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African Heritage Research Library
"African Heritage Research Library (AHRL) was established March, 1988 at Ila Orangun, Osun State, Nigeria".
Information on the NigeriaArts.net site.
http://www.nigeria-arts.net/Literature/Institutions/African_Heritage_Research_Library/

African Journal of Library, Archives & Information Science
Has the table of contents and abstracts.
Editorial offices in Gaborone, Botswana and Ibadan, Nigeria.
http://www.inasp.org.uk/ajol/journals/ajlais/index.html

African Library Project
"The African Library Project partners with volunteers in African communities to create small libraries for African schools and villages. The project makes it easy for U.S. children to recycle their books in order to share the gift of reading with children in Africa". Has detailed Book Drive Guidelines, works with San Francisco Bay Area schools.
Founded by Chris Bradshaw of Portola Valley, California.
http://www.africanlibraryproject.org/

African Studies Thesaurus
"A structured vocabulary of 12,100 English terms in the field of African studies, the African Studies Thesaurus is developed and maintained by staff at the library of the African Studies Centre Leiden". Includes "the names of countries and regions, ethnic groups, African languages, African polities and political parties in Africa". "British English is preferred, but American-English variants are included as non-preferred terms".
http://www.ascleiden.nl/Library/Thesaurus/

African Virtual University
Project, formerly led by the World Bank, now independent, to build world-class degree programs for the education of scientists, technicians,engineers, business managers, health care providers, and other professionals. "The AVU will offer university degree programs in science, technology, and medical fields; noncredit training and seminars; remedial instruction; and electronic library services". Lectures by professors in the US and Europe will be sent by satellite to African universities. Participants include the Univ. of Massachusetts, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Indiana University, and others. In French, Portuguese, and English.
http://www.avu.org/

Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa, AHILA
"a professional association founded in 1984 with now 46 country members." Hosts a discussion list, AHILA-net, for health librarians and documentalists from Africa. Has a Membership Directory, publishes the African Index Medicus.
http://www.ahila.org/

National Library of Nigeria
Nigeria's national library, based in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.
http://www.nlbn.org/

Nigeria. National Archives Index.
List of records held at the National Archives. On the Nigerian government web site.
http://www.nigeria.gov.ng/archivesindex.htm

Nigerian Library Association
Publishes a journal, Nigerian Libraries. Has on-line reports such as the national conference papers, a discussion group for members of NLA, nla-online-forum, and a news blog (and old blog).
NLA's origins dates back to the 1950s.
http://www.nla-ng.org/

NLA New Librarian
Discussion group for young librarians affiliated with the Nigerian Library Association (NLA). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nlanewlibrarian/

University of Ibadan. African Regional Centre for Information Science, ARCIS
Regional centre for information technology training, research and advisory services. Offers M.Sci., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees, workshops, seminars. Includes a list of Masters degree projects and Phd Theses. Courses in record management, internet publishing, software and information systems project management, business information systems design and applications, CDS/ISIS, etc. Based in Ibadan, Nigeria.
http://www.arcisng.net/

University of Jos Libraries
One can download two papers by Stephen Akintunde, Head, Systems Unit in the Unijos Libraries:- The Migration; Digitizing the University of Jos Library & The Human Side of Digitization.
http://www.uiowa.edu/intlinet/unijos/departments/libraries/index.htm


OTHER AFRICAN LIBRARIES
AFLIB-L, African Libraries Listserv
Discussion list for librarians, archivists, and information workers in Africa and others with a strong interest in African library and information work. Hosted by the National Library of South Africa. http://mailman.nlsa.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/aflib-l
To subscribe send email to: AFLIB-L@nlsa.ac.za. Leave the subject line open. In the body of the message type: Subscribe AFLIB-L
To unsubscribe: post to AFLIB-L@nlsa.ac.za. Leave the subject line open. In the body of the message type: Unsubscribe AFLIB-L
For problems, please contact the list manager: hester.vanderwalt@nlsa.ac.za

Africa Research Central
In English and French. An extensive database on African studies archives/libraries/ museums; and a database of repository wish lists.Provides access conditions, restrictions, important holdings, collection size, year founded, publications, references, related sites. Maintained by Prof. Kathryn Green and Dr. Susan Tschabrun at California State University, Fullerton. http://www.africa-research.org

Africa University (Mutare)
A private university funded by the United Methodist Church. Opened March 1992. The first faculties are theology, agriculture, and natural resources. Has a library and students from 20 African countries. Based in Mutare, Zimbabwe.
http://www.africau.edu/

African Digital Curation Conference
1st African Digital Management and Curation Conference and Workshop, 12 and 13 February 2008, at the CSIR Convention Centre, Pretoria [South Africa].
Speeches and Power Point are on-line.
http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/nadicc/index.html

