISSN 0148-7868 TABLE OF CONTENTS Afric ana 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 Africana Librarians Council Editor’s Comments (ALC; formerly Archives-Libraries Committee) of the African Studies Association. It Acronyms carries the meeting minutes of ALC, CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microform Project) and other relevant groups. It also reports other items of interest to Africana librarians and those ALC/CAMP NEWS........................................................ 2 concerned about information resources about or in Africa. Calendar of Future Meetings Schedule for ALC/CAMP Meetings in Seattle Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana Library, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. ASA Registration Fees and Dues Tel.: 517-355-2366; E-mail: 20676afr@msu.bitnet; Fax: 517-336-1445. Deadline for no. 73: January 1, 1993; for no. 74: April 1, 1993. OTHER NEWS............................................................... 3 News from other Associations Calendar American Library Association ED ITO R ’S COM M ENTS Library Association (U.K.) Middle East Librarians Assoc. After three retirements in 1991, September 1992 saw closures for two more Southeast Regional African Studies Seminar experienced ALC librarians. Yvette Scheven retired from the University of SCOLMA Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) at the end of September as planned, and we fully Free Materials Offered & Requested: expect to continue to hear from her. Elizabeth Widenmann of Columbia Senegalese libraries: CLAD & IFAN University died on September 26, after a few weeks in the hospital for Kenya Methodist University chemotherapy. Resources at Libraries & Research Centers There will be a memorial for Betsy in Seattle, but I am taking this opportunity School of Oriental & African Studies to record some personal reflections. I still find myself shaken at the death of Yale University someone from my generation. I make exceptions for individuals who are visibly Grant Application: African Newspapers Project suffering or have been incapacitated by months of pain, but that was not the case Personnel Changes: here. Despite three episodes of cancer over eleven years, Betsy simply refused Elizabeth Widenmann to miss a single ALC or ALA meeting. Although sometimes slowed, she seemed Yvette Scheven Others: Perkal, Kagan, Haricombe, Darch, Aluko too tough to be overcome. Now instead of her words of advice and clarification, Vacancies: MSU & Schomburg Center I have only memories. Memories of the initiatives she carried through and the little things she looked after. Memories of how she would not let ALC be a men’s RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES & INFO. SCIENCE...... 6 -continued on p. 5 Thesis Books Journals & Articles ACRONYMS REFERENCE SOURCES................................................ 7 ALJSiji^ Assòof¿flòo Data on Diskette ABC ~ Aiti cali Books Collective; -¡Sr: |§ New Reference Titles ALA +American LabiaryAssociai ion' (Chicago) ||f ^ Ltbrtòans Count# (formerly .^hivèsi:x|| LETTERS & OPINIONS................................................. 8 ¡11 Libraries Com m ittee^ :| | Ethiopian Romanization Tables: Lauer :^ À ':f’A£ricaft'iS^ Gaps in Newspapers Holdings on Microfilm CAMP - Cooperative Africana. M icrofqrra Project NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS................. 9 CRL-Cen ter for Research .Librari es (Chicago) A l i g l i Vendor Announcements 1FLA- International Federation of Library Associations ; Book Awards LC - Library of Congress Zimbabwe International Book Fair MELA « Middl e East ' Librarians Association ' W S M M È M Literature on the Book Trade MSU - Michigan State if niversity . Serial Changes - S ta n d lj^ Library Materials on Africa New Serials U. - U ni versi ty . ;• .p ; J;. Electronic Formats UCLA | Universi ty of Cali forriia, Los Angel es Selected New Books Special Issues of Journals AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 2 OCTOBER 1992 AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL / CAMP NEWS CALENDAR OF FUTURE M EETINGS ANNOUNCEMENTS of meetings (old no. 5): Section VI C: Announcements of meetings, agenda, and minutes November 20-23, 1992, Seattle - ASA Annual Meeting. shall be printed in the African Studies Newsletter and the Africana April 29-30,1993, East Lansing, MI - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. Libraries Newsletter. December 3-7,1993, Boston - ASA Annual Meeting. Proposed wording: Announcements of meetings, schedules, draft November 1994, Toronto - ASA Annual Meeting. agenda and minutes shall be printed in the Africana Libraries Fall 1995, Orlando - ASA Annual Meeting. Newsletter, and should be submitted to ASA News if appropriate. PRIORITIES at business meetings (old no. 6): Proposed addition of VID.: Priority will be given to agenda items SCHEDULE FO R ALC/CAM P M EETINGS which have been submitted in writing in advance of the meeting, and IN SEATTLE for which documentation has been distributed, where relevant. Documentation must be provided if the issue in question calls for a Nov. 20, 1992 (Friday) vote. 9:00- 10:00 am ALC Executive Committee 10:00 -11:30 am Cataloging Committee VOTING (old no. 8): Section IX. A. Items requiring a vote should be included in the 11:30 - 1:00 pm Bibliography Committee agenda distributed in advance of the meeting. Approval shall be by 2 : 0 0 - 4:00 pm ALC Business Meeting 4:00- 5:00 pm ALC Executive Meeting majority vote of those members present. The advance notice requirement may be waived by a 3/4 vote of those members present. Nov. 21, 1992 (Saturday) B. Votes that represent policy decisions in the opinion of the 8:30- 9:30 am Memorial for Elizabeth Widenmann Chairperson require approval of 2/3 of those members present at a meeting of the full committee. Voting on policy decisions shall be 9:30- 11:00 am CAMP Business Meeting 11:00 -12:00 am CAMP Executive Meeting by secret ballot. 5:30- 6:00 pm Conover-Porter Award Presentation Proposed simplification: A. (1) Numbers necessary for council or committee action 6:0 0 - ASA Gala Reception should be a 2/3 majority of members present. Nov. 22,1992 (Sunday) (2) ...a 2/3 majority of a quorum (at least one representative 1:00- 3:00 pm Roundtable on African Bibliographies from a majority of member institutions). 5:30 - 7:00 pm ASA Business Meeting B. Voting on policy decisions shall be by secret ballot. BYLAWS REVIEW (old no. 9): Section XI (new) or add to Section VIII: Amendments. ALC BUSINESS MEETING NOTES Proposed wording: A review of these Bylaws shall take place every five years, or earlier if needed. Nominations for ALC Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, Secretary and Member-at-large should be submitted to Ruby Bell-Gam (310- 825-1518), Karen Fung (415-725-3505) or Sharon Howard (212- 491-2233). ROUNDTABLE: AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHES: COMPILATION & EVALUATION Bylaws Amendments (Sunday, l-3pm) The ad-hoc Bylaws Revision Committee (of Baumann, Easterbrook and Schmidt) wants to conclude its work at the Spring 1993 ALC Chair: Nancy J. Schmidt, Indiana Univ. meeting. The Bylaws as revised so far will be distributed in Seattle. David Henige, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. There will be a discussion during the Seattle business meeting of the Bernth Lindfors, Univ. of Texas, Austin. issues listed below. [An earlier list, with explanations for the Robert A. Myers, Alfred Univ. proposed changes, appeared in ALNOct. 