AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER No. 73,~dairaaiy 1993 ISSN 0148-7868 AfricanaL ibrariesN ew sletter (ALN) is published quarterly by the Michigan State University TABLE OF CONTENTS Libraries and the M SU African Studies Center. Those copying contents are asked to cite ALN as their source. ALN is produced to support the work o f the Africana Librarians Council (ALC) of the African Studies Association. It carries the meeting minutes of ALC, CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microform Project) and other relevant groups. It also reports other Editor’s Comments items of interest to Africana librarians and those concerned about information resources Acronyms about or in Africa. ALC/CAMP N EW S................................................. 2 Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana Library, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. Calendar of Future Meetings Tel.: 517-355-2366; E-mail: 20676jjl@msu.bitnet; Fax: 517-336-1445. Schedule for Spring Meeting in East Lansing Deadline for no. 74: April 1,1993; for no. 75: July 1, 1993. ALC Minutes from November Meeting in Seattle: Business Meeting Pre-Meeting Executive Board Meeting E D ITO R ’S COM M ENTS Cataloging Committee Bibliography Committee Contributors to this issue include Helene Baumann, Moore Crossey, David Post-Meeting Executive Board Meeting Easterbrook, Onuma Ezera, Greg Finnegan, Karen Fung, Beverly Gray, Bob ALC Executive Board, 1992/93 Lesh, Paulette Lordereau, Elizabeth Plantz, Nancy Schmidt, Mette Shayne, Conover-Porter Award to Carol Sicherman Janet Stanley, and Joanne Zellers. Pitts Theology Library (Emory University, Atlanta) contributed to the cost of postage. OTHER NEW S......................................................... 9 This issue loaded with news from the November ALC meeting in Seattle. News from other Associations Highlights of the meeting: Conover-Porter Award presentation, a memorial for Calendar Betsy Widenmann, closure on the bylaws, exchange of information, and good ALA/USIA Library Fellows Program food, coffee and scenery. Conf. of Librarians in Inti. Development CAMP minutes and a report on the roundtable on bibliographies will appear Free Materials Offered & Requested in the next issue. Personal impressions from the roundtable: Scheven demon­ Resources at Libraries and Research Centers strated no decline in number of bibliographies, but the less useful unannotated Grants Awarded: variety predominant; the audience was more interested in distribution than in Foreign Periodicals Program compilation or evaluation. African Archives and Museums Projects The Letters & Opinions section is missing from this issue. I hope to have Personnel Changes & Vacancies: something on specific bibliographies needed in the April issue. Blooser, Burton, Auckland, Hodges, Hopper Michigan State University ACRONYM S RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES & INFO. SCI.........11 Journals & Articles ABC - African Books Collective; or Africa Book Centre ALA - American Library Association (Chicago) REFERENCE SOURCES.......................................12 ALC - Africana Librarians Council (formerly Archives- New Reference Titles Libraries Committee) of ASA Work in Progress ASA - African Studies Association (U.S.) CAMP - Cooperative Africana Microform Project NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS.......12 CRL - Center for Research Libraries (Chicago) Vendor Announcements Book Awards IAI - International African Institute Events IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations Literature on the Book Trade LC - Library of Congress Electronic Newsletter MELA - Middle East Librarians Association New Serials MSU - Michigan State University Videos SCOLMA - Standing Conf. on Library Materials on Africa Selected New Books U. - University UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 2 JANUARY 1993 AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL / CAMP NEWS CALENDAR OF FUTURE M EETINGS Gretchen Walsh (Boston U.), Thomas Weissinger (Cornell U.), David Westley (Boston U.), & Julian Witherell (Port Townsend, April 30-May 1,1993, East Lansing, MI - Spring Meeting. WA). December 3-7,1993, Boston - ASA Annual Meeting. Spring 1994, Durham, NC - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. Introductions and announcements November (1st week) 1994, Toronto - ASA Annual Meeting. Van Gylswyk (Uppsala, Sweden) talked about the Simons Papers November (1st week) 1995, Orlando - ASA Annual Meeting. project. ^ _ ____ Dax (Clarke’s Bookshop, Cape Town) introduced herself. Finnegan handed out a new edition of his directory of Africana SCH EDULE FO R SPRING M EETING librarians and offered to make labels for those who wanted them. IN EA ST LANSING Mugasha (Librarian at Makerere in Uganda) talked about rebuild­ ing his collection. Meetings are scheduled for Friday, April 30, beginning at 9am, and Nzioki (Librarian at Egerton University in Kenya) also talked Saturday, May 1, ending around noon. Location will be the Ohio about library problems and prospects. State Room in the Union Building. The Union is at the Abbott Entrance off Grand River Ave., 1/4 mile north of the Library. Minutes from the spring meeting in Iowa City \ALN July 1992] were approved with the following change at the end of the section A block of rooms have been reserved (under Africana Library) at the on Future ALC Meetings: Spring 1993 meeting will be in East Park Inn International. Tel.: (517)351-5500. Prices are $34 for a Lansing on Friday and Saturday, April 30-May 1. After discussion single; $37 for a double; plus tax of 9 percent. Address: 1100 and a straw vote, it was agreed to begin Friday morning, around 9 Trowbridge Road, East Lansing, 48823. Exit off 496. This motel a.m. is 1.5 miles to the southwest of the MSU Library. There will be a shuttle to and from the Union. Scheduling of future fall meetings and conflicts with other meet­ Some alternative hotels (prices for single; add tax): ing activities were discussed. In a vote, eleven favored all meetings Holiday Inn (337-4440) - $87; 1/2 mi. north, near Union. on one day, while 16 wanted them spread over two. It was suggested East Lansing Inn (337-1621) - $37; 2 mi. east, on bus line. that the first half day take place the day before the beginning of the Red Roof Inn (332-2575) - $38.90; 4 mi south. conference. Travel: Airlines serving Lansing include Northwest and United. Conover-Porter award was to be presented on Saturday, Nov. 21 Amtrak (Chicago-Port Huron-Toronto run) stops in East Lansing, at 5:30pm. [See announcement on page 8.] across from Park Inn International. Election The Nominating Committee presented the list of candidates for the BUSINESS M EETING M INUTES Executive Committee. Elected were Kagan, chair-elect; Plantz, secretary; and Weissinger, member-at-large. Friday, November 20, 1992, 2:00-4:00pm. Westin Hotel, Seattle, Washington Future meetings will be held in East Lansing, spring 1993, Boston, fall 1993, Duke, spring 1994, Toronto, fall 1994, and Orlando, fall The meeting was called to order by Onuma Ezera, Chair. 1995. Possible fall sites after 1995 include Columbus, Ohio, Richmond, Virginia, Houston, Texas, Portland, Oregon, Chicago, Present were: Helene Baumann (Duke U.), Ruby Bell-Gam (U. the Twin Cities, and Philadelphia. of California, Los Angeles), Phyllis Bischof (U. of California, Berkeley), Dan Britz (Northwestern U.), Moore Crossey (Yale U.), Bylaws review Henrietta Dax (Clarke’s Bookshop, Cape Town), David Easterbrook Baumann distributed a two-page list of 6 issues, with a brief (Northwestern U.), Onuma Ezera (Michigan State U.), Gregory rationale for each proposed change. [These appeared in ALN Oct. Finnegan (Dartmouth Coll.), Karen Fung (Stanford U.), Beverly 1991, p.2, as items 2 ,4 ,5 ,6 ,8 and 9.] There was a brief discussion Gray (LC), Marieta Harper (LC), David Henige (U. of Wisconsin), on each issues. The following changes were approved: Ruth Hodges (Howard U.), John Bruce Howell (U. of Iowa), A1 Section II D: Select a member who will edit and publish a Kagan (U. of Illinois), Mary Alice Kraehe (U. of Virginia), Joseph newsletter to provide regular reports on the activities of the Council. Lauer (Michigan State U.), Robert W. Lesh (Northwestern U.), Section IV G: Ex-officio members shall be selected to represent Peter Malanchuk (U. of Florida), James Mugasha (Makerere U.), the Library of Congress, the Africana Libraries Newsletter, the Valerie Mwalilino (LC), Razia Nanji (U. of Florida), Dorothy Cooperative Africana Microform Project, the A.S.A. Publications Niekamp (Indiana U.), Mutuku Nizioki (Egerton U.), Corinne Committee Liaison and others as needed. Section VIC: Announce­ Nyquist (State U. of New York, New Paltz), Hans E. Panofsky ments of meetings, schedules, draft agenda and minutes shall be (Evanston, IL), Elizabeth