AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER No. 75, July 1993 ISSN 0148-7868 Africana Libraries Newsletter (ALN) is published quarterly by the Michigan State University Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center. Those copying contents are asked to cite ALN as their source. ALN is produced to support the work of the Africana TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 items of interest to Africana librarians and those concerned Editor’s Comments about information resources about or in Africa. Acronyms Editor: Joseph J. Lauer, Africana Library, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048. Tel.: 517-355-2366; E-mail: 20676jjl@msu.edu; Fax: 517-336-1445. ALC/CAMP NEWS........................................................ 2 Deadline for no. 76: October 15, 1993; for no. 77: January 5, 1994. Calendar of Future Meetings Schedule for Fall Meeting in Boston ALC Meeting in East Lansing (April 30,1993) EDITOR’S COMMENTS Business Meeting Minutes Pre-Meeting Executive Board Meeting The agenda for the Spring ALC meeting in East Lansing was too full for a Bibliography Committee Meeting Minutes report from this editor. There were 3 issues I had wanted to bring up. First, Cataloging Committee Meeting Minutes this is my last year as editor. Following the path of Yvette Scheven rather than Post-Meeting Executive Board Meeting that of Gretchen Walsh and Nancy Schmidt (and contrary to my previous Recent Member Publications & News expectations), I have decided that three years is enough. In 1994, it will be OTHER NEWS............................................................... 8 time for another to enjoy the rewards and frustrations of producing this News from other Associations newsletter. I look forward to the innovations of the next editor. Second, I am Calendar have received numerous requests for book donations from literacy projects in American Library Association Namibia. I have decided thatALVis not an appropriate place for such appeals. Conference on Women & Information Third, a reader survey of information wanted or needed is overdue. This editor Free Materials Requested is firmly committed to reporting action taken by ALC and CAMP. But do we Resources at Libraries and Research Centers need all the dialogue? Are extremely selective and random lists of new books Personnel Changes: Pinfold and serials useful? For details on the reports, commentary and plans (or dreams) from the RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES & INFO. SCIENCE.......9 Spring meeting, see the minutes starting on page 2. What is missing (besides Theses -continued on p .14 Journals Articles REFERENCE SOURCES.............................................10 ACRONYMS Mcllwaine’s Guide: A Review by Bischof ABC - African Books.Collective; Or Africa Bopk C e n t r |||||| Notes New Reference Titles ACRE - Association of Ccrtlege & Research AL Library; A ssirciaii^ NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS..............11 :ALC •- Africana Librari Vendor Announcements Aircifrl es Oo?rirnttiE€pi .> Events: Zimbabwe Inti. Book Fair ASA - African' Studies Association (tLS.) - Trip reports by Baumann & Bischof Literature on the Book Trade CAMR:*: .Coope ratiyCAfricanaM icirp Serial Changes C R L |:fienterfor Research Libr'Mes^ ; |||||' New Serials •IFLA - l h t|f hationaI Federation o f Selected New Books LC - Library of Congress •' ?; y ^ Special Issues of Journals MELA - Middle East Librarians Association’ Trip Reports: MSU - Michigan State U Baumann in Southern Africa, 8/92 Bischof in South Africa, 5/93 SCOLM A - Standing Confr on Library ‘Materiaison Africa ^ U, - University •. UCLA - University of California* Las Angeles AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 2 JULY 1993 AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL / CAMP NEWS CALENDAR OF FUTURE MEETINGS Studies Centers expressed their great support and need for Africana librarians’ services. They are concerned about the training of new December 3-7,1993, Boston - ASA Annual Meeting. librarians to support their future research needs. They plan to April 15-16, 1994, Durham, NC - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. support a cooperative acquisitions trip for Title VI African Center November (1st week) 1994, Toronto - ASA Annual Meeting. libraries, and stressed that collection development is a higher Spring 1994, Evanston, IL - ALC/CAMP Spring Meeting. priority for them than increased access. November (1st week) 1995, Orlando - ASA Annual Meeting. Council members were reminded of the existence of the ALC Archives, housed at Northwestern. All past chairs of committees and task forces are encouraged to send their records to Northwest­ SCHEDULE FOR FALL MEETING IN BOSTON ern for inclusion in the Archives. The Executive Committee recommended that all members of December 3 (Friday): ALC contact their Representatives and members of the House 9:00 - 10:00am.... ALC Executive Board Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Ser­ 10:00 - 11:30am.. Cataloging Committee vices, and Education to express their support for the funding of 11:30 - 1:00pm.... Bibliography Committee library programs that have been zeroed out of the Administration’s 2:00 - 4:00pm......ALC Business Meeting budget for the Higher Education Act and Library Services and 4:00 - 5:00pm......ALC Executive Board Construction Act. Nancy will write a letter as Chair of ALC to the Chairman of the Subcommittee. December 4 (Saturday): Nancy wrote a letter to the ASA about the need for revision of 9:30 -11:00am.... CAMP Business Meeting The African World following the Bibliography Committee’s 11:00 -12:00noon CAMP Executive Committee discussion at the fall meeting. The ASA Board will discuss the proposal at its spring meeting. Lauer will serve only one more year as editor o f ALN, until spring 1994. ALC members who are interested in taking over the BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES position should speak to their institutions about support for the East Lansing, MI - April 30, 1993, 1:45-3:45 p.m. newsletter, contact Lauer or Schmidt if they have any questions about the job, and contact Nancy before the fall meeting if they The meeting was called to order by Nancy Schmidt, Chair. want to be the next editor. Present were: Angela Aluko (Boston U.), Helene Baumann Fall ASA M eeting (Duke U.), Ruby Bell-Gam (U. of California, Los Angeles), Kagan reported that all of our regular meetings will be held Phyllis Bischof (U. of California, Berkeley), Mary Brady (North­ Friday, Dec. 3, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. The CAMP meeting will western U.), Dan Britz (Northwestern U.), Moore Crossey (Yale be held on Saturday, Dec. 4, from 9:30 to noon. The time for the U.), David Easterbrook (Northwestern U.), Onuma Ezera (Michi­ panel was not yet set, but it should not conflict with our regular gan State U.), Gregory Finnegan (Dartmouth College), Karen meetings. A1 would appreciate it if everyone would return the Fung (Stanford), Beverly Gray (LC), John Bruce Howell (U. of Afrocentrism survey for the panel back to him as soon as possible. Iowa), A1 Kagan (U. of Illinois), Joseph Lauer (Michigan State The possibility of having a retirement celebration for Doris U.), Robert W. Lesh (Northwestern U.), Helen MacLam (CHOICE Hull at the fall meeting in Boston was discussed. She will be Magazine), Peter Malanchuk (U. of Florida), Judy McDermott invited to the business meeting and a presentation will be made in (LC), Valerie Mwalilino (LC), Elizabeth Plantz (Northwestern her honor. Ezera volunteered to buy the present. U.), W.R. Robinson (Robinson Publications, Nashville, TN), Yvette Scheven, Nancy Schmidt (Indiana U.), Mette Shayne S pring M eetings (Northwestern U.), Charles B. Sherrill (Malcolm X College, City The 1994 spring meeting of ALC will be hosted by Duke Univer­ Colleges of Chicago), Andrea Stamm (Northwestern U.), Gretchen sity, the weekend of April 15. Complete details will be provided Walsh (Boston U.), Dane Ward (Kenton County Public Library), at the fall meeting. Dorothy Washington (Schomburg Center, NY Public Library), Easterbrook extended an invitation to the group to come to Thomas Weissinger (Cornell U.), David Westley (Boston U.), Northwestern for the spring 1995 meeting. Support for the Dawn Williams (Northwestern U.), and Meseratch Zecharias meeting has been promised from the University Library and the (Syracuse U.). Program of African Studies. He suggested the possibility of being able to get funding for visits of African librarians by working C hair’s Report cooperatively with the Association of College and Research Nancy thanked Onuma Ezera for her work as past Chair of ALC Libraries (ACRL). The National ACRL Conference is 29 March- and for her efforts as host of this meeting. April 1, 1995. Baumann will be the Chair of the Bibliography Committee and Lesh will continue as Chair of the Cataloging Committee. Their A R L Foreign A cquisitions T ask F orce terms of office will end in the fall of 1994, as does the Executive Easterbrook discussed the survey of area studies collections being Committee’s. undertaken by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The new Nominations Committee will be made up of Shayne Baumann, Bischof, Mwalilino, Walsh, and Easterbrook are on the and Nanji, who volunteered to serve. task force to collect information on the status of Africana collec­ Nancy gave a brief report on the Title VI Directors meeting held tions in the