Present: Executive Committee, David Easterbrook (Northwestern), chair; Ruby Bell-Gam (UCLA), vice-chair/chair-elect; Peter Malanchuk (U. Florida); Dorothy Woodson (Yale), secretary; James Simon (CRL); Peter Limb (Michigan State); Joanne Zellers (LC); Greg Finnegan (Harvard); Bruce Haight (Western Michigan) faculty rep.; Ned Alpers (UCLA) faculty rep. Members: Helene Baumann (Duke); Phyllis Bischof (Berkeley); Andrew DeHeer (NYPL); Marion Frank-Wilson (Indiana); Karen Fung (Stanford); Birgitte Jansen (Nordic African Inst.); Al Kagan (Illinois); Nancy Pressman Levy (Princeton); Ken Lorentz (Kansas); Loyd Mbabu (Ohio U); Lauris Olson (U. Penn); Afeworki Paulos (U. Mich.); Barbara Turfan (SOAS); Gretchen Walsh (Boston U). Guests:; Simon Bockie (Berkeley); Linda Brooks (LC); Moore Crossey (Yale); Miki Goral (UCLA); Beverly Gray (LC); Bob Lesh (Northwestern); Laverne Page (LC); Loumona Petroff (Boston U); Bernard Reilly (CRL); Paul Steere (LC-Nairobi); Titia Van Der Werf (Leiden, NL); David Westley (Boston U).

The meeting was called to order at 2:20PM.

1. Introductions

Introductions were made and agenda was amended to include additional items. Easterbrook announced new CAMP institutional memberships or new representatives: Georgetown (Brenda Bickett), Cornell (Eric Acree), NYU (Peter Kargbo), Ohio State (Linda Krikos), Iowa (Edward Miner).

2. Approval of the minutes

The minutes of the meeting in Albany, May 4, 2002 were approved.

3. Election

Easterbrook announced that Peter Malanchuk (Florida) has been elected vice-chair and Ned Alpers (UCLA) has been elected as the new faculty representative.

4. Report of the Executive Committee Meeting

Easterbrook reported changes to the agenda including adding a discussion of new filming projects, and the idea of an Arabic language CAMP brochure. He noted the length of the agenda and the fact that we may not get through every item. He also reviewed changes in the membership and reported that the Executive Committee had discussed the status and privileges of international membership.

5. Remarks from Bernard Reilly, CRL President

Mr. Reilly praised CAMP as one of the most active of the area studies programs in CRL and stated that it is a model for cooperative development and preservation of resources. He said he is committed to making sure scholarly resources get to scholarly researchers.

CRL has finished a strategic planning process and in so doing has established a number of strong objectives for the next five years. Foremost is building international resources. A collections assessment task force has made recommendations regarding unprocessed collections, as well as how to deal with digital resources which are at present inadequately archived. The Mellon Foundation has provided funding to investigate archiving of political web materials on a long-term sustainable basis because so much of this material is only available on the web. Curators may need to add this task to their collection development activities/regimes. Additionally we must become more cognizant of variant sensitivities regarding intellectual property in other countries.

A question and answer period ensued:

Olson – are you looking for digital projects that will result in microform?

Reilly – yes. We’re concerned about the behavior of some of the commercial vendors and suggest the possibility of bringing together the various micropublishers to discuss the implications of producing and selling microform from digital sources.

Walsh – wants a discussion regarding international memberships and the problematic nature of lending to these institutions.

Reilly – we may need to do business in a different way, such as perhaps, digital document delivery.

Walsh – the DATAD project has inherent problems dealing with the distribution of intellectual property – a matter which varies from country to country.

Paulos – CRL may want to consider designating African universities for duplicates of future CRL projects.

Limb –endorses Paulos’s “node” idea and cites the South African Library as a workable example.

Easterbrook – CAMP has always felt resources should be available to everyone and hopes we can find a mechanism to lend to non-members as well.

Bell-Gam – any future funding should take into account the high cost of postage within Africa.

6. CRL Report including CAMP budget report

Simon reported on the Aberdeen Woods conference and emphasized the importance of interacting more with other area studies projects. The conference papers are now available on the web.

The ASA papers are now complete. 1987 and 1995-1997 have been done and the originals sent to Northwestern. The Mali newspapers expenditures have increased because the papers have become daily instead of weekly. For the Malawi newspapers, filming might be done in New Delhi. Ditto for the Tanzanian papers. Northwestern/CIC project is now complete. (There was not an update on the Senegal Project).

Simon reviewed the CAMP budget for Fiscal Year 2002 (Final Report). FY 2002 started with a beginning balance of $34,414.01. Membership fees and sales (not including Title VI money) brought in revenues of $34,318.50. FY 2002 expenses were $39,834.18. Outstanding commitments total $22,053.90 which includes both materials on order and materials approved for purchase. Available funds are at present $25,027.68.

