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Progress of the SCOLMA Area Specialisation Scheme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

P. B. Freshwater and
G. Trevett
P. B. Freshwater
Affiliation:
Sub-Librarian for Reader Service and Africana, University of Birmingham Library
G. Trevett
Affiliation:
Administrative Assistant and Librarian, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham
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Two factors govern the acquisitions policy of West Africana in Birmingham University Library: the teaching and research programmes of the Centre of West African Studies, and participation in the SCOLMA area specialisation scheme.

The Centre of West African Studies was set up in 1963, in the words of its Director, Professor J. D. Fage, ‘as the happy coincidence between thinking in the University…and the University Grants Committee’. Begun and maintained as an interdisciplinary centre, and supported by earmarked Treasury grants as recommended by the Hayter Report in 1961, it has developed during its first ten years into one of the main centres of African studies in the United Kingdom. The interests of its members have always been centred on Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone, with a certain amount of research interest in the French-speaking areas also.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 4 , 1974, pp. 16 - 19
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Copyright © International African Institute 1974

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References

1 Fage, J. D. The Centre of West African Studies in the University of Birmingham. University of Birmingham gazette, 18 (1), 22 October 1965, p. 17–22.Google Scholar

2 UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEE. Report of the Sub-Committee on Oriental, Slavonic, East European and African Studies. (Chairman: Sir William Hayter.) London, HMSO, 1961.Google Scholar

3 BOWYER (T. H.) French speaking Africa: Dahomey, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, and Upper Volta. In STANDING CONFERENCE ON LIBRARY MATERIALS ON AFRICA. Conference on the acquisition of material from Africa, University of Birmingham, 25th April 1969; reports and papers compiled by V. Bloomfield. Zug, Interdocumentation Company, 1969. Pp. 48-52.

4 Biblilgraphie de la Cote d'Ivoire, 1969- Bulletin bibliographique des archives du Senegal, 1962-.

5 Information about the Project was widely circulated in Newsletter of the Demographic Documentation Project, University of Birmingham, no. 1, 1972.

6 D. W. Evans’ Catalogue of the Cadbury papers (Birmingham University Library, 1973) is available from the Library at £0.50. A brief description of the collection appeared in African research and documentation, no. 2, 1973, p. 23-24.