Call for Nominations: 2018 Conover-Porter Award for Africana Bibliography or Reference Work
Nominations close: April 30th 2018
The Africana Librarians Council, a coordinate organization of the African Studies Association (U.S.), seeks nominations for the biennial Conover-Porter Award for excellence in Africana bibliography or reference work.
The Conover-Porter Award is the most prestigious award for published works of bibliography or reference on Africa. Any Africa-related reference work, bibliography, or bibliographic essay published separately or as part of a larger work during 2015 to 2017 can be nominated for the 2018 award.
The award includes a prize of $300 to be presented during the 2018 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Washington, DC.
Background
The Conover-Porter Award was established in honor of two pioneers in African studies bibliography: Helen F. Conover was senior bibliographer, African Section of the Library of Congress, serving 32 years before her retirement in 1963; Dorothy B. Porter Wesley was librarian of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, retiring in 1973 after 45 years of service. The first award in 1980 was presented to Julian Witherell for The United States & Africa: Guide to the U.S. Official Documents & Government-Sponsored Publications on Africa, 1785-1975 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1978).
View a list of previous winners at:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/africa/ALC/ALCConoverPorterWinners.html
Procedure:
For each work that you nominate, please provide the following
Information about yourself: your name, email address, mailing address and telephone number:
Information about the work:
AUTHOR(S):
TITLE:
PUBLISHER/YEAR OF PUBLICATION:
JUSTIFICATION: (Specifically state why you think this is a work of significance and quality)
Include published reviews or references to the reviews.
Send inquiries and submissions to:
Ms. Miki Goral
Reference/Instruction Librarian
UCLA
Powell Library
Box 951450
Los Angeles CA 90095-1450
Tel: 310-825-5096
Email: miki@library.ucla.edu
Ms.Mireille Djenno
Librarian for African Studies
Indiana University
Herman B. Wells Library E 660
1320 E. 10th Street
Bloomington IN 47405-3907
Tel: (812) 855-9296
Email: mdjenno@indiana.edu
Esmeralda Kalé
George and Mary LeCron Foster Curator
Herskovits Library of African Studies.
Northwestern University Libraries
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, Il 60208
Tel: 847-491-3941
Fax: 847-467-1233
Email ekale@northwestern.edu
Contact Email: ekale@northwestern.edu
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