LucM1 SCOLMA Annual Conference 2020 Oun a ní la ? gbé l’árug?[1] (It is the heritage we have that we must celebrate : Publishing, Collecting and Accessing African-language Materials Monday 8 June 2020 SALT, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS, University of London CALL FOR PAPERS The question of writing in African languages has frequently been a … Read more
9th January 2019 Dear Baroness Amos, Re: SOAS Library – Open Letter I am writing on behalf of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) to express our deep concerns about the proposed cuts to SOAS Library. SOAS Library holds one of the most important African Studies collections in the UK, widely … Read more
SCOLMA Annual Conference Decolonising African Studies : questions and dilemmas for libraries, archives and collections Monday 10 June 2019 University of Edinburgh Appleton Tower 2.12, 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE CALL FOR PAPERS There has been an increasing call for the decolonisation of the curriculum across the disciplines in Northern institutions and elsewhere, … Read more
A new digital collection has been launched on Cambridge Digital Library to celebrate 150 years of the Royal Commonwealth Society (1868-2018) and 25 years since its library was acquired by the University of Cambridge. The new digital collection can be found at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rcs150 and a blog describing highlights of the material now available is at … Read more
SCOLMA (UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Minutes of the 56th Annual General Meeting held at the University of Birmingham on Monday 10th September 2018 during the annual conference, ‘Things come together?: Literary archives from, in and for Africa’. Present: Terry Barringer, Pat Hewitt, Lucy McCann, Alison Metcalfe, Sarah Rhodes, Marion Wallace, Dawn … Read more
The 2018 AGM will be held at the University of Birmingham at 1.30p.m. on Monday 10th September 2018 during the annual conference,”Things come together?: Literary archives from, in and for Africa’. AGENDA 1. Approval of the Minutes of the 55th AGM (posted on our website http://scolma.org ). 2. Report of the Chair 2017/2018 (Lucy … Read more
The papers of Derek Ingram (1925-2018), journalist, author and authority on the Commonwealth, have been catalogued and are available to researchers at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library in Senate House, University of London. After working for the Daily Mail for seventeen years Ingram was a founder of Gemini News Service in 1967 which provided … Read more
The papers of Richard Hall (1925-1997), journalist and historian of Africa, have been catalogued and are available to researchers in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library in Senate House, University of London. Hall was editor of the Central African Mail and Times of Zambia, founded the financial and political bulletin Africa Analysis and wrote books … Read more
SCOLMA’s annual conference, ‘Things come together?: literary archives from, in and for Africa’, will take place at the University of Birmingham on Monday 10 September 2018. This conference will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and multi-lingual. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) … Read more
A second edition of Livingstone Online (http://livingstoneonline.org/) has been released as the Livingstone Online Enrichment and Access Project comes to an end after four years. Livingstone Online is a digital museum and library, hosted by the University of Maryland Libraries, which makes available David Livingstone’s visual and written legacy. It contains images of manuscripts held … Read more