African studies at NTNU Library

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African studies at NTNU Library

• We have many useful resources for those of you
  interested in Africa and African studies these
  include both free and licenced resources.

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http//thetalkingdrum.com/africamap.html
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NTNU is a member of the AEGIS network

• AEGIS is a network of European research/study
  centres which aims to create synergies between
  experts and institutions.

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AEGISA network of excellence in African studies

• Primary emphasis is placed on the Social
  Sciences and Humanities and AEGIS' main goal is
  to improve understanding of contemporary African
  societies.

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University of Botswana

• http//www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/celte/outreach/b
  otswana/?textOnlytrue

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What is Africa really like?

• a) Some books
• b) Some articles
• c) Crawl our available internet resources, both
  licenced and free
• d) Our collected internet resources, both
  licenced and free, http//ubitlibrary.blogspot.co
  m.

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Our printed resources

• We have an extensive collection of printed
  books about Africa on different subjects
  geography, history, linguistics, medicine, social
  anthropology, etc. We also have several journals
  about Africa.

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Elections in the Congo2006

• Cheri-Cherin "DEMON-CRATIE", oil on canvas, 80 x
  135 cm, 2004
• http//members.surfeu.at/nina.horvath/elections1.h
  tm

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Online resources-1-

• We also have access to eBooks in PDF format.
• We provide access to several available databases
  
• Africa wide NiPAD
• Geobase
• ISI
• Jstor
• Pubmed
• Sociological Abstracts (CSA)

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Online resources-2-

• The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsalas
  online resources are some of the best available.
  They have several useful links and freely
  available publications in PDF format.
• A Guide to Africa on the internet.

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Cape Town

• http//www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id170
  54

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Online resources-3-African studies, Geography
and Social Anthropology resources are collected
on a shared blog http//ubitlibrary.blogspot.com
/
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Online resources-4-Africa-WideNIPAD

• A specialized licenced database focusing on
  Africa

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Research librarian

• As research librarian for African Studies, I
  take a great interest in both buying new printed
  books, journals and maintaining/collecting useful
  online resources both licenced and free.

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Mount Kenya

• http//www.safari.as/Kilimanjaro2/Kilimanjaro2.htm
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Display case

• In our library at NTNU, Dragvoll, we have a
  small display case with books and bookcovers from
  our own collections to show some of the
  literature available.

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GHANA in a display casein our library

• Since the 22th of February until April we have
  focus on Ghana and the celebration of the
  countries 50 years independence from colonial
  rulership.

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Marked in AccraCapital of Ghana

• http//www.galenfrysinger.com/ghana_accra.htm

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University of GhanaLegonLibrary building

• http//www.galenfrysinger.com/ghana_accra.htm

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Africa is more than just AIDS, hunger

• The beauty of Africa is often forgotten in the
  constant portrayal of Africa as a poor continent.

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• Take a look at the italian photographer
  Gianni Giansantis photographic journey into
  remote areas of Ethiopia.

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Photograph by Gianni Giansanti
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Photograph by Gianni Giansanti
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Photograph by Gianni Giansanti
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More books

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African studies-FagområdeAfrikakunnskap

• From the ntnu.no/ub url you could by clicking
  Fagområder in the left menu access collected
  resources for African Studies by clicking and
  choosing Afrikakunnskap in the next screen.