2012 CONOVER-PORTER AWARD FOR AFRICANA BIBLIOGRAPHY OR REFERENCE WORK

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 

Nominations close: January 1, 2012

The Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association (U.S.) seeks nominations for the seventeenth biennial Conover-Porter Award for excellence in Africana bibliography or reference work. The Conover-Porter Award is the most prestigious award for published works of bibliography or reference on Africa.  Any Africa-related reference work, bibliography, or bibliographic essay published separately or as part of a larger work during 2009, 2010, or 2011 can be nominated for the 2012 award.  The award includes a prize of $300 to be presented during the 2012 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Conover-Porter Award was established in honor of two pioneers in African studies bibliography: Helen F. Conover was senior bibliographer, African Section of the Library of Congress, serving 32 years before her retirement in 1963; Dorothy B. Porter Wesley was librarian of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, retiring in 1973 after 45 years of service. The first award in 1980 was presented to Julian Witherell for The United States & Africa: Guide to the U.S. Official Documents & Government-Sponsored Publications on Africa, 1785-1975 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1978).

View a list of previous winners at: http://staffweb.library.upenn.edu/~olson/alc/ConoverPorter/ConoverPorterAwardees.html

For each work that you nominate, please provide the following data and include your name, email address, mailing address and telephone number:

AUTHOR(S):

TITLE:

PUBLISHER/YEAR OF PUBLICATION:

JUSTIFICATION: (Specifically state why you think this is a work of significance and quality.  If available, please include published reviews or references to the reviews.)

Send inquiries and submissions to:

 Jason M. Schultz                                                                                                             Laverne Page

Librarian for Africana Collections                                                                           Area Specialist, African Section

218 Doe Library, UC Berkeley                                                                                    African & Middle Eastern Division  

Berkeley, CA 94720                                                                                                        Library of Congress

Tel: (510) 643-6722                                                                                                         Washington DC 20540-4821

Fax: (510) 643-0315                                                                                                        Tel: (202) 707-1979; Fax: (202) 252-3180

Email: jschultz@library.berkeley.edu                                                                       Email: mpag@loc.gov

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