Includes speech of the Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa;
State of Scientific Data in Africa, Dr Achuo Enow , International Council for Science, Regional Office for Africa;
Oceanographic Data and Information Initiatives in Africa, Alfonse Dubi, University of Dar es Salaam, Institute of Marine Sciences;
Digital Curation: the Legal Framework in South Africa, Graham Dominy, National Archives, South Africa;
Data integration at the South African Data Archive (SADA), Dr Daisy Selematsela, National Research Foundation;
Curation of Spatial Data in RSA, facilitated by Heidi van Deventer, CSIR and Maryna Strydom (SRK);
Digitisation - the 3 Cs: Copyright, Contracts and Creative Commons, Denise Nicholson, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

African Digital Library
Provides free access (to anyone accessing from Africa) to full text books. If a "user's domain name can be identified as being in Africa, users are able to receive registrations immediately." "The library is being established by Technikon South Africa's Center for Lifelong Learning and the Association of African Universities in collaboration with netLibrary, a private American company" - Africa News, 8 Nov. 1999.
http://www.africandl.org.za/

African Film Library
"The African Library of Ouagadougou was founded in 1989 on the 20th Anniversary of FESPACO." Information from the Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO) site. [KF]
http://www.fespaco.bf/cinematheque_ang.htm

African Heritage Research Library
"African Heritage Research Library (AHRL) was established March, 1988 at Ila Orangun, Osun State, Nigeria,..." Information on the NigeriaArts.net site.
http://www.nigeria-arts.net/Literature/Institution/African_Heritage_Research_Library/

African Journal of Library, Archives & Information Science
Has the table of contents and abstracts. Editorial offices in Gaborone, Botswana and Ibadan, Nigeria. http://www.inasp.org.uk/ajol/journals/ajlais/index.html

African Librarians' Advocacy Group. AVLIN Advocacy Forum for Libraries in Development”
Discussion forum for African librarians to advocate for libraries and information services at the highest level on the continent. Created out of meetings at the UNECA's Committee on Development Information (CODI III) May 2003. Register before 4 August 2003. Send the following (Names, Organization, Country, Email address) to Mrs Petrina Amonoo, Chief Librarian, UNECA at: pamonoo@uneca.org and a copy to the forum adminstrator at: atemtime@uneca.org
Web site: http://www.dgroups.org/groups/avlin-l

African Library Project
"The African Library Project partners with volunteers in African communities to create small libraries for African schools and villages. The......Project makes it easy for U.S. children to recycle their books in order to share the gift of reading with children in Africa." Has detailed Book Drive Guidelines, works with San Francisco Bay Area schools. Founded by Chris Bradshaw of Portola Valley, California.
http://www.africanlibraryproject.org/

African Studies Thesaurus
"A structured vocabulary of 12,100 English terms in the field of African studies, the African Studies Thesaurus is developed and maintained by staff at the library of the African Studies Centre Leiden." Includes " the names of countries and regions, ethnic groups, African languages, African polities and political parties in Africa." "British English is preferred, but American-English variants are included as non-preferred terms."
http://www.ascleiden.nl/Library/Thesaurus/

African Virtual University
Project, formerly led by the World Bank, now independent, to build world-class degree programs for the education of scientists, technicians,engineers, business managers, health care providers, and other professionals. "The AVU will offer university degree programs in science, technology, and medical fields; noncredit training and seminars; remedial instruction; and electronic library services." Lectures by professors in the US and Europe will be sent by satellite to African universities. Participants include the Univ. of Massachusetts, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Indiana University, and others. In French, Portuguese, and English. [KF] http://www.avu.org/

Afrique Orale - Archives sonores et ressources documentaires de la tradition orale en Afrique
In French. Includes a database of citations to the oral recordings held by research institutes such as the Centre d'études linguistiques et historiques par tradition orale (CELHTO) in Niamey, Niger and the full text of the 1236 Charte de Kurukan Fuga, un document fondateur de l'empire du Mali. Has links to papers such as "La Tradition Orale: de la collecte à la numérisation" by A. Raphaël NDIAYE, an audio file of Boubou Hama on African history, links to a site about Amadou Hampâté BA.
[KF] http://www.africa-orale.org/

Aluka Project
"Aluka's mission is to build and support a sustainable, online database of scholarly resources from the developing world, beginning in Africa,..." Its three projects are African Cultural Heritage Sites, African Plants, and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa. Aluka is part of the non-profit, Ithaka, funded by the Mellon Foundation.
http://www.aluka.org

American University in Cairo, Library
AUC is the first library from the Middle East to join the Research Libraries Group (RLG). Has a bibliography on the new Alexandria Library. One can search their library catalog to locate, for example, theses on women in the Sudan and other topics. http://lib.aucegypt.edu/

Annuaire des archives et des bibliotheques nationales, des bibliotheques parlementaires et des centres nationaux d'information scientifique et technique de la francophonie
Select a Francophone African country to locate addresses of libraries and archives in the country: http://net.tecsult.com/bief/bief10/ReArcNat01.cfm
For ex. for Chad: http://www.acctbief.org/anuinfsc/sc_tchad.htm
Published by the Canadian organization, Banque internationale d'information sur les Etats francophones.

