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African studies - striving for integrated information services: recent developments in Germany and Europe

Integrierte Informationsdienstleistungen für die Afrikaforschung: neuere Entwicklungen in Deutschland und Europa
[journal article]

Bergenthum, Hartmut
Siebold, Thomas

Abstract

New projects, services and collaborations have recently brought the infrastructural services for African Studies a big step forward. This report gives an account of new subject gateways and digitisation projects. It discusses recent European cooperation ventures in the field of librarianship. Additi... view more

New projects, services and collaborations have recently brought the infrastructural services for African Studies a big step forward. This report gives an account of new subject gateways and digitisation projects. It discusses recent European cooperation ventures in the field of librarianship. Additionally, new developments and services of the Africa Collection at Frankfurt University Library are presented, which help to address the changing needs of researchers and to handle information overload, while keeping up with the latest developments. Nevertheless, the fragmentation and compartmentalisation of the different services still hinder more integrated information services.... view less


Neue Projekte, Dienstleistungen und Kooperationen haben die Informationsversorgung der Afrikastudien einen großen Schritt vorangebracht. In diesem Bericht werden neue Fachportale und Digitalisierungsprojekte präsentiert; die in den vergangenen Jahren intensivierte europäische Zusammenarbeit der Afri... view more

Neue Projekte, Dienstleistungen und Kooperationen haben die Informationsversorgung der Afrikastudien einen großen Schritt vorangebracht. In diesem Bericht werden neue Fachportale und Digitalisierungsprojekte präsentiert; die in den vergangenen Jahren intensivierte europäische Zusammenarbeit der Afrika-Bibliotheken wird nachgezeichnet. Schließlich werden neue Dienstleistungen der Afrika-Sammlung der Frankfurter Universitätsbibliothek vorgestellt, die veränderten Bedürfnissen der Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler Rechnung tragen und es erlauben, die Informationsflut besser zu bewältigen und gleichzeitig den Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen zu behalten. Gleichwohl ist die Fragmentierung unterschiedlicher Dienstleistungsangebote noch nicht überwunden.... view less

Keywords
research; Internet; service; university; Africa; Federal Republic of Germany; library; information system; archives; information service; Europe; science; research documentation; networking; portal; present

Classification
Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology
Information and Documentation, Libraries, Archives

Method
descriptive study; documentation

Free Keywords
Area Studies; African Studies; Information Services; Digital Libraries/ Virtual Libraries; Regionalstudien; Afrikanistik/ Afrikaforschung; virtuelle Bibliothek

Document language
English

Publication Year
2010

Page/Pages
p. 109-121

Journal
Africa Spectrum, 45 (2010) 2

ISSN
1868-6869

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works


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