Notice Board

SCOLMA AGM – agenda

The 2016 AGM  of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) will be held in the Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT, at 1.50p.m. on Tuesday 6^th September 2016 during the annual conference, ‘”African Medicine Matters: documenting encounters in medical practice and healthcare’.

AGENDA

1. Approval of the Minutes of the 53^rd AGM (posted on our website http://scolma.org ).

2. Report of the Chair 2015/2016 (Lucy McCann).

3. Financial Statement and approval of audited accounts (Alison Metcalfe).

Appointment of auditor.

4. Appointment of Officers and Committee.

The following nominations have been received:

Officers:

Chair – Lucy McCann, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Secretary – Sarah Rhodes, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Treasurer – Alison Metcalfe, National Library of Scotland

Editor – Terry Barringer (individual member)

Development officer – Catherine Robertson, University of Birmingham Library

Web manager – Marilyn Glanfield (individual member)

Programme secretary – Dan Gilfoyle, The National Archives

Elected

Laurence Byrne, Senate House Library

Pat Hewitt, Robert Sainsbury Library, University of East Anglia

Barbara Spina (individual member) (elected 2015)

Marion Wallace, The British Library (elected 2014)

Dawn Wright, SOAS Library (elected 2014)

ASAUK reps: Ranka Primorac, University of Southampton, Stephanie Kitchen, International African Institute, and Toby Green, King’s College London.

5. Nomination of John Pinfold as an honorary member of SCOLMA

6. Any other business

Secretary:  Terry Barringer, Email TABarringe@aol.com

Minutes AGM 2015

SCOLMA(the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa)

Minutes of the 53nd Annual General Meeting held in the Conference Centre, the British Library, Friday  17th July  2015 during the annual conference, ‘There came a darkness’.

Present:,  Sheila Allcock, Christine Anderson, Mandy Banton, Terry Barringer,  Ian Cooke, Dan Gilfoyle, Pat Hewitt, Lucy McCann, Alison Metcalfe, John Pinfold, Marion Wallace.

Apologies were received from David Blake, Marilyn Glanfield, John McIlwaine, Sarah Rhodes, Catherine Robertson, Barbara Spina, Dawn Wright

1. Minutes of last meeting

The minutes of the 52nd Annual General Meeting were approved as a true and complete record.

2. Report of the Chair

Lucy McCann presented her report as Chair. She commented on the success of the 2014 Annual Conference and the special issue of ARD based upon it. ARD would be published in two issues p.a. from 2015 but with no reduction in overall content. Special thanks were due to our printers Doppler for their continued high quality work and co-operation. The SCOLMA book, African Studies in the Digital Age, had been launched at the ASAUK Conference at Brighton, and had already attracted some favourable reviews. SCOLMA had continued its usual activities, including regular involvement with ELIAS and ASAUK, holding seminars and maintaining its website. Committee members were thanked for their contributions and enthusiasm, especially David Clover and Helen Rehin, who were retiring from the committee, and Ian Cooke who had made an exceptional contribution as Treasurer and in other committee roles.

 3. Financial statement and approval of audited accounts

Ian Cooke presented the audited accounts for 2014.  He noted that, although most of SCOLMA’s income came through ARD, the annual conference was making an increasing contribution.

The approval of the accounts was proposed by Marion Wallace, seconded by Terry Barringer and passed unanimously. Peter Westley was reappointed as auditor, proposed John Pinfold, Robertson, seconded Mandy Banton and agreed unanimously.

Ian said how much he had enjoyed his involvement with SCOLMA, which had lasted longer than any job he had held. SCOLMA was an outstandingly energetic and friendly group and he would keep in touch although his new post as Head of Contemporary British Publications at the British Library would not allow him so much time to pursue Africanist interests.

 4. Appointment of Officers and Committee

The following nominations were put forward:

 Officers:

Chair – Lucy McCann, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Secretary – Terry Barringer (individual member)

Treasurer – Alison Metcalfe, National Library of Scotland

Editor – Terry Barringer (individual member)

Development officer – Catherine Robertson, University of Birmingham Library

Web manager – Marilyn Glanfield, Library, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge

Programme secretary – Dan Gilfoyle, The National Archives

 Elected

John Pinfold (individual member) (elected 2012)

Tom Gebhart, British Library for Development Studies, IDS, University of Sussex

Sarah Rhodes, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (elected 2014)

Barbara Spina (individual member) (previously co-opted)

Marion Wallace, The British Library (elected 2014)

Dawn Wright, SOAS Library (elected 2014)

These were elected nem con

 The following were co-opted

Christine Anderson, Senate House Library

ASAUK reps: Ranka Primorac, University of Southampton, and Stephanie Kitchen, International African Institute

 6. A.O.B

 Marion Wallace drew attention to the British Library’s forthcoming exhibition, West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song, opening on 16 October.

New book from SCOLMA on African Studies in the Digital Age

SCOLMA’s new book, African Studies in the Digital Age: Disconnects?, was launched at the conference of the African Studies Association (UK) in September 2014.

This collection of essays, published by Brill, is a timely and incisive analysis of the impact of the digital revolution on African Studies, and includes contributions by librarians, archivists and scholars across three continents.

African Studies in the Digital Age: DisConnects? is edited by Terry Barringer, independent scholar, and Marion Wallace, British Library, London, with Jos Damen, Lucy McCann, John McIlwaine, John Pinfold and Sarah Rhodes.

To buy copies from SCOLMA at the special price of £25, please contact Ian Cooke, SCOLMA’s subscriptions manager.