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Book Preferences, Conceptions of Books and Reading Practices Among Urban Adults with a Basic Level of Literacy
Authors: Charlewood Lucy 
Published: April 2022

The extensive body of scholarship on reading practices has established a number of ground rules. Some of these include the notion that literacy cannot be understood in a positivist way, that literacy is embedded in a social context, that there are multiple literacies rather than one monolithic literacy, and that reading tastes and practices are conditioned by a variety of social factors such as class affiliation, religious upbringing, and gender. Reading practices, literacy and conceptions around books are clearly interrelated issues that cannot be separated from one another. An understanding of reading and books among adults with a low level of literacy thus has to grasp all these issues simultaneously.The findings of both Lyster (1995) and French (1988) highlight the idiosyncratic nature of reading preferences and practices among the participants of their studies.
The Cape Malays: An Imagined Community in South Africa – A Bibliographical Essay
Authors: Haron Muhammed 
Published: April 2022

1994 was indeed an eventful year for South Africans in general and for the South African Muslims in particular. During the early part of April 1994 the Muslims celebrated the tercentenary of Islam in South Africa, and towards the end of that month they went to the polls along with other South African citizens to participate in South Africa's first democratic elections. It was thus a memorable experience for the Muslim community who joyfully expressed their national and religious identity respectively.The South African Muslim community, particularly those who hailed from the province of the Western Cape, has always raised the question of identity. During the years of apartheid and before, the vast majority of them never identified themselves as South Africans since they rejected the legislated racial policies of the White minority regime. The Population Registration Act of 1950 divided the South Africans into four distinct categories, namely Whites, Indians, Africans, and Coloureds.
African History on Screen and in the Classroom
Authors: Hunter Emma 
Published: April 2022

In 1954, an African welfare association, the African Association of Tanganyika, decided to create a new organisation, TANU, to campaign for selfgovernment. Their reasons for taking this step were many, but among the long list of criticisms of the colonial government documented at that first conference was one which related to films. According to the colonial government's report on the conference, among the “social topics” discussed was “the portrayal of Africans as savages in popular films”, and “a campaign to persuade people not to perform dances or allow themselves to be photographed by Europeans was proposed”.The representation of Africa in general and African history in particular in film is not, then, a new concern. Created in a web of power relations, films are both shaped by and in turn serve to shape our understandings of the present and of the past.
Keeping information alive: resource centres for district level health workers in Tanzania
Authors: Hammond Sarah , Richardson Victoria 
Published: April 2022

Healthlink Worldwide is an international NGO (www.healthlink.org.uk), working with partners in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America to improve the use and impact of health information and health communications in poor and vulnerable communities. Over the last twenty-five years, Healthlink Worldwide has developed expertise in resource centre development, which is now co-ordinated through Source (www.asksource.info). A collaborative venture of Healthlink Worldwide, the Centre for International Child Health and Handicap International, Source is an international information support centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability.The Source model brings together good practice in information management, capacity development in partnership with organisations in developing countries, and a unique collection of resources and integrated methods for communication around health. Source identifies, reviews, and signposts materials produced by, or appropriate to, developing country users, particularly ‘good practice’ in the field, and reflects the priorities of developing country information needs in its services and systems.
Language, heritage, development and identity in South Africa
Authors: Callinicos Luli 
Published: April 2022

This paper is based on a talk given at the British Library in October 2005 to an audience of African publishers and writers. It discusses the crucial role that publishers can play in helping to develop the new, democratic South Africa. My remarks were given from the perspective of the National Heritage Council (NHC) - a statutory, arms-length organisation formed by the National Heritage Council Act passed by the South African parliament in 1999.In the context of post-apartheid South Africa, the Act mandates the NHC to assist in redressing the racial and ethnic fragmentation of the past. The core function of the NHC is to coordinate all heritage sectors in an interdisciplinary manner. Members of the Council include chairpersons of national heritage institutions as well as representatives of heritage from each of the nine provinces.
Centre des Archives d'outre-mer à Aix-en-Provence (CAOM): Historique des archives de madagascar
Authors: Camara Evelyne , Villon Jean 
Published: April 2022

