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
Publications
• Africanist Librarianship in an Era of Change. Lanham,
Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005.
• Building Area Studies Collections. Beiträge zum Buchund 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
Michigan State University Library
http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/index.php
Michigan State University Library
http://africanactivist.msu.edu/
University of Florida
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/africana/afs5061.htm
University of Florida
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/anthropology/ant4930_Lauriault.htm
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/