Africana Librarians Council

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The Africana Librarians Council (ALC) was founded in 1957 as the Archives/Libraries Committee as part of the African Studies Association (ASA). Members of ASA whether they are librarians, archivists or documentalists working with materials from and about Africa or scholars interested in the preservation of or access to Africana may join the ALC. The ALC meets twice yearly, once during the annual meeting of the African Studies Association and once in the spring at the home institution of a member. These meetings coincide with those of the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP),consortium whose member institutions purchase or film research materials in cooperation. Visitors are welcome to ALC meeting.

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    5 episodes
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Episodes of Africana Librarians Council

    • Panel 144 for ECAS4

      Paper by Regina Roberts

      • Release date
        Jun 14, 2011
      • Runtime
        30:54
    • The Joseph-Aurélien Cornet, f.s.c. Collection (U...

      Unearthing Africana Collections and Providing Global Access, Part 4: The Joseph-Aurelien Cornet, f.s.c. Collection presented by Trish Nugent. Part 4 of a panel organized by the Africana Librarians Council at the 52nd Annual African Studies Association Meeting, 19 November 2009, in New Orleans. The Joseph-Aurelien Cornet, f.s.c. Collection is held by Loyola University in New Orleans. Joseph-Aurelien Cornet was an art historian who worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo documenting Congo...

      • Release date
        Jun 17, 2010
      • Runtime
        10:59
    • American Committee on Africa (ACOA) Archives (Un...

      Unearthing Africana Collections and Providing Global Access, Part 3: American Committee on Africa (ACOA) Archives presented by Christopher Harter. Part 3 of a panel organized by the Africana Librarians Council at the 52nd Annual African Studies Association Meeting, 19 November 2009, in New Orleans. Moderated by Laverne Page (Library of Congress). Video production by Regina Roberts (Stanford University). See also Part 1: The Endangered African Languages Project at Yale University Library ; Part...

      • Release date
        Jun 2, 2010
      • Runtime
        19:20
    • The Kenya Airlift, 1959-1963 (Unearthing African...

      The archive collection of the African American Students Foundation (AASF) was donated to the African Activist Archive (Special Collections, Michigan State University) by Cora Weiss (Former Executive Director, AASF). This overlooked collection was used by Tom Shachtman for research that informed his publication "Airlift to America: How Barack Obama Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours" (St. Martin's Press, 2009). Cora Weiss relates her exper...

      • Release date
        Apr 30, 2010
      • Runtime
        34:56
    • The Endangered African Languages Project at Yale...

      Unearthing Africana Collections and Providing Global Access, Part 1: The Endangered African Languages Project at Yale University Library presented by Dorothy Woodson and Charles Riley. Part 1 of a panel organized by the Africana Librarians Council at the 52nd Annual African Studies Association Meeting, 19 November 2009, in New Orleans. An estimated twenty-five percent of the world’s 6,000 languages are spoken in Africa yet Library of Congress subject headings account for only about 600 (in whi...

      • Release date
        Mar 2, 2010
      • Runtime
        25:44
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