Anonymous Classics: African Literature: Epics and Assimilated (in pdf)
Draft of proposed uniform title headings for Anonymous Classics in African Literature. Compiled by Nadine Boddaert. Includes a bibliography of sources (for pre-colonial epics, oral literature). On the web site of the IFLA Cataloging Section.
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/AnonymousClassics_Africa_Draft.pdf

Archival & Library Holdings in West Africa
L'Afrique à Paris 7 site lists some African archival and library holdings -
Site maintained by P. Boilley and I. Mande.
Universite Paris 7: http://www.sedet.cicrp.jussieu.fr/sedet/Afrilab/Afrhome.htm
Laboratoire Societes en Developpement dans l'Espace et dans le Temps (SEDET) - Universite Paris 7

Association des documentalistes du Gabon
Has a newsletter, Bulletin de Liaison de l'Association des Documentalistes du Gabon. Based in Libreville Gabon.
E-mail: adggabon@caramail.com

Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa, AHILA
"a professional association founded in 1984 with now 46 country members." Hosts a discussion list, AHILA-net, for health librarians and documentalists from Africa. Has a Membership Directory, publishes the African Index Medicus. [KF]
http://www.ahila.org/

Benin. Archives Nationales du Benin
In French. Describes the collections, publications, a photo exhibition of contemporary Benin, 1962 photographs, etc.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/archives/benin/anb.htm

Bibliodoc.francophonie.org
In French. Site of the French-speaking library community. Has a directory of African libraries and documentation centers, directory of African library associations, library schools, and French library journals and e-resources. [KF]
http://bibliodoc.francophonie.org/

Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis. Library
"The library aims at building comprehensive collections in the social sciences subject areas particularly in economics, statistics, public administration and social welfare." http://www.bidpa.bw/terms.htm

[Burkina Faso] Bibliothèque Nationale du Burkina
In French. National Library of Burkina Faso. On the web site of the Burkina Faso Ministère de la Culture, des Arts et du Tourisme.
http://www.culture.gov.bf/Site_Ministere/textes/ministere/ministere_sr_bn.htm

Cape Town Book Fair, June 17-20, 2006
"Cape Town will host the first ever international book fair to be held in South Africa in June 2006. With the signing of a joint venture agreement between the the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) and the Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and, Cape Town will be partnering with the largest and most successful book fair organisation in the world. " Announcement on the Frankfurt Book Fair site.

[Cape Verde] Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro de Cabo Verde
In Portuguese. The National Library of Cape Verde opened in 1999. Has an on-line catalog. Publishes books. Descriptions of books for sale. Based in Praia, Cape Verde.
http://www.bn.cv/

Carnegie Corporation - "Revitalizing African Libraries: The Challenge of a Quiet Crisis"
Full text of the report, in Adobe PDF format. 10 pages. The Carnegie Corporation of New York is based in New York city.
http://www.carnegie.org/sub/pubs/corp.html

Caruso, Joseph. Report on the CAMP-Title VI Joint Acquisitions Project in Senegal, West Africa.
Reports (1995 +) by Dr. Caruso on a archival microfilming project and acquisitions trips sponsored by libraries of the Dept. of Education Title VI African Studies Centers and by CAMP, Cooperative Africana Microform Project.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/SGproject.html

CDS/ISIS
Popular software from UNESCO used by many African libraries.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/isis
See the CDS/ISIS Namibia site for information about use of this database for libraries. There is a CDS/ISIS User Forum.

Centre Aequatoria, Centre de Recherches Culturelles Africanistes
"...a research center, library, and collection of archives, ...specialized in the languages, cultures, and the (pre-colonial and colonial) history of sub-Saharan Africa, with special emphasis on the peoples of the central Congo basin." Publishes Annales Aequatoria. The Centre is "located on the premises of the Catholic mission station of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (Missionnaires du Sacre-Coeur, MSC)" near Mbandaka. Lists titles in their Etudes Aequatoria series. http://www.aequatoria.be
See also the Aequatoria Archives Research Project

Chisenga, Justin
Mr. Chisenga is on the faculty of the Department of Information and Communication Studies, University of Namibia. Has full text papers by Chisenga.
"Copyright Laws, Digital Information & Libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa: Namibian Experience" (1998)
"Global information infrastructure and the question of African content" (1999)
"Surfing technological waves: continuing education at the University of Namibia Library" (1998)
"Global Information and Libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Nambia Internet Monitor - Site to provide general information about the development and use of the Internet and links to useful Internet resources in Namibia. [KF] http://www.unam.na/1370/chisenga.htm

