OCLC - World Catalog - Map of National Libraries
Click on a country and find the national library participating in World Catalog and the number of its volumes in World Catalog. Timeline of national library participation in OCLC.
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/national/worldmap/ http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/national/
Opportunities for Newspaper Preservation and Access in South Africa, Conference, Cape Town, 2003
Web page closed down. Conference, March 17-19, 2003, sponsored by the National Library of South Africa. Full text of the proceedings, in a large 286 kb pdf is available. Use your computers Right and Left Arrow keys to navigate in the pdf file.
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/publications.html
Oxford University Press - Electronic Journals Free Access to Developing Countries
Developing countries can apply for free access to OUP e-journals. The offer is for institutions.
http://www3.oup.co.uk/access_purchase/developing_countries.html
Polytechnic of Namibia - Library
Has an online catalog and a newsletter, Bibliomane. Based in Windhoek.
http://www.polytechnic.edu.na/library/library.php
PRAIS: Programme for Agricultural Information Services
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA), based in Wageningen, with the libraries of the University of the Orange Free State and the Agricultural Research Council (South Africa) sponsor a regionalised agricultural information service for Southern Africa countries (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe).
Requests for information can be sent by mail, phone, e-mail or fax. PRAIS will search relevant electronic and computerised databases on CD-ROM and on the Internet. "Information will be sent in the form of full text articles and lists of further references."
Anyone can search their SADC Agribase database for citations to publications. Their newsletter, Agri-Outreach is online. E-mail: agric@hbib.uovs.ac.za
http://www.uovs.ac.za/lib/agric/assa.asp
Progressive Librarians Around the World
Has contact addresses for African members (Cameroon, South Africa). http://home.germany.net/100-115158/adresse.htm
Remote Access: Distant Libraries of the World
Site about a DVD on rural mobile libraries in Kenya (from the Kenya National Library Service) and elsewhere. See video clips. "In Kenya, animals are used to bring literature and education to the hinterlands. Camels are used in the eastern provinces while donkeys are the preferred animal in the western part of the country." Produced by Paul Francescutti.
http://www.remoteaccess.ca/
Rhodes University. Directory of University Libraries in Africa
Provides address, phone, fax, the University Librarian, e-mail address for libraries throughout Africa.
http://www.ru.ac.za/library/contacts/africa/Africlib.html
[Senegal] Archives du Sénégal
In French. The Senegal National Archives holds le fonds du Sénégal colonial (1816-1958), le fonds de l'A.O.F (1895-1959), le fonds de la Fédération du Mali (1959-1960), and le fonds du Sénégal indépendant depuis 1958. The Director is Saliou MBAYE. History of the Archives, information on the Association des Amis des Archives du Senegal, etc. Based in Dakar.
http://www.archivesdusenegal.gouv.sn/
Has online guides to -
Rapports périodiques Série 2G (Répertoire Abdoulaye Gamby Ndiaye, deux tomes 1895-1940 et 1941-1960)
Répertoire série Santé AOF (Extrait du Répertoire de Pierre Charpy + Répertoire Jean-François Maurel et Antoine Tendeng)
Répertoire série Santé Sénégal colonial (Répertoire Evelyne Badou Cisse)
Senegal Archives Microfilm Project
The Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project, CAMP, based at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in Chicago, is involved in a cooperative project to film records from the Senegal National Archives. See http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/CAMP/relatedprojects/t6archives.htm See also a 2003 report by Joseph Caruso "Report on the CAMP-Title VI Joint Acquisitions Project in Senegal, West Africa"
Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Library and Information Associations, SCECSAL
"regional grouping of library and information associations in Africa." Includes Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swazliand, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Has country reports, news, publications list, etc. The Secretariat rotates between national associations.
http://www.scecsal.org/
Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Library and Information Professionals - SCECSAL XVII - 2006, July 10-14, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Site has Closed. "the biggest African event for professionals within the library and information sector in East, Central and Southern Africa region." "it is anticipated that there will be approximately 500 participants. The theme of the conference is Librarianship as a bridge to an information and knowledge society in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa."
http://scecsal2006.tlatz.org
Thapisa, Amos - Impact of Global Information on Africa
A virtual conference convened in 1996 by Dr. Amos Thapisa, Dept. of Library and Information Studies, University of Botswana.
