TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barringer, Terry,
AU  - Wallace, Marion,
TI  - African studies in the digital age: DisConnects? 
SN  - 9789004272309 (pbk : alk. paper)
U1  - 025.04096 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Electronic information resources
KW  - Africa
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Research
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; African studies in the digital age : challenges for research and nat ional libraries; Ian Cooke and Marion Wallace --; Dazzled by digi tal? : research environments in African universities and their implicat ions for the use of digital resources; Jonathan Harle --; 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; Diana Jeater --; Improving digital collection access with simple search engine optimisation strategies; Daniel A. Reboussin and Lau rie N. Taylor --; Building futures : the role of digital collections in shaping national identity in Africa; Rebecca Kahn and Simon Tann er --; The West African manuscript heritage : challenges of the digit al revolution in a research economy; Amidu Sanni --; Recovering t he African printed past : virtually re-membering a dispersed collection in Eritrea; Massimo Zaccaria --; Archives and the past : catalog uing and digitisation in Uganda's archives; Edgar C. Taylor, Ashley Brooke Rockenbach and Natalie Bond --; 'Life is so summarised' : soc iety's memory in the digital age in Africa; Mirjam de Bruijn and Wa lter Gam Nkwi --; African newspapers in the online world : informatio n gains and losses; Hartmut Bergenthum --; Viewing 'Africa throug h a lens' : using digitisation and online tools at the National Archive s (UK) to widen audience reach; Jenni Orme --; The integration of historical cartography into the present day : the Darfur case; Luc ia Lovison-Golob --; Concluding remarks; Peter Limb
ER  -