The National Archives of France opened its first building at Aix in 1966; at that time the Archives d’Outre-Mer (AOM) located there co-existed alongside the Section Outre-Mer of the National Archives (SOM) housed at the Rue Oudinot address in Paris. Following the abolition of the ‘Ministry of France Overseas’, it was decided in 1962 to bring together all the archives of the former French colonies, except for those of French West Africa which were all retained in Dakar. The archives transferred to Paris were only those of French government; those of administration, i.e. public works, health, education, local government, all stayed in their respective countries.Initially at Aix 900 tonnes of archives arrived in the first ten months. In 1986 the SOM in Paris was closed and 17 linear km of documents, far from completely processed, were transferred to Aix.
IFLA Activities in Support of Librarianship in Africa
Authors: Roberts Winston 
Published: April 2022

The increasing economic strength of many countries in Asia and Latin America, not to mention the recent political changes in Eastern Europe, have led to some redefinition of the category of “developing countries”: these countries no longer form a homogenous group (if they ever did) and the label is no longer so convenient. However, it is still the case that the countries of Africa tend to lag behind in the development of library systems and services.Recognising this, many governmental and non-governmental organisations - both national and international - which work in the library and information field are continuing to make a special effort in favour of Africa.
Liberia: War and Peace 1989-2007: A Research Guide
Authors: Badger Lindsey 
Published: April 2022

The Liberian civil wars spanned fourteen years, from 1989 to 2003. It is estimated that during this time over 250,000 people were killed and more than 1,000,000 were displaced. The wars were covered regularly in American news. Reports characteristically represented the child militias, human sacrifices, and crazed army tactics, including but not limited to soldiers cross-dressing or using nudity as methods of intimidation. Initially, little attention was offered to the greater social and political implications of the war, but recent news coverage and critical research has demanded a change in the way that the civil wars were viewed and addressed, internally and internationally.The first Liberian civil war was led by the conflicting political factions of Samuel Doe and Charles Taylor. These men were backed largely by members of different groups, divided by existing ethnic tensions. These factions divided further as the war progressed, and the war continued long after Doe's assassination in 1990 and his party's defeat.
Africa to Africa: Building its Knowledge Community
Authors: Raseroka Kay 
Published: April 2022

It is a great honour to have been invited to participate in this first AEGIS Conference. I wish to acknowledge colleagues who conceived of the inclusion of librarians in the core of AEGIS - for it is only through the sharing of knowledge with scholars that the importance of libraries and collections in knowledge generation can be reinforced.Improving the understanding of contemporary African societies is neither a luxury, nor a noble job for scholars, nor an easy occupation for librarians.In the global world we live in, all societies are related. The fate, fortune and developments of one society have an impact on developmental and life processes of others. The understanding of this interrelationship of humanity is fundamental to building the Knowledge Society that the World aspires to. Understanding presupposes access to reliable sources of information, independent analysis of issues and open communication.
The Swahili Manuscripts Project at Soas, 2000-2004
Authors: Baschieri Angelica 
Published: April 2022

The Swahili Manuscripts Project started in October 2000 at the School of Oriental and African studies (SOAS), funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and administered by the SOAS Faculty of Languages and Cultures, under the supervision of Prof. Graham Furniss, Dr Farouk Topan, and the SOAS Archivist, Ms Rosemary Seton.The lead researcher of the project was Sh. Yahya Ali Omar, who is one of the few remaining scholars who can read and comment on the content of manuscripts. The expertise of Sh. Yahya has been fundamental for the creation of the catalogue. Sh. Yahya was assisted by two research assistants, Annmarie Drury and Angelica Baschiera.The main focus of the Project has been to create an online academic catalogue of the extensive collections of Swahili Manuscripts held in the SOAS Archives.
A Visit to the National Archives of Liberia
Authors: Ellis Stephen 
Published: April 2022

The national archives of Liberia - Africa's oldest republic - are in parlous condition. Mostly this is the result of the on/off war that has wracked the country since 1989.Liberia's national archives used to be housed in their own building, but this was vandalised in the first period of the war, in 1990. Some 40 percent of the records were destroyed at that time. The remainder were bundled into cardboard boxes, plastic bags, and any other available receptacle and moved to another building. This, however, was subsequently used as a barracks for Nigerian peacekeeping troops who did not always treat the archives with the respect they deserved. The records were moved again, apparently in 1993, this time to a small building in the middle of Monrovia that also houses the National Library, although the latter has few books and is also in poor condition.
Alternative publishing distribution models for African journals with reference to Africa: The Journal of The International African Institute
Authors: Kitchen Stephanie 
Published: April 2022