1991, p.2-3. For discus­ Hans Zell, Hans Zell Associates. sion and decisions at recent meetings, see ALN Aug. 1991, p.3-4; Yvette Scheven, Urbana, Illinois. Jan. 1992, p.3; and July 1992, p.2.] NEWSLETTER (old no. 2): A SA REGISTRATION FEES & DUES Section II D: current wording: Support a newsletter carrying information on resources for African studies. REGISTRATION FEES for the 35th Annual Meeting of the African Proposed wording: Select a member who will edit and publish a Studies Association, 20-23 November at the Westin Hotel, Seattle, newsletter to provide regular reports on the activities of the Council. are as follows: Seat on the EXECUTIVE BOARD for the ASA Publications Com­ ASA member: $55 mittee Liaison (old no. 4): ASA member earning less than $15,000 per year: $30 Section IV G: Ex-officio members shall be selected to represent the Non-Member: $90 Library of Congress, the Africana Libraries Newsletter, the Coop­ Non-member earning less than $15,000 per year: $45 erative Africana Microfilm Project and others as needed. Persons currently teaching in an African university: $30 Proposed wording: Ex-officio members...Africana Microform Charges for pre-registration (before Oct. 15) were less. Project, the A.S.A. Publications Committee Liaison and others as Participation in ALC activities is open to all ASA members. needed. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 3 OCTOBER 1992 The AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (US) brings together persons with scholarly or professional interests in Africa, provides services to the Africanist community, and publishes and distributes Africanist materials. In addition to participation and discount rights, members receive three journals: African Studies Review (articles & reviews; 3 per year) ASA News (a newsletter, listing recent theses; 4 per year) Issue: A Journal of Opinion (on current topics; 2 per year) Dues (1992) for regular individual membership in the African Studies Association are as follows: Income over $60,000.......................................... $70 Income from $45-60,000....................................$60 Income from $30-45,000....................................$50 Income from $15-30,000....................................$40 Income below $15,000......................................$20 For further details on lifetime and joint memberships or a form, contact the African Studies Association, Emory University, Credit Union Building, Atlanta, GA 30322. Tel: 404-329-6410. OTHER NEWS NEW S FRO M O TH ER ASSOCIATIONS MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION Annual meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 28, at Portland CALENDAR State University. Business meeting (9:45-11:45am) will be fol­ ALA: lowed by programs on collecting, using new technology, and Jan. 23-28,1993, Denver - ALA Midwinter meeting. preservation. Members will vote on changes in the by-laws, June 24-July 1,1993, New Orleans - ALA Annual Conf. including provisions to open full membership to any person inter­ ested in Middle East library materials. For further details, contact IFLA Annual Conference: Michael Hopper (MELA secretary/treasurer), Univ. of California, Aug. 22-26,1993, Barcelona Santa Barbara, Library (Tel: 805-893-3454). Future meetings: 1994, Havana; 1995, Istanbul; 1996, Bejing; 1997, Geneva; 1998, Edmonton. MELA Notes no. 55 (Winter 1992; [Sept. 1992]) carried minutes of the 1991 annual meetings of MELA and MEMP in Washington, DC, Book Fairs: and rather more typos than usual. In her notes on a 1992 acquisitions Sept. 30-Oct. 5, 1992 - 44th Frankfurt Book Fair trip to Tunisia, Elizabeth Vernon (Harvard College Library) men­ 2-8 August 1993 - Zimbabwe International Book Fair tions that microfilm copies of Tunisian theses are available from Arlette Doux, Centre Universitaire de Documentation Scientifique et Technique, 1 ave. de France, 1000 Tunis. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Asian and African Section of the Association of College & SOUTHEAST REGIONAL AFRICAN STUDIES SEMINAR held Research Libraries elected: its fall meeting on October 3rd at the University of Virginia. Papers Katharine K. Elsässer (LC) as vice-chair/chair-elect; included “Educational Controversies: African Activism and the Donald Clay Johnson as member-at-large. Politics of Education in Zimbabwe, 1919-1934,” by Carol Summers (Univ. of Richmond) and “USIA: Its Exchange Programs and Executive boards of the Association of College and Research Democratization in Africa,” by Robert La Gamma (Office of Libraries and the Association for Library Collections and Tech­ African Affairs). A roundtable on democratization and social nical Services voted during the annual meeting in San Francisco to change in Africa was chaired by Julius Nyang’oro (Univ. of North begin participation in the AAAS Sub-Saharan Africa Journal Distri­ Carolina). Program sponsored by Carter G. Woodson Institute for bution Program. Beginning later this year, 50 copies of each Afro-American and African Studies included a reception at the association’s journal, College and Research Libraries andLibrary home of Mary Alice Kraehe. Resources and Technical Services, will be made available through the Program to libraries in Africa. STANDING CONFERENCE ON LIBRARY MATERIALS ON AFRICA Seminar series at the School of Oriental and African Studies LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (U.K.) (London) includes “Impressions of the Namibian Library World, IGLA (International Group of the Library Association), in associa­ with slides,” by Sheila Allcock (International Development Centre, tion with SCOLMA, sponsored the following 23 September 1992 Oxford) on 24 November. meeting at the Library Association Headquarters:-Creating that Reading Habit: Publishing and Book Provision in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa. -(ARD, no.57) AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 4 OCTOBER 1992 FREE M ATERIALS OFFERED AND REQUESTED GRANT APPLICATION Notes on requests for books are listed as received, without any The following summary has been prepared from Gretchen Walsh’s appli­ endorsement by the editor, MSU or ALC. cation to the U.S. Department o f Education’s Foreign Periodicals P ro­ gram. Summaries or copies o f other applications are also welcome. Northwestern University’s proposal to the same program was to ac­ Senegalese libraries seek the titles listed below. Their directors are quire the serial literature relating to new democratic movements and to keenly interested in establishing exchange relationships in order to catalog both these new titles plus other unique titles. The University of make these titles accessible to Senegalese students and scholars. Iowa asked for funds to acquire current periodicals, prim arily business They will gladly accept either original imprints, photoprints or and economics, from Africa and China. Michigan State University Library microforms. Further details available from Fred Schaffer or Phyllis submitted a proposal for English-language newspapers from Asia, with Bischof, Univ. of California, Berkeley. unspecified serials from Africa to be added in year two. The librarians Amadou Dialo, Chair, Département de Linguistique, Université covering Southeast Asia prepared a joint proposal. