Melissa Gasparotto Latin America, Spanish & Portuguese, and Africa Librarian gasparom@rci.rutgers.edu Created by Lourdes Vazquez April 15, 2004

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides:
Collection Scope

The African Studies collections includes resources related to the societies (histories, cultures and languages) of the African continent. The African Studies collection holdings are especially strong in history, sociology, anthropology, political sciences, gender and cinema. The film collection is respectable, especially on films made by or about women. The library also collects in areas such as economics, linguistics, literature and art. The collection ranges from topics such as African colonial history and slavery, colonialism and revolution, English, Francophone, Lusophone and Arabic literatures as well as local language literatures. In recent years there have been an expansion of the French and Lusophone literature collection. The collection includes monographs, microform sets, cd-roms, periodicals and electronic resources and our Special Collections University Archives holds a unique collection of rare travel books, i.e. Travels into the inland parts of Africa (1740) and A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots and Caffraria in the years 1777, 1778, 1779. We collect in English, French and Portuguese languages extensively. We collect in Spanish, Italian, Arabic as well as Amharic, Shona, Ndbele, Igbo, Bambara, Chewa/Nyanja, Hausa, Luba, Mende, Swahili, Yoruba and Zulu languages selectively.

Rutgers University Libraries membership in the Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project (CAMP) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) allows readers access to microforms of retrospective and hard-to-obtain journals, newspapers, and other research materials, which may be borrowed for use at RU Libraries through interlibrary loan. You may want to consult the guide to the Cooperative Africana Microform Project at http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/CAMP/collections/campguide.htm