African Studies Collection News

African Bibliography class meets in W302 of the Wells Library on January 27th

2011-01-26T06:45:00.000-08:00

Don't forget: we will be back in W 302, West Tower of the Wells Library, tomorrow.

Marion

African Bibliography class meets in Wells Library, 043 on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011

2011-01-24T10:48:00.000-08:00

We will have a guest speaker for this class, Chanitra Bishop (Emerging Technologies Librarian) who will give an overview of the bibiographic software Zotero. Please feel free to bring your laptops if you'd like to install Zotero during the class.

African Bibliography class meets in room W302 next week

2010-01-22T07:04:00.001-08:00

Hello, members of the African bibliography class!

This is a reminder that we will meet in room W302 in the Wells Library for both class sessions next week (Jan. 26 and Jan. 28, 9:30-10:45 am).

Marion

New Collection of Nigerian short fiction, edited by Akin Adesokan

2009-11-13T09:21:00.000-08:00

Akin Adesokan, faculty member in IU's Department of Comparative Literature, and fellow editors Ike Anya, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, and Ike Oguine have published a collection of recent Nigerian short fiction:

_Weaverbird: New Fiction from Nigeria 2008_ Lagos: Farafina, 2008.

The book is currently being cataloged and can soon be checked out from the Wells Library.

Just published: Book in Honor of Distinguished Linguist Paul Newman

2009-06-09T07:25:00.000-07:00

A new volume, edited by Samuel Obeng, in honor of IU's distinguished linguist Paul Newman, has just been published:

Obeng, Samuel (ed.). _Topics in Descriptive and African Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Distinguished Professor Paul Newman._ LINCOM Europa, Germany, 2009.

Look for it in the Wells Library this summer!

New titles by African Studies faculty members: Phyllis Martin, "Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville", and Eileen Julien, "Travels with Mae"

2009-04-06T11:33:00.000-07:00

Phyllis Martin, Professor Emerita of History at Indiana University, has published her new book, _ Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville: Mothers and Sisters in Troubled Times_ (Indiana University Press, 2009).

"Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville explores the changing relationship between women and the Catholic Church from the establishment of the first mission stations in the late 1880s to the present. Phyllis M. Martin emphasizes the social identity of mothers and the practice of motherhood, a prime concern of Congolese women, as they individually and collectively made sense of their place within the Church. Martin traces women's early resistance to missionary overtures and church schools, and follows their relationship with missionary Sisters, their later embrace of church-sponsored education, their participation in popular Catholicism, and the formation of women's fraternities. As they drew together as mothers and sisters, Martin asserts, women began to affirm their place in a male-dominated institution. Covering more than a century of often turbulent times, this rich and readable book examines an era of far-reaching social change in Central Africa." (from the publisher's website)

Eileen Julien, Professor of Comparative Literature, African American and African Diaspora Studies, and French and Italian at Indiana University, has just completed a memoir about childhood and growing up in New Orleans: _Travels with Mae: Scenes from a New Orleans Girlhood_, to be published by IU Press in August 2009.

"With a series of lyrical vignettes Eileen M. Julien traces her life as an African American woman growing up in middle-class New Orleans in the 1950s and 1960s. Julien's narratives focus on her relationship with her mother, family, community, and the city itself, while touching upon life after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Haunted by a colonial past associated with African presence, racial mixing, and suspect rituals, New Orleans has served the national imagination as a place of exoticism where objectionable people and unsavory practices can be found. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath revealed New Orleans' deep poverty and marginalized population, and brought a media storm that perpetuated the city's stigma. Travels with Mae lovingly restores the wonder of this great city, capturing both its beauty and its pain through the eyes of an insider." (from the publisher's website)

New Book by History Faculty Member Marissa Moorman!

2009-01-20T12:32:00.000-08:00

Marissa Moorman, assistant professor in the History Department at IU, has recently published her book, _Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times_ (Ohio University Press, 2008) - Congratulations, Marissa!

From the book cover: "Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. Author Marissa J. Moorman presents a social and cultural history of the relationship between Angolan culture and politics. She argues that it was in and through popular urban music, produced mainly in the capital city of Luanda's musseques (urban shantytowns), that Angolans forged the nation and developed expectations about nationalism...A compilation of Angolan music is included in CD format."

The brand-new book, once fully processed, can soon be checked out from our Music Library.

How to Find Journal Articles - Three Video Tutorials Added to African Studies Collection Website

2008-12-19T07:45:00.001-08:00

Do you ever wonder

- how to find African Studies journals?
- how to find electronic fulltext articles with IU Link
- which database to choose when more than one has full text?

Anne Graham (Wells Library/African Studies Collection) and Jeremy Kenyon (SLIS/African Studies) have created three brief video tutorials which help navigate the complicated world of journal literature. Check out the tutorials at:

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=322

Featured database: Africa-Wide NiPAD

2008-11-25T06:14:00.000-08:00

Africa-Wide NiPAD is one of the few databases which focuses exclusively on African Studies topics. As with the Libraries' other databases, it links to full-text articles (when we have access to the full text electronically), to abstracts, or bibliographic citations. Please try out this very useful resource - it can be accessed from the Libraries' subject page - just click on African Studies, and scroll down to Africa-Wide NiPAD.

