Africana Librarians Council (ALC Web Page in Transition)
Gretchen Walsh Book Donation Awards Granted by ASA
Call and Criteria for Applications for the ASA-Funded, Gretchen Walsh Book Donation Awards
Committee Procedures for Selection of Book Donation Awards
Bassey E. Irele
Librarian for Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Division (MEAAD)
Widener Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
[email protected]
Email: [email protected]
Gabeyehu (Gabe) Adugna
Liaison Librarian
African Studies Library,
775 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215, USA
[email protected]
Email: [email protected]
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.