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, wishes to exchange publications of CLAD (Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar) for the follow­ AFRICAN NEWSPAPERS PROJECT ing titles: A Boston University Proposal • Jean Dard, Grammaire Wolofe. Paris, 1826. 213p. Dictionnaire français-wolof et wolof-français. Dakar, 1855. The Boston University Library application to the Foreign Periodi­ 242p. cals Program has the following objectives: • Louis Faidherbe, Vocabulaire d'environ 1,500 mots français, 1. Survey of African newspapers: After synthesizing, verifying avec leurs correspondants en Oulof... 1864. 70p. and expanding upon existing lists of newspapers (e.g., African • Guide de transcription et de lecture en Wolof 2e ed. 1986. Book World and Press Directory, Africa South of the Sahara and • J.B. Rambaud, La langue wolof Paris, 1903. 106p. Benn's Media Directory), create a database which will be made available and possibly published. ArameDiopFal, Département de Linguistique, Institut fondamental 2. Selection and acquisition of African newspapers: Will expand d’Afrique noire, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, B.P. 206, Dakar, beyond 14 currently acquired newspapers, emphasizing broad rep­ wishes to exchange IFAN imprints for the following: resentation of African countries, titles not currently received, titles • Mbaye Cham, Nahu jangg Wolof Urbana: African Studies recommended by scholars, titles providing a range of viewpoints, Program, Univ. of Illinois, 1981. and titles in national languages. • Amadou Hamady Diop, Language Contact, Language Planning 3. Evaluating the distribution infrastructure for African newspa­ and Language Policy: The Study of Two Bilingual Communities pers: Review and monitor existing and new arrangements and share in Northern Senegal. 1989. information with other libraries through notices in ALN & discus­ • Beram George, Wollof Svenska, Dansk, English. 198? 23p. sion at ALC meetings. Guy-Grand. Dictionnaire français-volof. 3e ed. 1890. 784p. 4. Providing bibliographic and physical access to African news­ • Max Mangold, Wolof Pronoun Verb Patterns and Paradigms. papers: Newspapers will be housed in BU ’s African Studies Library 1977. and be given priority cataloging. They will also be listed in African Newspapers Currently Received inAmericanLibraries (an irregular Kenya Methodist University (PO Box 2277, Meru; tel: O il 254 that started at BU and was continued at Northwestern). 164 30935) plans to open in 1994, with schools of business 5. Preserving the newspapers: Filming is already done by LC& administration and theology and then others. They plan to build a CRL, to which BU contributes. Other sources are Microfile, 20,000 volume library in the next year and then increase it by about ACRPP, and AILS. New technologies will be explored, and BU will 30 percent per year. For more details, contact address above or PO film titles that cannot be added to existing programs. Box 47633, Nairobi; tel.: 724841/724897/724828. 6. Indexing the newspapers: Newspapers currently received will be indexed, as well as those added as part of this project. Articles will be indexed according to place names, personal names and RESOURCES A T LIBRARIES corporate names mentioned in the article. An authority file of names AND RESEARCH CENTERS and abbreviations and acronyms will be created. Subject indexing will use keywords or a controlled vocabulary or a combination. A CD-ROM for either the index or the full text (via optical scanning) School of Oriental and African Studies Library hold Leverhulme holds promise as the best format for distribution. Project African manuscript collections for Abraham, Bargery, There is virtually no indexing of African newspapers. The most Blatch, Crabtree, Earthy, Green, Guthrie, Hackett, Johnston, Millman, ambitious indexing project, African Newspaper Index, published Nigerian Civil War, Tucker, and Whiteley. For more information, only three volumes in the early 1980s and covered only a handful contact Rosemary Seton, Archivist.- African News (SOAS), Oct. of newspapers. From time to time, an index of a particular paper 1992. will be done or African newspapers will be indexed for a specific topic. Examples are Subject Index to the Nationalist, 1964-1972, Yale University Library acquired the following: by the Tanzania Library Service, and Reports on AIDS in the • Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files. South African Press, by Nancy Schmidt. Africa, 1955-1959 [microform]: Internal Affairs and Foreign 7. Arrange funding beyond three year grant period: Project seen Affairs (Univ. Publications of America, 1992). This adds to film as having potential to attract additional university or grant funds and for 1945-49 and 1940-54. as producing products for commercial distribution. • National Security Archives. South Africa: the Making o f U.S. Policy, 1962-1989 (Chadwyck-Healey, 1991). Guide and 439 fiches. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 5 OCTOBER 1992 PERSO NNEL CHANGES Deborah Perkal Balinsky, former cataloger at Northwestern Uni­ versity, died on May 7,1992. She joined the Catalog Dept, in 1978 Elizabeth Alice Widenmann died September26,1992, at Roosevelt as a copy cataloger and cataloged Africana from 1982-87 while Hospital in New York City. The immediate cause of death was completing a Ph.D. in French.—C&RLNews, Oct. 1992. pneumonia which developed during a heavy round of chemo­ therapy. She was 57. A memorial service was held at Montclair, NJ, Alfred Kagan is the new Bibliographer for African Studies at on October 2d. She leaves behind four cousins, three in Germany Illinois, where he began on September 21. He had worked since and one in New York. 1984 in the Government Publications Department of the University Ms. Widenmann was born in Montclair, NJ. After high school in of Connecticut Library. He has Master’s degrees in International Northampton, Mass., she received her bachelor’s degree from Relations (San Francisco State University) and Library Science Radcliffe College. She then earned two Master’s degrees, one from (Indiana University). the London School of Economic and her library science degree from Columbia University. She worked for Rockefeller Foundation Lorraine Haricombe, formerly grad assistant at the University of before joining the library staff at Columbia, where she was African Illinois(Champaign-Urbana), recently defended her Library School Bibliographer and Cataloger. (See New York Times, 9/30/92, for (GSLIS) doctoral dissertation on the effects of the academic boycott more details.) on South Africa. As of August 24th, she is Head of Circulation, Ms. Widenmann was very active within ALC, where she was Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, known as Betsy. She wrote the “Dear Colleague” letter of Novem­ IL 60115. Tel: (815)753-9845. ber 1974 that led to the reconstitution of ALC and was the first chair of the Subcommittee on Cataloging and Classification. She later Colin Darch has accepted a position as university librarian in South served as chair of the Committee in 1979-80 and played a leading Africa, effective October 1. Address: University Library, Univer­ role in the creation of the Conover-Porter Award for outstanding sity of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535. Africa-related reference works. Her Africanist colleagues have enjoyed her good judgment, her precise and concise knowledge of