The meeting was convened by John Howell as Chair, with Jill Young Coelho as Secretary.

Present: Loumona Petroff, Gretchen Walsh, David Westley (Boston University); Marlys Rudeen (Center for Research Libraries); Joseph Caruso (Columbia University); Helene Baumann (Duke University); Jill Young Coelho, Gregory A. Finnegan, Elizabeth Sarkodie-Mensah (Harvard University); Nancy Schmidt (Indiana University); Julianne Beall, Beverly Gray, Ruth Thomas, Joanne Zellers (Library of Congress); Onuma Ezera (Michigan State University); Andrew DeHeer (New York Public Library, Schomburg Center); David Easterbrook, Mette Shayne (Northwestern University); Karen Fung (Stanford University, Hoover Institution); Phyllis Bischof (University of California at Berkeley); Ruby Bell-Gam, Christopher Ehret, Miki Goral (University of California at Los Angeles); Louise Leonard, Peter Malanchuk, Razia Nanji (University of Florida); John Bruce Howell (University of Iowa); Ken Lohrentz (University of Kansas); Elisa Forgey, Dennis Hyde (University of Pennsylvania); Moore Crossey (Yale University)

Guests present: Ron Kassimir (Social Sciences Research Council), Deborah LaFond (State University of New York-Albany), Elisabeth Sinnott (New York University)

CAMP members not represented: Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Emory University, La Trobe University (Australia), Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Ohio State University, Ohio University, Princeton University, Queens University at Kingston (Ontario) , South African Library, State University of New York at Buffalo, Temple University, University of Cambridge-African Studies Centre, University of Chicago, University of Kansas, University of Minnesota, University of Rochester, University of Tasmania, University of Western Australia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wayne State University.

Note by Secretary

To save space and to make things easier to follow, I have put people's remarks directly after their names in the first person and present tense. Please be advised that these are still notes and not necessarily direct quotes.

Introductions

All attending introduced themselves.

J. HOWELL: Please remember that only member institutions can vote, and that each institution has only one vote.

Minutes of the Orlando Meeting

The minutes unanimously accepted as written. An abbreviated version of the minutes appeared in the "Africana Libraries Newsletter." Copies of the complete minutes were sent to all CAMP member institutions.

Announcement of Election

J. HOWELL: In accordance with the CAMP By-Laws, there will be an election during the summer for two Members-at-Large, one of which will be elected Chair by the CAMP Executive, and also a Faculty Advisor. I have appointed Karen Fung and Meseratch Zecherias to be the Election Committee.

CAMP Finances and Commitments

MARLYS RUDEEN:

• Grant income and expenses are outside the budget.
• The March quarter will reflect membership revenues.
• Cataloging expenses will rise before the end of the fiscal year as activity increases. As before, charges are only for the billable hours of professional catalogers and clerical help is not charged. Billing statistics are compiled quarterly.
• "Materials on Order" (Page 4) represent absolute commitments.
• "CAMP Commitments" (P. 2) are not yet spent but cannot be committed again. Tanzanian and Nairobi newspapers are ongoing. Somali newspapers can now be removed from the order list. The total for FY 97 ONLY is $8500. Thus there is $20,000 available as of 1 July 1996, with $8500 already committed. This includes cataloging and M. Rudeen's expenses.

Report on the Activities of the Social Science Research Council

RON KASSIMIR:

Update of the African Archives and Museums Project (AAMP)

It began in 1991 with Ford and Rockefeller Foundation funds to support museums and archives in Africa, principally through a re-grant program, which consisted of 32 small grants and contributions to networks connecting museums and archives in Africa. An example was a conference in Harare of grantees talking about their projects in conservation, cataloging and outreach to local users beyond the institutions themselves and scholars to connect to communities. The Harare Workshop was regarded as very successful. New funding is very uncertain. The Ford grant is ending and the Ford Foundation will not be able to commit itself at its previous level, especially for re-grant projects. They do want to fund outreach aspects, to build on the African Archives and Museums Project Directors' Workshop and to increase interaction between institutions.

