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>Library Juice 3:1 - January 5, 2000 Contents: 1. Library Juice subscription news 2. Letter from Sanford Berman 3. UTNE Reader's First Annual Mr. Alternative Press Award 4. Casey Hill's New Pages 5. About.com's Alternative Media page 6. AmaL - Alternative Libertarian Quotations 7. 2000 Calendar of Promotional Events for Libraries and Literacy 8. IFLA FAIFE Country Reports 9. "War is the health of the State" 10. Festivals.com: Celebrating the World of Festivals and Events 11. WebChron: Historical and Cross-Cultural Chronologies 12. Katia "Fast Work" Roberto provides name authority! 13. Volunteer in Zimbabwe 14. Africana Librarians Council and Zimbabwe Book Fair 15. Resources on Africa 16. The Bookhouse Classifications, a cosmic baseball team Quote for the week: "Ha Ha Ha" -The Laughing Librarian http://internettrash.com/users/lafnlibn/ Home page of the week: Rory Litwin http://libr.org/rory ___________________________________________________________________________top 1. Library Juice subscription news Library Juice is no longer running on Majordomo software, so the commands you might have been using to subscribe or unsubscribe have changed. The list hosting company that I was using to distribute the Juice went out of business. Another program, called "SmartList" is installed on the web server I use, and I have set up Library Juice to run on that. If you want to unsubscribe, send a message to Juice-request[at]libr.org with the message "unsubscribe" in the subject line. To subscribe, send a message to the same address with "subscribe" in the subject. Note that the command has to be in the subject line, not in the body of the message. Write me at Rory[at]libr.org if you have any questions. ___________________________________________________________________________top 2. Letter from Sanford Berman I asked Sanford Berman to give an update on his situation vis-a-vis Hennepin County Library for Library Juice readers, and this is what he sent back. Enjoy! -Rory --- As requested, here's a (somewhat offhanded) update on My Situation: Hoping to secure at least a grain of justice, I've repeatedly requested --through the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, among others--that my initial, unjust remand be rescinded and that the HCL Administration issue a public apology for the mistreatment I experienced. I have also sought apologies from Elizabeth Feinberg and OCLC for the flagrant censoring of my solicited input to the Jan./Feb. 1999 _OCLC Newsletter_. I've further submitted two citizen-queries to the HCL's Community Relations Manaer, Nancy Perron, the first in October, asking about why no one has apparently been assigned to undertake the super-rush, year-long project that I had been unilaterally reassigned to do last Spring and why--despite continual assurances that HCL cataloging would remain undiminished in quality and usefulness, there have been subject heading assignment caps imposed, checking has been abandoned, the 26-year-old _HCL Cataloging Bulletin_ has been terminated, the Head Cataloger position has not been filled and a lower-grade "lead worker" instead placed "in charge," and the understaffed/overworked section ordered in December to handle some 4,500 new titles, "cataloging" them according to minimalist guidelines that preclude, for instance, note-making and adequate search-point specifications. The response to these pleas and questions has thus far been a resounding silence. Everyone covers their ass. No one takes responsibility. And the deception, the spin-doctoring, proceeds as before (e.g., a press release regarding the _Bulletin_ termination claiming this resulted from too few subscriptions & a consumer preference for online access to the same data, but failing utterly to acknowledge the actuality that the last _Bulletin_ produced after I left ran to 27 pages and covered 4 months whereas the previous, more typical issue reached 60 pages and covered only 2 months--in short, there just wasn't enough new authority work being done to justify publication). On the "bright side," the nonsupervisory librarians' union at HCL successfully negotiated a "free speech" clause in their latest contract, perhaps the first ever of its kind. And personally, I've been actively engaged in coediting the next edition of _Alternative Library Literature_ and speaking on either cataloging or censorship at two library schools and the local Twin Cities Humanist Association, as well as participating in a distance ed cataloging course at the University of Illinois. Lastly, Carolynne Myall conducted a 3-hour-long phone interview lately that should ultimately appear in _Cataloging & Classification Quarterly_. I'd be delighted to talk with anyone by phone about my recent experiences or anything else of interest: 612-925-5738. And I'll swiftly send copies of the alluded-to correspondence plus an assortment of cataloging and censorship documents to anyone who asks. All I need is a mailing address. (Mine: 4400 Morningside Road, Edina, MN 55416.) Two final remarks: 1) Boundless thanks to the scores of colleagues and friends who demonstrated such overwhelming support over the past 11 months. Your passion and eloquence and high ideals made me proud to be a librarian. And your generous words about me and my work--well, I truly hope I deserved them and can't even begin to describe how heartening they were. 2) As mean-spirited and petty as it may sound, I confess to deep and abiding bitterness and disappointment at getting *no* support of assistance from the American Library Association leadership, ALA Council (with the honorable exception of perhaps 15 or 20 members out of 170), or the Intellectual Freedom establishment. My case was routinely dismissed by