Simon also distributed lists of CAMP Materials received since May 1, 2002, on order materials, and new cataloging since May 1, 2002.

7. Aberdeen Woods Conference 8-10 November 2002

Olson will summarize the proceedings and place it on our website.

8. Political Web Archiving Project [see: http://www.crl.edu/content/PolitWeb.htm]

CRL is investigating having a periodic capture of web-based political material every two months.

9. Senegal Project

Deferred until spring.

10. Archives Task Force

Deferred until spring.

11. IDC list of South African newspapers

Yale will check its holdings against the list. Stanford and Northwestern will do similarly. Crossey said the quality of the South African film was originally not good.

12. Liberian papers

Simon mentioned missing holdings from 1995-1996. Contact has been made with Friends of Liberia as well as the Peace Corps to obtain these issues. Indiana may have some issues as well as LC. Limb suggested wrapping up the project. Simon suggested that we work to complete, in as timely a manner as possible, filming of that particular period, not the entire project, after due consultation re outstanding issues.

13. Timbuktu project

Money is needed to move the project forward. CAMP needs to key in the descriptive information before mounting it on the web. $8,000 is needed to mount the images on the web and complete the work needed to get the scanned images ready. It was suggested that Title VI Members allocate $4000 for the project. CAMP will allocate another $4000 to convert the TIF images to metadata.

14. ASA annual meeting papers

Discussed earlier (item 6).

15. Malawian papers

Discussed earlier (item 6).

16. Lesotho electors list

Easterbrook urged the purchase and Limb suggested allocating $4000. The purchase was approved.

17. Mombassa Times, 1930s to 1945

Easterbrook announced that we still do not have a cost estimate from the Imperial War Museum which holds this title.

18. New Business

Suggestions for new filming projects/purchases

Mbabu suggested pursuing the filming of surveys that were done during the transition from military to civilian rule in Ghana (1991-1992). The Ghana National Commission for Democracy holds the materials which amount to about 5 large boxes. DeHeer and Bell-Gam endorsed this proposal and De Heer will put out feelers for contacts and information.

Zulu newspapers uBaqa Lwantwana (1877-1883) and Ikwezi (1861-1868) are available in South Africa and would be inexpensive to film since the work could be done there. Cost is approximately $400.00.

Woodson suggested filming of Berhanena Selam (Addis Ababa). Held by British Library—11 printed volumes in Amharic from the 1920s—one of earliest papers.

Lorentz passed out an inventory of Onitsha publications held by Kansas U. Olson suggested digitizing some for a web site. Easterbrook said that Northwestern deacidified their Onitsha pamphlets. Limb said the project needs to be broadened since so many institutions have similar or additional holdings and that we should keep this on the agenda for spring.

Woodson mentioned that Monitor does not appear in RLIN/OCLC for certain years. Malanchuk will send a message out regarding the filming of Monitor. Florida has been filming the title.

Bischof said that Hogarth has sent Berkeley 288 state government publications from Nigeria which we might want to film. Easterbrook said that since many of these titles are serials it might be wise to see what is available at other institutions to make the collection more comprehensive. He suggested placing the titles on our listserv so that we can check against our institutional holdings.

Simon said that a major anthropological collection, the papers of Hans Cory, held by the University of Dar es Salaam, may be a project worth filming. The University of Bergen may also be interested in filming this. Limb will pursue a follow-up by inquiring with its visiting librarian.

The Namibian. Jansen has incomplete holdings from 1985. IEN has some as well and the title is offerend in part by Norman Ross.

Woodson suggested an Arabic version of the CAMP brochure.

The meeting adjourned at 4:35PM.

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MF-12837 reel 1 item 12 Neg. MF-at lab.
1985 census of population and housing Sierra Leone [microform] : the analytical report / edited by H.B.S. Kandeh [and] K.V. Ramachandran.
Freetown : Central Statistics Office, Dept. of Development and Economic Planning, c1995.
OCLC# = 50014248.

MF-12837 reel 1 item 1.
Abraham, Arthur, 1945-
Development issues in Sierra Leone [microform] : selected essays / by Arthur Abraham.
Freetown, Sierra Leone : Institute of African Studies, 1994.
OCLC # = 50013851.

MF Neg. MF.
Adult education in Sierra Leone [microform] : journal of the Partners in Adult Education in Sierra Leone.
Freetown : Published for PADECO by Nomoli House, [1996-
Center has:
MF-12837 CAMP (reel 1, item 2) no. 1 (Jan. 1996).
OCLC # = 50013770.