Angela Aluko started October 19th as Africana Cataloger in the our institutional history, and her care with personal and professional Boston University Library. She has a library degree from Anambra details. Some of this is reflected in her “Recent Development in State Polytechnic (Nigeria) and worked at the Federal College of Africana Cataloging in the United States (1973-1988),” in Africana Education (Abeokuta). Her telephone number in the Catalog Dept, Resources and Collections, edited by Julian W. Witherell (1989). is (617)353-3715. The \atestASANews lists her as one of three benefactors for the ASA Endowment. Betsy was also influential in ALA Africanist circles. She served VACANCIES on the Executive Committee of the ACRL Asian and African Section in several roles. She was the driving force in establishing Michigan State University plans to hire an Original Catalog the Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials, the Librarian who will work 50% on Africana and 50% on general only area studies cataloging group. She was very important in humanities and social science material. Knowledge of French getting two adhoc subcommittees established, in identifying spe­ required. Contact Colleen Hyslop, Assistant Director for Systems cialists and in preparing the reports that led to the creation of this and Access Services Division, MSU Libraries 48824-1048. permanent committee. The Columbia University Library has established the Elizabeth The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the Widenmann Memorial Fund for African Studies, which will be used New York Public Library has vacancies for an Assistant Director for to purchase books and journals for Columbia’s Africana collections, Collection & Services, a Art Collection Manager, and aCurator. For bookplated with the name of this memorial fund. Persons who wish further details, see C&RLNews, July/August 1992, p. 480 & 490, to make a donation should write a check payable to Columbia and Sept. 1992, p.556; or write Human Resources Dept., NYPL, 8 University, listing the name of the fund as above in the memo West 40th St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10018. section of the check. Checks should be sent to Daniel King, Columbia Libraries Director of Development, 314B Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. Editor’s Comments, continued from p. 1 club; and how she could put away as much drink as any of the guys. Yvette Scheven retired at the end of September from the University For me she was an institutional memory and a defining presence. of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) Library, where she was Bibliogra­ She was reliable and she was fair. It is hard to imagine an ALC pher for African Studies since 1969. Earlier experience included gathering without her. service in Tanzania. While at Illinois, she taught a library school More details on personnel changes are in the Other News course on Africana bibliography, edited this newsletter (1983-86), section. I have also included notes on Amharic romanization tables served as chair of the Archives-Libraries Committee (1977-78), and and gaps in newspaper holdings. wrote or compiled many articles and books including the 1990 Copy and materials were contributed by many individuals, Conover-Porter Award winning Bibliographies for African Studies, including Helene Baumann, Phyllis Bischof, Moore Crossey, David 1990-1986 (Hans Zell, 1990). She also contributed in many other Easterbrook, Victoria Evalds, Onuma Ezera, Karen Fung, Beverly ways at her university and in ASA, and she is expected to continue Gray, John Howell, A1 Kagan, Mary Alice Kraehe, Nancy Schmidt, her involvement with African Studies. Mette Shayne, Janet Stanley, Gretchen Walsh, Elizabeth Widenmann, Arline Zuckerman. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 6 OCTOBER 1992 RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE The following items have come to the attention o f the editor. 294p. ISBN 1559383836; $63.50. Includes: • “The African Book Famine: The Role of United States Academic Libraries,” by Gretchen Walsh (p. 261-79) THESIS • “Reentry of International Students to Home Library Environments,” by Andrew M. Kaniki (p. 175-95). Bliss, Nonie Janet. “International Librarianship: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Field.” Ph.D. thesis, Texas Woman’s U., 1991. Studies reference patterns in the materials indexed by Library JOURNALS & ARTICLES Literature, for the years 1958-1990. Found relatively few contribu­ tions from other disciplines and a field that is extremely insular. - African Journal of Library, Archives ¿¿Information Science (Ibadan), DAI, 53A:0337. vol. 2, no. 1 (April 1992) contains the following articles, in addition to short notes and 9 abstracts of 1991 articles in other African BOOKS journals: • “Large-scale Library Automation,” by S.M. Lawani; Conference of National Librarians of Southern Africa (5th : 1990 : A. A. Azubuike & G.O. Ibekwe, on success at International Mmabatho). The Relationship of National Libraries to School and Institute of Tropical Agriculture (Ibadan) Public Library Development: Proceedings. Pretoria: State Library • “Information Needs for Rural Development: The (Contributions to library science; no. 42), 1991. ISBN 0-7989- Case Study of Malawi,” by Kingo Mchombu (U. of Botswana) 1370-3. [A review will appear in a future issue.] • “Public Libraries and Community Information Services in Africa,” by Albert Kantumoya (U. of Zambia) Gorman, G.E., and J.J. Mills. Guide to Current Indexing and • “An Examination of Records Management in the Abstracting Services in the Third World. London : Hans Zell University Registry,” by Viola Ifeoma Ugwunze Publishers, 1992. 260p. Limited to titles from the Third World for • “Library Services to the Visually Handicapped at Addis which an issue appeared after 1982; covers works multiple authors Ababa University, Ethiopia,” by Degife Gebre Tsadik and (serials, conferences, etc.); excludes bibliographies of books; in­ Sushma Gupta cludes single-title newspaper indexes. See complementary Current • “Towards Improved Security Measures in Nigerian National Bibliographies in the Third World (2d ed, 1987) for those University Libraries,” by W.A. Akinfolarin (Ondo State cases where periodical articles are included with monographic U. Library). coverage. Contains critical annotations of about 120 services, including: African Research and Documentation, no. 57 (1991): • Agricultural Abstracts for Tanzania • “Nigeria: A Constitutional Chronology and Documentary • ANAI Index (African Training and Research Centre Calendar, 1919-1989,” by A.H.M. Kirk-Greene in Administration for Development) • “Libraries in Research and Scholarship in Ghana,” • Devi ndex Africa by A. A. Alemna • Documentation List: Africa (University of Delhi) • “Malawi’s Hidden Bibliographies: A Preliminary Survey • Educational Abstracts for Tanzania of Some Earlier Texts,” by Augustine W.C. Msiska; Covers • Index of African Social Science Periodicals Articles bibliographies at the end of monographs • Index to South African Periodicals • “A Literature Review of Written Materials on Legal • Industrial Abstracts (Lagos) Deposit Laws for Nigerian Libraries since 1950,” • Industrial Abstracts for Tanzania by E.K. Erinle. • Namibia Abstracts • Nigerian Rural Development Abstracts Information Trends: News Magazine (Gaborone), vol. 5, no. 2 (June • RESINDEX: Bibliographie sur le Sahel 1992) includes: • Zambia Science Abstracts • “Rural Development Information Communication in Another 48 services that were unavailable for analysis are also Africa,” by K.J. Mchombu 1isted. Most abstracted ti tl es are in Engl ish, b ut many i n Spani sh and • “Conference on Library and Information Services for some in French, Portuguese & Malay. Future Development of Southern Africa,” by Peter Havard-Williams Publishing andDevelopmentin the Third World, edited by Philip G. • “Current Research Projects in LIS Department, University Altbach (K.G. Saur, 1992), is based on papers commissioned for an of Botswana.” international seminar in Bellagio, Italy (February 1991). Included are the following: Innovation: Appropriate Librarianship and Information Work in • “Africa: The Neglected Continent,” by Hans Zell Southern Africa, no. 4 (June 1992) carries articles and short contri­ • “Challenges and Reality in West African Publishing,” butions on censorship, the new South African media, access to by Jan Kees van de Werk. official records and other information, communications policy, library services, a bibliographic introduction (by Leonie Prozesky) Role of the American Academic Library in International Programs, to new grey literature, and a review of Thami Mazwai’s Mau- edited by B. D. Bonta & J. G. Neal (Greenwood: JAI Press mauing the Media. For issues, contact the University Library, (Foundations in Library and Information Science, v. 27), 1992). University of Natal, P.O. Box 375, Pietermaritzburg. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 7 OCTOBER 1992 International Information & Library Review (London), vol. 24, no. “Scarcity of Tertiary Books in Nigeria: A Threat to Academic 2 (June 1992) includes: Excellence and Suggestions for Action,” by A.D. Dike. Journal of • “Formulation of National Information Policies in Africa: Librarianship and Information Science, 24, 2 (June 1992): 79-86. Some Unlearnt Lessons,” by K. J. Mchombu (U. of Botswana & Swaziland) “Scientific Literature Service in Tanzania,” by Kebede Gessesse & • “The Effects of Austerity on Collection Development S. S. Mbwana. Third World Libraries, 2, 2 (Spring 1992). Brief in Nigerian University Libraries with Particular Reference to summary of work of TALIS (Tanzania Literature Service), which Usmanu Danfodiyo University Library, Sokoto,” by I.I. Ekoja. supplies copies of articles. JournalDistributionProgram (Washington: American Association “Recycling Ideas,” by Martha L. Brogan (Yale Univ.), College & for the Advancement of Science), vol. 2, no. 1 (July 1992), carries Research Libraries, 53 (Sept. 1992): 453-464. In a review of a a note by Henri Sene on the use of CD-ROM in the Library of the Transaction Publishers book, finds a pattern of repackaging previ­ Université Cheikh Anta Diop. ously published articles. Some are expanded, but about half are unrevised; and references to previous publications are weak or non­ “African Library Science Journals Workshop, Kano, Nigeria, 29-30 existent. Discusses Irving Hexham's concept of “self-plagiarism” January 1992 [: Report],” by M. Wise. IFLA Journal, 18, 2 (May in academic writings, i.e., recycling earlier work as new. 1992): 172-3. REFERENCE SOURCES DATA ON DISKETTE institutions holding negatives. Includes indexes for variant titles and places of publication. Mansell is planning to publish Index Islamicus on CD-ROM. Insert of 7 pages lists titles and reels available from State Library Initially the years 1981-1991 will be issued on one disc, and updated and from Microfile. Note inserted in book gives Inter Documenta­ annually. Retrospective material will be added gradually. The CD- tion Co. (PO Box 11205,2301 EE Leiden, The Netherlands) as the ROM will be sold on an annual subscription basis. Their question­ agency for overseas orders of the State Library microfilm. naire asks if £400 or £500 or £600 would be an acceptable annual price. For further details, contact Veronica Higgs, Publisher, History in Africa, v. 19 (1992) carried following notes on archival Mansell Reference, Mansell Publishing Limited, Villiers House, resources: 41/47 Strand, London WC2N 5JE. • “The National Archives—Kaduna (NAK), Nigeria,” by Jörg Adelberger (J.W. Goethe-Universität), p. 435-9 • “The Malian National Archives at Kuluba: Access and N EW REFERENCE TITLES Applicability,” by Stephen A. Harmon (Arkansas State U.), p.441-4 The following items or issues are noted • “Note on the [Homer Leroy] Shantz Collection [of plant For more titles, see the annual uAfricana Reference Books" specimens, field notebooks and photographs from 1919/20], in The African Book Publishing Record, no. 2. Tucson, Arizona,” by Michele Wagner (U. of Wisconsin- Madison), p.445-9. African Biographical Archive = Afrikanisches Biographisches Archiv = Archives biographiques africaines. Microfiche ed., ed. Obiechina, Emmanuel. “Short, Annotated Bibliography of Recent by Eva Weermann. Saur, 1992-. A cumulation of biographical and Noteworthy Anglophone African Fiction.” Issue (Atlanta: articles on Sub-Saharan Africans, taken from the most important ASA), 20,2 (1992): 24-25. 23 titles. biographical reference works available. 12 installments. Approx. 700 fiche. Est. price of 18,000 DM for diazoid & 19,800 for Shi fera wBekele, “Bibliography of Senior Essays of the Department silver.— VLB 91/92. of History, Addis Ababa University, on Ethno-historical and Re­ lated Topics,” Sociology Ethnology Bulletin (Addis Ababa Univer­ Basil's Comprehensive List of South African Serials. Pinegowrie: sity), v. 1, no. 2 (March 1992): 102-110. About 55 titles listed by Specific Software Services, 1991. 2 vol. (vii, 1093 p.) To be author and by ethnic group. updated regularly. Price is R280, plus postage of R10, from the publisher at PO Box 56161, Pinegowrie 2123, South Africa. Westley, David. “Language and Education in Africa; A Select Bibliography, 1980-1990.” Comparative Education Review, 36 Coetzee, J. C., compiler. South African Newspapers on Microfilm. (August 1992): 355-367. Bibliographic essay discussing the issues 2d ed., revised & expanded; edited by Hester van der Walt. Pretoria: and updating older bibliographies with about 75 entries, some State Library (Bibliographies of the State Library), no. 35), 1991. annotated. 93p. ISBN 0-7989-1371-1. Lists 376 titles in alphabetical order, with details on place, frequency, years, holder of negatives and number of reels. Each entry also has 1-3 paragraph historical summary, covering publish­ ers, variant titles, etc. Lists sources consulted and addresses of AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 8 OCTOBER 1992 LETTERS & OPINIONS The following essays are by the editor. Other opinions are welcome. The case for abandoning the LC table could be summarized as follows: ETHIOPIAN ROMANIZATION TABLES 1. Ethiopians do not use it. Which One Do We Use? Which One Should We Use? 2. Scholars do not use it. An Essay, by Joseph J. Lauer 3. American libraries have used it only sparingly. Very few deliberately ignore it, but several including LC and Northwestern Ethiopians and scholars use romanization systems that vary signifi­ store most Amharic titles in their uncataloged backlog and others cantly from the tables prepared by LC and approved by ALA. simply accept transliterations submitted by a student or linguist Should American librarians encourage them to adopt our system? assistant. Should we adopt their