African Studies inthe Digital Age: DisConnects?

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Contents

About the Contributors

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1: Access, Research and Researchers

1 African Studies in the Digital Age: Challenges for Research and National Libraries

2 Dazzled by Digital?: Research Environments in African Universities and Their Implications for the Use of Digital Resources

3 Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Byte to Think: The Pitfalls of Increased Access to Digital Resources in University History Departments in Zimbabwe

4 Improving Digital Collection Access with Simple Search Engine Optimisation Strategies

Part 2: Archives and Memory

5 Building Futures: The Role of Digital Collections in Shaping National Identity in Africa

6 The West African Manuscript Heritage: Challenges of the Digital Revolution in a Research Economy

7 Recovering the African Printed Past: Virtually Re-membering a Dispersed Collection in Eritrea

8 Archives and the Past: Cataloguing and Digitisation in Uganda’s Archives

9 ‘Life is so Summarised’: Society’s Memory in the Digital Age in Africa

Part 3: Building on Digital

10 African Newspapers in the Online World: Information Gains and Losses

11 Viewing ‘Africa Through a Lens’: Using Digitisation and Online Tools at The National Archives (UK) to Widen Audience Reach

12 The Integration of Historical Cartography into the Present Day: The Darfur Case

Concluding Remarks

Appendix: Programme of scolma’s 50th anniversary conference

Index of Subjects