The Ford Foundation is in the process of restructuring. The office formerly in charge of this funding will no longer exist. Where the funds will come from is not yet clear; any grant proposals won't be entertained until Fall. The SSRC is concerned about this change in focus. SSRC is completing the editing and publishing of the Harare proceedings, including the abstracts of all 32 programs funded over the last 5 years by AAMP.

The AAMP Committee met in November of 95 about funding and future directions of grants. There was discussion about training administrators of museums and archives, preferably at a regional center, perhaps in cooperation with a South African institution. South Africa has more money and better infrastructure. The project is at the exploratory stage now, and AAMP would like to go back to Ford with these ideas, especially given the Foundation's present emphasis on outreach.

Social Science Research Council's new address is:

810 7th Avenue
New York, N. Y. 10010
Phone:(212) 377-2700, Fax: (212) 377-2727
E-Mail: Kassimir at SSRC.org

Discussion

JOANNE ZELLERS: Is there a list of ongoing and completed projects like the one distributed last year, and are there guidelines for grant paperwork?

R. KASSIMIR: There are no new projects, since that was the last year of the grant cycle, and I don't know about guidelines. I recall discussion at Harare for the need for such assistance, even among successful grantees.

J. ZELLERS: This is important to include in training.

R. KASSIMIR: Agreed.

NANCY SCHMIDT: What is the nature of changes at SSRC and how will they affect Africa?

R. KASSIMIR: There is at least one true rumor: Because of new funding structures and strictures, all area studies committees, including African, will be decommissioned at the end of June and replaced with a new structure. However, this is not intended to reduce SSRC's commitment to field research and area-based knowledge. For example, there are two new commitments: A proposal to the Mellon Foundation to re-establish funding for a multi-year commitment to field research, and a new selection process for fellows to conform with Mellon's funding requirements. The Centers in SSRC will be pluralized. Area voices will be heard, but there will be larger regions in the new structure. (South Africa will not be subsumed into a larger area.) Over and along with this structure will be thematic groups with overlapping membership. Close collaboration is expected between the two sets of groups. A new component will be that of infrastructure development in Social Sciences and Humanities for regions. People will be brought in who are experienced in an area, like CODESRIA, and joint funding will be sought for junior scholars in Africa. AAMP will probably come under this rubric. The end of the Joint Committee is by no means the end of SSRC interest in Africa.

J. HOWELL: I wrote a confidential letter to Barbara Bianchi about several issues, especially the destruction of the Sierra Leone regional archives, and that Eritrea is successfully unearthing its archives after 30 years.

Library of Congress Report

JOANNE ZELLERS: The LC newspaper list will not be published but will be available on a Web site. Both U.S. and foreign newspapers will be listed, but the foreign papers list will not be complete right away.

• Nigerian newspaper arrivals are better, but those from South Africa are surprisingly worse.
• The definition of "newspaper" vs. "periodical" has affected newspaper listings. A very detailed description is in the preface of "Newspapers Currently Received", the Cataloger's Desktop at the LC Marvel site and the 1984 edition of the CONSER USNP.
• The April 1993 printed list of "African Newspapers on Commercial Film" will not be updated. There is now a database of African microfilms, which is available on diskette in WordPerfect 5.1. Please send requests for copies with a blank diskette to Myron Chace in the Photoduplication Service. In the future the list will be available on the Website, updated annually.

Donald Hester, the political consul at the U. S. Embassy in Monrovia, called to say that he had brought complete runs of 7 newspaper titles. LC does not have the funds to film them but some other institution could do so.

Library of Congress Nairobi Office Report

RUTH THOMAS: The Nairobi office has sent the newspapers listed in the CRL financial report, and the Somali reports have been sent for microfiching. I have spoken to John Howell about filming post- 1993 Malawi newspapers. At least 48 began publication, and 21 have ceased already. These issues are unique, and unfortunately incomplete. The collection deserves serious consideration for preservation.

New and Prospective Members

DAVID EASTERBROOK: There are no new members at the moment, but there are a couple of prospects.