system? What systems are American 4. If Ethiopia ever abandons its script (unlikely), it will follow a libraries using? system close to current transcription practices. I raise this issue for two reasons. First, the MSU Library has a 5. No known dictionary uses it. backlog of Amharic titles which I am going to have to transliterate 6. Frequent errors and failures to follow system makes a future before cataloging, and we have not consistently used the approved machine conversion unlikely, except possibly as a first step. tables. I need advice. Second, many records in both OCLC and The 7. It requires the use of more diacritics than other systems. Joint Acquisitions List of Africana (JALA) were obviously not produced according to LC policy. Arguments for using the LC table: For those who have never looked at the Amharic romanization 1. It is unambiguous, except for some details which need to be table (and this included me until 3 years ago), a knowledge of addressed. Amharic is not required to determine whether or not a library 2. It does not require the use of a native speaker or dictionary, follows LC policy. Distinguishing characteristics of the LC system except for 6th order vowels; and those could be eliminated or are no doubled consonants, no “a,” and an abundance of strange routinely added except when final. diacritics, including an acute accent over s. For examples, see LC’s 3. LC-Nairobi has romanized titles since about 1974, though not Accessions List: Eastern Africa (but not volumes before 1975) or without errors. Fassil ’^ContemporaryAmharic CreativeLiterature (1982). Records 4. There is no agreement on a single alternative. While non-LC with numerous doubled consonants or “a” are following other alternatives usually follow the same principles, they are far from systems. agreement on transcribing vowels and some consonants. There are The basic reason for the conflict between most users and LC is even differences in the tables adopted by the National Library of that the goals of phonetic transcription differ from those of character Ethiopia, the Government of Ethiopia (see Birgit Negussie, Tradi­ romanization. Ethiopians and Ethiopianists attempt to approximate tional wisdom ... (1988), p. 286) and the Academy of Ethiopian pronunciation, and linguists want a system that helps the learner. Languages. Apparently Ethiopians value the right to select among They even make their phonetic transcriptions more precise than the systems. As Bahru Zewde (History of Modern Ethiopia (1991) original by indicating gemination (or consonant lengthening) with p.235) noted: “In spelling his or her personal name in English, an doubled consonants and by varying the vowel after certain conso­ Ethiopian may of course choose any preferred form of translitera­ nants. They are not concerned about the problems of converting tion. We may find the variants Eyasu, Iyasou, Iyyasu; Shawaragad, transliterated titles back into the original script, since they have no Shewareged, Shoaregued; Webe, Wibe, Wubay, Wubie, and plans for a machine conversion. Besides, they know the original others.”(p.235) characters and there is some freedom is selecting among symbols One compromise solution would be continued use of the ALA- for a sound. LC tables, with the following changes (some of which are already In contrast, the Library of Congress and most librarians involved under consideration by ALA’s Committee on Cataloging: Asian & in the creation of machi ne-readable records want a table that permits African Materials and by Ben Tucker, consultant to LC): a future conversion of romanized characters into Ethiopian charac­ 1. Readable graphics, and a table with numbers and years. ters. By following the principle of reversibility, they hope to avoid 2. More instructions for catalogers, e.g. no gemination, capitaliza­ the need for human intervention or the cost of an Amharic specialist. tion after certain prefixes in the 245c, conversion of Ethiopian years They are not concerned with an accurate phonetic transcription, to Gregorian calendar years, etc. partly because English spellings are so frequently non-phonetic and 3. Decision to omit vowel for 6th order characters; or better partly because some of this involves improving upon the original. guidance on how to determine when vowel should be used. The differing solutions for these two distinct problems affect 4. Cross references for variant systems. It is already possible to list more than just a few cases. Excluding special combinations (mostly variant forms of a name. (But too many Ethiopianists still think with “w”) and the foreign “v”, Amharic has 231 characters, or 7 American libraries enter an Ethiopian name under the second vowel variants of 33 consonants. LC provides 231 different (father’s) name.) We could also list variant titles (in the 740?), using syllables (264, if 6th order variants are included) to represent these one or more of the other romanization schemes. symbols. Most other systems provide only 188, with “ha” being used for 6 or 7 distinct Amharic characters. In contrast to others, LC Two new books should also be noted: uses diacritics to distinguish between the different h, s and alif-ayn • LC Romanization Tables and Cataloging Policies, compiled by characters which are no longer pronounced differently. The com­ Sally C. Tseng (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1990). mon use of gemination, or doubled-consonants to indicate length­ • ALA-LC Romanization Tab les: Transliteration Schemes for Non- ening, probably would not affect future reversibility. But it does Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the affect the spelling (and current machine retrievability) of about half American Library Association; tables compiled and edited by the words. Randall K. Barry (Washington: Library of Congress, 1991). AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 9 OCTOBER 1992 The Tseng volume simply reproduces for each language the reels were only completed by the addition of issues at the end of the relevant pages from the LC Cataloging Service bulletins. The reel. The worst year was 1972. Details on missing dates follow Barry/LC volume has a revised table that corrects errors and resets (with partial issues counted as missing issues): some of the characters. Unfortunately, the graphics still lack the 1970: Lacks 55 of 195 issues (28%): clarity of standard textbooks and the accompanying instructions do Start-1 juillet, 12 oct. & 8-27 nov. not contain the necessary detail. 1971: Lacks 34 of 312 (11%): Responses, clarifications and suggestions are welcome. 29 avril, 28 mai, 11 juin, 1-8 juillet, 20 juillet, 22 juillet, 24/25-28 juillet, 9-11 août, 17-28/29 août, 28-31 dec/1-2 jan. GAPS IN NEWSPAPER HOLDINGS ON MICROFILM 1972: Lacks 91 of 303 (30%): Is Anybody Interested? 3-4 mai, 17 mai, 19 mai, 23 mai, 26 mai, 9 juin, Notes by the Editor 18-31 juillet, 1-10 sept., 12 sept.-27 nov., 21 dec, 28 dec. 1973: Lacks 5 of 298 (2%) In the drive to expand holdings of newspapers on microfilm, the 31 jan, 6 fev., 4 avril, 11 avril, 26/27 mai. issue of missing issues is frequently not addressed or judged 1974: Complete hopeless. What is the standard for complete? A review of CAM P’s 1975: Lacks 4 of 300(1%) holdings of Le Soleil (Dakar) illustrates the problem. 