African studies in the digital age : DisConnects? / edited by Terry Barringer, Marion Wallace ; with Jos Damen [and 4 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barringer, Terry, editor.

Wallace, Marion, editor.

Damen, Jos, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic information resources.

Research.

Africa--Study and teaching--Electronic information resources.

Africa.

Africa--Research--Electronic information resources.

Electronic information resources--Africa.

Physical Description:

xiii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Summary:

African Studies in the Digital Age. Disconnects? seeks to understand the complex changes brought about by the digital revolution. The editors, Terry Barringer and Marion Wallace, have brought together librarians, archivists, researchers and academics from three continents to analyse the creation and use of digital research resources and archives in and about Africa. The volume reveals new opportunities for research, teaching and access, as well as potential problems and digital divides. Published under the aegis of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa), this new work is a major step forward in understanding the impact of the Internet Age for the study of Africa, in and beyond the continent. Book jacket.

Contents:

African studies in the digital age : challenges for research and national libraries / Ian Cooke and Marion Wallace

Dazzled by digital? : research environments in African universities and their implications for the use of digital resources / Jonathan Harle

Data, data everywhere, but not a byte to think : the pitfalls of increased access to digital resources in university history departments in Zimbabwe / Diana Jeater

Improving digital collection access with simple search engine optimisation strategies / Daniel A. Reboussin and Laurie N. Taylor

Building futures : the role of digital collections in shaping national identity in Africa / Rebecca Kahn and Simon Tanner

The West African manuscript heritage : challenges of the digital revolution in a research economy / Amidu Sanni

Recovering the African printed past : virtually re-membering a dispersed collection in Eritrea / Massimo Zaccaria

Archives and the past : cataloguing and digitisation in Uganda's archives / Edgar C. Taylor, Ashley Brooke Rockenbach and Natalie Bond

'Life is so summarised' : society's memory in the digital age in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn and Walter Gam Nkwi

African newspapers in the online world : information gains and losses / Hartmut Bergenthum

Viewing 'Africa through a lens' : using digitisation and online tools at the National Archives (UK) to widen audience reach / Jenni Orme

The integration of historical cartography into the present day : the Darfur case / Lucia Lovison-Golob

Concluding remarks / Peter Limb.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004272305

9789004272309

OCLC:

880237978

Publisher Number:

99959533102