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Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) - Africa

Region

Africa

Programme Summary

Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) trains and equips libraries in Africa to archive material while saving indigenous languages and upgrading African librarians and media to be available online. It is a joint effort by research libraries throughout the world and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to promote the preservation of publications and archives concerning the nearly fifty nations of Sub-Saharan Africa and to make these materials in microform available to researchers.

Communication Strategies

The microform collections of CAMP form a pool of historical, political, linguistic, economic and geographical data and primary source materials that are not available elsewhere. Member libraries rely on the vast microform collections of newspapers and journals and, thereby, avoid the high costs of acquiring, cataloguing, and storing these materials locally.

CAMP acquires microform sets and authorises filming of research materials in North America, Africa, and Europe. CAMP collects microform copies of the material as:

  • selected newspapers, including titles received on current subscriptions;
  • journals;
  • government publications;
  • personal and corporate archives;
  • personal papers of historians, journalists, anthropologists, geographers and government leaders;
  • writing in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, German and other European languages as well as works in Swahili, Xhosa, Zulu and other African languages.

Development Issues

Technology

Partners

CRL

Contact

James Simon

Director of International Resources

Center for Research Libraries

6050 S. Kenwood

Chicago, IL 60637

USA

Tel +1 773 955 4545 ext. 324

Fax +1 773 955 4339

simon@crl.edu

Source

CAMP website on August 3 2004.


Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site August 02 2004
Last Updated August 04 2004



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