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/