LucM1 Senate House Library will be holding a Commonwealth Studies Research Day on Tuesday 14th November 2017 which is intended for researchers ranging from undergraduates to PhD students and academics. There will be presentations on the Library’s anti-apartheid collections and Nigerian pamphlets and the opportunity to discuss research topics with specialist library and academic staff. The … Read more
An exhibition has opened at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery displaying a selection of photographs and film relating to the British Empire and Commonwealth. The items come from the vast collection of images held at Bristol Archives and the selection has been made by 27 individuals, including artists, historians and relatives of the photographers, to … Read more
SCOLMA (UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2017 The 2017 AGM will be held at the National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EW, at 1.30p.m. on Monday 11th September 2017 during the annual conference, ”Document to Digital: How does Digitisation Aid African Research?’. AGENDA 1. Approval of the … Read more
Bookings are now being taken for SCOLMA’s annual conference which will take place at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh on Monday 11th September 2017. The theme is ‘Document to Digital: how does digitisation aid African research?’ and speakers from Africa, Europe, the USA and the UK will consider projects which have digitised archives, … Read more
No. 127 of SCOLMA’s journal African Research and Documentation has been published and contains a major article by Hans Zell and Raphaël Thierry on book donation programmes in anglophone and francophone Africa. The authors examine current book donation practices, profiling leading book donation organisations in the UK, the Netherlands, the USA and South Africa, and … Read more
Articles From the Editor Hans Zell and Raphaël Thierry Book Donation Programmes for Africa: time for a reappraisal? Two perspectives. Part I: Book Donation Programmes in English-speaking Africa by Hans Zell Part II: Le don de livre, mais à quel prix, et en échange de quoi? Un regard sur le don de livre en afrique … Read more
SCOLMA’s annual conference will take place on Monday 11 September 2017 at the National Library of Scotland and have the theme ‘Document to Digital: How does Digitisation Aid African Research?’. The Call for Papers can be seen at http://scolma.org/event/scolma-annual-conference-2017-document-to-digital-how-does-digitisation-aid-african-research-call-for-papers/ and abstracts are invited by 24 April 2017.
Melanie Bunce, senior lecturer in Journalism at City University and co-editor of Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century, will be speaking on “Reporting Africa: New storytellers, new stories?” on Wednesday 15th February. The seminar, organised by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Jounalism at the University of Oxford, will be held in the … Read more
More images here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5gccht8hnkaugkx/AAC5wsirsm5mbe4V2fz9ZyxWa?dl=0 SCOLMA’s annual conference took place in the Alison Richard Building in Cambridge on Tuesday 6th September 2016. The theme was ‘African Medicine Matters: documenting encounters in medical practice and healthcare’ and there were 40 participants from Africa, Europe, the US and the UK. The keynote speaker was Dr Benson Mulemi … Read more
The University of Stirling Archives has launched its first crowdfunding campaign to open up the Peter Mackay Archive. Mackay (1926-2013) was a tireless campaigner for African liberation, becoming politically active shortly after emigrating to Rhodesia in 1948. Following his death in Zimbabwe in 2013 the archive was carefully packed up by his family and shipped … Read more