Plantz (Northwestern U.), Fred Protopappas printed in theAfricana Libraries Newsletter, and should be submit­ (LC), David Rozkuszka (Stanford U.), Yvette Scheven (Champaign, ted to ASA News if appropriate. IL), Nancy Schmidt (Indiana U.), Mette Shayne (Northwestern U.), Section VID: Priority will be given to agenda items which have Charlotte Slocum (St. Lawrence U.), Andrea Stamm (Northwestern been submitted in writing in advance of the meeting, and for which U.), Paul Thomas (Stanford U.), Ruth Thomas (LC, Nairobi), documentation has been distributed, where relevant. Documenta­ Annica van Gylswyk (Scandinavian Institute of African Studies), AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 3 JANUARY 1993 tion must be provided if the issue in question calls for a vote. list is behind, with no. 4 (1992) at the printer. Section XI (or add to Section VIII): A review of these Bylaws Preservation is also of great concern to the Nairobi office. They shall take place every five years, or earlier if needed. hope to expand microfilming and fiching for preservation purposes Examples would be Kenya traditional music. They are trying to The issue of a change in Voting (Section IX A & B) was deferred. obtain any material available on Somalia from the NGOs(Actionaid, Unicef, and Oxfam among others). The material will be fiched in The revised bylaws will be available at the spring meeting. the New Delhi office. Some papers are coming out of Mogadishu; LC has received 1500 issues. ARL Foreign Acquisitions Task Force This is the second year of the participant program, with 29 Easterbrook talked about the survey of area studies collections --participating libraries. Serials offered include 20 newspapers (12 undertaken by ARL (Association of Research Libraries). Baumann, from Kenya, 5 from Tanzania, 1 from Uganda and 2 from Zambia) Bischof, Mwalilino, Walsh, and Easterbrook are on the task force to and 45 Kenyan serials, with Economic Review and Weekend Mail collect information on the status of Africana collections in the U.S. being added while Psychology Digest and African Journal of They have been asked to focus on West Africa, specifically Nigeria Neurological Science were dropped. Since last January the office and Senegal. Concurrently SALAAM is concentrating on Mexico, has also offered monographs, and 184 titles were sent in 11 the East Asian Studies group on Japan, the European group on shipments (Jan-Nov. 17). Ruth Thomas would like feedback about Germany, and the Slavic group on Russia. During the summer, the the material, and she has a handout about the participant program. ARL collection management officers sent a survey to vendors, with They are discussing how to expand the program, and a profile for only two vendors for Africa being listed. The committee added Zimbabwe serials and non-commercial monographs was distrib­ three Africana vendors to the list and will report on the vendors’ uted. Estimated costs were $151 (10 serials) and $350 plus survey at the spring meeting. Easterbrook attended a meeting of area administrative charge of 50% for the monographs. Partial partici­ studies specialists, collection management officers, and academics pation was welcome, and they would like feedback on the profile. at the University of Chicago, and Walsh one at Harvard University The Nairobi office now has a staff of 14 permanent employees and to discuss issues of continued support for scholars and collections 5 on contract. in area studies. This initiative will lead to a grant proposal in the hope of obtaining more funds for area studies and collections. The Fred Protopappas, Overseas Operations Division: LC has suggested initiative was partly taken because of perceived drop in acquisitions some change in the way the funds are being recorded from the from Europe, due in part to a weak currency. participants program. It will be necessary for LC to cut off participants who do not pay up. Fred urged members to check with Africana oral tradition archives (Gray) their institutions to make sure payment had been made. Easterbrook prepared a list of those who had attended ALC meetings from 1958-1979. The committee, which consists of Bischof, Mwalilino reported that she and Harper have worked on getting new Easterbrook, Finnegan, Gray, Malanchuk, and Scheven is preparing contract representatives from West Africa. Mwalilino travelled to a questionnaire for use in future interviews. The questionnaire will Senegal and Cote d ’Ivoire and Harper to Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, and be ready for discussion by the spring meeting. Togo to identify new representatives in each country who will supply current materials, with particular emphasis on serials (espe­ Book donations cially newspapers), government documents, and other hard-to-get Walsh reminded members that ASA published a list last year of materials. These representatives will be used to supplement exist­ places to send book donations. ASA also supplies this directory on ing blanket order coverage for both general and legal materials. LC request. A second proposal is before the board to use money from expects to sign up new representatives in each country, interviews the endowment funds to establish a $3000 fund to assist organiza­ were conducted with several candidates in each country and formal tions to ship books or solve other small problems which occur. offers will be sent shortly. A new bibliographic representative in Projects would be selected depending on the degree of relationship Monrovia has been under contract to LC since July 1992. She has between donor and recipients. A larger linkage situation is also been able to supply regular runs of approximately one dozen envisioned. High quality material is a given, and funding would newspapers and some monographs. only be supplied to donors with detailed plans for their donations. West African acquisitions plans for FY93: The ASA Board wanted Walsh to discuss the proposal further with • Four travel proposals will be considered to conduct on-site ALC, and she hopes to get the board’s approval during the confer­ acquisitions surveys of general and legal publishing activities ence. The thought is that the grants would be given once a year and in the region. they would be reviewed every three years. No calendar has been set • Production of a West African accessions list. for the disbursement of such grants. ASA would want a committee • Hire temporary support staff to help process West African to screen the applicants as they present themselves. materials. A group called Bridge to Asia has sent large number of books to Microfilming: In FY92 several West African newspapers were sent Asia and is looking for projects in Africa. This group wants an to the Photoduplication lab for microfilming of current holdings. A institutional relationship before it will send books. final report on specific titles and years filmed will be prepared by Frank Carroll, Head, Newspaper Section, upon completion of Library of Congress reports filming. Ruth Thomas reported that the Nairobi Office has made acquisitions West African Field Office: Full funding initiative will be proposed trips to 18 out of their 21 countries. They are working on getting for the FY95 budget (Oct.l, 1994-Sept.30,1995). contract representatives in the different countries. They now have 14, including individuals in Asmara, Windhoek and Kinshasa. Gray reported that the publ ication Newspapers received currently in Acquisitions are up 20 percent through this month. The acquisitions the Library of Congress has been delayed till 1993. Bits and pieces AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 4 JANUARY 1993 of newspapers from the collection will be filmed, titles will be Finnegan wanted to discuss Internet and whether his list should be catalogued, list will be made available after filming. It is too late used as a Listserv. It was decided that the ALC does not want this to add any other libraries’ holdings. to be an open file but for internal communications. Other reports Lesh suggested that chairs of committees should change every two Lesh reported on the Catalog Committee’s meeting. Baumann years to give more people a chance to serve. He plans to step down reported on the Bibliography Committee meeting. She also men­ at the spring meeting. tioned her acquisitions trip to Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Howell announced there would be election during the CAMP —meeting for^in-additional member of the CAMP Executive. Bell-Gam is preparing a list of duplicate journal issues. It was suggested that committee reports be moved to the end of the Finnegan mentioned the possibility of converting his e-mail list of agenda in case time would run out. It was stressed that Library of the group to a public Listserv, but it was decided to keep it an internal Congress reports are important and should not be skipped. list. A handout for publicizing the work of the ALC was suggested. CATALOGING COM M ITTEE M INUTES November 20,1992,10-ll:20am The representative from the Zimbabwe International Book Fair invited the participants to view a video on the 1992 fair immediately The meeting was called to order by Lesh, Chair. following the meeting and to attend the 1993 fair. 1. Minutes of the spring meeting (Iowa City, LA) [seeALV, July Peter Kjeseth from Wartburg Theological Seminary talked about a 1992, p.4] were approved with one correction. Section 3, sentence collection of Namibiana at the seminary which they would like to 2 changed to: “CC:AAM voted to support it. SAC felt that the have evaluated, possibly filmed and then disposed of. The Seminary proposal was beyond the scope of their activities and decided to take is seeking help to deal with it. no action.” Meeting was adjourned. 