Chisenga, Justin - "Y2K and Computerised Library Systems"
This paper discusses how the Y2K problem is likely to affect computerised library systems.It was presented at the Standing Conference of African National and University Libraries in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (SCANUL-ECS) 1998. Chisenga is Lecturer, Department of Information and Communication Studies, University of Namibia.
http://www.unam.na/1370/lib-y2k.htm

CODESRIA Conference: Electronic Publishing and Dissemination, September 1-2, Dakar, Senegal
Full text conference papers are online.
http://www.codesria.org/Links/conferences/el_publ/elpubl_papers.htm. Includes:
  • Impact of the ICT Revolution on the African Academic Landscape
  • Old problem, New Strategies: Internet as a Tool for Research in Africa
  • Etude sur les TIC et les pratiques de recherche d’information, chez les enseignants et chercheurs universitaires ivoiriens
  • The Challenges and Possibilities of New Media in African Scholarship: The Case of Safundi and U.S.-South African Comparative Studies
  • Free Access and Reasonable Remuneration: Electronic Publishing and the Copyright Question
  • Scientific content creation and dissemination: opportunities for African universities in electronic publishing
  • The Role of Information Professionals in the Digital Age : The Role of Librarians
  • The Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD)
Conferences
International Association of School Librarianship. 2003 Annual Conference, Durban, South Africa, 7-11 July 2003
Site has closed. Hosted "a free virtual conference session for IASL members who are unable to attend the conference in person. This virtual conference sessions will consist of the Keynote Paper from Dr Ross Todd (which will be available on this IASL conference web site during the conference week), and an email discussion throughout the week on IASL-LINK (the discussion list for IASL members)."
http://www.iasl-slo.org/conference2003.html

Davies, Jack L. - Civic Webs Virtual Library
Contains full text studies by Davies Consulting GmbH:

eIFL.net, Electronic Information for Libraries
"eIFL.net is an independent foundation..... for the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in transition and developing countries. Its main focus is on negotiating affordable subscriptions on a multi-country consortial basis, while supporting the enhancement of emerging national library consortia in member countries." The eIFL-IP section concerns intellectual property issues and will "create national and regional expertise in copyright issues for libraries, will pro-actively monitor the latest developments and will provide tools, resources and specialistadvice." Has on-line a model license contract. Web site based in Prato, Italy. [KF]
http://www.eifl.net

[Eritrea] Research and Documentation Centre, RDC (Asmara, Eritrea)
Eritrea's national archives which developed from the pre-independence period Research and Information Centre of Eritrea (RICE). The Centre is responsible for records of the government ministries and departments. Describes collections, preservation activities, etc. [KF]
http://denden.com/EritreanArchives/main.html

ESARBICA, East and Southern Africa Regional Branch, Interantional Council on Archives
An organization of "individuals and institutions concerned with the creation, use, preservation and management of recorded information in Eastern and Southern Africa." Its Newsletter issues are online.
http://www.geocities.com/esarbica/
See also the IFLA site with information on officers and members.

FESPACO African Film Library
The film library was founded in 1989 in connection with the FESPACO film festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The FESPACO official web site also has issues of the FESPACO Newsletter and FESPACO News (1997) , the latter issued only during the film festival. No. 9-1997 lists the film award winners at the 15th 1997 FESPACO.
http://www.fespaco.bf/cineang.htm

Ford Foundation. Secrets of the Sahara. By Christopher Reardon
Secrets of the Sahara is a well-written account of efforts by Mali scholars to preserve manuscripts from the 14th century onwards. "Dozens of families in Timbuktu are working to preserve a trove of ancient manuscripts that may redefine the history of Islam and Africa." "Many of the ancient texts date back to the Songhaï empire, a prosperous kingdom that peaked in the 15th and 16th centuries." Topics cover "astronomy, mathematics, medicine and geography. There are poems and folk tales."
http://www.fordfound.org/publications/ff_report/

Friends of African Village Libraries
A small non-profit whose founders are two Santa Clara University professors, Michael Kevane and Leslie Gray. It is involved in the construction, stocking, and management of village libraries in Burkina Faso and has organized a conference of village librarians. See the 9 page report, in French (Adobe pdf), by the Président de l'Association Bibliotheques de Village de Burkina Faso. Carlotte Vallaeys is program coordinator. Based in San Jose, California. [KF] http://www.favl.org/

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) article, July 18, 2007. "Santa Clara professors build non-profit to benefit African libraries."
Access after providing your email address.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-31972377_ITM


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