African studies in the digital age : DisConnects? /
edited by Terry Barringer, Marion Wallace ; with Jos Damen, Lucy McCann, John McI lwaine, John Pinfold, Sarah Rhodes.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
- xiii, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
African studies in the digital age : challenges for research and nat ional libraries / Dazzled by digi tal? : research environments in African universities and their implicat ions for the use of digital resources / Data, d ata everywhere, but not a byte to think : the pitfalls of increased acc ess to digital resources in university history departments in Zimbabwe / Improving digital collection access with simple search engine optimisation strategies / Building futures : the role of digital collections in shaping national identity in Africa / The West African manuscript heritage : challenges of the digit al revolution in a research economy / Recovering t he African printed past : virtually re-membering a dispersed collection in Eritrea / Archives and the past : catalog uing and digitisation in Uganda's archives / 'Life is so summarised' : soc iety's memory in the digital age in Africa / African newspapers in the online world : informatio n gains and losses / Viewing 'Africa throug h a lens' : using digitisation and online tools at the National Archive s (UK) to widen audience reach / The integration of historical cartography into the present day : the Darfur case / Concluding remarks / Ian Cooke and Marion Wallace -- Jonathan Harle -- Diana Jeater -- Daniel A. Reboussin and Lau rie N. Taylor -- Rebecca Kahn and Simon Tann er -- Amidu Sanni -- Massimo Zaccaria -- Edgar C. Taylor, Ashley Brooke Rockenbach and Natalie Bond -- Mirjam de Bruijn and Wa lter Gam Nkwi -- Hartmut Bergenthum -- Jenni Orme -- Luc ia Lovison-Golob -- Peter Limb.
9789004272309 (pbk : alk. paper)
2014-019417
Electronic information resources--Africa.
Africa--Study and teaching--Electronic information resources. Africa--Research--Electronic information resources.