U.S. They met in Seattle to outline a work plan in in Washington D.C., April 1-3, 1993. The Directors of African AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 3 JULY 1993 response to the overall ARL foreign acquisitions project. They is a possibility and we know the location of the 1997 ASA will use Nigeria and Senegal as case studies, although they will meeting. not limit themselves in their report to solely discussing these two. The report will include information gathered by Baumann in the LC West Africa Office budget survey she made, information collected from some major Judy McDermott, Chief, Overseas Operations at LC reported on vendors, financial data, and a holdings assessment in OCLC and the progress of the proposed West Africa Office. Overseas RLIN of Nigerian and Senegalese imprints listed in JALA. There Operations is still planning to submit a FY95 budget proposal for are 9 area task forces working on this project and ARL plans that an office, according to schedule. Administration at LC is still all of the reports will be submitted over the next several months. strongly in favor of the project and very aware of ALC support. However, the overall budgetary picture in Washington has wors­ Zimbabwe Book F air ened and LC may be facing a number of years of a flat budget line. Margaret Ling, the UK Zimbabwe Book Fair Director, would like This would be the same as a 4-5% budget cut with inflation and to have a representative from ALC whom they can consult on a rising costs. All programs at LC are affected by this. As the regular basis and will inform them about library developments in climate for expansion is not as favorable as it once was, the fate this country that might affect the Book Fair. They also would like of this proposal within LC’s overall FY95 budget request remains advice on how to establish links between the Book Fair and U.S. to be determined. In the meantime, acquisitions from West Africa libraries and librarians. Walsh volunteered to be the representa­ continue to be funded by a special $100,000 annual appropriation. tive. Baumann noted that Duke purchased the video on the Book This includes funding for further research in support of an office. Fair shown at the fall meeting and it is available if anyone would Bischof suggested that we send another letter to reaffirm our like to see it. support for a West Africa office to Winston Tabb, Associate Librarian for Collection Services at LC. Nancy will write the ALC 40th Anniversary letter as Chair of ALC. Schmidt presented the possibility of planning a 40th anniversary Mwalilino reported on what has been accomplished in the celebration for ALC. While the actual event is still somewhat far development of LC acquisitions in West Africa. There are new in the future, the ALC needs to start making plans now in order to bibliographic representatives in Liberia, Benin, Nigeria (Enugu do anything of substance. It is hoped that we can develop a and Northern Nigeria), Ghana, and Togo. The majority of funds program that will involve colleagues from around the world, are being used to purchase materials as well as provide incentives particularly Africa. In order to do this, it would be necessary for to the representatives. Other monies are being spent on a survey each institution to make a commitment to having one foreign of Nigerian publishing output. There are plans for a future survey librarian on their campus/library at the time of the anniversary. of publishing in Senegal. Possibilities of sabbaticals, exchanges and fellows will need to be looked into as well as sources of funding in order to encourage Training of Future A fricana L ibrarians attendance from overseas. Mwalilino suggested possibly con­ Bischof raised the issue of what should be done about finding and tacting the United States Information Agency (USIA) and the training Africana librarians in the future. She cited several areas African American Institute. Malanchuk mentioned the ongoing of concern including the closing of many library schools, the efforts of the Library Book Fellow program which is now trying changing emphasis of many library schools to computers and to bring people to the United States for mentoring. Bischof “information science,” and the “greying” of our group. Others mentioned the possibility of Fulbright money. Contacting vari­ noted that Indiana University used to have a program; but it was ous development agencies was also mentioned as a possibility. unable to place people in Africana positions and the program was Shayne noted that the Women’s Caucus was able to get money discontinued. Concern was expressed that, given the changing from the Ford Foundation to bring people to the U.S. for their nature of library education and the growing lack of places where program. Gray brought up the idea of holding such an event at the one can get training, it may be more and more difficult to get Library of Congress (LC), in that Washington, D.C., is such a people with the necessary backgrounds to fill positions as they positive symbol to people from other countries. open up (several have been advertised this year). Lauer felt that There followed some discussion on who from overseas would people would continue to find their way into the profession just be invited. Would it be librarians who deal with Africana like some in ALC had. Several suggestions were made on how to materials and research? Would it be limited to foreign librarians encourage people to think about Africana librarianship as a career from Africa? Do we want to provide a program about ourselves including presenting lectures at library schools, writing articles to and the future of Africana librarianship or do we address the needs present Africana issues and positions to others “outside” the of African librarians in Africa? Who do we contact about group, and making contact with students at library schools. participation in the program? What kind of African colleagues Walsh will investigate the possibility of inviting library school are we talking about? A committee was formed to develop a list students to meet with Africana librarians in connection with the of possible topics/subjects for the anniversary program and to fall meeting in Boston. Easterbrook noted that cross-disciplinary identify sources of funding. The committee consists of Malanchuk work is an important issue and a great part of discussions at ARL. (acting chair), Gray, Walsh, Easterbrook, Finnegan, Ezera and The concerns of Title VI directors for well trained librarians to Schmidt. They will prepare a paper on possible topics for build collections were again noted. discussion, people to be involved, and sources of funding for discussion at the fall meeting. It was decided to develop a more Book Donations focused plan for a program before contacting possible partici­ Walsh presented a proposal from the ASA Board to use money pants from overseas. We also discussed whether this event should from the endowment funds to establish a $3,000 fund to assist take place at a spring meeting, in conjunction with the regular groups or individuals with shipping costs for book donations to ASA fall meeting, or at some type of pre-conference. The venue African libraries and schools. The ALC voted to support the will be discussed at the fall meeting after Gray checks to see if LC proposal and a committee was formed to screen applications for AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 4 JULY 1993 funding. The committee consists of Walsh, Schmidt, Bell-Gam • U.S. Imprints on Sub-Saharan Africa, vol. 6/7, 1990/91, was and Meseratch Zecharias. If there is a conflict of interest, i.e. one issued in Dec. 1992. The major innovation in this volume was the of the committee is applying for funds, that person will not vote inputting of the contents notes for collected works in a GENBIB on that round of applications. If several committee members database file, AFRUSIM. An annual production schedule will disqualify themselves, others from ALC will be appointed to the resume with vol. 8 and the guide scope will be expanded. Edited committee to take their place. The Arts Council of ASA and the works with the geographic area code or subject heading “develop­ Women’s Caucus will be approached about putting a member on ing countries” and containing African related essays will be this committee. Notices of the donation program will be sent to added. ASA News and ALA'as well as other appropriate publications. • The African Section’s 16,000 piece pamphlet collection was removed from the arrearage category with the creation of 433 Long Range Strategic Plan collection level records which are searchable on-line. Bischof brought up the possibility of developing a long range • The next edition of Newspapers Received Currently is due this strategic plan for ALC. She used as an example a plan prepared fall. Most of the titles in the Newspaper Section’s collection of by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association miscellaneous Eastern African newspapers have been cataloged. (BCALA). It was noted that many of the points in their plan had When this work is completed, the material will be filmed and a already been taken up by ALC. Malanchuk remarked that for the title list issued. A revised edition o£ African Newspapers Avail­ ACRL this type of a plan was very important for funding of groups able on Positive Microfilm is available from the Newspaper and that to develop such a plan may help us with ASA. Schmidt Section (5593), Madison