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Royal African Society Event

Tuesday 14 April 2015, 18:30-20:30

Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS

Join the author and the panel as they discuss this powerful book documenting the impact of the Somali civil war on one man, who having been shorn of the things we have come to believe make us human, shares his dreams and desires and a need to leave something of permanence on this earth.

Speakers:

Jonny Steinberg, author & Associate Professor in African Criminology, Oxford University;  Ismail Einashe, journalist. Chaired by: Michela Wrong, writer & journalist.

To register :-

http://www.royalafricansociety.org/event/man-good-hope

Please note this is an event organised by the Royal African Society – please contact them – not Scolma – to register or with any queries or comments

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ELIAS (European Librarians in African Studies) – 7th July 2015

This year’s meeting of ELIAS (European Librarians in African Studies) will take place at the 7th of July 2015 in Paris, hosted by BULAC – Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations.

Venue: BULAC, 65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris.
About BULAC : http://www.bulac.fr/bulac-in-english/who-are-we

Registration

The meeting is open to ELIAS members and other interested librarians, archivists, documentalists or other information workers.

– Pre-Registration: if you plan to attend please inform Marine Defosse (marine.defosse@bulac.fr) as soon as possible and before 31th May 2015. Numbers are needed for administrative and catering purposes and tour of the BULAC library.

– Registration on the day: a registration fee of 50 Euros will be charged (including teas/coffees, lunch and dinner on 7th july). Cash in Euros please – we cannot cope with cheques, credit cards or non-Euro currency notes.

– Library/Institutional publicity: table-space will be available on the day if you wish to bring any publicity materials about your own library/institution to display or hand out.

– Accommodation: please arrange your own accommodation. Suggestions are provided on the website of Paris tourist office:
http://en.parisinfo.com/where-to-sleep-in-paris
or
http://www.booking.com/city/fr/paris.fr.html

Opportunities for participants to contribute to the day

Theme of this year’s meeting: “Special Collections” We welcome:
•    Presentations of rare and archival materials of your institution covering a broad range of topics, formats (manuscripts, audio, archives, grey literature, maps, data sets, video, object…) and periods.
•    Debates on definition of a Special collection: what constitutes for your library a special collection?
•    Topics about acquisition, collect, collaboration, types, supports, legal issues, …
•    Methodological issues: preservation, cataloguing, metadata standards, best practices.
•    Collections valorization: access, diffusion, digitalization, exploitation, scholarly uses, cases studies.

Short country presentations The ELIAS meeting is also an opportunity for us to share our experiences and to learn about what is happening in other countries. ELIAS members are invited to note any important new matters not covered by the theme of this year’s meeting, to discuss issues of common interest or indeed of anything members want to report back on.

If you would like to make a contribution to this year’s theme, give a presentation or just introduce a project or your institute, please send to Fabrice Melka (fabrice.Melka@univ-paris1.fr) the title of your presentation, and a brief description by 25th May 2015.

Draft Program, Tuesday 7th July 2015

The organizers
Marine Defosse, BULAC (marine.defosse@bulac.fr)
Fabrice Melka, IMAF (fabrice.Melka@univ-paris1.fr)
Michèle Raffutin, IMAF (michele.raffutin@univ-paris1.fr)