2. African Language Summary Note Proposal (MARC field 520) —Mette Shayne (Secretary) The proposal, approved at the spring meeting, was sent to Sarah Thomas, Director of Cataloging, LC, and Karl Kahler, Chair, Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials, American PRE-M EETING EXECUTIVE BOARD M EETING Library Association (CC: AAM). There has been no response at this November 20, 1992, 9-10am time from LC. Bell-Gam reported that the proposal was discussed at the last ALA meeting and was favorably received. It is hoped that The meeting was called to order by Onuma Ezera, Chair. The Chair some specific action will be taken at ALA midwinter. thanked the Committee for its help during the year. 3. Language Codes in LC Subject Headings Authority Records The issue of conflicts between ALC meetings and other fall meeting Letters in support for the inclusion of language codes in the Library activities was discussed. Proposed solutions included holding of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) authority records for lan­ committee meetings only at the spring meetings and holding all guages have been sent to Sarah Thomas (LC) and Karl Kahler meetings in one very long day. It was decided that it is not possible (CC: AAM). At this time, no responses to this proposal have been to have cataloging and bibliography meetings at the same time as received. several members must attend both. Members were split on the possibility of very early meetings, and it was decided that the 4. Expansion of DT Classification Schedule Based on previous question would be put to the membership at large and determined by indications that LC might be interested in expansion of the LC a straw vote. Classification DT Schedule for the history of Africa, a letter was sent to Sarah Thomas (LC), expressing our interest in participating Finnegan reported on his arrangements for the memorial to be held in any such project. A reply from Ms. Thomas indicated that no such for Elizabeth Widenmann. Joe Caruso, a graduate student is acting expansion was anticipated at this time. Another letter was sent to African Studies librarian at Columbia University. Vicky Evalds Mark Ziomeck of the Cataloging Policy Support Office at LC, prepared a biographical handout. expressi ng our interest in any future expansi on. The Commi ttee has decided to continue to investigate various avenues to promote an Malanchuk asked that time be set aside at the spring meeting to expansion of the schedules. change the timetable for the Conover-Porter award, as the present one does not work properly. 5. African Languages Survey At the spring meeting, it was decided to survey how various libraries organize and access their African A question was asked whether ALC should have representation at language materials. Bob presented a draft of the proposed survey for the Black Caucus Conference of the American Library Association. discussion. A number of suggestions were noted and will be It would be brought up at the business meeting to see if any members incorporated. An interest was expressed in having separate infor­ had participated in the previous conference and felt this was mation about tapes, particularly field recordings and other original important. research materials. The importance was noted of sharing the results with Easterbrook for the ARL foreign collections project he is working on. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 5 JANUARY 1993 6. Enhancement of LCSH Language Authority Records At the BIBLIOGRAPHY COMMITTEE MINUTES spring meeting, Kay Elsasser requested help on expanding the November 20, 1992, ll:30am -lpm reference structure for language authority records. As she was not available at this meeting to explain in detail what needed to be done, The meeting was chaired by Helene Baumann, acting for Janet Bob presented an outline, based on information she provided. Stanley, who was unable to attend at this hour and began at 11:40am. Complete directions for those interested will be given as they are provided by Kay. 1. Conover-Porter Award. Malanchuk noted the presentation scheduled for Nov. 21st. At the 7. Term/Appointment of Cataloging Committee Chair Bob re­ Spring meeting we will discuss changes in the Guidelines for the minded everyone that his~term as <3hair ends after the spring '•selection of the award winner. One idea is to publish the short list meeting. Anyone interested in being appointed as the new Chair of in the conference program, as is now done for the Herskovits Award. the Committee should feel free to contact him or Nancy Schmidt. 2. IAI-CODESRIA Cooperative Indexing Project. 8. ALA CC: AAM Report Ball-Gam reported that LC is developing Schmidt attended the SCOLMA meeting in the UK in June, at which an electronic template for subject proposals that will be available on little progress was reported. There is no IAI chair for the proposed the Internet. CC: AAM voted to support the IFLA manual on names. conference, and CODESRIA has not yet been contacted. Without They are working on preparing a letter to be sent to RLG and OCLC any internal promotion, IAI is not moving ahead on this. In to encourage them to continue to share CJK records. They are also discussion, Panofsky, as a member of the IAI Council, noted that the sending a letter of appreciation to Ben Tucker (LC) in appreciation combination of a new IAI Director and the resignation of Carol for his work on the romanization tables. It was decided that our Priestley further pushed this project into the background; it was not committee would do the same. even mentioned at the last Council meeting. The proposed confer­ ence would have carried on from the First International Conference 9. Library of Congress Report Gray reported that as of August 1992 on African Bibliography in Nairobi in 1967. Hans Zell noted the the Middle East and North African team had taken over review of necessity of including government documents in any index. Shayne the cataloging from the Nairobi office. They are very pleased with stressed the value of co-operative indexing. Schmidt noted that at the progress shown by the office and are looking for independent SCOLMA discussion of the continuing overlap between the IN­ descriptive cataloging in the near future. They hope to begin TERNATIONAL AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY and the AFRICAN working on serials in the Nairobi office by the end of this year. BIBLIOGRAPHY came down to political questions. There was no Beverly reported that Nairobi and other field offices will begin groundswell for further effort regarding this initiative. uploading in US MARC format sometime in 1993, instead of having the information rekeyed in Washington. LCDS will be producing 3. Newspaper Cooperative Project. a CD-ROM product containing field office records that will be Schmidt asked if all listed libraries still participate. This project was issued quarterly. continued when the Small-Country Project was dropped at an earlier meeting. In theory, the project commitments mean that at least two 10. Dewey Decimal Classification Proposals Stamm presented two libraries will receive each title, to ensure completeness when LC or Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) proposals for consideration CAMP films a run. Britz noted that Northwestern has dropped titles and review by committee members. One is for language classifica­ which are supplied through the LC-Nairobi subscription plan. tion and the other is on Islam. The DDC Editorial Committee will Hoover has dropped two titles. Britz mentioned the problem of the discuss these proposals a year from now. It was decided that many new newspapers. Shayne’s list of currently received newspa­ Northwestern as a major DDC collection would prepare a response pers was mentioned as a potential monitoring tool. Gray noted that to be discussed at our next meeting. If anyone has any comments, LC cannot add new titles without strong scrutiny and is sometimes they should be forwarded to Lesh at Northwestern. required to drop titles to allow new ones to be added. The consensus was to this discussion in the CAMP meeting. 