[NEDBIB-L] Memo on available documentation on southern Africa

Can you please distribute the memo below, detailing the documentation on southern Africa which can be obtained from the former Library, Information and Documentation Centre of the Netherlands institute for Southern Africa in Amsterdam (free of charge). Thanks.
Kier Schuringa

Memo on available documentation from the NiZA-BIDOC library

(September 2013)


Documentation (grey literature): brochures, reports, articles, leaflets, documentation-sets, etc., the majority printed from internet sources; all arranged geographically and chronological.

Period: almost all from the years 1999 - 2006 (5% from earlier in the 1990s).

Volume: in total 29 meters (all documents in solid plastic cassettes).

Subjects: South Africa (7,5 m), Zimbabwe (5,5 m; partly also arranged on subject), Southern Africa (2,5 m; partly also arranged on subject), DRC (2,2 m), Angola (1,6 m), Netherlands (1,5 m), Africa general (1,5 m), Mozambique (1,5 m), Namibia (1,5 m) and other countries/areas.

Language: apart from the Netherlands section (which is mostly in Dutch), the documentation is mostly (approx. 80%) in English, with small sections in French and Portuguese.

Described in (computer) database: all documents have a record in an Adlib-database, including summarized descriptions (in the language of the source) and (English) keywords. Database also available. In the annexes three lists from this database to show what kind of documents these are and how they are described.


For more information you can contact:

Kier Schuringa
IISH - Southern Africa archive project
Cruquiusweg 31, Amsterdam
P.O. Box 2169, 1000 CD Amsterdam
tel. +31-6-20474460
e-mail: ksc@iisg.nl<mailto:ksc@iisg.nl> <mailto:ksc@iisg.nl>
Kier Schuringa
ActionAid-Nederland
(previously NiZA)
P.O. Box 10707
1001 ES Amsterdam
tel. +31-20-5206210
e-mail: kier.schuringa@actionaid.org<mailto:kier.schuringa@actionaid.org>

Kier Schuringa
IISG - Zuidelijk Afrika archiefproject
Cruquiusweg 31, Amsterdam
Postbus 2169, 1000 CD Amsterdam
tel. 06-20474460
e-mail: ksc@iisg.nl<mailto:ksc@iisg.nl> <mailto:ksc@iisg.nl>
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