AbstractThis paper considers different publishing and distribution models for African studies journals. The case considered in detail is that of Africa, the journal of the International African Institute (IAI). I discuss the publishing model employed by the Institute for its journal, some other comparable African studies journals, and the dissemination of journals edited from Africa. Flowing from our experiences of publishing an important journal in the field, I offer some more general reflections on the possible directions of publishing African journals in the era of electronic publishing.The IAI was established as the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures in London in 1926. It had a dual mandate of providing an international centre to promote research and dissemination of information and knowledge on Africa cultures; and increasing and strengthening the link between knowledge and practical activities and the needs of administrators, educators and missionaries (Schapera 1949).
Conditions of production for writing, publishing and studying literature in africa: the Nigerian situation
Authors: Diala Isidore 
Published: April 2022

Text of contribution to a panel discussion on “Conditions of Production for Writing and Publishing in Africa” at a postgraduate seminar, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 1 February 2006, revised for a SCOLMA seminar with the present title at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 21March, 2006.Quite apart from claims made for Cyprian Ekwensi as the first Nigerian to publish a full-length novel in “modern English” (that is his 1954 novel, People of The City), it is generally accepted that Amos Tutuola's The Palm-wine Drinkard was the first novel in any variety of English to be published by a Nigerian. That novel was incidentally published in 1952 by Faber and Faber in the UK. Perhaps this has not after all turned out to be a good omen for publishing in Nigeria.
Tackling Africa: the resourceful Mrs J. Theodore Bent
Authors: Brisch Gerald 
Published: April 2022

This contribution represents a short introduction to the African travel notebooks, or ‘Chronicles’, of Mabel Virginia Anna Bent (1847-1929) - wife of the explorer James Theodore Bent (1852-1887) - and some of the resources consulted during research into the publication of these notebooks. What follows is based on a presentation made at the SCOLMA conference, the University of Birmingham, on 2 July 2014.The 19th century is studded with the derring-do of explorers in Africa and elsewhere, but we have relatively few first-hand records of husband-and-wife partnerships. And Mabel and Theodore Bent really were one of the great British travelling partnerships in terms of their results, the distances covered, and the sheer physical efforts involved over a period of nearly twenty years of journeying together between 1880 and 1897. In particular, Theodore's work in today's Zimbabwe made the couple into explorer-celebrities, and accounts of them at travellers’ soirées, or sharing passenger lists with famous names, such as Stanley, are common. The couple regularly feature in the major relevant bibliographies - archaeological, ethnographical, and travel - to this day.
Cooperation between librarians of a North-South network of French speaking demographic research centres
Authors: Gubry Françoise 
Published: April 2022

The North-South cooperation presented here does not only concern libraries and librarians. It concerns cooperation within a network of institutions in which librarians are working and whose main objective is to promote the adoption of information and communication technologies by demographers in French-speaking Africa.This cooperation was implemented between six demographic research centres of which five are located in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa and the other in Paris. Their activities are quite similar. Affiliated to national universities, they develop research activities in the area of population-development and train students in demography; most of them have a library managed by a professional. They are relatively small, with less than fifty employees (teachers, researchers and administrative staff) and welcome PhD students.
A Case of Painstaking Planning and Preparation: the reception of the 1907 deputation of Basuto Chiefs in Britain
Authors: Colenso Gwilym 
Published: April 2022

Accounts of the 1907 deputation of Basuto chiefs to Britain have tended to focus on events in South Africa prior to the deputation's departure, and on the negotiations which took place once the deputation was in Britain. Less attention has been paid to the planning and preparation by sympathisers in Britain in anticipation of the arrival of the deputation in the metropole.The chiefs were from the Batlokoa and Bakhulukwe chiefdoms. They travelled to Britain to pursue a grievance concerning their being dispossessed of large tracts of land which they and their followers had previously occupied in the Orange River Colony (ORC) in South Africa. When they arrived in Britain in January 1907 there was a readymade support network waiting for them. This article seeks to explain how the chiefs came to benefit from such a well organised reception in Britain.
IV. Access to—and impact of—book reviews
Authors: Henige David 
Published: April 2022

The authors of the set of essays on various aspects of reviewing recently published in ARD (no. 102 [2007]:13-35) argue en ensemble that reviews continue to fill a function in scholarly communications—an unofficial system of checks and balances that can and often does set limits on how cases are presented to the public. I am less convinced of this than the authors, at least as to their value in the library acquisitions process. At any rate, the greater their value, the greater the need to optimize the production and reception by launching a number of reforms that would have the effect of providing this argument with grounds that could make it even stronger.Book reviews have long been touted as a means to influence institutional purchasing, not only of scholarly books but of all books. Focusing on the former, it strikes me that this could never have been much the case.
A Regional Approach to Building Digital Archives Capacity in Uganda
Authors: Lowry James , Luyomba David 
Published: April 2022

