Teaching African Resources with a Primary Source Focus in African Studies Library Instruction

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Teaching African Resources with a Primary Source
Focus in African Studies Library Instruction

• David Easterbrook, George and Mary LeCron Foster
  Curator,
• Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
  
• ACRL Asian, African and Middle East Section
• ALA Annual Conference
• June 27, 2010

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Publications

• Africanist Librarianship in an Era of Change.
  Lanham, Md Scarecrow Press, 2005.  
• Building Area Studies Collections. Beiträge zum
  Buch- und Bibliothekswesen Bd. 52. Wiesbaden
  Harrassowitz, 2007.  
• Research, Reference Service, and Resources for
  the Study of Africa. Binghamton, NY Haworth
  Information Press, 2004.  
• McCoy, Michelle. The Manuscript as Question
  Teaching Primary Sources in the ArchivesThe
  China Missions Project. College Research
  Libraries 71, no. 1 (January 2010) 49-62.  

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http//repository.library.northwestern.edu/wintert
on/
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http//www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collec
tions/mapsofafrica
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http//www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/colle
ctions/posters/index.html
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http//www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/colle
ctions/clir_posters.html
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Electronic Resources Forum at Northwestern
University Library
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Student instruction programs at Northwestern

• Melville J. Herskovits scholars
• Visits by undergraduate courses
• High schools

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Michigan State University Library
http//overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/index.php
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Michigan State University Library
http//africanactivist.msu.edu/
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University of Florida
http//www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/africana/afs5061.htm

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University of Florida
http//www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/anthropology/ant4930_L
auriault.htm
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University of Florida
http//ufdcweb1.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?aafrica1mhh
h
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http//www.crl.edu/area-studies/camp
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http//www.crl.edu/collaborative-digitization/worl
d-newspaper-archive/african-newspapers
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Focus 29 no. 4 (Summer 2010) http//www.crl.edu/fo
cus
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Additional primary source digital projects at
Africana libraries

• Indiana University Digital Somali Library, Nuer
  project, Liberia collections project
• University of Wisconsin contemporary photographs
  - Africa Focus
• National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian
  Institution - Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives

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http//onliberia.org/