Africana collections online : serving African studies in Germany
- The Frankfurt University Library possesses one of the outstanding Africana Collections in continental Europe; its regional anddisciplinary scope is unique in Germany. Today about 5,000 new acquisitions a year have accumulated over 200,000 items on Africa south of the Sahara. Some 50,000 historical and rare photographs are fully digitized and freely accessible. Together with a collection of around 18,000 books stemming from the collections of the German Colonial Society at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century they constitute the historical foundations of the collection. Recently the University Library Frankfurt and the library of the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, Hamburg, started the project ilissAfrica (internet library sub-Saharan Africa), a central subject gateway for online resources and a powerful tool for bibliographic research. These new services will be indispensable for researchers and librarians of African Studies and will promote African studies worldwide.
Author: | Hartmut BergenthumORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-48654 |
Parent Title (German): | IFLA-Tagung, 19. - 23. August 2007, Durban, Südafrika |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2007/09/07 |
Year of first Publication: | 2007 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Contributing Corporation: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG |
Release Date: | 2007/09/07 |
Tag: | Afrikanistik; Bibliothek; Deutschland; Frankfurt <Main> / Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg / Abteilung Afrika |
HeBIS-PPN: | 190306432 |
Contributor: | Stecklina, Isabel [Graph.] ; Vas, Christian [Fotograf] |
Institutes: | Zentrale Einrichtung / Universitätsbibliothek |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 02 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften / 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |