Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April 2081 Aluka: Building a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa 3 April 2008 Javanica Curry Assistant Director, Library Relations

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April 2082 Mission Aluka is a not-for-profit international collaboration of educational and cultural institutions. Our mission is to build a high-quality scholarly resource of materials from and about Africa.

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April 2083 Aluka: Need and Opportunity NEED Limited access to archival and primary source material, books, and journals from Africa to the Global North From the Global North to Africa Research on Africa is hindered by limited resources Desire to share materials for research and build collections collectively Limited library budgets OPPORTUNITY Facilitate global access to primary source and supporting materials Help “level the playing field” for scholars in Africa ­Digital library free in Africa Aggregate digital content on a central, accessible platform Provide a cost-effective opportunity for the academic community to build digital collections and share valuable content

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April 2084 Aluka’s Approach Content Development: aggregate scholarly content Build high-quality curated collections Enable individuals and institutions to contribute their own scholarly collections about Africa Technology: high-quality web-based platform A scaleable platform offering full text searching, flexible browsing, and an array of tools for viewing and sharing content Developing tools and processes for cost-effective ingestion of new collections

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April 2085 Content Contributions by Country

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April 2086 Aluka’s Approach (cont.) International Partnerships: capacity building Work with partners to build technical capacity in digitization Train librarians, faculty, and students in utilizing online resources Communities Libraries: ­facilitate access to collections and opportunity to contribute Scholars, Faculty, and Students: ­Build a network through Aluka by maximizing participation and use Foundations: ­seek philanthropic support for capacity building, new content, and collaborations

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April 2087 Collaboration and Contribution Continuously growing collections and content with increased application across disciplines Intellectual ownership remains with the contributor and advisory community Dynamic platform facilitates information sharing and collaboration throughout the user base

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April 2088 Content Area: African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes Visual, contextual, and spatial documentation heritage sites in Africa 5 sites in development 3D models, photographs, maps, books, GIS data, articles and other scholarly research material. Currently over 10,000 objects

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April 2089 Content Area: Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa Primary source materials on liberation movements in Southern Africa organized in five themes Over 7,500 objects Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April Content Area: African Plants African Plants Collaborations with 50 institutions in Africa, Europe, and the United States 250,000 type specimens from Africa and the surrounding islands photographs, drawings, field notes botanical art, and reference works

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April Future Collections African Ceremonies: A photographic collection (1,000 images) documenting various African communities and their rituals, celebrations, and festivals from the archive of photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher. Timbuktu Manuscripts: Digital high resolution photographs of 300 manuscripts from private collections in Timbuktu, Mali. Includes legal and secular documents (such as land deeds, wills, and other historical documents), poems, illuminated manuscripts, personal correspondence, and manuscripts about the natural world and medicinal plants. Rock Art: Additional materials documenting Rock Art sites. 10,000 objects from the Trust for African Rock Art and 40,000 images from the Rock Art Research Institute. We are still anticipating substantial slide collections to enter the archive documenting African Rock art. Heritage Sites and Landscapes: Lamu, Great Zimbabwe, Elmina, Axum, and Rock Art Maps, drawings, photographs, field notes and excavation notes Smithsonian: Additional full length books and articles about sites already covered in the digital library as well as those that will relate to some of the new sites to be included.

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April Future Collections (continued) Chilcote Collection: Materials relating to the liberation struggles in Lusophone Africa that were collected by Professor Ronald Chilcote in the 1960s. This collection is being made possible by a collaboration with the University of Southern California. Mozambique Revolution & Voz da Revolucao: With the assistance of the Arquivo Historico de Mocambique, the remaining issues are being scanned for inclusion in the digital library. India & Southern Africa Collection: E.S. Reddy, former Director of the United Nations Center against Apartheid, has donated a wide variety of books, articles, pamphlets to Aluka for inclusion in the digital library. This particular collection focuses on how India was deeply involved in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Ranger Papers: This collection of materials, which focuses on colonial oppression in Zimbabwe. The collection has been donated by Terry Ranger, scholar on Zimbabwe and is being digitized at the Rhodes House. Oral Histories: The Oral History Project is an ongoing project with the intent of building a resource of oral histories about people’s lives under colonial oppression and in the liberation struggles. Anti-Apartheid Movement, Britain: Additional materials at Rhodes House have been selected for inclusion in the digital library. Allard Lowenstein Collection: This collection, housed at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, contains papers on Namibia and South Africa collected by Allard Lowenstein, who worked to increase exposure of the Namibia situation in the United States and at the United Nations. Notes from his trips to Namibia and his testimony at the UN are included in this selection of materials.

Building and Deploying a Collaborative Resource For and About Africa | 3 April Thank you. Javanica Curry Assistant Director, Library Relations 149 Fifth Avenue, 8 th Floor New York, NY Tel: (212)