2 mai, 6 juin, 10 juin, 19 dec. 1976: Lacks 3 of 301 (1%) Le Soleil 1970-1977 is available at CAMP on 29 reels. A total of 193 23 avril, 10/11 juillet, 5 nov. issues are missing from the 14 reels which have gaps. Another 4 1977: Lacks 1 of 301 (0%): 10 oct. NOTES ON MATERIALSAND VENDORS VENDO R ANNOUNCEM ENTS rian newspapers and other materi al s. The director is Olu Ademul egun. Their services are used by Boston University, which receivesDaZ/y Adam Matthew Publications(8 Oxford St., Marlborough, Wiltshire Times in monthly batches, for about $1100 per year. SN8 1AP, England) has drawn attention to 3 serials on microfilm: • African Review of Mining, Finance and Commerce, Safari Press announces Hunting in Tanzania and Hunting in 1892-1904. 23 reels. £1450. Zimbabwe, at $125 each, as the first volumes in its African Country • African Times and Orient Review, 1912-1914 & 1917-1918, Series of luxury editions featuring hunting stories selected by Tony & African Colonizer, 1840-1841. reels. £130. Sanchez. They also carry videos and other books. Address: 15621 Chemical Lane #B, Huntington Beach, CA 92649. Tel: (714)894- Africa Policy Information Center (110 Maryland Ave., NE, Suite 9080. Fax:-4949. 112, Washington, DC 20002; tel: 202-546-7961) offers Africa's Problems ... African Initiatives for $5. Senegal. Direction de la Statistique (B.P. 116, Dakar) has issued “Catalogue de vente des publications du Sénégal.” No. 1 lists 63 African and Caribbean Imprint Library Services has moved to titles. More are promised. 236 Main St., Falmouth, MA 02540. Their telephone number remains 508-540-5378; fax: 548-6801. World Wide Hunting Books sells collectible antiquarian big-game hunting books of better quality. Their June 1992 catalog lists 216 African Books Collective Ltd. (The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., annotated titles, including many about Africa. Along with Safari Oxford OX11HU, England) has issued a new free catalog: “Books Press, they are part of Woodbine Publishing Co. Their address is for Multicultural Education” or “Books from Africa: A Starter’s listed above under Safari Press. Pack.” This lists with illustrations and descriptive notes 121 new or recent titles of interest to public and school libraries, plus 64 The South-North Book Project of the Zimbabwe Book Marketing African-published children’s books and folktales. Scheme at Grassroots Books (Harare) is a new “positive action Their fourth batch of cards was distributed in September. The 56 campaign from Africa to get African books into school libraries in titles are mostly 1991 imprints from the following publishers: the countries of the North.” Their campaign to improve the North’s Academy Science Publ., Baobab Books, CODESRIA, Dar es Sa­ understanding of Africa and support publishing in Africa is “di­ laam Univ. Press, East African Ed. Publishers (formerly Heinemann rected at librarians and professors who are interested and involved Kenya), Editions de l’Océan Indien, Fourth Dim. Publ. Co., in African Studies.” Heinemann Ed. Books (Nigeria), New Namibia Books, Nigerian The project coordinators are looking for individuals who would Inst. Int. Affairs, Saros Int. Publ., Skotaville Publ., Southern register with the Scheme as a South-North Book Project Agent. African Printing & Publ. House, Southern African Res. & Doc. These agents would: Centre, Spectrum Books, Univ. Lagos Press, and Univ. PortHarcourt • receive catalogs of Project books Press. • survey schools as to needs • raise funds to purchase and ship the books to the African Publications Resource (15 Court Square, Suite 460, schools concerned Boston, MA 02108; 617-720-0222) is a new firm supplying Nige­ • raise issues and problems faced by Africa and by young AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 10 OCTOBER 1992 people’s lack of knowledge of Africa. • “The Right to one’s Own Publishing Firm: Publishing Interested individuals should contact Todd Nyoni or Ruth Levine, in Africa,” J.K. Van de Werk Zimbabwe Book Marketi ng Scheme, The South-North BookProj ect, • “Co-operation and Conflict in SADCC Publishing,” P.O. Box A 267, Avondale, Harare. Fax: 263-14-703435. P. Brickhill. SERIAL CHANGES BO O K AW ARDS History in the Making has been replaced with SAHA Annual 1992 Noma Award winners: Acquisitions Catalogue, produced by the South African History • Souad Khodja (Algeria) for her scholarly study A comme Archive. 1991 is available for R45/$30. Address: P.O. Box 31719, Algériennes (Alger: Enterprise Nationale du Livre, 1991). Braamfontein 2017. • Charles Mungoshi (Zimbabwe) for his children’s book One Day, Long Ago: More Stories from a Shona Childhood, South African Patriot-in-Exile, nos. 30 and 31, is a new serial that illustrated by Luke Toronga (Harare: Baobab Books, 1991). continues/replaces the original South African Patriot and Patriotic Honorable Mentions: Press’s South African Newsletter, which produced only 8 issues • Jeremy Baskin, Striking Back: A History ofCOSATU(Ravan); before leaving South Africa. For more information, contact Alan D. • Peter Horn, Poems, 1964-1989 (Ravan); Harvey, Editor, BCM Sapat, London WC1N 3XX. • Pamela Reynolds & Colleen Crawford Cousins, Lwaano Lwanyika: Tonga Book o f the Earth (Baobab); • Etienne van Heerden, Casspirs en Campari*s (Tafelberg). NEW SERIALS ZIM BABW E INTERNATIO NAL BO O K FAIR CONPO Review, A Journal of Interdisciplinary Analysis of Nige­ rian Issues. V. 1 (Sept. 1992). Available from Dr. Kunirum Osia, The Seventh Zimbabwe International Book Fair at the National Editor CONPO (Council of Nigerian People and Organizations), Gallery in Harare (August 2-7, 1992) honored Hans Zell for his P.O. Box 183, Camp Springs, MD 20757. immense contribution to African publishing. The other trustees are Nathan Shamuyarira, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and David Martin Current or Current State of Affairs. “A Monthly International of Zimbabwe Publishing House and the founder and driving spirit Features Magazine” published by Aha Publishing House Limited, of the Fair. 42/14B Massalachin Juma’a St., POB 3448, Jos, Plateau State. A total of 136 exhibitors from 29 countries participated in the ISSN 0795-9052. Vol. 1, no. 2 = June 1992. Also available from Book Fair. The African publishing industry was represented by POB 3, Claymont, DE 19703. Tel: (215)874-6553. exhibitors from 18 countries. A total of 31,000 people visited the Fair. Development Today. Nordic outlook on development assistance, The next Fair will be held 2-8 August 1993, with the theme of business & environment. An independent newsletter. ISSN 0803- Reading is Development. The All-Africa Poetry Festival will run 6209. Vol. 2, no. 16 (Sept. 24, 1992) contains 12 pages of news concurrently. Further information is available from ZIBF, 12 about Scandinavian involvements with development in Southern Selous Ave., Harare; or The Herald, Aug. 4. Africa and elsewhere. Cost for 24 issues per year: $450 or £245. Contact: Development Today, PO Box 8300, Hammersborg, N- 0129 Oslo, Norway. LITERATURE ON TH E BO O K TRADE Monthly Regional Bulletin has been announced by SouthScan Ltd., Actes de la Table ronde sur lepartenariat dans l *éditionfrancophone, which also publishes the weekly SouthScan. Rates are $110/£65/ Abidjan (Côte dTvoire), 3-5Décembre 1990, sponsored by Agence R300, with concessionary rates for subscribers to the weekly and for de Coopération Culturelle et Technique (ACCT), Ministère de educational institutions in Southern Africa. Pilot issue: 16 pages. l’éducation nationale de