Sources for African Language Materials from the Countries of Anglophone Africa

Kagan, Alfred

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“…Indeed, the weak publishing environment is also a factor in explaining limited vendor support at least as far as selling African published books and journals in North America and Europe. As Alfred Kagan succinctly put it: “Collecting Africana is unlike collecting most other materials because of the lack of well‐known high‐profile vendors and because of the low level of organization of much of the book trade in most of the countries of Africa” (Kagan, 1996).…”

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Africana resources in four selected US academic research libraries

Paulos

Holley

2006

Collection Building

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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.

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Section: Background On Collecting Africana In American Research Librariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Africana resources in four selected US academic research libraries

Paulos

Holley

2006

Collection Building

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A study on Africana collections in UK libraries: present state and future scenarios

Matovelo¹,

Smith²

2001

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

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Africana at Northwestern University

Panofsky

1996

Afr. Bibliogr

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The bibliographic array for the study of Africa and African scholarship has reached proportions which were unthinkablefiftyyears ago at the birth ofAfrican Studies Programs. Not only has the bibliographic coverage marshalled material in all areas of research but this coverage is readily available at the click of a computer in most corners of the globe. In an ideal world the actual resources would also be accessed with ease and digital speed. Indeed much research material is readily obtained in microfilm, microform, and CD-Rom format. However the bulk of retrospective, archival, ephemeral, and manuscript literature is to be found only in a few selected centres often far removed from students and scholars, especially those based in Africa.

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Sources for African Language Materials from the Countries of Anglophone Africa

Cited by 4 publications

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Africana resources in four selected US academic research libraries

Africana resources in four selected US academic research libraries

A study on Africana collections in UK libraries: present state and future scenarios

Africana at Northwestern University

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