Midlands State University Library

Research, reference service, and resources for the study of Africa

Research, reference service, and resources for the study of Africa edited byDeborah M. LaFond - Binghamton, NY : Haworth Information Press, 2004. - 299 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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.

0789025086 (alk. paper) 0789025094 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004014896


Africana libraries--Reference services.
Libraries--Special collections--Africa.


Africa--Research.
Africa--Library resources.

Z675.A55 / R47 2004

026.96