Building, LC 20560. felt that a long term plan would be useful for ALC chairs, enabling • On-line access to LC files via the Internet will be available this them to provide continuity despite turnover in leadership. A spring. All search commands are available for MUMS files and committee was set up to develop a list of selected priority projects most SCORPIO search commands will be offered. For security to be discussed at the fall meeting. The members are: Weissinger reasons, certain files and commands will be available for on-site (Chair), Bischof, Finnegan, Walsh, Nanji, and Meseratch use only, unless specifically authorized. At this time there are no Zecharias. plans to assist Internet users via telephone or e-mail. Two user manuals will soon be available for file transfer and will be on sale Bylaws: Baumann distributed copies of the revised bylaws. in printed form from the Cataloging Distribution Service. • In February, Gray assumed the position of acting chief of the ALC Links with African L ibrary Associations African and Middle Eastern Division, while continuing to serve A committee was formed to look into the possibility of establish­ also as head of the African Section. ing links with African librarians and library associations. Gray, Bell-Gam, Mwalilino, Baumann and Kagan will look into identi­ O ther Reports fying existing groups that are active in Africa. After this is done, Lizbeth Levy sent word that the Sub-Saharan Africa Journals a letter will be sent from the Chair to initiate formal contacts. Distribution Program of the American Association for the Ad­ vancement of Science has changed its name to the Project for Library of Congress Reports African Research Libraries. Judy McDermott reported on several items of interest. The LC Walsh will be attending 2 conferences: Women, Information Nairobi Office reports 10 recent acquisition trips to different and the Future: Collecting and Sharing Resources World-wide at countries. In recent months, 9 shipments have been received from Radcliffe College (in June) and INET ’93, later in the year. Asmara and 2 from Kinshasa. Acquisitions are up by 15 percent. Lauer knows of someone in Liberia who would be willing to In March a different representative was appointed in Maputo, supply newspapers to libraries. Mozambique. Vol. 2, no. 4 of the Quarterly Index to Periodical Kagan mentioned that the latest issue of International Leads Literature, Eastern & Southern Africa has been published and (International Relations Round Table of ALA) has an article on vol. 3, no. 1 should be out soon. Vol. 25, no. 6, Accessions List the Mortenson Center at the University of Illinois Library. : Eastern Africa has also been published and the Annual Publish­ Crossey noted that Marrisa Ramdani, an archivist from Durban, ers Directory 1992 has gone to the printer. Since Nov. 1992, 5 South Africa, was now at Yale working as an intern. She is shipments of monographs (56 different titles) and 21 shipments of working on the papers of E.S. Reddy (Center Against Apartheid) serials have been made for the Cooperative Acquisi tions Program which should be available by the fall. for Kenyan publications. LC has engaged the firm of Price Schmidt reported that Indiana’s Lilly Library has received Waterhouse to devise a methodology to ensure the full recovery Nadine Gordimer’s papers and will soon be receiving the Noma of costs associated with the Cooperative Acquisitions Program. Award archive. Two monographs on Africana librarianship are This year, bills will be presented as usual. Sometime after the fall, near completion on the collection of oral traditions by libraries participants will receive a full explanation of the new methodol­ and on preservation in Nigerian libraries. ogy and a sample or comparison bill which will show what the Malanchuk reported that the University of Florida had acquired most recent bill would have been under the new system. The $15,000 in new books and fiche on human rights. cooperative acquisitions programs are included in the proposed Schmidt will meet with the ASA Board of Directors on Satur­ “fund” or “fee for service” legislation. The present programs now day and will talk about the 40th anniversary celebration, LC West operate in an uncertain legal status. Africa Office and redlining of funds for libraries by Congress. Beverly Gray reported on the following: Meeting was adjourned. • LChasacquiredvideocassettesof“SomaliTelevision” [1993+] — Elizabeth J. Plantz, Secretary a weekly local (WNVC, channel 56) program. It features Somali current events and the arts. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 5 JULY 1993 PRE-MEETING BIBLIOGRAPHY COMMITTEE MINUTES April 30, 1993, 9:20-10:50am EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING Friday, April 30, 1993, 8:30-9:15am The meeting was called to order at 9:28 by Chair Helene Baumann. The meeting was called to order by Nancy Schmidt, Chair. 1. Budget Cuts: Members reported on budgets at their institu­ Present were: Baumann, Bell-Gam, Gray, Howell, Kagan, Lauer, tions. In many cases there were cuts or no increases. LC and Lesh, Plantz, Schmidt, and Weissinger. Northwestern had generally adequate increases. Onuma Ezera, host of the spring meeting, introduced the head of 2. Changes in Collection Policies and Cooperative Programs: the Michigan State University Library, Hiram Davis. He wel­ Discussion raised several questions. Of concern was lack of comed the group to campus and expressed support and appreciation acquisition of new titles, especially newspapers. Walsh urged for the work of the ALC. consulting before serial (or other) cuts and sharing evaluations of costly titles. Bell-Gam confirmed that Berkeley and UCLA Nancy announced that Baumann is now Chair of the Bibliography cooperate on cancellations. Schmidt suggested as a future topic Committee. Lesh has agreed to serve another term as Chair of the discussing who is responsible for more marginal areas like Cataloging Committee. Terms of the current chairs will end in the popular culture and ephemera, as institutions cut back to core fall of 1994 so that selection of new chairs will coincide with materials. Kagan asked who was collecting international docu­ regular ALC elections. ments and vol unteered to work on that issue. Malanchuk remarked on the need for project-driven funding. It appears U.S. purchases The Nominations Committee for the next ALC elections will be of French and German monographs are declining, at a time when Mette Shayne and Razia Nanji, who volunteered to serve on the Africanist scholarship in those countries is increasing. Walsh committee. mentioned “a fascinating, explosive meeting” to come on this topic. She remarked that Boston University’s Africana Library is The need for chairs for the new committees and task forces being one of the few areas to be seriously funded, yet BU has one of the formed at the business meeting was discussed. It was agreed that smallest Title-VI collections. Budgets are cut in favor of CD- volunteers should be sought at the business meeting. The busi­ ROMs and for “work stations, flashing lights, smoke and mirrors, ness meeting agenda was reviewed. The Executive Committee [even] essential smoke and mirrors.” Crossey expressed shock at agreed that the Chair should write a letter on behalf of ALC to the number of scholars coming to Yale for titles uniquely held in Representative Dale Kildee in support of reinstating funds for the region. Concerning the extent to which items not found in the libraries that have been redlined from the budgets for the Library bibliographic utilities were still in uncataloged backlogs, the Services and Construction Act and the Higher Education Act usefulness of accessing OPACs via the Internet was noted, programs. sometimes showing items “in process,” as a partial solution to the backlog problem. Baumann discussed the cooperation agreement Nancy suggested two possible ALC receptions for the fall ASA between Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill: UNC-CH collects meeting in Boston: a retirement party for Doris Hull and a Francophone and Lusophone Africa, while Duke collects reception in honor of Hans Zell. The Committee decided that it Anglophone Africa. One had to view Duke and Chapel Hill as one might be more appropriate to express our appreciation for the unit for Africana. work of Hans Zell with others who have contributed to the work of Africana librarians during our 40th Anniversary celebrations. 3. Expensive Serials: Who maintains subscriptions? The title The Committee expressed support for recognizing Doris Hull’s discussed was the weekly Bulletin de VAfrique noire, which is retirement. A volunteer to buy a present will be requested at the indexed by PAIS. Its latest price increase was to $1240 p.a. ALC business meeting. Shayne complained on behalf of Northwestern and secured a reduced price; but Indiana’s similar request was refused. Indiana Nancy will meet with the ASA Board on May 1,1993. Possible wants collective action by US subscribers. (LC, Indiana, North­ topics for discussion include: training of new librarians, Title VI western get it; Yale and MSU canceled.) Directors statements on the importance of Africana librarians to their work, redlining of funding of the U.S. Office of Education 4. African Studies Journals in Databases: Easterbrook noted that for libraries, ALC 40th Anniversary celebration, and the possibil­ Chadwick-Healy’s CD-ROM “Periodical Contents Index” has ity of having the Conover-Porter Award presented at the ASA NO Africana titles in its first version, although this is understand­ banquet. It was decided to raise the question of the Conover- able as it is only in its beginning stages. It will have 3 chronological Porter Award at the meeting of the Bibliography Committee first. segments: pre-1900,1900-1960, and I960-. These in turn will be divided by place of publication, North American and non-N.A. Meeting was adjourned. Only the 1900-1960 files have been developed. Chadwick-Healy —Elizabeth J. Plantz, Secretary welcomes our input. Easterbrook will continue to monitor the project. Kagan raised a related question about Africa-specific databases. How are they addressed? Who uses them? With what success? Examples are PADIS, IBIS-CLIS (French) and IDRC and UN. Should we appoint a subcommittee to look into these issues or have a panel at the annual meetings? Kagan is presenting a paper (at the IFLA meeting in Barcelona) on accessing UN and IDRC resources. It is for a panel on online access to government information. