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SCOLMA AGM 2020 – Agenda

SCOLMA

(UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa)

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2020 

The 2020 AGM will be held virtually on Monday 8th June at 2pm. If you wish to attend, please notify Sarah Rhodes, SCOLMA Secretary sarah.rhodes@bodleian.ox.ac.uk by Friday 5th June.

AGENDA

Approval of the Minutes of the 57th AGM

1. Report of the Chair 2019/20 (Marion Wallace)
2. Financial Statement and approval of the audited accounts (Patricia Hewitt)
3. Appointment of auditor
4. Appointment of Officers and Committee

The following nominations have been received:

Chair – Marion Wallace (British Library)

Secretary – Sarah Rhodes (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

Treasurer – Patricia Hewitt (Robert Sainsbury Library, University of East Anglia)

Editor – Terry Barringer (Individual member)

Web Manager – Jenni Skinner (Centre of African Studies Library, University of Cambridge)

Programme Secretary – Daniel Gilfoyle (The National Archives)

Development Officer – [vacant]

Elected:

Julio Cazzasa – (Senate House Library, University of London)

Charles Fonge – (Borthwick Institute Archives, University of York) – elected 2018

Lucy McCann – (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) – elected 2019

Alison Metcalfe – (The National Library of Scotland) – elected 2019

Katie Sambrook – (Kings College London) – elected 2018

Dawn Wright – (SOAS Library, University of London)

Co-opted:

Barbara Spina – (Individual member)

Nicky Sugar – (Bristol Record Office)

ASAUK representatives Stephanie Kitchen – (international African Institute)

5. Any Other Business

Resources COVID-19

Research resources available to all online

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, many publishers and content aggregators have made extra content free online. SCOLMA has put together the collection of resources below to help researchers, academics, students and librarians navigate what’s out there. As far as we are aware, the resources below are available internationally and therefore may be of interest to African colleagues.

The list below gives a selection of resources which you may want to explore. It covers general content, African Studies resources and specialist information on Covid-19.

If you are an academic institution, it is worth contacting relevant major publishers and content aggregators, as many may offer extended free trial access during this difficult period.

You can keep in touch with SCOLMA by subscribing to our mailing list LIS-SCOLMA on jiscmail – https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=LIS-SCOLMA.

Please note that listing does not imply endorsement by SCOLMA.

General and specialist resources

• Latest issue of the SCOLMA journal ARD SCOLMA African Research No.136 Web
• A list of publishers who have chosen to temporarily make electronic content freely available on Project MUSE.
• Resources to support libraries and educators impacted by COVID-19 access provided by Gale.  The password for all is “open”.
• Covid-19 Resources for Academics and Students – Free access to entire Wits University Press eBook collection in university libraries.
• JSTOR resources during COVID-19 for participating academic institutions and secondary schools, as well as expanded free access for everyone to: 26 journal archives in Public Health ; 6,000+ selected journal articles related to COVID-19 ; & free read-online access has expanded from six to 100 articles per month.
• Information and Resources to Help During the COVID-19 Pandemic – resources from EBSCO and partners for academic institutions, researchers, and secondary schools.
• BibliU COVID-19 statement and free access offer.
• EDP Sciences Journals To support all researchers during the Covid-19 pandemic, EDP Sciences has opened the journals content on our site from 2018-2020 so it is freely available for all to read.
• EQUINOX and COVID-19 –  EQUINOX publishers are providing free access to the last 12 months of journal issues to all.
• SIAM Epidemiology Collection (Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics)
  The SIAM Epidemiology Collection has been made freely available in response to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the associated disease COVID-19.
• SAGE Journals – Free medical, social, and behavioral science articles, including their “Most Recent Covid-19 Articles” collection.
• Springer Nature are providing free access to textbooks across a range of fields.
• The US Center for Research Libraries has made more of its historical collections freely available.

Keeping up to date with coronavirus in Africa

• Columbia University has compiled a list of “COVID-19 in Africa” electronic resources as part of their African Studies WWW-VIrtual Library
• AfricaFocus Bulletin has extensive links to the latest news and analysis.
• See also African Arguments, and the blogs of the African Studies Centre, Leiden.

Archival collections and content

• Livingstone Online: illuminating imperial exploration.
• International Mission Photography Archive: historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the United States.
• The Kirk Papers : a collection of photographs and papers belonging to East Africa pioneer Sir John Kirk.

African Research and Documentation 135 – 2019, Contents

AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION   No. 135 2019

CONTENTS

Special Issue: Archives and Collections for/in Ethiopian Studies
Guest Editors: Sophia Thubauville and Sayuri Yoshida

Articles

Sophia Thubauville and Sayuri Yoshida  Introduction…………………………………………

Alexandra Jones Ethiopian Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum……………………..

Sayuri Yoshida The Collections of F.J.Bieber and the Kafa Culture: Connecting
Anthropological and Archival Research ………………………………………………………………………

Aneta Pawlowska Waclaw Korabiewicz, Stefan Strelcyn and Stanislaw Chojnacki –
Polish collectors of Ethiopian art ……………………………………………………………………………….

Hanna Rubinkowska–Aniol Waclaw Korabiewicz’s Collection of Ethiopian Crosses

as a Representation of Polish Collections of Ethiopian Artefacts …………………………………..

Valeria Semenova Ethiopian Photo Collections 1896-1913: Some Aspects of
Arrangement, Attribution and Interpretation ……………………………………………………………..

Sophia Thubauville Images of Southern Ethiopia in the Archives of the Frobenius
Institute ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Eyob Derillo Exhibiting the Maqdala Manuscripts: African scribes: manuscript
culture of Ethiopia …………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Minako Ishihara Contextualising Books Among the Muslim Oromo in Southwestern
Ethiopia: Prospects for Future Research ……………………………………………………………………