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The Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP), founded
in 1963, is a joint effort by research libraries throughout
the world and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to
promote the preservation of publications and archives concerning
the nearly fifty nations of Sub-Saharan Africa and to make
these materials in microform available to researchers.
Countries and Materials Covered by CAMP
CAMP acquires expensive microform sets and authorizes original
filming of unique research materials in North America, Africa,
and Europe. CAMP collects microform copies of such material
as:
- selected newspapers, including titles received on current
subscriptions;
- journals;
- government publications;
- personal and corporate archives
- personal papers of historians, journalists, anthropologists,
geographers and government leaders;
- writings in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, German
and other European languages as well as works in Swahili,
Xhosa, Zulu and other African languages.
The microform collections of CAMP form a large pool of
historical, political, linguistic, economic and geographical
data and primary source materials that are not available
elsewhere. Member libraries can rely on the vast microform
collections of newspapers and journals and, thereby, avoid
the high costs of acquiring, cataloging, and storing these
materials locally.
For questions or information about CAMP, please contact:
James Simon
Director of International Resources
Center for Research Libraries
6050 S. Kenwood
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
(tel) 773 955-4545 ext. 324
(fax) 773 955-4339
email: jsimon at crl.edu
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