11. Announcements Lesh and Stamm announced the submission of the Africana Conference Paper Indexing Project Title II-C grant 4. Bibliographic Projects at LC (Gray for Joanne Zellers). proposal to the Dept, of Education. The grant proposal covers MARC Books was searched to identify some 170,000 Minimal papers from 1982-1990. Northwestern has initiated the indexing of Level Cataloging records of which 9100 refer to Africa. These have Africana conference papers for currently received African confer­ been copied on to GENBIB and may later be added to MUMS with ence papers (from 1991). The online index includes 100 conference subject headings. proceedings and will be available by keyword searching to dial-up UNITED STATES IMPRINTS ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, patrons. Vols. 6 & 7, should be issued in December. It will have contents The Committee’s African Language Codes Project was for­ notes for conference papers and other collected works. Vol. 8 warded to the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), returns to an annual schedule. On a trial basis, collected works with where expansion of the list of language codes is now under consid­ a GAC o fd ......... and essays on Africa are included. The guide may eration. be expanded to include non-U.S. imprints. On a staff-use-only basis, a pri ntout of al 1LCSH used on Africana Attendees: Bell-Gam, Fung, Lauer, Niekamp, Stamm, Paul Tho­ books records published after 1979 was prepared. Trial country list mas, Kraehe, Crossey, Malanchuk, Bischof, Howell, Fred notebooks for Ethiopia, Senegal and Somalia, consisting of MARC Protopappas, Shayne, Ruth Thomas, Schmidt, Hodges, Gray, Nanji, Book records (since 1980) and MARC Serials, are being tried as Plantz, & Lesh. partial replacements for the African Section card catalog. The acquisition of LCMARC on CD-ROM is being investigated. A list of LC-held CD-ROMs is available upon request. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 6 JANUARY 1993 Several CD-ROM databases were used to update the bibliography Zell reported that the 4th edition of AFRICAN BOOKS IN PRINT on Japanese relations with Africa. is delayed, but due out in January of 1993. It is eight years since the Zellers served on the Working Group on Database Guidelines for last edition. It was cumulated from AFRICAN BOOK PUBLISH­ the Cataloging Council, which prepared the 18-page “Consider­ ING RECORD through 1991, and it was up to date when copy was ations in Automating Bibliographies, Inventories, and Public Ac­ submitted. Some 200 non-responding publishers were cut. There cess Catalogs” (Washington, DC: Cataloging Forum, LC, 1992). are about 25,000 titles included, from some 700 publishers. Shayne asked about dial-in access to the GENBIB database; this is possible through state libraries. Malanchuk and Nanji have taken on the Africa section of the next edition of Katz and Katz’ MAGAZINES FOR LIBRARIES. Titles 5. Bischof and Kagan are editing-the African Section-ef the new new-sinceT989 should be reported to them. There is a 20-30 page edition of Sheehy’s GUIDE TO REFERENCE BOOKS. Having allocation, but no numerical limit on titles. area specialists involved is due to the advocacy by Betsy Widenmann. There will be cuts as well as additions, resulting in about250 entries. Finnegan reported that the ACRL Asian and African Section is Bischof will edit the Southern and Eastern sections; Kagan, North compiling a list of book awards from or about those areas, with the and West; and both will cover Central and General. Please contact goal of increasing the listing of such awards in standard references them with suggestions. like the Bowker Annual and Gale’s awards directory. Hans Zell offered to assist. 6. UNHCR Database. Weissinger reported on the “Progress Note on Access to Informa­ 9. Bibliographies Needed: tion and Documentation in UNHCR,” dated January 1992 (distrib­ Schmidt distributed a list of useful bibliographies that could be uted at the meeting) David Lewis at Cornell had visited UNHCR and updated. This was discussed at the SCOLMA meeting she attended was excited by the possibility of electronic access to the database as well as at our Spring 1992 meeting in Iowa City. The IAI would and hoped to offer training sessions. Tom had queried those ALC like to update the Ethnographic Survey of Africa and add urban members with e-mail access and found that most wanted more studies, but the Ford Foundation has declined to support this project. information about the resource. Janet Stanley as Chair had autho­ In response to a question about HRAF (Human Relations Area File), rized contacting UNHCR. There is no commitment yet to open Schmidt stressed the need for full-text. Panofsky noted that a access to the database, especially since UNHCR field offices do not merger of the INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY yet have access. Internet access is still a possibility. Other area and AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY is desirable, but unlikely given studies groups may become involved. UNHCR wants letters of their bases in IAI and SOAS. Also, funding is less precarious than support from us. David Rozkuszka asked about access to other UN had been thought. databases, especially those at the ECA and UN Centre for Human The review essays commissioned by the Joint ACLS-SSRC Settlements (HABITAT) in Nairobi. Kagan mentioned a possible Africa Committee and published in the AFRICAN STUDIES RE­ pan-UN database, with status unknown. He also raised the question VIEW were mentioned as partial updates of Lystad’s AFRICAN of CD-ROM publication of UN data. As a question of policy at WORLD and deserving of publication as separates. UNHCR, better access to the data from First-World countries is not Walsh, as member of the ASA Board, reported that publications a high priority. Accordingly, the committee’s letter should stress are being sought to expand their list. She reports a bit of a conflict CD-ROM as a more equitable means of distribution and access, between the original intent of the ASA to publish materials with a possibly gratis to African libraries. more limited market versus the current need to generate income. Potential authors are urged to submit market projections along with 7. Northwestern University’s Conference Paper proposal. letters of recommendation. Stamm and Lesh reported on Northwestern’s preparation of a The STUDENT AFRICANIST’S HANDBOOK was discussed. proposal for funding to extend the Conference Paper Index for the Lauer commended the bibliography in Martin and O ’Meara’s text years 1981 through 1990. (1991 and after are being routinely as a good alternative. While opinions varied on the HANDBOOK, indexed, as current practice.) There will be access via LUIS. Shayne it was agreed that we would share course handouts at our Spring reported about 100 conferences indexed. Prior years will be added, Meeting in East Lansing. Finnegan and Bischof will coordinate this. with keyword access. In the long run, cooperative input for non- UpdatingScheven’sBIBLIOGRAPHIESFOR AFRICAN STUD­ Northwestern held conference proceedings (including LC’s) will be IES 1970-1986 was recommended, but there were no volunteers. sought. Elizabeth Fry at Emory has an African government and Hans Zell would like to continue the work. The cumulative ABPR politics project underway, with consultation between Northwestern lists are not as substantive as Scheven’s work. and Emory to avoid overlap in indexing. Hans Zell raised a query from IAI concerning the market for a cumulative (through 1992) index of its quarterly AFRICA. 8. Other Announcements: Bell-Gam reported that UCLA’s African Bibliography Project Kraehe asked about the low number of subscriptions to the ETUDES will publish in Spring 1993 a bibliography of 1981-1990 works in GERMANO-AFRICAINES. (US subscripti ons are available through political science and political economy, for all Africa except Egypt. U. of Virginia.) Several institutions reported subscribing directly from Dakar. The meeting adjourned at 1pm. Panofsky reported on a conference in Bologna on South Africa. He —Gregory A. Finnegan also mentioned the Italian-African Institute in Rome and urged that they be invited to future meetings. