Africana Library Adds African Language Books to NUL's Online Catalog
In 1997 David Bade (Senior Librarian and Cataloger at the University of Chicago Library) began to compile a list of the African language books held in the Herskovits Library. The list was later published in 2000 as a bibliography titled: Bade, David W.: Books in African Languages in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University: A Catalog. (Evanston, IL: Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, 2000). The first two volumes of the bibliography provide both electronic and print access to a collection of nearly 10,600 works in African languages at Northwestern University, from the establishment of the collection to 1998. The third volume, published in 2004, provides print access to an additional 1073 African language works received in 1999 and 2000.