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 6 JULY 1993 5. Conover-Porter Award Procedures: Malanchuk summarized fiction. Vol. 10 (1994) may be a cumulative edition since 1980, the Conover-Porter procedures and proposed changes. At present, including contents from 1985 onwards, and may be issued as a secrecy is required up to the actual presentation. Were the CD-ROM. It could be the last issue, to be succeeded by a new finalists announced earlier, the award would be more visible. bibliography covering world imprints. [For information on other This would parallel other ASA awards. Earlier publicity would topics, see Business Meeting minutes.] allow vendors to exhibit titles and could aid in securing their underwriting of the award reception. It was questioned why the The meeting adjourned at 11:04. award was not given alongside the Herskovits Award at the annual —Gregory A. Finnegan, Secretary Banquet. Walsh, speaking from the viewpoint of the ASA Board, noted resistance to packing more into the banquet. Howell moved and Finnegan seconded a motion to adopt the changes proposed CATALOGING COMMITTEE MINUTES and the group agreed to adopting earlier publication of the April 30, 1993, ll:00am-12:30pm finalists. Present: Aluko, Brady, Caruso, Crossey, Fung, Gray, Kagan, 6. Bellagio Group Statement in Support of African Books Lauer, Lesh, Malanchuk, McDermott, Plantz, Schmidt, Shayne, Collective: Kagan distributed a statement adopted by members of Sherrill, Stamm, Ward, Washington, and Williams. the Bellagio Publishing Group on 15 Feb. 1993. It urges support of ABC in the face of objections by Africanist book vendors to its The meeting was called to order by Robert Lesh, Committee having exclusive rights to non-African sales of titles published by chair. ABC members. [See ALN, April 1993, p.12, for full statement.] Schmidt noted that as this is an issue of conflict between vendors Plantz had asked to be relieved of her duties as secretary of the whom we patronize, any statement by ALC must be carefully Committee to assume the position of ALC secretary. Dawn worded. It was decided to support ABC by publicizing it among Williams assumed the position of Committee secretary, starting public libraries, bookstores and others as appropriate. Finnegan with the present meeting. argued that as bibliographers our concern is to maximize access to African imprints, rather than support one institutional source or 1. The minutes of the November 20, 1992 Seattle meeting were another. (Kagan and Easterbrook decided after the meeting to approved as they appeared in ALN. draft a proposal.) 2. Old business: 7. New Bibliographic Projects, or Updating Old Ones: a. 520 Summary Note Proposal: The Committee received a note • Westley is compiling a bibliography on African psychiatry from ALA’s Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Mate­ and mental health, for Zell. rials, which expressed support. LC also sent us a letter stating that • Schmidt is updating her African film bibliography. our suggestion for adopting the 520 summary note was accepted, • LC: Joanne Zellers is compiling a list of ASA Meeting Paper and that the Nairobi office, all other overseas offices, and a future abstracts. The LC African Section may take on the books West Africa office will include the note in its cataloging. section of Yvette Scheven’s bibliography of bibliographies. • Scheven and Howell are compiling a list of finding aids for b. DT Classification Schedule Expansion: Kay Elsasser informed Africana archives. Lesh that John Byrum would welcome a formal proposal to • Razia Nanji is listing the George Fortune Shona Collection. expand the DT classification schedule for African history. Stamm • Schmidt brought up the request from Scarecrow Press for pointed out that this idea was rejected only last November, and authors of continental or regional historical dictionaries. asked why the Committee should pursue this again. Beverly Gray • Lesh, Dawn Williams, and Stamm continue their Zaire and Judy McDermott offered to clarify John’s position, and the bibliography for ABC-Clio. Committee decided to wait for information from them before proceeding further. 8. Grant-Projects for Acquisitions: c. Letter to Ben Tucker: Lesh sent a formal letter from the • Northwestern Foreign Periodical Project: Since 1 Dec. Committee, congratulating him on his retirement. 1992, 72 new titles have been ordered from 20 countries, mostly newspapers. A filming project is planned. The project d. Inclusion of Languages Codes in LCSH Authority Records: includes a half-time serials cataloger. The 103 titles cataloged The Committee had sent a letter which formally endorsed the to date include both new titles from the grant, of which 35% inclusion of language codes in LCSH authority records for all have been received, and titles from the backlog. languages to both CC: AAM and Sarah Thomas of LC. CC:AAM • Iowa’s 1992 Foreign Periodical Program (DOE) includes responded with approval; no word as yet from Ms. Thomas. 202 titles from Africa, of which 25% have been received; e. African Languages Codes Project: Stamm reported there has cataloging will be uploaded to RLIN from the local OASIS been a change at LC in standards for literary warrant. LC is now system. trying to synchronize our national standard with the international standard. To get a new code adopted, literary warrant now 9. Library of Congress Report (Gray): U.S. Imprints on Sub- requires that there be 50 titles from one source (e.g. Northwestern Saharan Africa, vol. 8 (1992), is being prepared and will include would have all 50 titles); or, the 50 titles could come from five Africa-related essays in titles on the Third World and on African sources combined. One to two dozen African language codes will linguistics and languages. Future goals include adding African possibly be approved, even so. literary authors, which raises questions of how emigre and other authors are classed. Input is sought on criteria for handling AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 7 JULY 1993 3. ALA Report: Stamm gave a report on activities within ALA’s Plantz discussed her document on the proposed DDC reorgani­ CC:AAM. LC Nairobi will receive evaluations of the proposed zation of Islam (297). She described how she, John Hunwick and Amharic romanization table from Joe Lauer, UCLA, and Arline Mohammed Issa, two professors at Northwestern who possess Zuckerman; the final version of the table will be approved after extensive knowledge of the subject, reviewed proposed changes a final evaluation by Nairobi. to the schedules. She pointed out that the schedule and many of the suggested changes are patterned accordi ng to Western thought, 4. LC Report: Gray reported that the reorganization of cataloging and not Islamic. Malanchuk of Florida and Kagan of Illinois is still in the midst of its first year, cataloging teams coalescing offered to forward the document to the appropriate people within using a “team consultative management approach” and workflows their institutions. Anyone wishing to suggest any other changes being finalized. Everyone at LC is pleased with the Nairobi or additions should respond to Bob Lesh, Committee chair, by office’s descriptive cataloging. LC Nairobi will begin serial May 30th. Lesh will then send a formal letter of endorsement of cataloging within 12 months, and subject cataloging after that. the document on behalf of the Committee to Julianne Beall. 