http://www.mcb.co.uk/services/conferen/apr96/global_information/conhome.htm
Ubogu, Felix N. "African Libraries in the Digital Age"
Full-text (23 pages) of a paper by Rhodes University (South Africa), University Librarian Felix Ubogu. Presented at the 13th Standing Conference for Eastern, Central and Southern African Librarians (SCECSAL), Nairobi, Kenya, 27th - 31st July, 1998.
http://www.rhodes.ac.za/library/archives/lib/ubogu/scecsal.html
Uganda Library Association
Has issues of the Newsletter, photographs from the First Annual Library & Information Science Conference for Uganda, November 2000. Site hosted by the University of Oklahoma, School of Library and Information Studies.
http://www.ou.edu/cas/slis/ULA/ula_index.htm
[Uganda] National Library of Uganda
The Library is the legal depository library for Ugandan publications. It publishes the National Bibliography of Uganda. The Library issues / allocates International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) and International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN) to Uganda's publishers. The Library maintains the Uganda national collection.
http://www.nlu.go.ug/
UNESCO Archives Portal
Directory to archives (worldwide including African archives), primary sources and finding aids online, archival training/education sources, preservation information, international co-operation, archival associations, conferences, internet resources.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives.
UNESCO.
Emergency Programme for the Protection of Vital Records in the Event of Armed Conflict
The International Council on Archives has developed guidelines to help archives protect their vital or essential holdings in cases of armed conflict. The Gambia was used as one of 3 case studies.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/archives/sro_citra/
UNESCO Libraries Portal
Links to African academic libraries, African government libraries, national libraries, public libraries, library associations, library education/training institutions, conferences, preservation initiatives, etc. [KF]
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/
UNESCO. Memory of Africa
UNESCO's presents its la Mémoire virtuelle du Monde / Virtual Memory of the World program for the preservation of archival and library holdings world-wide. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/africa/africa.htm
Features:
Cartes Postales d'Afrique - Historical postcards from Cote d'Ivoire and Benin. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/visite/cartpafr/fr/present1.html
Eritrea: Ancient Manuscripts - with beautiful illustrations of manuscripts. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/africa/eritree2.htm
Cameroon: Masks and Statues - http://www.unesco.org/webworld/africa/cameroon.htm
UNESCO Memory of the World Register
Preservation project for valuable archive holdings and library collections worldwide. Click on the Full Nomination Form to see details of each collection, its importance, state of the material and archives, staffing, preservation issues. Examples from Africa include the Colonial Archives of the Benin National Archives, Treasures from the National Archives and Library Organization of Ethiopia, Records of the French Occupation of Mauritius (1997) in the Mauritius Archives, the Fonds of the "Afrique occidentale française" (AOF) in the Senegal Archives, the Bleek Collection, Univ. of Cape Town & National Library (Cape Town), German records of the Tanzania National Archives. The Senegal entry contains images. [KF]
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/register/index.html
UNESCO. National Copyright Laws
Citations to African copyright laws and some full text laws.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php@URL_ID=14076&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Library
Information on their publications including the latest issues of their bibliography, Africa Index. Contact information, etc.
http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/libp.htm
L'Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, University Library (Dakar)
Brief information on the library. Has some holdings of the mémoires in the Bibliotheque Universitaire Cetnrale in an experimental online catalog.
http://www.refer.fr/sngal_ct/edu/ucad/bu.htm
Université de Djibouti
In French. Background, news, university facts, Centre de Documentation Universitaire, etc.
http://www.univ.edu.dj/
Université de Nouakchott. Bibliothèque Universitaire
In French. Includes information on other campus libraries and a list of outside Mauritanian libraries. Hosts the site for Reseau RIBAT, Réseau National d'information & de Documentation.
http://www.univ-nkc.mr/BU/
Universite Nationale du Benin. Bibliotheque universitaire
In French. "Le site Bénin Contact est hébergé sur l'infoport du Centre SYFED-REFER de Cotonou."
http://www.refer.fr/benin_ct/edu/univ-be/bu/bu.htm
Universite Nationale du Rwanda, Bibliotheque Centrale (Butare, Rwanda)
In French. Has an online catalog.
