Primary African Studies Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

BorrowDirect+
Also Known as: Borrow Direct EZBorrow
Search BorrowDirect, a combined catalog of the holdings of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Penn, Princeton, the University of Chicago, Yale, and the Center for Resear...   [more]
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RLIN (RLG Union Catalog)
Union catalog of the Research Libraries Group Members....   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    direct URL
    RLG Member List

Worldcat - OCLC Firstsearch Union Catalog
Books and other materials held by OCLC Member Libraries. **8 SIMULTANEOUS USER LIMIT*...   [more]

Primary African Studies Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

Important African Studies Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

African Music Archive (Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat)
Repository of mainly sub-Saharan African popular and modern music. Includes recordings, video and print sources. (In German)...   [more]
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African Studies Companion
Also Known as: Hans Zell, African Research Online
- from Brill Online Books and Journals
5th Ed. Contains updated entries including URL changes. ...   [more]

ANC Archives
Digitized documents, photographs, and other materials from the African National Congress Archive, held at Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape, South Africa....   [more]
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Endangered Archives Programme - British Library
Digitized primary source materials collected and preserved worldwide....   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    Endangered Archives Programme - Africa projects

Forward to Freedom: The history of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement 1959-1994
Selected documents, images, interview videos from the British Anti-Apartheid Movement Archive at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford....   [more]
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Historical Papers, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Digitized materials and finding aids for one of the largest, most comprehensive independent archives in Southern Africa, focused on human rights research. Includes the records of many human rights NGO...   [more]
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IndexCat
Also Known as: Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, 1880-1961
Bibliographic citations with subject indexing to the holdings of largest medical library in the late nineteenth century. Now useful for research in the history of medicine, history of science, and als...   [more]
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Library Strengths in Official [British] Documents: selected sources for Africa
From Green Library Reference Department, Stanford University. A truly wonderful piece of work describing an hideously complicated documents system. The Penn Library owns much of the material described...   [more]
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Mundus Gateway to Missionary Collections in the UK
Describes collections holding overseas missionary materials, including archives of British missionary societies, collections of personal papers, printed matter, photographs, other visual materials and...   [more]
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Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project
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SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
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Related African Studies Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

Cambridge University Library. Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. Oriental Manuscripts
Near Eastern manuscripts: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac, Turkish; Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah, Judaeo-Arabic; Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic. Southeast Asian manuscripts: Sanskrit, Prakrit, Sin...   [more]
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LibDex The Library Index
Worldwide directory of library homepages....   [more]
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LIBWEB Library Servers via WWW
Also Known as: lib-web
Worldwide directory of library homepages....   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    U.S. Academic Libraries