5. Cooperative Cataloging at LC: Gray reported that cataloging 9. New business: of Africana materials is proceeding less quickly because of a. Cataloging Committee Archives: Lesh has formed an archive of growing cataloging arrearages and budget cutbacks. A discussion Committee minutes from October 31, 1990 (Baltimore), and all took place on the viability of LC instituting cooperative catalog­ materials (e.g. minutes, agendas, correspondence, etc.) from ing for area studies materials. After some debate, the Committee November 23,1991 (St. Louis). He asked for submissions of any agreed that no one institution could make any commitment until pre-November 1991 materials people want included in this archive. more is known about what LC’s technical requirement would be. He will write to Kay Elsasser and Dorothy Niekamp, past Com­ Beverly offered to determine what cooperative ventures LC is mittee chairs, for what they may possess. engaged in now, and will ask catalogers of Latin American materials what is presently being done by them concerning such b. Appointment of Cataloging Committee Chair: Lesh announced areas as collection policies, diffusion of materials, and potential that he has accepted reappointment as chair of the Committee, problems of participating in such programs. effective through the fall of 1994. c. Future Projects for Cataloging Committee: 6. African Languages Survey: Lesh discussed his African Lan­ Lesh mentioned that Kay Elsasser suggested the Committee guages Survey of materials held by various institutions. He approve a proposal to expand time period subdivisions for Afri­ explained the design of the chart he created, which was based on can countries. She mentioned Angola, Mozambique, South initial survey results. Bob solicited some suggestions as to how Africa, and Nigeria as top priorities, but all African countries the format of the survey results could be improved. Schmidt could be considered. suggested that libraries could add what date they went online and Kay also sent to the meeting the contents page of a soon-to- whether or not retrospective conversion had been done, and, if so, appear LC manual for the cataloging of Arabica materials and what percentage of materials had been converted. Kagan sug­ suggested the Committee look at it and think about the possibility gested the number of materials held in arrearages be recorded, and of creating a similar manual for Africana materials. to use “0” to record no response to a particular item instead of “— ”. The Committee agreed to forward the minutes of the meeting 10. Announcements: to all institutions that had taken part in the survey. Lesh will wait Lesh described the ongoing indexing of currently received a few months for additional institutions to report back to him and (1991-) conference papers presently taking place at Northwest­ then finalize the survey. ern, and announced that Northwestern is awaiting word on its Title II-C Africana Conference Paper Indexing Project grant. The 7. Project for Enhancement of LC Authority Records for African grant, if awarded, would start in September and fund indexing of Languages: Lesh stated he will collect a number of sample records materials previously received. The indexing database presently created by participants, and collected some from others who had contains approximately 180 conferences or over 3,000 individual not yet sent their records to him. Kay Elsasser will see the records conference papers. Full access through keyword searching will and give the Committee feedback. If it is determined the hopefully be available within a year. Kagan announced the enhanced records are valuable, and after feedback is received, the University of Illinois has cataloged the computer file “ASA project may be continued. online”; he had a copy of the bibliographic record with him if anyone wanted to view it. 8. DDC proposals for African Languages and Islam: Stamm explained that the people from Northwestern surveyed the The meeting was adjourned at 12:30. Africana holdings to determine literary warrant, so that they —Dawn E. Williams (seer.) could suggest what languages should have a separate number in Table 6 of DDC, should be examined to determine if they should be inserted into Table 6 and/or given their own individual num­ bers, or should be inserted into the index and examined for possible inclusion in Table 6. Julianne Beall, assistant DDC editor, needs final feedback on Table 6 additions by August 20th, which, unfortunately, is before the next time the Committee is scheduled to meet. Stamm stressed we have to be careful what we recommend, because we will only be able to add a small number of languages to the table. The Committee endorsed the proposal in principle, pending Helene Baumann’s approval. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 8 JULY 1993 POST-MEETING Africana Librarians, ALC strategic plan, ALC links to African EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING library associations, ACRL activities, BCALA activities, report Saturday May 1, 1993, 12:30-l:00pm from the Zimbabwe Book Fair liaison, report on the ARL project, draft statement of support for ABC, as well as a Book Donation The meeting was called to order by Schmidt, Chair. Present were: update, and a presentation for Doris Hull. Baumann, Bell-Gam, Gray, Howell, Kagan, Lauer, Plantz, Schmidt, and Weissinger. It was requested that, at the spring meeting at Duke, more time be allotted for both the general business meeting and the Bibliogra­ Schmidt noted the need to designate someone from the group to phy Committee meeting. be responsible for greeting guests and new people at meetings and making them feel welcome. Gray and Baumann agreed to take on Meeting was adjourned. this responsibility at the fall meeting. —Elizabeth J. Plantz, Secretary The list of possible topics for Schmidt to discuss with the African Studies Association Board were narrowed down. She will talk to them about our plans for a 40th anniversary celebration and the RECENT MEMBER PUBLICATIONS & NEWS recent cuts in Office of Education funding for libraries and the LC West Africa Office. Phyllis Bischof (U. of California, Berkeley) attended the Info Africa Nova Conference (May 1993, Pretoria, South Africa). Possible liaisons with other library groups in the United States were discussed. Weissinger agreed last fall to be our official Pauline Manaka (U. of California, Irvine) received a research liaison to the Black Caucus of the American Library Association grant from the Librarians Association of the University of Cali­ (BCALA). Schmidt will send a letter to the Chair of BCALA fornia for work on a guide to resources on the anti-apartheid informing them of Weissinger’s appointment. The need for a movement in the United States, 1977-1992. liaison with the Asian and African Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) was also discussed. Nancy Schmidt. “The future of the book in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Malanchuk will be asked to be our representative. We will make Liberal Education, 79, 1 (1993): 36-41. This was in a special a point of having regular reports given at the ALC business issue on the future of the book. meetings, as is already done in the Cataloging Committee. [Interview with Janet Stanley.] “The Smithsonian Initiative,” The agenda for the fall meeting in Boston will include elections, African Guardian, 7 June 1993, p. 36-7. reports on the 40th anniversary preparations, the training of OTHER NEWS NEWS FROM OTHER ASSOCIATIONS Brenda E. Bickett as vice-chair/chair-elect; Dorothy Ann Washington as secretary; CALENDAR Gregory A. Finnegan as member-at-large. ALA: In addition, a bylaws change was approved. Feb. 5-10,1994, Los Angeles - Midwinter Meeting In te rn a tio n a l R elations C om m ittee (ACRL) meeting on June 23-30, 1994, Miami - ALA Annual Conf. June 27: Jan. 20-26, 1995, Cincinnati - Midwinter Meeting • Heard a report on ALA sponsorship of foreign librarians Mar. 29-April 1, 1995 - ACRL Conference in the US; June 22-29, 1995, Chicago - ALA Annual Conf. • Agreed to co-sponsor a program on international net­ Jan. 19-25, 1996, San Antonio - Midwinter Meeting working at the 1994 ALA meeting; June 20-27, 1996, Orlando - ALA Annual Conf. • Noted that the 1995 ACRL conference in Pittsburgh will Feb. 14-20, 1997, Washington - Midwinter Meeting in c lu d e a th e m e /p ro g ra m on in te rn a tio n a lis m and June 26-July 2,1997, San Francisco - ALA Annual Conf. m ulticulturalism . IFLA Annual Conference: Aug. 22-28, 1993, Barcelona CONFERENCE ON WOMEN & INFORMATION Future meetings: 1994, Havana; 1995, Istanbul; 1996, Bejing; 1997, Geneva; 1998, Edmonton. Women, Information, and the Future: Collecting and Sharing Resources World-wide. This is the title of a conference to be held June 17-21, 1994, at Radcliffe College (Cambridge, Mass.), AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION sponsored by the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the Detailed reports from the June 1993 meeting in New Orleans are History of Women. Radcliffe College invites the participation of not yet available. The following came from non-ALC sources: representatives from organizations and institutions that collect, Asian and African Section of the Association of College & classify, and redistribute information on women. Address: 10 Research Libraries elected: Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138. FAX: 617-496-8340. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 9 JULY 1993 FREE MATERIALS REQUESTED RESOURCES AT LIBRARIES AND RESEARCH CENTERS Notes on requests for books are listed as received, without any endorsement by the editor, MSU orALC. Editorial policy is to The Fund to Acquire the Royal Commonwealth Society Library limit to requests from institutions o f higher education. reached its £3 million target, and the Library has been purchased for the Cambridge University Library, where it will be housed in Cameroon Baptist Theological Seminary (Ndu, Cameroon) is a new extension. building a collection of materials on Africa, to provide a more contextualized theological basis in the training of their pastors. Contact the Rev. David H. Burgess, CBTS Academic Dean and PERSONNEL CHANGES Librarian. John Pinfold has been named Librarian of Rhodes House Li­ Tigray Regional Adm inistration seeks books, journals, etc. for brary, effective August 1. He replaces Alan Bell, who accepted its Regional Planning and Economic Development Bureau. Con­ the position of Librarian of The London Library. tact Tadesse Haile, Head, Planning & Economic Development, PO Box 280, Mekele, Ethiopia. RESEARCH ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE The following items have come to the attention o f the editor. ARTICLES Afolabi, M.O. “A Bibliography of the Nigerian Governments THESES Commissions of Inquiry Reports and Accompanying White Pa­ pers from 1920 to 1986.” Government Publications Review, 20 Haricombe, Lorraine Jeanne. “The Effect of an Academic Boy­ (1993): 297-357. cott on Academics in South Africa.” Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992. 218pp. Order No: 9305547. Ghirmai Negash. “A Press in the Making.” Index on Censorship, Based on questionnaires sent to 900 academics at 21 universities no. 4 (1993): 30-1. [Press in Eritrea.] and to 28 libraries, plus interviews. Hurault, Jean. “Problemes de conservation des archives locales dans la province de FAdamoua (Cameroun).”Mega-Tchad, 92/2, JOURNALS p. 31-34. CD-ROM for Development (AAAS Sub-Saharan Africa Pro­ Lippman, M.J. “The Library as Information Producer: the Case gram), v. 1, no. 1 (April 1993), carries notes on products and of the Ministry of Health Library and Documentation Centre in projects at Cornell University, IDRC (Ottawa), the Institute of Malawi.” Journal o f Documentation, 49 (march 1993): 55-. Agricultural Research (Addis Ababa), and the University of Zambia. To receive this biannual newsletter, contact: AAAS, Okojie, V.O. “Review of Automated Library and Information 1333 H St., NW, Washington, DC 20005. Services in Nigeria.” Program: Automated Library andlnforma- tion Systems, 27 (April 1993): 191-6. Information Trends - NewsMagazine (Gaborone/Bonn), v. 5, no. 3 (October 1992) includes the following: Raseroka, H.K. “The Role and Purpose of the University Library • M. Tali, “Factors which affect the Development of Libraries in in a Rapidly Changing Information Environment with Reference Angola;” to the Eastern and Southern African Region.” IFLA Journal, 19 • B.P. Nkoma, “Librarianship in Zambia;” (Feb. 1993): 50-8. • A.-J. Totemeyer, “Developments on the Library and Informa­ tion Scene in Namibia;” “Resolutions of the 1992IFLA Pre-session Savard, R. & N. Ibnikhayat. [Information needs and develop­ Seminar.” ment: for better marketing of information systems in Africa.] Libri, v. 43 (Jan.-Mar. 1993): 67-85. MELA Notes, no. 56-57 (1992), includes notes on using State Department Records in the National Archives, on the Princeton September, P.E. “Public Libraries and Community Information University Libraries Arabic Book Preservation Project, and on Needs in a Changing South Africa.” Journal o f Librarianship and the decline of Index Islamic us (by Wolfgang Behn). Information Science, 25, 2 (June 1993): 71-8. Project for African Research Libraries Notes (AAAS Sub-Sa­ Zulu, S.F.C. “Towards Achieving Bibliographic Control of haran Africa Program), v. 3, no. 1 (Summer 1993), carried notes Unpublished Reports in Africa.” Libri, 43, 2 (1993): 123-33. on Bunda College (Malawi), PADIS (Addis Ababa), the African Index Medicus Project, and the Aequatoria Centre (Mbandaka, Zaire). AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 10 JULY 1993 REFERENCE SOURCES MCILWAINE’S GUIDE TO the following non-UK titles: Sayyid Akbarali Ibrahimali Tirmizi, REFERENCE MATERIAL: A REVIEW Indian Sources for African History (Delhi, 1988-9; 2 vols.); and by Phyllis B. Bischof Peter W. Schroth, Doing Business in Sub-Saharan Africa (Wash­ (U. of California, Berkeley) ington, DC: American Bar Association, Section of International Law and Practice, 1991; 365 pp.). John Mcllwaine, Africa: A Guide to Reference Material. London: Because the index (combined author, title, and subject) fre­ Hans Zell Publishers; An imprint of Bowker-Saur Ltd., 1993. 507 quently provides subject access only, it may be difficult to pp. (Regional Reference Guides, 1) ascertain quickly whether some titles are present in the volume. E.g. to learn whether E. Grobler’s Language Atlas of South Africa, John Mcllwaine collected the 1766 titles to which he provides 1990, is included, I looked first under Author, then Title, and access in Africa: A Guide to Reference Material over 25 years of finally under Languages South Africa, where it was present, as the teaching area studies bibliography at University College London. fifth entry number which I checked. This point may be of concern In examining this volume closely, one senses the great good chiefly for searchers of half-remembered citations, because to fortune Mcllwaine’s students have enjoyed in studying with this look for material by subject, the access provided in this example professor who has mastered so elegantly the complexities of would suffice. Africana bibliography. A preface clearly sets the present work in In the main he hallmark of this volume is excellence, and Mr. the context of previous literature and outlines its intent, plan of Mcllwaine is to be thanked and congratulated for its publication. organization, and scope. For categories of excluded works, It is an essential tool of fundamental importance for all Africana readers are directed to other sources. This source includes more librarians and scholars of the far-flung disciplines of African than triple the 541 entries of Sheehy’s tenth edition and its 1992 Studies. It will also be an invaluable resource in the reference supplement. Mcllwaine’s 1766 entries are even more impressive collections of the world’s research libraries, where it will aug­ when one notes that Sheehy’s number includes North African ment substantially sources like Sheehy and Walford. This reader materials and also bibliographies, both of which categories Mcll­ finds the Guide to be an epitome, a model of works of its kind. waine excludes. Numbered, annotated entries access Sub-Saharan African ref­ erence material produced in any language with emphasis on approximately the last one hundred years through 1991, with a NOTES fair number of earlier and a few later titles present. Mcllwaine defines reference works as providing “factual data, rather than Quarterly index to periodical literature, eastern and southern interpretation,... and that their arrangement is intended to facili­ Africa, vol. 2, no. 4,1992, includes cumulated indexes for Vol. 2. tate rapid consultation.” (p. xx) Excluded are bibliographies, A total of 236 mainly scholarly journals are indexed in vols. 1 and interlingual dictionaries, narrowly focused handbooks and guides, 2 (4957 entries). works on the biological sciences, and most general reference sources either worldwide in scope or on the developing world. Scarecrow Press has decided to do regional bibliographies on Organized by continent-wide works, then by five regions, and North, East, Central, West and Southern Africa. If interested, within each region by country. Under each geographical unit are contact Jon Woronoff, Lotissement Moens Village, 765 route des six broad categories: Handbooks, Yearbooks, Statistics, Directo­ Alpes, 01280 Prevessin-Moens, France. Tel: 33-50-40-10-91; fax ries of organizations, Biographical sources, and Atlases and 33-50-40-10-65. [See also ALN, Apr. 1993.} gazeteers. To facilitate use and lend coherence, order is chrono­ logical by date of publication within each section. References to all substantial reviews in several major journals enhance the guide’s utility. Unfortunately, however, only a relatively small NEW REFERENCE TITLES number of such reviews exist. The work provides a somewhat greater emphasis on South Africa (214 entries) and on the areas The following items or issues are noted. of former English colonial influence than on other areas. E.g., For more titles, see the annual “Africana Reference Books” in entries for anglophone areas are: Gambia 16; Ghana 54; Nigeria The African Book Publishing Record, no. 2. 68, Tanzania 41; Zimbabwe 35; and East Africa regionally 40; while West Africa regionally accounts for 23 for Anglophone and African Books in Print = Livres Africaines disponibles, 4th ed., 27 for Francophone areas; with Cameroon 34; Cote d’Ivoire 23; edited by Hans M. Zell. 1993. 2 vols.(1520 p.) £250. ISBN Senegal 21; Zaire 37; and Togo 14, etc. While these figures may 1873836112 Lists some 24,000 books published in 45 African represent a certain preference for former spheres of British countries by more than 700 publishers. Available from Bowker- influence, they also, in the cases of South Africa and Nigeria, Saur, Order Processing Dept., Butterworth Services, Borough represent the two African countries most active in publishing. Green, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN15 8PH, UK. An appendix (Annual Reports on the British Possessions in Africa) on pages 421-452 details “reports on the individual An Annotated Guide to the Africana Documentary Video Collec­ colonies and other possessions issued in series from 1846 until the tion, by Stephen Marek, Stuart Baker and Rose Antonecchia. year of independence.” Similar lists of reports from the various Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Library, Mitchell Media other former colonial regimes would enhance future editions of Center, April 1993. 