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 7 JANUARY 1993 PO ST-M EETING the liaison with the ASA Publications Committee and will find out EXECUTIVE BOARD M EETING M INUTES if one has to commit to attend the Committee’s spring meeting. She November 20, 1992, 4:00pm-5:00pm will also ask Baumann to chair the Bibliography Committee for two years starting with the spring meeting. Schmidt, Chair, called the meeting to order, with Shayne as secre­ tary. To follow up on the earlier meetings, Weissinger agreed to work together with Baumann, Chair of the Bibliography Committee, on ALC EXECUTIVE BOARD, 1992/93 a draft of a letter to send to Access in Geneva to find out more about access to the different UN datafiles and to urge the UN to make the Chairperson files available to the Africanist research community. Nancy Schmidt, Indiana U. (812)855-1481 Schmidt asked Lesh about his term as Chair of the Cataloging Deputy ChairfChair elect Committee. It was decided that Nancy in consultation with the Al Kagan, U. of Illinois (217)333-6519 Executive Committee would appoint a new chair of the Committee at the spring meeting. Past Chair Onuma Ezera, Michigan State U. (517)355-2366 Plans for the spring meeting at Michigan State University: All meetings will be held in the Union, but participants will stay at Secretary (1992-94) a nearby motel. It was suggested that participants should bring Elizabeth Plantz, Northwestern U. (708)491-7585 handouts prepared for public distribution, and that a special session Members-at-large where members could discuss bibliographic instruction should be (1990-93) scheduled. The meeting will start Friday morning at nine and Sharon M. Howard, Schomburg Center (212)491-2233 continue through noon Saturday. The ASA board meeting will be in East Lansing the same weekend. Information about motel (1991-93) address and prices, and travel arrangements will be printed in the Ruby Bell-Gam, UCLA (310)825-1518 next issue oiALN. A question was asked by the secretary whether we should continue to send out notices to newsletters and library (1992-94) journals about our meetings, and it was decided it was good Thomas Weissinger, Cornell U. (607)255-5229 publicity and should be continued. Weissinger offered to send an e- mail message to the editor of the Black Caucus Newsletter. Baumann indicated that Duke has offered to host the 1994 spring meeting and Ex-Officio Members she will bring dates to the East Lansing meeting. Bibliography Committee Chairperson (1993-95) Helene Baumann, Duke U. (919)684-3160 The issue of the timetable for the Conover-Porter award will be brought up at the spring business meeting. Several other related Cataloging Committee Chairperson (1991-93) ideas should be considered at the meeting: Bischof has suggested Robert W. Lesh, Northwestern (708)491-7585 a long term strategic plan; the question of how to provide training opportunities for Africana librarians; and a 40th anniversary “bash” ALN Editor for the ALC in 1997, a conspicuous celebration focusing on Africana Joseph J. Lauer, Michigan State U. (517)355-2366 librarianship. Schmidt attended SCOLMA’s 25th anniversary ASA Publications Committee, Liaison (1993-95) celebration and felt this type of publicity is important. 1993 will be Phyllis Bischof, U. of California, Berkeley (510)642-0956 the 30th anniversary of CAMP. CAMP chair could write up the history of CAMP for ASA News. Library o f Congress Representative Beverly Gray (202)707-5528/29 Kagan will be the program chair for the fall meeting 1993. Maybe the program could focus on CAMP and the researchers who have CAMP Chairperson used CAMP, talking about the resources available. We could ask John Bruce Howell, U. of Iowa (319)335-5885 CRL for help in this promotion. Kagan was afraid such a panel would not be met with much enthusiasm from researchers. We need a hook to make such a program exciting. Looking at research in general with CAMP as part of it is one possibility. Lauer asked if it had to be the Chair-elect who arranges such panels. The answer NOMINATIONS/VOLUNTEERS is anybody can arrange a panel or the Chair can elect a co-chair. Kagan will arrange next year’s panel and will soon have to make At the Spring meeting of ALC, the term of Bob Lesh as Chair of the room arrangements for next year’s meeting. Cataloging Committee expires. Please send the names of nomina­ tions for Chair or persons willing to serve as chair to Nancy Schmidt, Stanley hassentallfilesoftheBibliography Committee to Baumann, Chair of ALC, Mai n Library E660, Indi ana Uni versi ty, B1oomi ngton, who chaired the committee meeting in Seattle. The Chair has to IN 47405. appoint a new chair of this committee. Also the Publications Committee iaison has to be named. Schmidt will ask Bischof to be AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 8 JANUARY 1993 CONOVER-PORTER AW ARD HONORABLE MENTION BOOKS TO CAROL SICHERM AN Janet L. Stanley, The Arts of Africa: An Annotated Bibliography. Carol Sicherman, author of two reference on Ngugi, is the winner of Volume 1: 1986 and 1987. Atlanta: African Studies Association, the seventh Conover-Porter Award. The African Studies Associa­ 1990. tion established this prestigious award in 1980 to honor outstanding This selective bibliography has 977 items. It emphasizes the achievement and excellence in Africana bibliography and reference visual arts and architecture but includes topics such as iron- works. The Association awarded the $300 prize at a special session working, archaeological pottery, economics of textile production, on November 21st, with ALC chair Onuma Ezera presenting the and the influence of African art on European art. The principal prize. Three other reference resources were noted for honorable criterion for . *__ mention. In her acceptance speech, Professor Sicherman thanked the inclusion of resources are their “substance and significance and the many individuals who helped her and commented upon the originality and uniqueness,” including information not easily found dangers facing dissident writers and their friends. elsewhere. Popular, non-scholarly publications are reviewed along The Award is a project of ALC and is named for two pioneers in with exhibition and auction catalogs. The items are arranged by the field, Helen F. Conover and Dorothy B. Porter, who compiled country or under General Studies, with 21 subdivisions. There are numerous bibliographies on African topics at the Library of Con­ cross-references, recommendations for purchase, and an index. gress and Howard University, respectively. The award is presented biennially. Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf and Kate O. Kwafo-Akoto. Women in Ghana: An Annotated Bibliography Accra: Woeli Publishing AWARD WINNERS Services, 1990. This selective bibliography includes 754 citations to mono­ Carol Sicherman, Ngugi wa Thiong’o: A Bibliography of Primary graphs, periodicals, conferences papers, government and project and Secondary Sources, 1957-1989. London: New York: Hans Zell, reports, and theses. Materials were reviewed from libraries and 1989. 249pp. repositories throughout Ghana and include items published from the early twentieth century through 1988. Included selectively are Carol Sicherman, Ngugi wa Thiong’o: The Making of a Rebel: A materials published from Great Britain, Europe, and the United source Book in Kenyan Literature and Resistance. London: New States. The authors include major segments dealing with women York: Hans Zell, 1990. 486pp. and development, population, agriculture and environment, educa­ tion, health, labor, law and politics, and culture and religion. Professor Carol Sicherman’s impressive and dedicated efforts have resulted in the creation of two extremely important research re­ Quarterly Index to Periodical Literature, Eastern and Southern sources on Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Kenyan literature, history, and Africa, 1991-. Library of Congress Nairobi Office. Quarterly with politics. These reference works are rich treasure troves whose annual index. organization, content, and style establish new vistas for viewing the This impressive effort indexed 125 scholarly periodicals during importance of African literary personae within the context of the 1991, and the goal is to cover 200 titles. Not all titles are indexed developmental process of their country. exhaustively. Countries of publication include those covered by the The bibliography is an indispensable, extensive listing of more Nairobi Field Office, with no limits on the languages indexed. than 1,900 primary and secondary sources in English, which also There are separate indexes for subject, author, geographic area, has numerous references to translations and scholarship in two article title and journal title. Primary arrangement is by broad dozen languages, including Arabic and Kiswahili. The volume is subject category. arranged chronologically and surveys books, journal and newspaper articles, dissertations and theses, unpublished manuscripts, and non-print media. Various indices and excellent cross-references CAM P BUSINESS M EETING M INUTES promote effective use. The second work focuses on providing the reader with a compre­ Minutes were unavailable as o fl 4 January 1993. They will appear hensive background and landscape to grasp Ngugi’s social and in the next issue o/ALN. They are also mailed by CRL to member political vision within his creative efforts. This companion volume institutions. includes a chronology of Ngugi’s life and Kenyan history and politics (1870-1988), together with biographical, linguistic and geographical glossaries with lengthy, informative descriptions. The work includes a useful subject/name index, numerous bibliographic notes and a chapter of Ngugi on Ngugi. The writer himself praises this work stating “the material provided will make all the historical, geographical, and biographical allusions in my fiction become more comprehensible to all serious scholars of my works. Her book is an invaluable guide to my work.” AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 9 JANUARY 1993 OTHER NEWS NEWS FROM OTHER ASSOCIATIONS National Library of Namibia (Windhoek), Ministry of Education and Culture. 