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INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON
African Studies Collection Description
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1000416
African Studies Collection Description
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1000416[10/1/13 4:09:00 PM]
Ephemera
Ephemera are acquired selectively by gift, exchange, and purchase which complement materials acquired and cataloged for the
Indiana University Library. Emphasis is given to materials of scholarly value which are not cataloged under current Indiana University
Library policies, especially to sample serials and newsletters and other irregular publications of social and political organizations that
are active in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sample periodicals will be kept for ten years, then given to another library that needs them or added
to the pamphlet collection if no major library holds them. Reprints will be collected (in the Pamphlet collection) only from periodicals not
held at Indiana University, except for articles by Indiana University faculty. Recent catalogs of African universities from countries in
which Indiana University faculty and students do research will be collected if available free of charge. Unpublished conference papers
will be collected if available free of charge.
Theses
US theses are ordered only upon request by a faculty member or graduate student. Foreign doctoral dissertations are acquired by the
Center for Research Libraries, and CAMP acquires some foreign MA theses. These may be borrowed on interlibrary loan. Currently,
Indiana University is exploring the possibility of acquiring theses from African universities with which it has exchange ties as part of a
Title VI African Cooperative project.
Cooperative Projects
Indiana University belongs to the Africana Librarians Council (ALC) of the African Studies Association and CAMP (Cooperative
Africana Microform Project) of CRL (Center for Research Libraries). It cooperates in acquiring Africana for nationwide use as a
member of these groups and will continue to participate in cooperative projects of ALC and CAMP which benefit Africanist scholars at
Indiana University and throughout the United States. Indiana University also will cooperate in any ARL or CIC projects that are relevant
for African Studies.
Materials Excluded
Afro-American materials are acquired by the bibliographer for Afro-American Studies. The Librarian for African Studies acquires Afro-
American materials if they relate to diaspora studies or in those cases where the bibliographer for Afro-American Studies does not
acquire relevant materials needed at Indiana University.
Materials on the Third World are acquired only in those instances where the subject bibliographers do not acquire relevant materials.
The Librarian for African Studies makes recommendations for the acquisition of Third World and inter-area materials to the Global
Studies bibliographer and to the Collection Development Committee for purchase on the general fund.
Children's books about Africa in European and African languages are acquired only if they are written by a creative writer or scholar
whose complete works are collected, or include primary material relevant for the Research Collection. The Librarian for African Studies
will recommend children's books about Africa for purchase by the Education bibliographer. Gifts of children's books will be given to the
Education and Campus View (family housing) libraries as appropriate.
Materials on economics and development which are acquired for the Business/SPEA Library are not duplicated in the Research
Collection.
Cookbooks are not acquired. Fiction about Africa by non-African authors is acquired only if it has significant relevance for Africa.
Northwestern University collects fiction about Africa by non-African authors comprehensively.
Criteria for Placing Materials in the Auxiliary Library Facility (ALF)
Materials will be placed in the Auxiliary Library Facility, as needed, according to the following criteria and in consultation with the
faculty of each discipline: older serials serials which have ceased publication serials which have been cancelled which are indexed in
a periodicals index available at Indiana University or have a separately published index which can be shelved in the research
Collection books at the secondary school level which are retained for their historical value and books published before 1950 which
are not used frequently.
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON
African Studies Collection Description
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1000416
African Studies Collection Description
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1000416[10/1/13 4:09:00 PM]
Ephemera
Ephemera are acquired selectively by gift, exchange, and purchase which complement materials acquired and cataloged for the
Indiana University Library. Emphasis is given to materials of scholarly value which are not cataloged under current Indiana University
Library policies, especially to sample serials and newsletters and other irregular publications of social and political organizations that
are active in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sample periodicals will be kept for ten years, then given to another library that needs them or added
to the pamphlet collection if no major library holds them. Reprints will be collected (in the Pamphlet collection) only from periodicals not
held at Indiana University, except for articles by Indiana University faculty. Recent catalogs of African universities from countries in
which Indiana University faculty and students do research will be collected if available free of charge. Unpublished conference papers
will be collected if available free of charge.
Theses
US theses are ordered only upon request by a faculty member or graduate student. Foreign doctoral dissertations are acquired by the
Center for Research Libraries, and CAMP acquires some foreign MA theses. These may be borrowed on interlibrary loan. Currently,
Indiana University is exploring the possibility of acquiring theses from African universities with which it has exchange ties as part of a
Title VI African Cooperative project.
Cooperative Projects
Indiana University belongs to the Africana Librarians Council (ALC) of the African Studies Association and CAMP (Cooperative
Africana Microform Project) of CRL (Center for Research Libraries). It cooperates in acquiring Africana for nationwide use as a
member of these groups and will continue to participate in cooperative projects of ALC and CAMP which benefit Africanist scholars at
Indiana University and throughout the United States. Indiana University also will cooperate in any ARL or CIC projects that are relevant
for African Studies.
Materials Excluded
Afro-American materials are acquired by the bibliographer for Afro-American Studies. The Librarian for African Studies acquires Afro-
American materials if they relate to diaspora studies or in those cases where the bibliographer for Afro-American Studies does not
acquire relevant materials needed at Indiana University.
Materials on the Third World are acquired only in those instances where the subject bibliographers do not acquire relevant materials.
The Librarian for African Studies makes recommendations for the acquisition of Third World and inter-area materials to the Global
Studies bibliographer and to the Collection Development Committee for purchase on the general fund.
Children's books about Africa in European and African languages are acquired only if they are written by a creative writer or scholar
whose complete works are collected, or include primary material relevant for the Research Collection. The Librarian for African Studies
will recommend children's books about Africa for purchase by the Education bibliographer. Gifts of children's books will be given to the
Education and Campus View (family housing) libraries as appropriate.
Materials on economics and development which are acquired for the Business/SPEA Library are not duplicated in the Research
Collection.
Cookbooks are not acquired. Fiction about Africa by non-African authors is acquired only if it has significant relevance for Africa.
Northwestern University collects fiction about Africa by non-African authors comprehensively.
Criteria for Placing Materials in the Auxiliary Library Facility (ALF)
Materials will be placed in the Auxiliary Library Facility, as needed, according to the following criteria and in consultation with the
faculty of each discipline: older serials serials which have ceased publication serials which have been cancelled which are indexed in
a periodicals index available at Indiana University or have a separately published index which can be shelved in the research
Collection books at the secondary school level which are retained for their historical value and books published before 1950 which
are not used frequently.
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