Africana Resources on the Internet
The Northwestern University online catalog , NUcat is available on the Web at http://www.nucat.library.northwestern.edu/ or through telnetting to NUCAT. library.northwestern.edu (IP address is 1229.105.213.82). Telnet access requires a login and password, both being NUsearch. Through the limit function it is possible to limit the search to the Africana collection.
Besides the online catalog, listed as local databases are the:
Africana Conference Paper Index, which provides access to a rich collection of individual papers presented at African studies conferences world wide held in the Herskovits library. Papers can be searched by author, title, conference title and keyword.
Africana Vertical File Index, with over 20,000 entries to ephemera, government documents and official publications, annual reports, laws, commission reports, material from trade unions, political parties and national liberation movements, housed in vertical file cabinets. The indexed material can be searched by country, corporate author, author or title and keyword.
Video recordings dealing with Africa, available for consultation in the library's Media center, can be searched separately.NOTE: this document is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. It is a 94-page document, and occupies roughly 388Kb of disk space
African Newspapers Currently Received by American Libraries, a union list including the current holdings of the Africana library can be searched online. NOTE: this document is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. It is a 51-page document, and occupies roughly 85Kb of disk space
Other Africana resources on the Internet:Much material on Africa is now available through the Web. Recommended are the following two gateways to Africana Internet sources:
Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Sources, prepared by Karen Fung of the Hoover Institute Library, Stanford University. Excellent searchable guide frequently updated.
African Studies on the Internet, prepared by Ali Dinar of the University of Pennsylvania, this guide covers many important resources on Africa as well as information on the African Studies Association.
Union List of African Newspapers Project: Electronic Newspapers of Sub-Saharan Africa. Available on the Columbia University, African Studies web page, this listing of African newspapers available on the web is very useful. It is collected in preparation for a major effort of the Africana Librarians Council to prepare a union list of all holdings of African newspapers in this country.
Directory of Africana Scholars is accessible through the Columbia University web page.
Melville J. Herskovits
Library of African Studies
Northwestern University
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
Reference Desk Phone: 847-467-3084
Office Phone: 847-491-7684
Fax: 847-467-1233
E-mail: africana@northwestern.edu