Côte d’ivoire, Association internationale Address: PO Box 724, London N16 5RZ. des Editeurs africains francophones (AIEAF) & Union des Editeurs de Langues françaises (UELF). Contents include the final report, The People, vol. 1, no. 2 (14 Sept. 1991) is a new publication in working documents, and contributions by Mamadou Seek, Guy English and French Creole and ?French. It is produced by the Frenette, R. Vezina and William Moutchia on publishing in Africa Information Services of the Seychelles People’s Progressive Front, and elsewhere. B.O. Box 91, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles. African Book Publishing Record, vol. 18, no. 1 (1992), includes a A Semana na Africa: Clipping sobre PALOP e Africa Austral is a note about the African Publishing Network (APNET), which was set weekly reproduction of Portuguese-1 anguage newspaper articles on up after a meeting in Harare (February 1992). For more informa­ southern Africa and the PALOPs(?), produced by the Programa de tion: APNET, c/o Zimbabwe Books Publishers Association, 12 Estudos Africanos, Centro deEstudos Afro-Asiáticos. The 12-page Selous Ave., Harare. issue for 9-15 August 1992 was no. 50. It is free for African students in Brazil; $250 for overseas addresses. Address: CEAA, Conjunto Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch (Stuttgart), 41,3 (1991): Universitário Candido Mendes, Rúa da Assembléia, 10, Sala 501, • “Africa: the Neglected Continent,” H. Zell CEP 20011, Rio de Janeiro. • “A Decade of Publishing in Kenya, 1977-1987,” H. Chakavia • “Scholarly Publishing on Africa: The case of Africa and Nigeria,” S. Bodunde Bankole AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 11 OCTOBER 1992 Sierra Leone Review: A Journal o f Policy and C ulture. v .1 (Spri ng M feketo, Nomathemba. Why, C an't A Man. Uppsala: 1992). Quarterly available from the Sierra Leone Institute for Reprocentralen, Uppsala University, 1992. 39 poems by female Policy Studies, PO Box 65231, Washington, DC 20035. South African poet about apartheid and her exile. Available for $10 from author at: Kopenhamnsgatan 8, 752 34 Uppsala, Sweden. The South African Township Annual is being published in multiple 1992 editions. Price is $500 (£300) for the national edition (450p.) Pélissier, René. Don Quichotte en Afrique: Voyages à la fin de or $325 (£195) for the Transvaal or Natal, OFS & Cape provincial l'empire espagnol. Orgeval: Pélissier, 1992? 176p. 180FF from editions. Publishers are labor relations consultants and a market author at Montamets, 78630 Orgeval, France. His “latest and research company. Available from SA Township Annual, PO Box probably last” volume in the Ibero-Africana collection. 2292, Rivonia, 2128. Tesfagiorgis, Gebre Hiwet, ed. Emergent Eritrea: Challenges of St. Petersburg Journal o f African Studies (SPBJAS) is a new Economie Development: Proceedings of a Conference, Asmara, scholarly journal to be published twice a year, starting in 1992, by Eritrea, July 22-24,1991, [organized by] Provisional Government the St. Petersburg Association of Scientists and 1’Edition de l’espace of Eritrea and Eritreans for Peace & Democracy in North America. europeen en St. Petersbourg. It will cover social science and Washington, D.C.: Eritreans for Peace & Democracy, 1992. 282p. humanities research in Russia or other states of the former USSR. Available for $20 from EPD, P.O. Box 21364, Washington, DC The first issues will provide English translations of the most 20009-0864. important works written by Russian scholars during the last 30 years. Annual subscriptions: $19 (individuals) and $38 (institu­ CIRAD (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche tions); $11 and $19 in Tropical Africa and East Europe. Send orders Agronomique pour ^Développement, B.P. 5035,34032Montpellier, to Valentin Vydrin, Managing Editor, African Dept., Museum of France) has the following 1992 titles, at 150FF per volume, in its Anthropology and Ethnology, University Embankment, 3, St. Collection Documents systèmes agraires: Petersburg, 199 034 Russia. no. 16: La transition caféière (Côte est de Madagascar); no. 17: Le développement agricole au Sahel, tomes /-TV; Terroirs. Revue africaine de sciences sociales. No. 1 (Mai 1992). no. 18: Pour une prise en compte des stratégies des producteurs. New quarterly from GERDES publications, B.P. 10 105, Douala- Bessengue. Edited by F. Eboussi Boulaga, B.P. 8089, Yaounde. Indiana University’s African Studies Program has reprinted Arnold Rubin, Black Nanban: Africans in Japan During the Sixteenth Century (1974; $3) and Sembene Ousmane, Man is Culture (1975; ELECTRONIC FORM ATS $2.50). A new publication: Tj ip Walker, The Poverty of African Federalism: Lessonsfrom the Federal Republic of Cameroon 1961 - The Islamic Computing Centre (73, St. Thomas’ Road, London 1972. 1992 (Graduate Student Term Paper Award) $2. Available N4 2QJ) offers the Al-Qur’an Database, the Al-Hadith Database, from the Program, 221 Woodbum Hall, IndianaUniv., Bloomington, and the Islamic LawBase. IN 47405. Tel: 812-855-6825. Kenya National Archives (KNA) has following available: SELECTED NEW BOOKS 1. Guide to the Contents o f the KNA, pt. II (1985)........... $8.00 2. Guide to Private Archives or Records (1990).................4.00 This section is generally limited to titles outside the regular book trade, or 3. Guide to Records Retrieved from UK& USA (1990).......4.00 titles received by the editor. Many more titles and/or details on publisher 4. Guide to Records on Education in Kenya (1989)............. 2.00 addresses can be found in Joint Acquisitions List of Africana (Northwestern 5. Kenya Archives Microfilm Guide/Syracuse (1988).......... 4.00 University Library), The African Book Publishing Record (Hans Zell Publish­ 6. Guide to Private (local) Archives (1987)........................ 2.00 ers), American Book Publishing Record (Bowker), Accessions List: Eastern 7. Guide to Government Monographs, Reports ... (1984) .... 8.00 Africa (Library of Congress Office, Nairobi), or in one of the current national 8. Guide to Records on Agriculture in the KNA (1984).......2.00 bi bl iograph ies. Carter, Terence. The Northern Rhodesian Record [edited by David Bell]. 215p. Available for£12.50 +postage and packing from: D.A. SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS Bell, The White House, Durrington Hill, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 2PY. (Tel: (0903) 266669). “Africa: Crisis and Change,” edited by Mitchell Cohen and Martin Kilson, Dissent, Special issue (Summer 1992), pp. 291-416. Sev­ Frankel, S. Herbert. An Economist's Testimony: The Autobiogra­ enteen articles & 2 letter, $6 from Foundation for the Study of phy ofS. HerbertFrankel. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Post Graduate Independent Social Ideas, 521 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10017. Hebrew Studies, 1992. ca. 350p. Professor Frankel analyzed in the depth the consequences of racial prejudice while Head of the Department of Economics, University of the Witwatersrand. Price: £25 from Butonia (London) Ltd., 260-264 Kingsland Rd., London E8 4DG. Ginindza, T. T. Sibongo: Swazi Clan Names and Clan Praises. 1992. ISBN 0-628-15426-8. Swazi Heritage Series. Available from author at PO Box 1026, Mbabane, Swaziland. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 12 OCTOBER 1992 Non-Profit Org. 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