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BOOK REVIEWS
Major Africana titles are covered in standard reviewing sources such as:
Includes information on in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books as well as video and audio recordings from North American publishers. Also includes full-text reviews.
CHOICE Reviews
Online
Provides reviews for books and
electronic resources of academic interest. The electronic version goes back to
1988. A print version (Z1007.C4) goes back to 1964.
For specialized reviews of books dealing with Africana only, there are several options. Most of the major journals dealing with Africa have a book review section. Many of these reviews are indexed in the standard Africana indexes. Electronic indexes and full text periodical sources (such as JSTOR) often allow you to limit your searches to book reviews. In addition there are the following:
African Book Publishing Record
Z465.7 A37
provides selected reviews and lists of books published in Africa since 1975. Latest issues are kept in the Acquisitions Department.
provides reviews back to 1995.
Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature, Ref Z6205 .H54 for 1911-2002. Check "Africa" Section. Available electronically since 1998.
For reviews of older titles:
Africana Journal
Z3503.A37
A Bibliographic Guide and Review Forum, 1974-1998.
Index to the African Studies Review/Bulletin and the ASA Review of Books, 1958-1990 DT 1.A2293 Index 1958-1990
compiled by John Bruce Howell.
Africana Book Reviews, 1885-1945: An Index to Books Reviewed in Selected English-Language Publications
Ref. Z3501.E35
by David Easterbrook (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979).
An unusual project of interest:
Africa's 100
Best Books
A list of "Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th
Century" was announced on February 18, 2002. The list includes children's
literature, fiction and non-fiction. Only books written by Africans were
eligible. Books were considered in Afrikaans, Arabic, English, French, Kikuyu,
Portuguese, Sesotho, Shona, Swahili, IsiXhosa, Yoruba and IsiZulu. The project
was organized by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair in collaboration with the
African Publishers Network (APNET), the Pan-African Booksellers Association
(PABA), African writers' associations, book development councils, and library
associations.
LOCATING BOOKS AT EMORY
To find books, journal holdings, music, videos or other materials located at any of the Emory libraries, search EUCLID. You can search EUCLID by keywords or phrases, author, title or periodical title. Do not use EUCLID to find individual periodical articles. Read Finding Articles at Woodruff Library.
You can also search EUCLID by subject. When searching by subject, use the Browse search mode. Browsing will retrieve a list of subject headings established by the Library of Congress. A printed, multi-volume set of Library of Congress (LC) subject headings is also available at the Woodruff Library Reference desk.
Read FAQ:What do I do to find books for demonstrations on using EUCLID.
African Studies Thesaurus, Subject Headings for Library Users (Z695.1 A37 O85 1992)
A detailed guide to over 4000 subject headings and Library of Congress classification numbers that apply specifically to Sub-Saharan Africa.
A sample list of LC subject headings for African Studies is found below. Many general subjects can also be broken down geographically or by ethnic group, eg. Decorative arts, Fula; Women, Zulu.
African languages (see also under the names of individual languages or groups of language
Africa West (see also under other geographic sub-divisions including the names of individual countries) Some typical sub-headings are
Africa, West-Description and travel
Africa, West-Economic conditions
Africa, West-History (divided by time period)
Remember you can do a keyword search in EUCLID to locate books on your topic and then search on the subject headings of relevant titles.
LOCATING BOOKS BEYOND EMORY
Multi-Library Catalogs
COPAC
A
merged catalog of 22 of the largest university research libraries in the United
Kingdom and Ireland plus the British Library. Includes Oxford University (and
Rhodes House Library) and Cambridge University.
WorldCat
A comprehensive catalog of items held by a wide-range of libraries including research and public institutions. Searchable by author, title and subject. Covers other formats beyond books but does not index journal articles.
Important Individual Library Catalogs
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and its web site contains extensive information about the library's rich Africana collection.
Center for Research Libraries
(CRL)
CRL is large collection of over 5 million items of
infrequently used researched materials. It is strong for foreign doctoral
dissertations, newspapers, and microfilm collections supporting area studies.
Many, but not all, collections can be located through the CRL catalog. Materials
acquired by the Cooperative
Africana Microform Project (CAMP) are housed at CRL. Emory is a
member of CRL and CAMP and has extensive borrowing privileges to all the
Center's collections. Materials are borrowed through Inter-Library Loan and can
be kept for extended periods of time.
Herskovits Library
at Northwestern
Established
in 1954, the Herskovits Library is one of the largest separate Africana
collections in the world, holding over 250,000 volumes, 2500 serials as well as
an extensive collection of newspapers, maps and unique materials. The collection
includes over 10,000 volumes in African languages. The holdings of the Library
are accessible through NUcat, the
University's online catalog. NUcat also includes the Africana Conference
Paper Index, a searchable database to their large collection of
conference procedures. Other large collections of Africana in the United States
are found at Berkeley, Boston University, Univ. of Florida, Hoover Institution,
Indiana University, Michigan State University, Stanford, UCLA, Wisconsin, and
Yale.
Library of Congress - Africa
Section
The Africa Section is the focal point
of the Library's reference and bibliographic service for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Africana holdings are integrated into the general collections and other special
collections of the Library. For both historical and contemporary research
studies, the Library's collections are substantial, including sources in every
major field of study in the social sciences and in the humanities. Holdings
include invaluable primary source documents, facsimiles, and secondary sources.
SOAS:
School of Oriental and Asian Studies
Houses over 1.2 million
volumes with significant archival holdings and special collections for the study
of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
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