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CRL Connect

Summer 2004 | Volume 23, Number 4 | Download PDF

Message from CRL President Bernard Reilly

Recent Developments in African Scholarly e-Resources

Michigan State University Africana bibliographer Peter Limb surveys the ever-expanding landscape of Africa-related e-resources, including direct links to more than a dozen scholarly portals.

Political Communications Web Archive - Preserving Nigerian Election Sites

The findings of a Mellon Foundation-funded investigation on Web archiving studied the “behaviors” of sites mounted and maintained by political parties and groups during the 2003 Nigerian presidential and gubernatorial elections.

Disseminating African Scholarship: A Report on the DATAD Workshop

"Intellectual Property, Governance, Dissemination, and Funding Strategies" were the focus of a recent workshop sponsored by the Association of African Universities and the Center for Research Libraries. The article includes links to presentation materials, presenter profiles, and working papers.

New Africana Acquisitions

Africana materials acquired by the Center since September 2003, including dissertations, books, archival materials, and newspapers.

Program and Services Update

The Center recently welcomed a new member, Loyola Marymount University, and two Global Resources projects --the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project and German Resources Project-- that are now based at the Center.

Cooperative Africana Microform Project: Forty Years of Collaboration and Scholarship

Inside Apartheid: The Benjamin Pogrund Collection of Southern Africa Materials

The Carter-Karis and Karis-Gerhart Collections of South African Political Materials, 1882-1990

A detail from Edward Hertslet's 1895 map, "Anglo-French Frontier on Niger & to East of that River." Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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