Research, Reference Service, and Resources for the Study of Africa

ISBN-13: 9780789025081 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 318 str.

Deborah M. LaFond

Opis

Unlike most references on Africa that concentrate on collection development, this work focuses on the study of Africa. LaFond (associate librarian, State University of New York-Albany) and Walsh (African Studies Library, Boston University) present solutions to common problems in the study of Africa, such as Internet accessibility problems, the impo

Spis treści

• Introduction (Gretchen Walsh and Deborah M. LaFond)
  
• PART I: AFRICAN STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES
  
• “Can We Get There from Here?” Negotiating the Washouts, Cave-Ins, Dead Ends, and Other Hazards on the Road to Research on Africa (Gretchen Walsh)
  
• Teaching African Studies Bibliography—Information Literacy for 21st Century Scholars (Marion Frank-Wilson)
  
• Africa Business and Economic Resource Index: Selected Internet Resources (Angel D. Batiste)
  
• PART II: COLLABORATION AND INNOVATION IN AFRICA AND THE UNITED STATES
  
• Partnership as a New Paradigm for Reference Librarians in African Studies (Peter Limb)
  
• Reading African Women’s Writing: The Role of Librarians in Expanding the Canon (Miriam Conteh-Morgan)
  
• Designing an Anglophone University Undergraduate Library Collection for a Francophone West African Environment (Akilah Shukura Nosakhere)
  
• Frog Voices, Whispers, and Silences: Problems and Issues in Collecting for an African Studies Library in Africa (Colin Darch)
  
• Library Capacity Building in Africa or the Exportation of Technolust? Discerning Partnership Models and Revitalization Efforts in the Age of Globalization (Deborah M. LaFond)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Deborah Lafond, Gretchen Walsh