MF Neg. MF.
African Studies Association. Meeting.
Annual meeting papers [microform] / African Studies Association.
Atlanta, GA : African Studies Association,
Microfilm. 31st (1988),1995- Chicago, Ill. : [Filmed for the Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project at CRL by] University of Chicago Library Photoduplication Dept [19--]. microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Microproducer varies : Bethlehem, Pa. : Filmed by Preservation Resources for Cooperative Africana Microfilming Project, 2002-
Center has:
MF-9337 CAMP (2 reels) 31st (1988).
MF-12961 CAMP (6 reels) 1995-1997.
OCLC # = 31215977.

MF Neg. MF.
African Studies Association. Meeting.
Conference papers [microform] / African Studies Association.
[Denver, Colo. : African Studies Association, 1987].
Microfilm. 1987. Bethlehem, Pa. : Filmed by Preservation Resources for Cooperative Africana Microfilming Project ; [Chicago, Ill.] : [Available from] Center for Research Libraries, 2002. 2 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Center has:
MF-12962 CAMP (2 reels) 30th (1987).
OCLC # = 50405072.

MF Neg. MF.
Business telegraph [microform]
[Blantyre : s.n.,
Vol. 4, no. 29 (December 28, 2000) LIC
Paid: $640.62
OCLC# = 44753255

MF Neg. MF.
Business times (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania) [microform].
Dar es Salaam : Business Times Ltd, [1988-
No. 638 (dec. 15/21, 2000) LIC.
Paid: $897.78
OCLC# = 32851808.

MF Neg. MF.
Les échos [microform].
Bamako, Mali : Impr. EDIM,
Microfilm. Bethlehem, PA : Microfilmed for the Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project at the Center for Research Libraries by Preservation Resources, 1995- microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
No. 649 (Dec. 31, 2000) LIC
Paid: $199.06
OCLC# = 33126454.

MF Neg. MF
The enquirer [microform]
Blantyre : Commercial Development Graphic Ltd., [1993-
Vol. 8, no. 28 (Dec. 15/20, 2000) LIC.
Paid: $214.18
OCLC# = 37825356

MF Neg. MF.
Heko [microform].
Dar es Salaam : Heko Publishers,
Microfilm. Dec.1985- :[Gaps] Bethlehem, Pa. : microfilmed for the Cooperative Africana Microform Project, The Center for Research Libraries, by Preservation Resources, 1995- microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Na 1054 (Apr. 13/19, 2000) LIC.
Paid: $675.62
OCLC# = 32851898.

MF-12837 reel 1 item 4 Neg. MF-at lab.
Koroma, Signor.
The stories of Sima Ngebeh [microform] / by Signor Koroma.
Freetown : Peoples Education Association of Sierra Leone, 1994 ([Freetown] : RPRGS Aid Printers and Graphic Service).
OCLC # = 50013870.

MF-12837 reel 1 item 5 Neg. MF-at lab.
Lice in the lion's mane [microform] : poets and poems of Sierra Leone / edited by Hannah Hope Wells ; with a foreword by Eldred D. Jones.
Freetown : Peoples Education Association of Sierra Leone, 1995 (Freetown : Printed by Atlantic Printers Limited).
OCLC # = 50013877.

MF Neg. MF
The mirror [microform]
[Blantyre : s.n.], 1993- (Lilongwe : United Printers Ltd.)
Vol. 7, no. 9 (Dec. 30, 1999) LIC
Paid: $213.62
OCLC# = 37825288

MF Neg. MF
Nation (Blantyre, Malawi)
Blantyre : Nation Publications Ltd., 1993-
Vol. 7, no. 247 (29 Dec. 2000) LIC
Paid: $2,346.11
OCLC# = 40533693

MF.
Nation (Djibouti, Djibouti) [microform].
Djibouti, [Djibouti] : Impr. nationale, 1999-
Microfilm. [Evanston, Ill.] : Northwestern University Library Preservation Dept., 2001. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Filmed with: Nation Djibouti, Jan. 8, 1998-Nov. 22, 1999.
Center has:
MF-12826 CAMP (reel 7) Nov. 25-Dec. 30, 1999.
OCLC # = 49944372.

MF.
La nation Djibouti [microform].
Djibouti, [Djibouti] : Imp. administrative, 1980-1999.
Microfilm. [Evanston, Ill.] : Northwestern University Library Preservation Dept., 2001. 7 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Filmed with: Nation (Djibouti, Djibouti), Nov. 25-Dec. 30, 1999.
Center has:
MF-12826 CAMP (7 reels) June 29, 1980-June 28, 1990, Mar. 5, 1992-Nov. 22, 1999; [Gaps]
OCLC # = 49944370.

