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.