Africana resources in four selected US academic research libraries

Abstract

PurposeTo explore the relationship between the importance of African Studies programs and the acquisition of African imprint titles in four selected American academic libraries. Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the characteristics of the African Studies programs in four universities in comparison with library holdings including the percentage of holdings from four major English-language African publishers. FindingThe four research libraries acquire substantial numbers of African monographs in keeping with the importance of their African Studies programs. Originality/valueThe paper provides information on major four African Studies programs and the library holdings that support them.

African American Studies Collections and the American Season of Redemption

“…The 2006 article "Africana Resources in Four Selected US Academic Research Libraries" was the most salient, making similar assumptions and asking similar questions. Written by Afeworki Paulos and Robert P. Holley, two librarians in Michigan at the time of writing, its concerns are fairly straightforward: "The authors examined Africana holdings in four selected academic libraries with particular emphasis on acquisitions from four Africa-based publishers and compared results with faculty size, course offerings, and the number of doctoral dissertations" (Paulos & Holley, 2006). The authors chose institutions based on their African Studies programs' reputations, evaluating "the relationship between program strength and library collections" (Paulos & Holley, 2006).…”