Research, reference service, and resources for the study of Africa
By: Deborah M. LaFond, Gretchen Walsh, editors.
Contributors: LaFond, Deborah M.; Walsh, Gretchen.
Publisher: Haworth Information Press; Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Binghamton, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Africana libraries -- Reference services.; Libraries -- Special collections -- Africa.; Africa -- Research.; Africa -- Library resources.
Other titles: Reference librarian.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Co-published simultaneously as The reference librarian, numbers 87/88, 2004."
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Teaching African studies bibliography : information literacy for 21st century scholars / Marion Frank-Wilson; title: Africa business and economic resource index : selected Internet resources / Angel D. Batiste; title: Partnership as a new paradigm for reference librarians in African studies / Peter Limb; title: Reading African women's writing : the role of librarians in expanding the canon / Miriam Conteh-Morgan; title: Designing an anglophone university undergraduate library collection for a francophone West African environment / Akilah Shukura Nosakhere; title: Frog voices, whispers, and silences : problems and issues in collecting for an African studies library in Africa / Colin Darch; title: Library capacity building in Africa or the exportation of technolust? : discerning partnership models and revitalization efforts in the age of globalization / Deborah M. LaFond.