CAMP Brochure in French

PHYLLIS BISCHOF: There are 2 drafts done, but it still needs work.

Discussion

RUBY BELL-GAM: Kathleen Sheldon at UCLA has done a translation.

Iowa's Health/Medical Grant: Medical Research Centre, and the State Library; ExtraMED

JOHN HOWELL: The grant for filming is now ending. ExtraMED is to be a CD-ROM of 120 Third-World journals on health, including 40 Chinese and some Arabic. Iowa has purchased a set of 12 CDROMs. The publisher has bought the copyright so that it can be copied by users.

Discussion

GRETCHEN WALSH: I have a demo disk. There are very few African titles, though it is a good project, and an excellent prototype. The price will be $1800 for 10 CD-ROMs and $900 for extra retrospective material on another disk. African material is listed alphabetically by country.

Filming of the Judges' Notebooks of the Civil and Criminal Cases of the Colonial Lagos Supreme Court, 1876 to 1915

J. HOWELL: Bill Middleton, The Regional Library Director for West Africa of the U. S. Information Service in Lagos, stays in touch with Mr. lbrahim who keeps asking at the High Court for permission to film. The latest judge just retired, and we'll have to wait until Fall to get permission from yet another judge to do the filming. David Hogarth is also making inquiries for us.

Status of Offipubs

JOHN HOWELL: The price has doubled. The purchase has been approved by CRL, but not yet funded.

Discussion

M. RUDEEN: CRL weighs funding priorities because the number of items approved often exceeds the budget.

R. BELL-GAM: The South African Library has a typescript guide, the Musiker guide, which is now out-of-print

Title VI / CAMP Project on Microfilming Selected Parts of the Archives of Senegal

JOSEPH CARUSO: We anticipate filming will begin in the next 6 weeks. We had to re-negotiate the price of colonial court records. The National Archives has reduced the filming price. The cost estimate is $19,800 for Title VI. We will need around $1000 from another source to cover shipping and customs. The densitometer is ready to go from MacBeth. Details are in place for shipping and payment. We are ordering the photo light meter. It will be $5000 for equipment and shipping. A progress report will be sent to all Title VI Center directors with a copy to Jill Coelho.

Discussion

There was general discussion and a motion that CAMP pay for the shipping of the equipment for the project. APPROVED

J.CARUSO, M. RUDEEN: We need to require a sample reel and to show up there once a year to encourage progress.

N. SCHMIDT: The project budget has travel funds for this purpose.

A motion was made that CAMP send someone at least annually to check on progress. APPROVED

There was more discussion about the project's location in Senegal, and whether it could be moved.

J.CARUSO: The project is in its beginning stages, and should not look at moving just yet.

N. SCHMIDT: Senegal has the only functioning equipment in the area. There is a three year limit on the grant. This time could be used to build future projects, but the pilot needs to be completed.

R. BELL-GAM: Title VI directors are interested in having the scope broadened. We need to address this issue.

P. BISCHOF: We need to begin thinking long-range.

G. WALSH: The Title VI community has changed and now includes smaller undergraduate institutions. We may want to look at their inclusion and invite them to be part of CAMP since Title VI will be paying most of the cost.

D. EASTERBROOK: I talked and wrote to the directors, and every new director.

Union Lists of African Newspapers on the World Wide Web

Northwestern List of African Newspapers, Currently Received by U. S. Libraries, compiled by Mette Shayne

CAMP list of African newspapers, arranged by title

CAMP list of African newspapers, arranged geographically

Discussion

M. RUDEEN: The CAMP lists are too big now and will be broken into smaller regional sections. It will be updated first in November of 96, and thereafter annually.

J. HOWELL: We need to formalize the update process for members to submit their holdings, and to address the question of retrospective holdings.

Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Board of Foreign Missions, Correspondence and Reports, 1833-1911

African Mission

M. RUDEEN: We have $2,800 for FY96 and $11,000 for FY97. "The Church and South Africa" are good candidates for general CRL purchase because they are not specific to CAMP.