E-mail: biblio@nur.ac.rw.
http://www.lib.nur.ac.rw/
University of Dar es Salaam Library
http://www.udsm.ac.tz/library/
University of Ghana
History, faculty, courses, research institutes, the Balme Library, alumni news and more. Some overseas institutions have academic links with the University.
http://www.ug.edu.gh/
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. [KF]
http://www.arcisng.net/
University of Illinois. Wedgeworth International Fellowship in Library Leadership
The fellowship is open to citizens or permanent residents of Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, or Zimbabwe. "The Fellowship consists of a six-week stay at the Mortenson Center and modest support to initiate a project at home that will make a significant difference in the Fellow’s own library community."
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mortenson/Wedgeworth%20Instructions.htm
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
University of Malawi. Chancellor College
"Chancellor College, located in Zomba in the south eastern part of Malawi, is the largest of the constituent colleges of the University of Malawi. The college offers degrees in sciences, arts, social sciences, law and education." Includes Library Services.
http://www.chanco.unima.mw/
University of Nairobi Libraries
Has the staff directory, an online catalog, information on other campus libraries. It is a legal deposit library. "The East African Collection contains materials on Kenya in particular and East African in general...As well as books, the collection contains periodicals on East African Studies, government publications, manuscripts, all thesis from the University of East Africa and the University of Nairobi."
http://www.uonbi.ac.ke/jkml/
University of Namibia. Dept. of Information and Communication Studies
Includes Library Science and Media Studies programs.
http://www.unam.na/faculties/humanities/ics/index.html
University of Namibia Library (Windhoek)
Information on staff, the Special Collections which include Namibiana, pages of the Subject Librarians. The University Archives has many databases with Namibiana such as Namibian Theses, the HIV/AIDS database, holdings of the United Nations Institute for Namibia Collection and the Tjitendero Collection. The Library hosts the NAMLIT database of publications on Namibia published anywhere from 1778 to date. Has the library's online catalog.
http://library.unam.na/
University of Zambia Library
http://www.unza.zm/library/Library.html
University of Zambia Medical Library
Large site with issues of the Zambia Health Information Digest, a medical phrases (in ChiBemba, ChiNyanja, Ci Tonga, Si Lozi and English), a section on HIV/AIDS in Zambia, a link to African Index Medicus, and many health-related resources. The HIV/AIDS in Zambia section includes a 200 item annotated bibliography to 1995, and extensive internet resources.
http://www.medguide.org.zm/
University of Zimbabwe Library
Information on the staff directory, special collections (includes university theses), the government publications collection, Institute of Development Studies Library, etc. The University Librarian is Mr. S. M. Made: Stan.Made@uzlib.uz.ac.zw
http://uzweb.uz.ac.zw/library/
West African Arabic Manuscript Database
A bi-lingual union catalog of records for over 20,000 Arabic manuscripts from West Africa. Find citations by authors, nicknames, titles, subjects. Includes manuscripts from Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Northern Nigeria and from collections in Paris and Northwestern Univ. The documents represent "the literary activity of Muslim literati in the Sahel region during the approximately 150 years prior to colonial conquest." Charles C. Stewart, Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Champaign is General Editor. [KF]
http://www.arabic.uiuc.edu/
World Digital Library
Partners include the U.S. Library of Congress and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. The two will have mirror sites. "The project will digitize unique and rare material, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, sound recordings, films, prints, photographs and architectural drawings from libraries and other cultural institutions around the world and make these materials freely available on the Internet."
http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/index.html
World Information Report. UNESCO, 1997
A selection of articles from the Report is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Among these is the Africa chapter of the Archives section, by Peter Mazikana.
Table of Contents including African Archives: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/wirerpt/report.htm
Main Page: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/wirerpt/vers-web.htm
Zambia Library Association
Has a directory of individual and institutional members, a directory of libraries in Zambia, conference papers such as "Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression: challenges to the Zambian Librarian/Information Professional of yesterday, today, and tomorrow", by Kaputo M. Chenga, and other features.
http://www.zla.co.za
Zimbabwe International Book Fair
The main book trade event for the African publishing industry.
http://www.zibf.org.zw/
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