Present: Executive Committee, Peter Malanchuck, (U Florida), chair; Ruby Bell-Gam (UCLA), past chair; James Simon (CRL); Edward Miner (U Iowa), secretary; Jill Coelho (Harvard) vice chair/chair elect; Laverne Page (LC), LC representative; Gretchen Walsh (Boston U), ALC representative; Ned Alpers (UCLA), faculty representative; Dorothy Woodson (Yale), at large.
Guest: Helene Baumann (Duke).

• Malanchuck is the new Chair of CAMP.

• Simon will get Page’s handlist into AFRINUL.

• Bell-Gam will send an e-mail introducing Malanchuck to everyone involved in the Mozambique project.

• Simon will respond publicly on what Joel Tembe has proposed be microfilmed.

• Malanchuck will follow up on the identification of microfilm training materials in Portuguese for the Mozambique archives.

• Alpers will get Jean Penvenne (Tufts) involved in communicating with Tembe.

• At the ESARBICA meeting in Botswana, what role should visiting ALC/CAMP members play? The agenda will be driven by what the national archivists want to do in the next two years. Page cautioned that the ALC/CAMP delegation should be careful of coming in with their own agenda. Are there possible collaborations with East African archivists? As with the conference two years ago, Page is thinking of going to ESARBICA to listen to the national archivists and see how ALC/CAMP might be useful.

• With respect to action on the microfilming of Nigerian state documents, we’ll wait to see what Easterbrook is going to do.

• Malanchuck and Baumann will write a CRL purchase proposal for the German Colonial Archives microfilm.

• Simon will follow up with AFRINUL participants to begin testing.

• Bell-Gam will resubmit online a CAMP purchase proposal for the SOAS Swahili Manuscripts collection. The latest information is that it will cost $6,800.

• Simon will follow up with the Netherlands archive to see if they have a more complete run of Miso Gaa.

• Simon will follow up on the Eastern Nigeria Guardian and the Eritrean newspaper.

• Baumann will follow up on the Friend.

• Ipepo lo Hlanga was not discussed at the Business Meeting. We need to find out if it has been preserved. Bell-Gam will look into it and forward a recommendation to Limb. No action on We Yone or Courrier d’Afrique.

• We need to approach the publisher of the East African Standard again – a few years ago they were unwilling to make copies of what they had microfilmed. Maybe Paul Steere could approach them. Simon is more interested in establishing contacts with the MacMillan Library in Nairobi -- possibly through an archivists group mentioned in the INASP newsletter (?).

• Malanchuck will look into organizing the approved sub-committees. Alpers recommended that the sub-committee chairs write up sub-committee charges. Ruby suggested that we have members give a prioritized list of their interests – so that assignments can be made to ensure there are enough members on each sub-committee.

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