The Lungu History Manuscript, compiled by Bill Watson, copied by Brian Siegel, Furman

A gift to CAMP.

Eastern African Newspapers not Currently Being Filmed

M. RUDEEN: (See the LC Nairobi office report) CAMP would need to spend about $3000 to film the Malawi newspapers. This is not likely to be a long-term commitment since so many of the titles have ceased. The motion was made to film the Malawi newspapers. APPROVED

The Family Mirror, Dar es Salaam

This is being collected by several institutions, and will be filmed by CRL. CAMP will contribute its issues from member libraries.

Zairean Newspaper Project in Belgium

M. Vellut has written to request a letter of support and interest from CAMP for the filming of 600,000 pages of newspapers.

Discussion

Generally agreed that moral support is in order, but that we need to check a complete list of the proposed project against titles already filmed by InterDoc. It was agreed to send a letter of strong support, but not to offer any money yet.

La Politique Coloniale, Belgium

(Inserted from agenda: 1892-4 av. 1919 (Association pour la conservation et la reproduction photographique de la presse ). $1,652) A motion was made to buy this after 1 July, 1996. APPROVED

Archival Materials from South Africa

This will be deferred until the next meeting

South Africa: A Weekly Journal for All Interested in South African Affairs, 1889-1970

J. HOWELL: (Inserted from agenda: London, founded by Edward P. Mathers, journalist. Covers southern Africa including Mozambique. By September 1995 reached 1917 with 1787 fiche to run to 4,000 fiche, $8,000. Includes maps, diagrams, photographs, and information on economics, trade, personalia.) A good candidate for the general CRL ballot. Needs no further action from CAMP right now. I will canvass the CAMP executive.

The Meeting was Adjourned

CAMP: Received
Since November 1995

MF Neg. MF.
L'AFRIQUE ET LE MONDE [MICROFORM].
Bruxelles: Wellens-Pay,
[v. 1, no. 4, 9-18; v. 3, no. 1 -v. 11, no. 50 (Sept. 7, Oct. 9-Dec. 21, 1950; Jan. 3, 1952-Nov. 24, 1960)].
RDATE = 12-18-95. $726.04
RECORD # = b14416116.

MF Neg. MF.
BARISA [MICROFORM].
[Addis Ababa: Dabata gazeta barisa,
Center has: MF-10323 CAMP (I reel) Mar. 12, Apr. 21, May 1, 21,1976; Mar. 17-24, Apr. 7, 21, May 12-June 2, 1977.
Neg. MF-at lab.
RDATE = 12-07-95. $66.50
RECORD # = b14445591.

MF Neg. MF.
DANAB [MICROFORM]: WARSIDAHA JABHADAHA GOBANIMADOONKA SOOMAALIYEED = BULLETIN OF SOMALI LIBERATION FRONTS.
Mogadisho: W.S.L.F.: S.A.L.F.,
Center has:
MF-10348 CAMP (I reel) no. 16-17, 19, 23, 30, 56-57, 70, 73 (Oct. 18-19, 23, 27, Nov. 4, Dec. 7-8, 22, 26, 1977), no. 78, 805 85, 97, 105, 117, 120, 122, 129, 166, 177, 302, 325-332, 334-336, 338-356, 366-376 (Jan. 2, 4, 10, 24, Feb. 4, 18, 22, 25, Mar. 5, Apr. 17, 29, June 22, July 25-Aug. 3, Aug. 6-8, 10, 12-31, Sept. 14-27, 1978), no. 519, 577, 614 (Mar. 21, Sept. 27, Nov. 15, 1979).
Neg. MF-at lab.
RDATE = 12-18-95. $151.82
RECORD # = b14479357.

MF Neg. MF.
DEMOCRATIES [MICROFORM].
[Dakar?]: Imp. Tandian-Yoff, [1992-
Center has:
MF-10322 CAMP (1 reel) Feb. 1992-Apr. 1993.
Neg. MF-at lab.
RDATE = 12-18-95. $86.66
RECORD # = b14484675.

