African librarianship rising!

Career Development in African Librarianship

Celebrating African-American Librarians and Librarianship

THISARTICLE EXAMINES SELECTED ECONOMIC and social indicators of our multiracial and multiethnic society at the end of the twentieth century to provide an information base for wise decisions about effective library services. The statistical profile describes the demography, economic well-being, and educational attainment of the principal racial and Hispanic origin groups. The data show that prog...

African Librarianship: A Relic, a Fallacy, or an Imperative?

Leadership in Librarianship

Two SURVEYS WERE ADMINISTERED to library professionals holding titular headships in order to develop a list of perceived library leaders. This list was used to learn the locus (subfield) of leadership and the degree of fieldwide integration as evidenced by the extent of shared perceptions by respondents. Results revealed that leaders tend to be associated most strongly with a category labeled “...

Annual UNISA/IFLA Regional Office for Africa Lecture on African Librarianship in the 21

There is an abundance of evidence in the literature that corroborates the hypothesis that African librarianship has its roots in the colonial era. In developing African librarianship, the colonial masters set in place a library and information service infrastructure that propagated western philosophies and imperatives. As pointed out by duPlessis (2007), the colonial powers, to support their an...