STANDING CONFERENCE ON LIBRARY MATERIALS ON AFRICA
Annual Conference 2001 - Monday 4 June 2001
OFFICIALLY AFRICA: libraries and government information on Africa
Conference Centre, British Library, Euston Road, London
PROVISIONAL AGENDA
Titles and timings are liable to change. The final agenda will be available
on the SCOLMA website www.soas.ac.uk/scolma <http://www.soas.ac.uk/scolma>
9.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 A beginner's guide to African official publications
Clive Wilson, British Library of Political & Economic
Science
10.30 Title to be confirmed
Jennie Grimshaw, British Library
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Historical official publications at the Public Record Office
Mandy Banton, Public Record Office
11.45 Africa in the publications of international organisations,
plus a brief overview of African government websites
David Blake, Librarian, Commonwealth Secretariat
Morning sessions expected to end by apporoximately 12.30
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Freedom of information in Africa: an overview
Jay Gilbert, Archivist, Commonwealth Secretariat
2.30 The newly discovered Mandela recordings from the Rivonia
Trial
Rob Perks, British Library
2.45 Title to be confirmed
Hanif Vally, former lawyer with the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission
3.00 The Records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Bill Noblett, Head of Official Publications, Cambridge
University Library
and Keith McVeigh, Cambridge University Library
3.30 Tea
4.00 SCOLMA Annual General Meeting
CONFERENCE FEE (INCLUDING LUNCH, COFFEE AND TEA)
GBP 25 GBP 15 for students and unwaged
IF YOU WISH TO ATTEND, PLEASE SEND A CHEQUE MADE PAYABLE TO SCOLMA TO:
(to arrive by 24 May 2001)
David Blake
Commonwealth Secretariat
Marlborough House
Pall Mall
London SW1Y 5HX
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel.: (0)20 7747 6164
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Julie Evans, Deputy Information Resources Manager and CASBAH Project Manager
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of
London
28 Russell Sq, London, WC1B 5DS
Tel: +44(0)20 7862 8833 (direct) / +44(0)20 7862 8844 (switchboard)
Fax: +44(0)20 7862 8820
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http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies
http://www.casbah.ac.uk
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