9 months, Sept. 1993-May 1994. Establish standards CALENDAR and procedures for compiling a national bibliography of Namibia; ALA: prepare bibliographic records using AACR2 and DDC 20; train staff Jan. 23-28,1993, Denver - ALA Midwinter meeting. who will carry on the project in the future. June 24-July 1,1993, New Orleans - ALA Annual Conf. Other positions are in Guatemala City, Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Puebla (Mexico), Managua {Nicaragua), Lhasa (Tibet), Suva (Fiji), IFLA Annual Conference: Hong Kong, Seoul, Chiang Mai (Thailand), Nicosia & Famagusta, Aug. 22-26,1993, Barcelona Prague, Athens, Budapest, Bucharest, Madrid, Ipswich (England), Future meetings: 1994, Havana; 1995, Istanbul; Jerusalem and Lahore. 1996, Bejing; 1997, Geneva; 1998, Edmonton. To apply, send resume with a cover letter briefly stating desired position, foreign-language skills, subject expertise and maximum May 2-4,1993, Tallahassee, Florida - 4th Conference of Librarians placement service length (no application forms are available) to: in International Development. Robert P. Doyle, Director, Library/Book Fellows Program, ALA, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Tel: 1-800-545-2433, est. 3200. See also center insert in the March 1991, March 1992 or ALA/USIA LIBRARY FELLOWS PROGRAM February 1993 issues of American Libraries. Applications are being accepted through March 15 for the 1993-94 18 specialists were selected as library fellows for 1992-93. These Library Fellows Program. This joint program of ALA and the U.S. include: Information Agency (USIA) has funding for about 15 positions, to • John L. Ober, assistant professor the University of California, be selected among 23 possible posts. Berkeley, will evaluate the library collection at the National Stipends for fellows are $32,000 per year. Travel expenses University of Benin while writing an automation plan and teach­ (fellow and one dependent) to and from host country will be ing introductory automation courses from Jan. 15,1993 to June reimbursed; health insurance and a small housing subsidy are 15,1993. provided. Requirements: U.S. citizenship; language skills of the • Helen Williams, library consultant for Educational Testing Ser­ host country (desired and sometimes required); and education and vices in Princeton, N.J., will train school librarians and help plan experience in library or information science, or other fields directly a LS curriculum at the National University in Maseru, Lesotho related to the interests and needs of specific projects with demon­ from Sept. 1,1992, to May 31,1993. strated competency as required. If selected, certification from a • Kathleen A. Nystrom, manager of cataloging at St. Louis (Mo.) physician attesting physical and emotional soundness to conduct the Public Library, will teach courses in cataloging and LC classifi­ fellowship will be required. Persons who have lived abroad for a 10- cation, train cataloging staff, and assist in the development of year period (1983-1992) immediately preceding application are not automation at the University of Malawi library from Sept. 1, eligible. 1992, to June 30,1993. Positions available in Africa: • Luella B. Davis, coordinator of bibliographic instruction and University of Botswana (Gaborone), Department of Library and reference library at Emory University, will teach automation Information Studies. 12 months, September 1993-August 1994. courses at the University of Ibadan from Sept. 1,1992, to June 30, Assist in the establishment of a Master’s level program in Informa­ 1993. tion Resources Management; teach courses which will train stu­ dents to establish and manage computer-based information sys­ tems. 4TH CONFERENCE OF LIBRARIANS General Egyptian Book Organization (Cairo), National Library IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT of Egypt. Knowledge of Arabic preferred. 9 months, Sept. 1993- May 1994. Develop an automation plan, including hardware/ The Conference of Librarians in International Development pro­ software recommendations, to introduce computerization into all vides a biennial forum for discussions of current practical and aspects of this major research library in order to improve access to theoretical developments in librarianship and information work. materials. The system will link two facilities and eventually serve The 1993 conference will be held at Tallahassee, Florida, on May 2- as a model for a national university library network. 4. The theme is Global Interdependence: The Role of Information Moi University (Eldoret, Kenya), Faculty of Information Sciences. in Development. In addition to reports about current opportunities 12 months, Sept. 1993-August 1994. Advise on curriculum devel­ and completed or on-going projects, there will be sessions on opment and create course outlines and teaching materials for future prepartion for an overseas assignment, incorporating “library” use for the university’s first Master’s level courses on library components into responses to RFPs, and project evaluation tech­ automation; teach the course “Information and Communication niques. Theory.” Papers are being solicited. Abstracts are required for longer, Eduardo Mondlane University (Maputo), Faculty of Letters Li­ more formal papers which should not exceed 20 pages. Less formal brary. Portuguese fluency preferred. 12 months, Sept. 1993-Aug. presentations should be planned for approximately 20 minutes. 1994. Provide on-the-job training in development of library auto­ Deadline for session and paper proposals was January 18. For mation, focusing on selection and installation of an online public further information, contact one of the Conference Co-Chairs: access catalog; participate in the development of the university’s Chalres W. Conaway or John N. Gathegi, School of Library and first course in librarianship. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 10 JANUARY 1993 Information Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Northumberland Ave., London WC2N 5BJ. 32306. Fax:904-644-9763. Tel: 904-644-8123 (Conaway) or 904- 644-8114 (G athegi). Em ail: C onaw ay@ lis.fsu.edu or gathegi@lis.fsu.edu (or @fsu.bitnet). GRANTS AW ARDED FOREIGN PERIODICALS PROGRAM (U.S. DEPT. OF EDUCATION) FREE M ATERIALS OFFERED AND REQUESTED The last issue contained a detailed summary of the (unsuccessful) Notes on requests for books are~listed as received, without any Boston University proposal to collect, preserve and index African endorsement by the editor; MSU or ALC. newspapers. The open sharing of such information is virtually unprecedented and long overdue. The editor wishes to thank Black Arts Research Center seeks books,journals, papers and non­ Gretchen Walsh for her leadership in cooperation and information book materials. Fields include music, dance, theatre, film and diffusion. traditional religion/healing. Contact: John Gray, BARC, 30 Marion In October and November, 1992, a number of awards were made. St., Nyack, NY 10960. The following brief information was made available. RESOURCES A T The Indiana University Libraries received a Title VI serials award LIBRARIES AND RESEARCH CENTERS to purchase serials of new democratic movements in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the countries covered by the Slavic-East McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) has acquired 188 books European and Ural-Altaic Programs. This includes $6,000 for the belonging to Canadian author Margaret Laurence. Laurence accu­ African serials. New democratic movements will be widely inter­ mulated these books during her seven-year stay in Somaliland and preted for Sub-Saharan Africa and will include political parties and Ghana during the 1950s.