MF-12837 reel 1 item 9 Neg. MF-at lab.
National human development report for Sierra Leone 1996 [microform] : theme : poverty eradication and sustainable human development.
[Freetown] : [UNDP] 1996.
"Prepared by consultants under the guidance of a task force comprising of Government and UNDP Freetown. The consultants are Henry E. Tommy who compiled the statistical annex and Victor A.B. Davies who drafted the report."
OCLC # = 50014079.

MF-12837 reel 1 item 10 Neg. MF-at lab.
National Workshop on the Protection and Rehabilitation of Sierra Leone's Environment (1996 : Freetown, Sierra Leone).
Proceedings of the National Workshop on the Protection and Rehabilitation of Sierra Leone's Environment [microform] : the way forward / organised by SLANGO in collaboration with UNDP and GOSL.
Freetown : SLANGO, 1996.
OCLC # = 50014102.

MF.
The new citizen [microform].
Freetown : Modern Publishing and Advertising Co.,
"Tolongbo."
Microfilm. [Evanston, Ill.] : Northwestern University Library Preservation Dept., 2001. 3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Center has:
MF-12827 CAMP (3 reels) Jan. 9, 1987-Mar. 31, 1988, June 16, 1990-Dec. 8, 1997; [Gaps]
OCLC # = 49944378.

MF-12837 reel 1 item 6 Neg. MF-at lab.
Noah, Abu, 1939-
Measuring my country's heartbeats [microform] / Abu Noah ; with an introduction by Eldred D. Jones.
Freetown : Mount Everest Publishers, c1998.
OCLC # = 50013889.

MF Neg. MF.
Républicain (Bamako, Mali)
Bamako, Mali : Imp. EDIM-SA,
"Hebdomadaire malien d'informations générales."
No 888 (29 déc. 2000) LIC.
Paid: $883.35
OCLC # = 33975814.

MF-12837 reel 1 item 7 Neg. MF-at lab.
Sierra Leone.
Peace accord between the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) of Sierra Leone [microform].
Abidjan : [s.n.], 1998.
OCLC # = 50013919.

MF-12837 reel 1 item 8 Neg. MF-at lab.
Smith, Arthur E.
Salonean literacy handbook [microform] / Arthur E. Smith.
Freetown : Nomoli House, 1995.
"A DVV sponsored publication by SLADEA."
OCLC # = 50014072.

MF-12837 reel 1 item 3 Neg. MF-at lab.
Squire, C. B., 1953-
Agony in Sierra Leone [microform] / C. B. Squire.
Freetown : Ro-Marong Industries Ltd., 1996.
OCLC # = 50013860.

MF-12837 reel 1 item 11 Neg. MF-at lab.
The status of women and children in Sierra Leone [microform] : a household survey report (MICS-2) undertaken by the Government of Sierra Leone with technical and financial support from UNICEF, UNFPA, UNHCR, ACTION AID, CCF, CHASL.
[Freetown] : Central Statistics Office, Ministry of Development and Economic Planning, 2000.
OCLC # = 50014156.

MF.
Third eye daily [microform].
Ibadan ; Lagos : Third Eye Communications Ltd.,
Microfilm. May 14,1995-May 28,1997:[Gaps] [Evanston, Ill.] : Northwestern University Library Preservation Dept., 2001. 10 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Center has:
MF-12825 CAMP (reels 2-11) May 14, 1995-May 28, 1997; [Gaps]
Part of Northwestern University CIC - NEH grant filming.
OCLC # = 49930223.

MF.
Third eye on Sunday [microform].
Ibadan ; Lagos : Third Eye Communications Ltd.,
Microfilm. Apr.25,1993-Jan.1,1995:[Gaps] [Evanston, Ill.] : Northwestern University Library Preservation Dept., 2001. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
MF-12825 CAMP (reel 1) Apr. 25, 1993-Jan. 1, 1995; LACKS: 1993: June 27, Aug. 29, Sept. 26, Nov. 14, Dec. 5, 26; 1994: June 26, Aug. 7, Dec. 4-11.
OCLC # = 49930222.

MF Neg. MF
UDF news [microform]
[Lilongwe : UDF News Ltd.,
Vol.7, no.57 (Dec. 21/28, 2000) LIC
Paid: $715.46
OCLC# = 36987838

MF Neg. MF.
Weekend nation [microform].
Chichiri, Blantyre : Nation Publications Ltd.,
Microfilm. Bethlehem, Pa. : Microfilmed by Preservation Resources for Cooperative Africana Microfilming Project ; [Chicago, Ill. : Available from] Center for Research Libraries. microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Vol. 4, no. 52 (30-31 Dec. 2000) LIC.
Paid: $865.83
OCLC # = 50238786.

MF Neg. MF
Weekly news (Blantyre, Malawi)
Blantyre : [s.n.], 1996-
Vol.5, no. 42 (Dec. 22/28, 2000) LIC
Paid: $557.82
OCLC # 44752095

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