Africana Librarians Council (ALC Web Page in Transition)
Gretchen Walsh Book Donation Awards Granted by ASA
Committee Procedures for Selection of Book Donation Awards
Bassey E. Irele
Bassey E. Irele, Librarian for Sub-Saharan Africa, Humanities & Social Sciences Collection Division
Widener Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
birele@fas.harvard.edu
Email: birele@fas.harvard.edu
Gabeyehu (Gabe) Adugna
Liaison Librarian
African Studies Library,
775 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215, USA
ga35@bu.edu
Email: ga35@bu.edu
The Book Donations Committee meets twice a year at the Spring and Fall meetings of the Africana Librarians Council. The committee works with ASA to advertise, solicit applications, and select proposals for the ASA funded Gretchen Walsh Book Donation Awards.
The Africana Librarians Council (ALC) was founded in 1957 as part of the African Studies Association (ASA) under the name Archives/Libraries Committee. The ALC continues today as an ASA coordinate organization. Members of ASA whether they are librarians, archivists or documentalists, all those interested in supporting knowledge and scholarship about Africa, or scholars interested in the preservation of or access to Africana research, may join the ALC.
Previous book donation award winners are listed on the website at the following URL: https://www.albany.edu/~dlafonde/Global/book_donation/ASAbookaward.htm.
For more information on Book Donation Programs: https://www.albany.edu/~dlafonde/Global/book_donation/bookdonation.htm
Book Donations Introduction and Tips: https://www.albany.edu/~dlafonde/Global/book_donation/bkdonsuccess.htm
Africana Librarians Council, Book Donation Committee page: https://www.albany.edu/~dlafonde/Global/book_donation/