Present: Lygia Ballantyne (LC), Helene Baumann (Duke U), Julianne Beale
(LC), Ruby Bell-Gam (UCLA), Phyllis Bischof (UC Berkeley), Simon Bockie (UC
Berkeley), Linda Brooks (LC), Moore Crossey (Yale, ret'd), Andrew de Heer
(Schomburg), David Easterbrook (Northwestern), Vickie Evalds, Greg Finnegan
(Harvard), Karen Fung (Stanford), Miki Goral (UCLA), David Henige (Wisconsin),
Birgitte Jansen (Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden), Nina Johnsen (U of Copenhagen),
Al Kagan (U of Illinois), Patricia Kuntz (Edgewood College), Joe Lauer (Michigan
State U), Bob Lesh (Northwestern U), Liz Levey (Partnership for Higher Ed
in Africa, NYU), Nancy Pressman Levy (Princeton), Peter Limb (Michigan State
U), Ken Lohrentz (U of Kansas), Peter Malanchuk (U of Florida), Mary Materu-Behitsa
(AAU/DATAD), Loyd Mbabu (Ohio U), Joyce Noble (LC), Akilah Nosakhere (Atlanta
U Center), Lauris Olson (U of Pennsylvania), Hans Panofsky (Northwestern U,
ret'd), Afeworki Paulos (U of Michigan), Loumona Petroff (Boston U), Fred
Protopappas (LC), Jason Schultz (Northwestern U), Shoshanah Seidman (Northwestern
U), Oleg Semikhnenko (Hogarth), James T. Simon (CRL), Janet Stanley (Smithsonian),
Paul Steere (LC Nairobi), Barbara Turfan (SOAS, U of London), Gretchen Walsh
(Boston U), David Westley (Boston U), Marion Frank-Wilson (Indiana U), Dorothy
Woodson (Yale), Joanne Zellers (LC)
1. The meeting was called to order at 4:14pm.
2. Welcome and introductions.
3. There were no changes to the agenda.
4. Minutes of the Spring, 2002 meeting were accepted.
5. Announcements
· Conover-Porter Awards Committee. The committee (Ken Lohrentz, Jill Coelho, Joanne Zellers) selected the following winners.
2002 AWARD CO-WINNERS
Bassett, Thomas J. and Yvette Scheven. Maps of Africa to 1900: A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. [Urbana, IL]: Board of Trustees of
the University of Illinois: distrib. by [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign], The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 2000. xiii, 317 pp. (Robert B. Downs Publication Fund: no. 9).Bade, David W., compiler. Books in African Languages in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University: A Catalog. Evanston, Ill: Program of African Studies, Northwestern University [distributed by Northwestern University Press], c2000. 2 v. <http://www.northwestern.edu/african-studies/pubs/wp8bade.pdf>2002
HONORABLE MENTION
Bell-Gam, Ruby A. and David Uru Iyam. Nigeria. Oxford, England; Santa Barbara, Calif.: Clio Press, 1999. xxvii, 342 pp. (World Bibliographical Series: v. 100)
Maundu, Patrick M., Grace W. Ngugi and Christine H.S. Kabuye. Traditional Food Plants of Kenya. Nairobi: Kenya Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge, National Museums of Kenya, 1999. x, 270 pp.
Sundkler, Bengt and Christopher Steed. A History of the Church in Africa. Cambridge, England; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xix, 1232 pp. (Studia missionalia Upsaliencia: 74). Includes reference notes (pp.
1041-1098) and bibliography (pp. 1099-1147)· Memorial volume to honor Daniel Britz (Northwestern). Vicki Evalds presented a proposal for a volume of essays. Evalds will explore the possibility and make a report at the Spring 2003 meeting.
· Limb reported that the African Book Collective and will Michigan State University Press have an agreement whereby ABC books will be distributed in the United States by MSU Press.
6.. LC Nairobi Standing Order Profile Kagan had raised the issue on the ALC Listserv because of the doubling of the bill this year. He asked that there be advance warning of such an increase prior to receiving an invoice. Steere explained how the system worked and why the increase occurred. He also said that if a library has a social sciences profile, they will receive all human rights monographs. The Quarterly Index will be hosted at LC.
7. SOAS (School of Oriental & African Studies) and SCOLMA (Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa). Barbara Turfan gave a brief presentation on current activities. The higher education sector in the UK is undergoing changes in order to increase the number of students. SOAS' budget changed from being area-based to faculty-based and has been flat for years. The SOAS Library is a collection of "last resort" in the UK.
8. AAU/DATAD (Association of African Universities/ Database of African Theses and Dissertations). Mary Materu-Behitsa described the current state of the project. Eleven institutions (ten universities and CODESRIA) are participating. There are 7000 records in the database, which is using ProCite and Reference Webposter. The main problem is getting access to the dissertations. The plan is to complete the database by May 2003 and publish it on CD.
9. Hogarth Representation. Semikhnenko reported on the changes in operating procedures at Hogarth.
10. Bibliographic Projects. Time ran out for this topic and items will be reported in an addendum to the minutes.
11. The meeting was adjourned at 6:30pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Miki Goral
ADDENDUM: Hans Zell has been working on the new third, fully revised, and substantially expanded edition of the African Studies Companion, details are available on the Web at <http://www.africanstudiescompanion.com>. The new edition, scheduled for publication in 2003, will be published both in print and online edition, and the scope of coverage will include both online and print resources.
Phyllis Bischof reported that she is continuing to work on an annotated bibliography of Autobiographies of the Black Diaspora.
Phyllis Bischof also noted a needed bibliography is one of reference works which provide information concerning funding opportunities for African students in the U.S.
Ken Lohrentz is working on a bibliographic project in conjunction with the Onitsha market literature digitization project currently underway at the University of Kansas. The bibliography will be on writings on Nigerian market literature published since 1980 and will update the bibliography in Market Literature from Nigeria : a Checklist / by Peter Hogg and Ilse Sternberg (London : British Library Board, 1990). It will include annotations and will be available on the Web as part of the digitization project.
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