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 SectionALA Annual ConferenceJune 27, 2010

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 Archives—The China Missions Project.” College & Research Libraries 71, no. 1 (January 2010): 49-62.  

http://repository.library.northwestern.edu/winterton/

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/mapsofafrica

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/collections/posters/index.html

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/collections/clir_posters.html

Electronic Resources Forum at Northwestern University Library

Student instruction programs at Northwestern

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

http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/index.php

Michigan State University Library

http://africanactivist.msu.edu/

Michigan State University Library

University of Florida

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/africana/afs5061.htm

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/anthropology/ant4930_Lauriault.htm

University of Florida

University of Florida

http://ufdcweb1.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?a=africa1&m=hhh

http://www.crl.edu/area-studies/camp

http://www.crl.edu/collaborative-digitization/world-newspaper-archive/african-newspapers

Focus 29 no. 4 (Summer 2010) http://www.crl.edu/focus

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

http://onliberia.org/