—C&RL News. a wide variety of political support groups including human rights, women’s rights, legal reform, liberation theology, theatre and other New York International African Institute (NYLAI) has called for cultural organizations. The goal will be to include a selection of the an emergency conference to study ways of protecting and restoring many serials related to new democratic movements in the subcon­ Liberia’s archival and cultural materials. NYIAI was founded two tinent, as part of a core collection of publications from the four years ago by Sam Pittee-Polkah Toe, former research director, geographic areas covered by the grant. Liberian National Archives Center, and former director, Tubman National Center of African Culture and Research. Ongoing pro­ Northwestern University’s Melville J. Herskovits Library of grams include cross-cultural awareness programs, a bi-monthly African Studies received a three-year grant from the Foreign newsletter (Africa and the world; $12 per year), a hotline African Periodicals Program of the U.S. Department of Education’s Center news service, a databank, and institutional linkages. Further details for International Education. The grant, which totals $40,000 for the available from the Institute’s Liaison Officer, D. Twaleh Geply, at first year, will enable the Library to enlarge its collections of (716)833-2842, or NYIAI, P.O. Box 700, Buffalo, NY 14215. periodical literature, which is increasingly more abundant due to the new democratic movements. It also will increase the rate of Nordiska Afrikainstitutet’s Library has received a collection of cataloging of such titles. New acquisitions will include newspa­ political posters, mainly from Mozambique and Ethiopia, donated pers, news magazines, magazines of commentary and newsletters by Berit Sahlstrom. It is also processing the Simons collection, with published by independent and official publishers, political parties funds from the Swedish International Development Fund. Ten reels and movements, and a wide variety of interest groups, the Library and a database have been prepared for purchase. This collection also will hire a half-time serials cataloger who will catalog the new contains material about the trade unions in South Africa, the African titles acquired as well as augment the cataloging of African periodi­ National Congress and the Communist Party in South Africa. It also cals already in the Herskovits collection. contains the documentation for the sociological and legal research Online records for all cataloged periodicals will appear in by Harold Jack Simons and his wife Ray, better known as Ray Northwestern’s online catalog, OCLC and RLIN. During the first Alexander, in South Africa and elsewhere. The Institute plans to year of the project, the Northwestern University Library will, at its deposit this collection at the African Studies Centre, University of own expense, assess the preservation needs of the newly acquired Cape Town. Further details available from Annica van Gylswyk, titles. The assessment will determine preservation priorities for the The Simons Papers Project, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Box 1703, S- subsequent years of the project. 751 47 Uppsala, Sweden. Northwestern University Library is one of 11 grant recipients in 1992. Funding for the following two years of the grant is dependent A Fund to Acquire the Royal Commonwealth Society Library for upon congressional allocation of funds to the Foreign Periodicals the Nation has been set up, under the patronage of the Prince of Program. Wales and with Chief Emeka Anyaoku as Honorary President. The Appeal Committee is chaired by Sir Patrick Sheehy. It aims to raise £3m., of which over half has already been pledged, to purchase the AFRICAN ARCHIVES AND MUSEUMS PROJECT whole Library for the Nation and Commonwealth. It is proposed that the Library will be housed in the new extension planned for The Joint Committee on African Studies of the Social Science Cambridge University Library. Help is needed before 31 March Research Council (SSRC) and the American Council of Learned 1993. For further details, please contact the Librarian at 18 Societies (ACLS) recently awarded the second round of grants AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 11 JANUARY 1993 under the African Archives and Museums Project. Supported with Robin Doust to microfi lm early editions of the Bulawayo Chronicle funds fromthe Ford and Rockeffer Foundtions, the Project seeks to and the Rhodesian Herald. invirorate and strengthen the work of archives and museums in There were also 3 Exhitition and Outreach Grants. Africa. It operates as an annual small grants competition, awarding The Project anticipates a deadline of May 31,1993, for projects up to $15,000 to African archvies and museums for activities that that would begin in October 1993. For additional information, will enable these cultural institutions to broaden their constituencies please contact the Project, Social Science Research Council, 605 and reconfigures their roles as centers of humanistic knowledge and Thrid Ave, New York, NY 10158. Tel: 212-661-0280; fax: 1-212- expression. Administered with the help of an international selection 370-7896. committee, the Project supports efforts to preserve and augment collections; document, catalogpand exhibit special holdings; and enhance use of such resources. PERSONNEL CHANGES & VACANCIES The 7 recipients of Seed Grants included: John P. Blosser is the foreign periodicals grant serials cataloger at • Direction des Archives Nationales, Porto-Novo, for a project Northwestern. He assumed his half-time duties on December 14. directed by Elise R. Paraiso to inventory its materials. • Research and Documentation Division, Banjul, for a project Barbara Burton, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, directed by Patience Sonko-Godwin to conserve and transcribe Univ. of London) Librarian, retired on September 30,1992. Mary oral history recordings. Auckland became SOAS Librarian on December 1. • Archives National de Niger, Niamey, for a project directed by Idrissa Yansambou to prepare a long-range plan. Ruth A. Hodges became the Africana Bibliographer at the Moor- land-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, in 1992. She The 10 recipients of Conservation and Documentation Grants received her M.L.S. and a M.S. (Biology) from Atlanta University. include: She has worked at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the Howard • Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, for a project directed University Libraries, the Toxicology Library of the National Acad­ by Taddese Bayene to catalog political pamphlets. emy of Sciences and as a biomedical contract indexer. • Archives du Sénégal, Dakar, for a project directed by Saliou Mbaye to classify the holdings of the Federation of Mali (1959- Michael Hopper, formerly Islamic Studies Librarian at the Univer­ 1960) and the holdings of the Vice-President and President of sity of California, Santa Barbara, is now in the Middle Eastern Senegal (1957-1962). Division, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA 02138. • Institute of African Studies, Freetown, for a project directed by Arthur Abraham to rehabilitate archival and museum space and Memorials for Elizabeth Widenmann took place in Seattle to classify and catalog archival materials. on November 21 and in New York at Columbia University • South African Museum, Cape Town, for a project directed by on January 7. Patricia Davidson to catalog and conserve the Krige photographic collection. Michigan State University seeks an original catalog librarian for • National records Office, Khartoum, for a project directed by Ali Africana and general humanities and social science materials. S. Karrar to microfilm and catalog early 20th century Sudanese Apply by May 1 to Colleen Hyslop, Assistant Director for Systems newspapers. and Access Services Division, MSU Libraries. • Bulawayo Public Library, Zimbabwe, for a project directed by RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE The following items have come to the attention o f the editor. Haworth Press has announced the forthcoming Journal of Agricul­ tural & Food Information. The editor welcomes the submission of JOURNALS & ARTICLES articles on a range of topics, including: • new informati on/communi cations technology African Research and Documentation, no. 58 (1992) includes: • technology transfer • M.J. Lippman, Towards an African Index Medicus, pp 6-10; • information needs/end-user concerns • Larisa Saratovskaya, South African Literature in Russia; • electronic publishing • Matilda Amissah-Arthur, New Dimensions for Library Services • cooperative and networking efforts in Ghana, p.16-9; • international issues • Marlene van Doom, Comments on M. Binns ‘The Documenta­ • collection management and preservation tion of African Research’ [See ALN, April 1992, p. 9], p. 20-2. • trends affecting the delivery of information Reports that Documentatieblad from 1988 to mid-1991 covered a • database comparisons total of 239 journals, of which 98 were published in Africa. Of the • ethical questions approximately 500 current periodicals held by the library of the • information management Afrika-Studiecentrum (Leiden), roughly 42% come from Africa. • fee-based services/hotlines Many other titles are missing because they are unavailable. • teaching/distance learning AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 12 JANUARY 1993 For more information, contact Robyn Frank, editor, 8349 Reservoir Anyanwu, V. “The Bibliographic Control of Nigerian Government Road, Fulton, MD 20759. Publications.” Government Publications Review, 19(1992): 505-. International Information & Library Review (Academic Press), v. Hurskainen, Arvi. “Computer Archives of Swahili Language and 24, no. 3 (Sept. 1992) included the following: Folklore: What is it?” Nordic Journal of African Studies, 1,1 • Stilwell, C. “The Resource Centre Forums: Democratic and (1992): 123-7. Describes Dares Salaam -Helsinki Corpus (DAHE- Alternative Information Networks for South Africa.” corpus),a joint project of the Institute of Kiswahili Research (Uni­ • Ourgay, M. “Printing, Publishing and Book Development in versity of Dar es Salaam) and the Department of Asian and African Ethiopia up to the ear of Menelik II.” Studies (University of Helsinki). The aim is to create a searchable • Jegede, O. “Book ScarcityrLaw Libraries and the Legal Profes­ archive. Areas covered-so far include Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia sion in Nigeria.” and the coast between Mozambique and Tanga. • Jam, Z. “Centralized School Library Management System in Benue State.” REFERENCE SOURCES NEW REFERENCE TITLES in the following fields: • recently deposited archival sources/oral interviews The following items or issues are noted. • U.S. audio-visual items For more titles, see the annual “Africana Reference Books” • less well-known sources relevant to ANC/worker studies in The African Book Publishing Record, no. 2. • very recent publications. Any lists or citations should be sent airmail, as his deadline is Lordereau, Paulette. Littératures africaines à la bibliothèque February-March 1993. Address: Reid Library, University of nationale, 1920-1972: Catalogue. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, Western Australia, Nedlands, 6009, Australia. 1992. 220FF 234pp. Lists books acquired between 1920 and 1972 and complements the 1984 volume which covered 1973-1983. Louise Leonard is compiling a directory of foreign-language experts who can help librarians catalog books in rare and unusual languages. The intent is also to form a clearinghouse to which W O R K IN PROGRESS librarians could fax title pages if they could not identify a language or ask for help with a particular unlisted language. Address: Catalog Peter Limb is compiling a volume for Hans Zell entitled “The ANC Department, Uni versity of Florida Lib rari es, Gai nesville, FL32611. & Black Workers in South Africa, 1912-1992: an Annotated Tel:(904)392-0351; e-mail: louleon@nervm.bitnet;fax: (904)392- Bibliography.” The work will list monographs, articles, newspapers, 7251. periodicals, theses, audio-visual items, some government publications, unpublished works, and summaries of archival UK Theses on Africa, 1976-1988 is being prepared by SCOLMA. resources. He seeks additional citations from any readers, especially NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS VENDO R ANNOUNCEM ENTS Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Uganda and Zimbabwe. African Books Collective Ltd. (The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., Oxford OX11HU) issued Catalogue no. 5 (1992). It also distributed Anasir Publishers Ltd. is a an enterprise engaged in publishing and “New and Recent Titles on African Literature and Languages” distributing printed material. It can supply both printed and (ABC Subject Catalogue no. 1), a partially annotated 26p. listing of nonprint materials, plus photocopies of out of print materials. More new and older titles in stock. details available from PO Box 21906, Addis Ababa. Tel: 510100. Fax: 514800. African Imprint Library Services (236 Main St., Falmouth, MA 02540) issued its Service Newsletter No. 38 (Nov. 1992), which lists Clarke’s Bookshop (211 Long St., Cape Town, 8001 South Africa) 32 new and 2 ceased serials. It reports good, active acquisitions issued Catalogue 83, with 899 entries, including 550 older titles. agents in Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, New titles include publications from Botswana, Namibia and Zim­ Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, babwe and four videos. They are also building up a good selection Ivory Coast, Kenya, lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, of political pamphlets. Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Reunion, AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 13 JANUARY 1993 Development Support Agency (Private Mail Bag 530, Freetown) • Hans M. Zell, African Publishing: Constraints and Challenges offers subscriptions to the following weekly newspapers from and the Experience of African Books Collective. Sierra Leone: New Breed, Unity, Concord Times, New Citizen, • Henry Chakava, Kenyan Publishing: Independence and Depen­ New Shaft, & Vision. Basic annual price is $165 per title, with some dence. discounts. • Victor U. Nwankwo, Publishing in Nigeria Today. • Walter Bgoya, The Challenge of Publishing in Tanzania. Gert Jan Bestebreurtje (Lichte Gaard 2, PO Box 364, 3500 AJ • Jan Kees van de Werk, Challenges and Reality in West African Utrecht, Netherlands) has issued Catalogue 67, with 254 antiquarian Publishing. Africana titles. • Mothobi Mutloatse, Indigenous Publishing in South Africa: The Case of SkotaviltePublishers. Great Epic Books (15918 20th Place West, Alderwood Manor, WA 98037; tel: 206-745-3113) offers catalogs of antiquarian titles about Africa and elsewhere. Catalog 11 (Exploration & Adventure) lists ELECTRONIC NEW SLETTER a collection of documents and photographs by David Hoffman, a mining engineer from Butte, Montana, who went to the Beligan Richard Chowning (Abilene Christian University) has announced Congo in 1911. that the first issue of an electronic newsletter for ASA or ASAP members will appear on January 30th. It will include material Hogarth (1 Birchington Court, Birchington Road, London N8 8HS, gleaned from online discussions lists and information bases plus England) acquisitions trips in the past 6 months covered Nigeria some original material. The main thrust will be tools for on-line (East, North & Lagos), Madagascar, Mauritius, Angola, Djibouti, research and information sharing. It will also contain book Cameroon, Gabon, Chad and Central African Republic. reviews and announcements of meetings. Ideas on what to include should be sent to: chowning@ acuvax.acu.edu or Sam-Naak Nig. Ltd. (P.O. 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To subscribe, send the command “SUBSCRIBE AFRICANA [firstname lastname]” to pbwelb@wmvml or to 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize: pbwelb@wmvml .cc.wm.edu. • African region winner for best book is Ama Ata Aidoo for her novel Changes (Women’s Press). • Africa region best first book prize went to Lawrence Darmani of NEW SERIALS Ghana for Grief Child (Lion Publishing). Actualité de la démocratie dans le tiers monde: bulletin d'études et d'informations du CERDET\ no. 1 (juillet-déc. 1991)- Available EVENTS from Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur la Démocratie Pluraliste dans le Tiers Monde (CERDET), BP 12092, Dakar (Colobane). Zimbabwe International Book Fair will be held from 3 to 8 August 1993 in Harare. The theme is “Reading is Development.” Alternative démocratique dans le tiers monde. Revue d'études, de For further information, contact Margaret Ling, ZIBF (UK) Ltd., 25 recherches, d'informations et d'opinions du CERDET. Nos. 3-5 Endymion Rd., London N41EE or ZIBF, the Book House, 12 Selous (Jan. 1991-juin 1992). ISSN 0850-0622. Ave., Harare. Eritrea Update is published by the Provisional Government of LITERATURE ON TH E BOOK TRADE Eritrea (EPLF), Mission to the USA and Canada, PO Box 65685, Washington, DC 20035. Annual subscription for 12 issues The African Book Publishing Record, v. 18, no. 3 (1992) carried is $20. reports on the Regional Consultation of Editors and Booksellers (Dakar, May 1992) and on the African Library Science Journal Hadas Eritrea is a newspaper in Tigrinya, issued by the Eritreans. Workshop (Kano, Jan. 1992). More details available from ECCC, P.O. Box 50201, Washington, D.C. 20091. Publishing andDevelopment in the Third World, edi ted by Phi 1ip G. Altbach (London: Hans Zell; Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya, 1992) is NUNW News is a monthly? newsletter of the National Union of no. 1 in the Hans Zell Studies on Publishing series and is the Namibian Workers (P.O. 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