DRUM (EAST AFRICAN ED.).
[Nairobi, Kenya: Drum Publications (East Africa).
Jan. 1983, June 1983, Sept.-Oct. 1983, Dec. 1983, Aug. 1988.
When neg. received send to Africa with order for filming the rest of the run.
RDATE = 01-22-96. $67.41
RECORD # = b14124440.

MF Neg. MF.
LES ECHOS [MICROFORM].
Bamako, Mali: Impr. EDIM,
MF-10342 CAMP (1 reel) no. 239-268 (Mar. 5-Sept. 10, 1993); no. 270-321 (Sept. 17, 1993-Sept. 2, 1994); no. 323-338 (Sept. 16-Dec. 1994).
Neg. MF-at lab.
RDATE = 11-28-95. $204.54
RECORD # = b1451591x.

MF.
THE INTERNATIONAL.
Johannesburg [South Africa] : International League of the S.A.L.P.,
Center has:
MF-754 CAMP (2 reels) Sept. 10, 1915-Sept. 5, 1919; 1923-Sept, 5, 1924. (Replacement of kalvar film).
RDATE=01-19-96. $95.00
RECORD # = b10394473.

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY AFRICANA.
East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University, 1991-
MSU reel nos. 199-248.
RDATE = 01-17-96. $ 1,000.00
MSU reel nos. 249-290.
RDATE = 03-01-96. $820.00
RECORD # = b13961007.

MF Neg. MF.
LA NOUVELLE REPUBLIQUE [MICROFORM].
Conakry: Impr. Commerciale de Guinee,
Center has:
MF-10346 CAMP (I reel) no. 10, 14-25 (Jan., May-Dec. 1992); no. 26-27, 30-31, 33-35 (Jan., Mar. 16/30-May, July-Oct. 1993).
Neg. MF-at lab.
RDATE = 11-30-95. $84.42
RECORD # = b14484687.

MF Neg. MF.
LE PATRIOTE [MICROFORM]
N'Djamena, Tchad: [s.n.],
Center has:
MF-10314 CAMP (1 reel) Apr. 16/23-Sept. 1991.
Neg. MF-at lab.
RDATE = 11-30-95. $97.86
RECORD # = b1453471x.

LE PATRIOTE [MICROFORM]: ORGANE D'INFORMATION DU R.P.G.
[Conakry, Guinea]: IMPRIMA, [ 1992-
Center has:
MF-10320 CAMP (1 reel) Nov. 9/16,1992-Oct. 1993.
Neg. MF-at lab.
RDATE = 11-30-95. $62.58
RECORD # = b14428222.

MF Neg. MF.
LE REPUBLICAIN [MICROFORM].
Bamako, Mali: Imp. EDIM-SA,
Center has:
MF-10321CAMP(1 reel) Mar.10,1993-1994; LACKS:Mar.11-May 4; May 13-June 2; Dec. 29, 1993.
Neg. MF-at lab.
RDATE = 12-18-95. $190.26
RECORD # = b14446789.

MF Neg. MF.
UNITY INDEPENDENT [MICROFORM].
Freetown [Sierra Leone] : Unity Publications,
Center has:
MF-10318 CAMP (1 reel) Sept. 15, 22, 25; Oct. 3, 6, 17, 21, 24, 30-3 1; Nov. 1, 3, 8, 16, 1967; Jan. 5, 1968.
Neg. MF-at lab.
RDATE = 11-30-95. $74.62
RECORD # = b14412998.

MF Neg. MF.
WAAGA CUSUB [MICROFORM]: WARGEYS BIL WALBA SOO BAXA WAXAANA SOO SAARA W. W. IYO HANUU UMMADDA EE JDS.
Muqdishu : W. W. iyo Hanuuninta Ummadda ee JDS,
Center has:
MF-10345 CAMP (1 reel) v. 2, no. 15 (May 1974); v. 3, no. 22, 25, 28 (Feb./Mar., July, Nov./Dec. 1975); v. 4, no. 32-36 (Apr.-Aug. 1976).
Neg. MF-at lab.
RDATE = 12-18-95. $143.78
RECORD # = b14479345.

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