34 pages. Describes about 120 videos. the Guide. Other suggestions for inclusion in a second edition are AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 11 JULY 1993 Maurer, Margarete, with Barbara Smetschka. Women's Studies, Women's Movement and Feminism in Africa = Frauenforschung undFrauenbewegung inAfrika. Vienna: Verein fuer Interdiszi- plinaere Forschung und Praxis, 1992. (W omen’s Studies International: Documentation/Bibliography = Frauenforschung international.Dokumentation/Bibliographie; 4) Price: 590 Aust. sh. Covers monographs, journals and grey literature from 1970- 1991, in English, German, French and other languages. The SCOLMA Directory o f Libraries and Special Collections on Africa in the UnitedKingdom and in Europe, compiled and edited by Tom French. 5th rev. & expanded ed. Hans Zell Publishers, 1993. NOTES ON MATERIALS AND VENDORS VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENTS Leishman & Taussig’s List 1/1993C offers new books mainly from Southern Africa and Kenya. Address: 2B Westgate, South- African and C aribbean Im print L ibrary Services (236 Main well, Notts, NG25 0JH, UK. St., Falmouth, MA 02540) continues to issues country lists of titles recently received. 1993 titles are especially prominent in McBlain Books (PO Box 5062, Hamden, CT 06518; 203-281- the list for Ghana. 0400) issued Catalog 125, with over 1700 titles on Sub-Saharan Africa. African Books Collective Ltd. (The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., Oxford 0 X 1 1HU) has distributed its Catalogue no. 6 (1993). Yoruba Book Center, Blackmind Book Boutique, Inc., 610 New The next issue of this biannual is due in September. York Ave., Brooklyn, NY 10203 (Tel: 718-774-5800), offers A 6th batch of 29 cards was distributed in June, listing 1992- Books, LPs, and cassettes on Yoruba and African culture in the 93 imprints from the following: Academy Science Publ., Baobab Americas and Africa. Books, CODESRIA, East African Educ. Publ., Found, for Ed. with Prod., Ghana Univ. Press, Multimedia, New Namibia Books, Skotaville Publ., Univ. of Zimbabwe Publications, Woeli Publ. EVENTS Services, and Zimbabwe Publ. House. ABC Newsline [its occasional newsletter], no. 2 (June 1993), Zimbabwe International Book F air (ZIBF 93) will take place in provides more details. the Book Garden adjacent to the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, For ALA in New Orleans, it prepared “Cultural Diversity”, an 4-8 August 1993. The following changes have been made in annotated catalog of selected titles. response to Exhibitor Survey: a) The first day (Wednesday, August 4th; not Tuesday as C larke’s Bookshop (211 Long St., Cape Town 8001) issued originally advertised) will be a Trade Day. The Fair will be open Catalogue 85, listing 876 publications. The majority of these to the public on Thursday-Saturday, 10-5, and on Sunday from 10 were antiquarian items. TTiey also are distributors for Buchu to 3. Books (PO box 2580, Cape Town 8000). b) Stands will be grouped by country and by type. c) The financial and trading arrangements will be much sim­ Development Media Organisation (P.O. Box 5725, Harare) pler, with a daily briefing to answer any remaining queries. publ ishes Africa Intelligence Reports and Development Dialogue Further information available from: ZIBF, 12 Selous Ave, (v. 3, no. 7 (Feb. 1993) had 36 pages). Their North American Harare. representative is Brian M. Murphy, Director, Development Com­ munications Division (RSTI), P.O. box 73243, Davis, CA 95617. Tel: 916-753-6911. * LITERATURE ON THE BOOK TRADE Heinemann, the publisher of the African Writers Series, have African Books Collective Ltd. African Publishers Networking begun to issue romantic fiction in a new series, Heartbeats. Directory a n d 1Names & Numbers' 1993/94. Oxford: ABC, 1993. Authors include Christine Botchway, Jessica Maji, and Shirley ISBN 0952126907. £10/$20; free to publishers, booksellers, Boje. libraries and writers in Africa. This 64-page booklet lists major publishers in Africa; book IBOLINK Software Systems offers educational software that is trade organizations, journals and reference resources and events; focused on the study of African and African-American history prizes and training opportunities; donor organizations; and Afri­ and culture. A recent program, “What do You Know About can studies groups. Africa?” for ages 12 and up, is sold for $12.95. Address: PO Box 831984, Stone Mountain, GA 30083. Tel: 404-294-0291. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 12 JULY 1993 Afro/Asian Publishing: Current Trends, edited by Narendra Ku­ Subscriptions are $20 & $35 (institutions) in the US; $25 & $45 mar &S.K. Ghai. New Delhi: Institute of Book Publishing, 1992. overseas. Contact Journal of Maghrebi Studies, PO Box 1257, Includes: Cambridge, MA 02238. • Hans Zell, “Africa, the Neglected Continent,” pp. 30-47; • S.B. Bankole, “Publishing in Nigeria,” pp. 49-72; New Voice is a Malawi paper available from P/B 66, Mzuzu, • B.C. Chitsike, “Publishing in Zimbabwe,” pp. 73-81; Malawi. • David Philip, Oppositional Publishing in South Africa from 1945,” pp. 83-98; The Pepperbird is a newsletter (1st year, No. 2, 1992) issued by • S. Bissoondoyal, “Publishing in Mauritius,” pp. 99-102. the Society for the Renewal of Nature Conservation in Liberia (SRNCL). Address: PO Box 93, Alpine, CA 91903. Altbach, Philip G. “Perspectives on Publishing in Africa.” Publishing Research Quarterly, April 1993, pp. 44-62. SELECTED NEW BOOKS Darch, Colin (U. of the Western Cape). “The Book Trade and Publishing in Mozambique.” African Book Publishing Record, This section is generally limited to titles outside the regular book trade, or 19, 1 (1993): 9-12. titles received by the editor. Many more titles and/or details on publisher addresses can be found in Joint Acquisitions List of Africans (Northwest­ ern University Library), The African Book Publishing Record (Hans Zell Publishers), American Book Publishing Record (Bowker), Accessions SERIAL CHANGES List: Eastern Africa (Library o f Congress Office, Nairobi), or in one of the current national bibliographies. Africa News (Durham, NC) ceased as a printed product. Last issue received was April 26,1993 (v. 38, no. 6). An African Commitment: Papers in honour o f Peter Lewis Shin- nie, edited by Judy Sterner and Nicholas David. Calgary AB Information Trends Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1 (April 1993), contin­ [2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Canada]: University of ues Information Trends - News Magazine. It is edited by Richard Calgary Press, 1992. 248p. $19.95 ISBN 189517628X Neill & Kingo Mchombu, Library and Information Studies, University of Botswana, P/Bag 0022, Gaborone. Alemna, A. A. Oral Literature in African Libraries: Implications for Ghana. (Monograph on African Librarianship, no. 4) Avail­ able for $6 from African Studies Program, 221 Woodburn Hall, NEW SERIALS Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. Note: Monograph See also new serials in no. 3 has been delayed. Research on Libraries & Information Science. Kingdom of Lesotho: Pre-election Assessment, March 18, 1993. Arts News (ISSN 0796-0875) is the newsletter of the National 26 p. Available from 1212 New York Ave., NW, Suite 900, Council for Arts and Culture in the Gambia. Vol. 1, no. 1 (May Washington, DC 20005. Tel>: 202-408-9450. 1993) had 12 pages and a listed price of D5.00. Contact NCAC Secretariat, 8c, Marina Parade, Banjul. Harry F. Moniba. Liberian Politics Today: Some Personal Observations. Monrovia, Liberia: Moniba, 1992. 79p. Available East African Journal o f Peace & Human Rights is published twice for $10 from: John S. Morlu, Embassy of Liberia for Maritime, annually by the Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC) of Reston International Center, 11800 Sunrise Valley Dr., 6th floor, the Faculty of Law at Makerere University (PO Box 7062, Reston, VA 22091. Tel: 703-620-4880. Kampala, Uganda). Annual rates of $35 (institutions), $30 (individuals) and $20 (Africa, Asia, Latin America). Editor is Nyeki, Daniel Musili. Wildlife Conservation and Tourism in Frederick W. Jjuuko of Makerere’s Faculty of Law. Vol. 1, no. Kenya. Nairobi: Jacaranda Books, 1993. ISBN 9966-884-96-3. 1 (March 1993) included articles by Kader Asmal (on South $8.95. Address in US: 2701E. Warren Ave., Denver, CO 80210. Africa), J. Oloka-Onyango (on Uganda), Ibrahim J. Wani (on development in Africa), Francis A. Boyle (on the invasion of Postkoloniales Philosophieren: Afrika, edited by Herta Nagl- Panama), and Winston P. Nagan (on Kaunda). Docekal & Franz M. Wimmer. Vienna: R. Oldenbourg, 1992. 252p. (Wiener Reihe: Themen der Philosophic. Bd. 6) ISBN 3- Ethiopian Commentator (ISSN 1068-3408) is published quarterly 7029-0341-0 Os 260. Most essays are in English or French. by Axumauit Publication, P.O. Box 1655, Portage, MI 49081. Tel: 616-373-1106. Subscription rates: $12 plus postage ($5.76) Window on Africa: Democratization and Media Exposure, edited for one year. Initial? issue for May 1, 1993, carries reports and by Festus Eribo et al. Greenville, NC: Center for International editorials that are generally favorable to the current governments Programs (Publication no. 1), East Carolina University, March in Addis Ababa and Asmara. 1993. 161p. GREFUL (Groupe d ’anthropologie comparative des societes peu- les) issued a 4-page newsletter of 23 Octobre 1992. Information SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS on projects appears in both French and English. Available from R. Botte or Jean Schmitz, Centre d ’Etudes Africaines, 54, Bd. Special Issue on Population Growth and Sustainable Develop­ Raspail, 75006 Paris. ment in Africa.” African Development Review, vol. 4, no. 2 (Dec. 1992). Available from the African Development Bank (Abidjan). Journal of Maghrebi Studies is a new semi-annual, starting in 1993. The spring 1993 issue is devoted to Maghrebi Women. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 13 JULY 1993 TRIP REPORTS • Social Science Research Unit, University of Swaziland in Kwaluseni: Librarian Faith Mkhonta. H unting Elusive Publications in Southern Africa • Institute of Development Research and Documentation (NIR), by Helene Baumann (Duke University) University of Botswana: Librarian Stella Monageng. • SADCC headquarters (Gaborone): Librarian Mabel Dimbungu. In August 1992 I traveled to Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, • Institute of Southern African Studies, University of Lesotho: Swaziland and South Africa to visit government printing and Director Dr. Robert Gordon and librarian Mrs. Gupta. statistical offices, to attend the Zimbabwe International Book • Zimbabwe Institute for Development Studies: Mrs. S. Tevera. Fair, to learn about papers published by various university re­ • Southern African Research and Documentation Center (Harare): search centers and to forge new exchange relations for Duke Mrs. Livinia Mutsongonono. University. The most overwhelming memory of the trip is how In Cape Town, Henrietta Dax arranged for me (among other gracious and helpful everyone was. On a practical note, air travel things) to have lunch with publishers Bridget Impey from David was easy, the planes mostly punctual, immigration and emigra­ Philip and Lynne Bryer from Chameleon Books and attend the tion for the most part quite efficiently organized, and airplane reception/press conference launching the Weekly Mail Book food generally better than what US airlines offer. (I especially Week, where I met more publishers. The Book Week, unfortu­ remember an outstanding Royal Swazi Airline breakfast!) The nately taking place after I had left, was an impressive event only drawback to airline travel was the checked luggage weight featuring exhibits and many literary panels with writers and restriction to 20 kg (in economy class), forcing me to mail most researchers. of the books I bought in about 38 packages (all arrived!). Ground Another valuable contact was the Librarian of Parliament in travel was not as easy. Harare, Zimbabwe, Mr. W.H.C. Gurure and his deputy librarian In Harare, Gaborone, Mbabane and Maseru I visited as many Mr. Nyika C. Shonhiwa. We now have a lively exchange of book stores and government sales offices as I could find and materials with them. I also visited some private libraries such as purchased about $650 worth of publications for the library, the Brenthurst Library in Johannesburg. mostly official documents. Since we have fine working relations I will be happy to provide further details and addresses. The with Thorold and Clarke’s, I did not visit other bookstores in trip was only successful because of the cheerful willingness of South Africa on an official basis. In addition, I visited many many African librarians and booksellers (especially Ms. Henri­ national and university libraries. I had written some letters etta Dax and Mr. Robin Fryde) to give me their time, show me announcing my arrival, but what really worked best was to call the around, and make useful suggestions. It is to them I owe my day or the week before and make an appointment with whomever greatest debt. happened to be in charge. Many of the administrators to whom I had written originally were either off teaching at another univer­ sity, at the IFLA meeting in India, on vacation, on leave, or even retired. A South African Trip: May 1993 Libraries and librarians visited included the following (UL = by Phyllis B. Bischof (University of California, Berkeley) University Librarian): • University of the Witwatersrand: Heather Edwards, UL; Archi­ Immediately after the Spring meetings in East Lansing, I flew to vist Anna Cunningham (since retired) and Africana Library head Johannesburg, via London. Upon arrival on Monday, May 3, I Clare Walker. went straight to the INFO AFRICA NOVA conference already • University of Cape Town: Africana Library Director Margaret underway in Pretoria. Mrs. Trudie Coetzer’s organization, INFO Richards and her staff in government documents and special AFRICA NOVA, is a non-political, independent, and neutral collections. enterprise with the mission of the promotion of cultural develop­ • University of Zimbabwe: Mrs. Josephine Gurira, and acting UL ment in Southern Africa. I presented a paper entitled “Publishing Mrs. Devi Pakkiri. in Africa: A California Perspective” at a panel on 5 May. The • University of Botswana: Mr. Asimani, Head of Collection conference was attended by approximately 200 librarians from Development and Acquisitions; Mrs. H.K. Raseroka was on throughout the Southern African region, plus Kosi A. Kedem vacation. from Ghana and Getachew Birru from Ethiopia. • University of Lesotho (Roma): acting UL Mrs. Lebotsa (UL In the course of my visit, I was invited into the homes of Mrs. Tau is on a two-year leave and David Ambrose was in U.K. librarians of every category (as designated by the former apart­ for several months). heid government) of person and thereby learned far more about • Swaziland’s National Library Service: Ms. Dudu Fakudze. the current scene than would have been possible had I been housed • University of Swaziland: Mr. F.K. Tawete, head of Reader in hotels. Many of my hosts are active in LIWO (Library and Services; Mr. H. Dua-Agyemang, head of the Swaziana Collec­ Information Workers Organization), founded in Natal in 1990. tion. A highpoint of the trip was the discovery of a Sotho proverb • Swaziland National Archives: Ms. Sibongile Nxumalo. from Jeremy Cronin’s prison poem: MOTHO KE MOTHO KA • Lesotho National Library: Mr. Donaven Raliile. BATHO BABANG, or A Person is a Person Because of Other • Botswana National Library: Mrs. Constance Modise. People. For me this proverb is symbolic of the current state of Research centers and individuals contacted included the fol­ South Africa, for it presents the essence of the African world lowing: view, namely a profound sense of community upon which all of • University of the Western Cape: Mayibuye Centre: Mr. Barry South Africa’s people may draw. Feinstein; Education Policy Unit: Librarian Faye Reagon. After the week-long conference in Pretoria, I visited the Uni­ • South African Institute of International Affairs: librarian Elna versity of the North (John Tsebe and M.P. Modipane), the Schoeman (since retired); Jacqueline Kalley was out of town. University of the Witwatersrand (Heather Edwards), the • South African Institute of Race Relation: Librarian Ellen Johannesburg Teachers College, Rand Afrikaans University, the Potter; SAIRR membership: Margaret Ramsay. AFRICANA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER 14 JULY 1993 Pietermaritzburg and Durban campuses of the University of Natal (Jenni Karlsson, Anitha Shah, and Christine Stilwell), the Univer­ sity of Cape Town, and the University of the Western Cape (and E ditor’s Comments, continued from p .l. its Mayibuye Centre for History and Culture in South Africa). I the CAMP minutes which will appear in the next issue) is a report also visited two branches of the South African State Library and on the discussions of librarians from Title-VI centers, who have the Library of Parliament in Cape Town and addressed numerous been charged with developing a cooperative buying program, classes and meetings. At each of the universities and colleges the again. A tentative solution was to build upon the newspapers and student populations were racially mixed. other serials at CAMP. David Wiley (the African Studies Center Mr. Pieter Westra (Director of the State Library of Cape Town) director at Michigan State) attended this meeting and shared his arranged a private tour of Parliament and a difficult-to-schedule usual enthusiastic and thoughtful comments. He was concerned May 22nd trip to Robben Island. Other sites visited included with access to federally-funded information and support for Kruger National Park (with M.P. Modipane) and District Six foreign acquisitions. He stated that foreign acquisitions budgets (Cape Town). Other hosts included Robin Fryde (Thorold’s, should be 5-10 times the current rate. A few minutes later, while Johannesburg), Henrietta Dax (Clarke’s Bookshop, Cape Town), discussing the environmental problems created by American Dr. Annari van der Merwe (Tafelberg), and J.J. Jacobs (Bellville rates of consumption, he asked: “How much consumption is Public Library). enough?” Good question. For colleagues who may be planning acquisitions trips to South Once again, this issue would not have been possible without Africa, I would be happy to share the names and addresses of those contributions from many sources. Contributors include: Helene with whom I met there. I regret being unable to name in this Baumann, Phyllis Bischof, Moore Crossey, Karen Fung, Eliza­ summary report all those who helped me and assisted in making beth Plantz, Nancy Schmidt. My apologies for delays in production, the trip such a memorable and productive one. On the basis of my which have dated the information about the Zimbabwe Interna­ own enriching experiences in attending the 1993 conference, I tional Book Fair. highly recommend attendance at INFO AFRICA NOVA’s 1994 conference in Pretoria. MSSU Is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution Non-Profit Org. AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER U.S. POSTAGE Michigan State University PAID 100 International Center E. 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