It covers "material on Africa from the 19th century to the present, including: African studies abstracts (1994- ), Africa Institute (1981- ), Southern African database (1961- ), School of Oriental and African Studies Library catalogue: Africa (1989- ), NAMLIT (19th century- ), Don Africana collection (16th century- ) Campbell collections of the University of Natal, Killie Campbell Africana Library (19th century- ), Business & industry: Africa (1994- ), Natural and cultural history Africa (1960- ), African periodicals exhibit catalogue (1997), Bibliography on contemporary African politics and development (1981-1992), International library of African music, Database of Swiss theses and dissertations (1897-1996) ; Index to South African periodicals (1987-present), the South African national bibliography (1988-present), National English Literary Museum (1990-present, retrospective to the 19th cent.), Knipkat from the Nasionale Afrikaanse Letterkunde Museum en Navorsingsentrum, Witwatersrand University Management Research Reports (1970-present), The Centre for Rural Legal Studies Database (1987 and earlier to present), South African Legal Abbreviations, and others" (IUCAT)

Check out new additions to African Studies Collection website: "Frequently Used Reference Sources" and "Guide to Primary Sources for Africa"

2008-10-17T11:51:00.000-07:00

Take a look at our two brand-new websites:

"Frequently Used Reference Sources" and
"Guide to Primary Sources for Africa"

Both websites can be accessed from the African Studies Collection website at:
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=322

We hope that both of these sites will prove to be useful research tools. They were created by Jeremy Kenyon (graduate student in African Studies and the School of Library and Information Science).

Research Seminars and Noontalk

2008-09-18T08:49:00.000-07:00

Next week's Africa-related research seminar will be on open access resources and the African Studies Collection Website:

While a large percentage of African Studies materials is still only available in print, electronic resources are proliferating. Many of the resources are available free of charge in an open access environment. This seminar attempts to give an overview of such resources. It also introduces participants to the African Studies Collection website which includes links to African newspapers and other current news sources, finding aids to our pamphlet/conference paper and special collections (e.g., the President Banda Archive, the Somali collection, etc.), class webpages, inventories of our African film and microform collections, book reviews, and much more.
Mo, September 22, 12:00-1:00; and Thu, Sept. 25, 12:00-1:00; both in the Wells Library, E 157

Additionally, I will present a noontalk (September 23, 12:00-1:00, WH 218) on
"The IUB-African Studies Collection in the 21st Century – Resources, Services, and other News"

I look forward to seeing many of you at the seminars and/or noontalk.
Marion

Navigating the mysterious world of electronic full-text journal articles – how to locate African Studies journal articles at the Wells Library

2008-09-12T06:21:00.000-07:00

Please stop by the Wells Library, Room E 157, on Monday, September 15th, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, for a workshop on how to locate electronic full-text for African Studies journal articles:

Navigating the mysterious world of electronic full-text journal articles – how to locate African Studies journal articles at the Wells Library
How do I get an article from a journal that is in ALF? How do I find the full-text of an article? Which of the five URLs under a journal title in IUCAT will give me access to the full-text article I’m looking for? How do I get an article delivered to my email account? Where can I find a list of all our African Studies journal subscriptions? Discover the answers to these and other questions during this seminar on access to African Studies periodical literature.

Don't forget: Introduction to IUScholarworks for African Studies Faculty and Graduate Students

2008-09-10T08:20:00.000-07:00

'Just a quick note to let you know that tomorrow will be the second workshop on IUScholarworks. Please feel free to attend, even if you have not signed up for it.

Introduction to IUScholarworks for African Studies Faculty and Graduate Students, Thu. Sept. 11, 12:00-1:00, Wells Library, E 157

IUScholarworks is Indiana University’s centralized, electronic, institutional repository for academic research, both pre-and post-publication. It is non-profit, designed to showcase and collect academic works for their long-term preservation and improved access, for the benefit of the scholarly community at large, and no charge is made for the use of any of the material deposited there. For area studies disciplines such as African Studies, this is a particularly powerful tool to provide increased access to research for our colleagues on the continent. This workshop presents an overview of IUScholarworks and a demonstration of the submission process. It will also discuss the issue of copyright and, specifically, author’s rights as they sign publishing contracts.

Library Services for African Studies Faculty and Graduate Students

2008-09-03T10:39:00.000-07:00

The IU Libraries offer a large variety of services for faculty and students, ranging from request article delivery, rush cataloging, interlibrary loan, book recalls, e-reserves, faculty and graduate student carrels, to class instruction, class web pages, and drop in workshops – to name just a few. This seminar provides an overview of such services - and how to access them electronically on or off-campus - specifically for African Studies faculty and students.
Thursday, September 4, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wells Library, E 157