In Uganda, records and archives management in government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) is the responsibility of the Ministry of Public Service through the Records and Information Management Department (DRIM). The Uganda National Archives is a section of DRIM. Officially, the Department's responsibilities include:initiating and developing records management and archives administration policiesplanning and budgeting for records management and archives administration programmesgiving guidance in the management of current records, semi-current and non-current recordsco-ordinating the implementation of records and achives laws and policiesdeveloping guidelines and procedures for records and archives administrationsensitising records creators and members of the public to enhance awareness on the importance of recordsdesigning career development plans for records and archives staff, ensuring that government organisations follow good records management practice managing public records in all media or formats, including digital records
Seroprevalence and dynamics of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody among healthcare workers following ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccination
Authors: Sarkar Soma , Das Shantanab , Choudhury Kabita , Mukherjee Saibal , Chatterjee Raghunath 
Published: April 2022

Abstract
Health care workers (HCWs) are in a higher risk of acquiring the disease owing to their regular contact with the patients. The aim of this study is to evaluate the seroprevalence among HCWs pre- and post-vaccination. The serological assessment of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody was conducted in pre- and post-vaccination of first or both doses of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine and followed up to 8 months for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and antibody titre. The neutralising antibody was positively correlated with IgG and total antibody. IgG was significantly decreased after 4–6 months post-infection. Almost all HCWs developed IgG after 2 doses of vaccine with comparable IgG to that of the infected HCWs. A follow-up of 6 to 8 months post vaccination showed a significant drop in antibody titre, while 56% of them didn't show a detectable level of IgG, suggesting the need for a booster dose. Around 21% of the vaccinated HCWs with significantly low antibody titre were infected with the SARS-CoV-2, but a majority of them showed mild symptoms and recovered in home isolation without any O2 support. We noticed the effectiveness of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine as evident from the low rate of breakthrough infection with any severe symptoms.
Repeated extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for support of an Adult with Congenital Heart Disease and reperfusion pulmonary oedema
Authors: Stukov Yuriy , Jacobs Jeffery P. , Cornman Jessica , Cruz Beltran Susanna , Moguillansky Diego , Bleiweis Mark S. , Peek Giles J. 
Published: April 2022

AbstractWe present the case of 28-year-old woman with a history of complex congenital cardiac surgery who developed cardiovascular collapse with reperfusion pulmonary oedema and right ventricular failure after surgical replacement of a severely stenosed right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit. She required two separate episodes of support with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and is alive and well 6 months after her initial cardiorespiratory crisis. We believe that consideration of a second period of support with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is appropriate for select adults with CHD, provided they have a potentially reversible cause of postoperative cardiorespiratory collapse.Our case provides several important lessons: (1) adults with CHD with severe postcardiotomy cardiorespiratory failure may potentially be salvaged even if they require multiple runs of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; (2) adults with CHD with severe postcardiotomy respiratory failure with adequate cardiac function may potentially be salvaged with veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; and (3) patients supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation will benefit from care from a skilled multidisciplinary team who are able to focus on the support of the function of the organs of the patient whilst providing nutrition and mobilisation.
Prediction in challenging situations: Most bilinguals can predict upcoming semantically-related words in their L1 source language when interpreting
Authors: Liu Yiguang , Hintz Florian , Liang Junying , Huettig Falk 
Published: April 2022

AbstractPrediction is an important part of language processing. An open question is to what extent people predict language in challenging circumstances. Here we tested the limits of prediction by asking bilingual Dutch native speakers to interpret Dutch sentences into their English counterparts. In two visual world experiments, we recorded participants’ eye movements to co-present visual objects while they engaged in interpreting tasks (consecutive and simultaneous interpreting). Most participants showed anticipatory eye movements to semantically-related upcoming target words in their L1 source language during both consecutive and simultaneous interpretation. A quarter of participants during simultaneous interpretation however did not move their eyes, an extremely unusual participant behaviour in visual world studies. Overall, the findings suggest that most people predict in the source language under challenging interpreting situations. Further work is required to understand the causes of the absence of (anticipatory) eye movements during simultaneous interpretation in a substantial subset of individuals.