these administrator-and-managerial-wannabe-dominated groups as an "internal personnel matter" rather than addressed forthrightly as an issue of workplace speech and repression. In solidarity -- and with heartiest greetings to all LIBRARY JUICERS, Sanford Berman ___________________________________________________________________________top 3. UTNE Reader's First Annual Mr. Alternative Press Award Presented to Chris Dodge In honor of your vast and varied knowledge of the alternative press. In honor of your dedication to all publications, large or small, glossy or newsprint, perfect bound or stapled. In honor of the "thumbs up" that all 'zines in our library hope for and all editors search for - the coveted post-it note with "Dodge recommends" blessing. In honor of your enthusiasm to help redirect the wayward and oh-so-corporate methods of Utne Reader. We bestow upon you the first ever Mr. Alternative Press Award.* *easily photocopied for use as mail art. (Library Juice protests the sexist title of the "Mr. Alternative Press Award" and hopes Utne Reader will be duly embarrassed and not give the award in future years, reserving the honor for Chris alone.;) ___________________________________________________________________________top 4. Casey Hill's New Pages New Pages Online http://www.newpages.com/ An Independent Guide to Alternatives in Print and Electronic Media The New Pages Resource Library is being built [http://www.newpages.com/resource.htm]. I will use information from the sites in this Library on a regular basis when I publish New Pages Online, a newsletter which will help librarians, booksellers, and readers in the selection and review of alternative print and electronic media. The New Pages Guides, though not ignoring the best of the mainstream sources, focus on the alternatives -- the work of smaller, independent publishers. The New Pages Guides: Independent Publishers Alternative Periodicals Literary Periodicals Reviews Alternative Newsweeklies Independent Bookstores The Web ___________________________________________________________________________top 5. About.com's Alternative Media page http://altmedia.about.com/medianews/altmedia/index.htm This page by Penny Perkins is a good starting point for browsing and makes a good link from any public library homepage. ___________________________________________________________________________top 6. AmaL - Alternative Libertarian Quotations Dear friends I'm Glad to announce about AmaL a rich resource of Alternative Libertarian Quotations from the FreeThinkers of the 20th century at: http://amal.activeweb.co.il Some of the activities in this site are: More than 1500 thought provoking Quotes Daily Quote Mailing list Free-Forum Search by keyword or Categories Gift-Wrapped Quote and finally you can know who's AmaL... Please add this URL in your Quotations Links Page Thanks in advance Samy Matar webmaster E-mail : samy[at]webglide.com ___________________________________________________________________________top 7. 2000 Calendar of Promotional Events for Libraries and Literacy http://www.ala.org/pio/literacycalendar.html ______________ Don Wood American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom http://www.ala.org/oif.html ___________________________________________________________________________top 8. IFLA FAIFE Country Reports "FAIFE provides documentation on the actual situation concerning libraries, librarianship and intellectual freedom around the world. To this end FAIFE collects country reports, documents and other contributions from library associations, institutions and professionals, and various other sources. The information is used to produce a global report on the state of Intellectual Freedom in the library world." http://www.faife.dk/report/intro.htm ______________ Don Wood American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom http://www.ala.org/oif.html ___________________________________________________________________________top 9. "War is the health of the State" Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 10:20:31 -0800 From: Bureau of Public Secrets <knabb[at]slip.net> To: Bureau of Public Secrets <knabb[at]slip.net> Subject: "War is the health of the State" Randolph Bourne's incisive analysis of the interconnection of war and the state is now online at http://www.slip.net/~knabb/CF/bourne.htm "War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.... In a nation at war, every citizen identifies himself with the whole, and feels immensely strengthened in that identification.... He achieves a superb self-assurance, an intuition of the rightness of all his ideas and emotions, so that in the suppression of opponents or heretics he is invincibly strong; he feels behind him all the power of the collective community.... War has an immemorial tradition and heredity only because the State has a long tradition and heredity. But they are inseparably and functionally joined. We cannot crusade against war without crusading implicitly against the State.... The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated." * * * Of related interest at the same website: "Two Local Wars" (Situationist article on the Vietnam and Arab-Israel wars) -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/11.wars.htm "The War and the Spectacle" (on the Gulf war and the media) -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/PS/gulfwar.htm "Advantages and Limits of Nonviolence" -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/PS/joyrev2.htm "Eliminating the Roots of War and Crime" -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/PS/joyrev4.htm * * * The Bureau of Public Secrets website, which has received over 100,000 page visits during its first 16 months, features Ken Knabb's SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY (translations from the notorious group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt) and PUBLIC SECRETS, the recent collection of Knabb's own writings, including "The Joy of Revolution," "Confessions of a Mild-Mannered Enemy of the State," and an assortment of comics, leaflets and articles on Wilhelm Reich, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, the sixties counterculture, radical women, Chinese anarchists, socially engaged Buddhists, urban "psychogeography," the Watts riot, the Iranian uprising, the Gulf war, and the recent jobless revolt in France. The new site index -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/index1.htm -- includes over 2000 name and topic entries, from anarchism to Zen. * * * BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS P.O. Box 1044, Berkeley CA 94701, USA knabb[at]slip.net http://www.slip.net/~knabb ___________________________________________________________________________top 10. Festivals.com: Celebrating the World of Festivals and Events http://www.festivals.com/ Updated daily, this database of festivals and events is searchable by categories: Arts, Children, Motor, Music, Sports, Culture, or Backstage. The site can also be searched using maps of North America or The World; by keyword or title of event; or, for either the US and Canada, or the world, by month, city and/or state/province or country. Information for each event includes the name, date, location, details, and a Web site or e-mail address, when available. - er Subjects: festivals From Librarians Index to the Internet - http://www.lii.org ___________________________________________________________________________top 11. WebChron: Historical and Cross-Cultural Chronologies http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/ This ongoing project contains a series of linked chronologies that depict world, regional, and cross-cultural history. There is a major World History Chronology, and Regional Chronologies that range from Africa South of the Sahara to India and South Asia to North America. Cross-Cultural Chronologies include Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Western Civilization, and Technology. Within chronologies there are both links to related chronologies as well as links to WebChron articles and related Web sites. Useful for students and checking quick facts. Developed by the History Department at North Park University - mc Subjects: history | chronology Librarians' Index to the Internet - http://www.lii.org ___________________________________________________________________________top 12. Katia "Fast Work" Roberto provides name authority! > -----Original Message----- > From: Katia Roberto [mailto:kroberto[at]csc.albany.edu] > Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 8:56 AM > To: librarians[at]tao.ca > Subject: fun anarchist librarian fact of the day. > > > The Library of Congress doesn't seem to recognize that Hakim Bey > and Peter Lamborn Wilson are the same person. (Or, if they do, their > name authority records don't have cross-references for the > other name.) > > Heh. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Katia Roberto, Monographic Cataloger (518) 442-3629 > University at Albany kroberto[at]csc.albany.edu > 1400 Washington Ave, ULB-35A > http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~kroberto > Albany, NY 12222 > -------------------------------------------------------------- From: Diana Hagan <dihagan[at]smathersnt2.uflib.ufl.edu> To: librarians[at]lists.tao.ca Subject: RE: fun anarchist librarian fact of the day. Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 09:12:27 -0500 Does your library participate in NACO? That is probably something that ought to be remedied. - Diana --- It is a NACO library, but I don't know if I personally have the authority (uh, no pun intended) to make a global change like that. I have modified it in our local catalog, but that's about it. Hmm. Katia --- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:19:16 -0500 (EST) From: Katia Roberto <kroberto[at]csc.albany.edu> To: librarians[at]tao.ca Subject: one last comment on the Hakim Bey authority record thing... ...LC just fixed Hakim Bey's and Peter Lamborn Wilson's authority records to indicate that they're the same person. You're welcome. Katia Roberto ___________________________________________________________________________top 13. Volunteer in Zimbabwe Spend the summer of 2000 helping communities get access to the information they need to build a better future. As an Inform the World (ITW) Volunteer Librarian in rural Africa, you could use your professional skills to help rural librarians in English-speaking Zimbabwe. Instead of spending the summer battling with your online catalog, you could teach a class on book repair, help implement a simple cataloguing system, peddle a bicycle-mounted book box to a remote village, or lead a donkey driven "book mobile" to a group of eager children. If living and working in rural Zimbabwe sounds like a challenge you would enjoy, then join us for this exciting service project and help make the information poor a little bit richer. Who: The World Library Partnership (WLP) and the Zimbabwe Book Development Council (ZBDC) will be working with a variety of Zimbabwean organization to coordinate the ITW 2000 project. WLP supports libraries around the world through exchange projects and produces training materials for librarians in developing countries. ZBDC promotes reading and literacy through its Book Fund Library Project, which serves 600 libraries, and through its National Book Week Campaign, which reaches 6000 schools. It is the umbrella agency for 8 constituent Zimbabwean organizations that work together to "promote a sustainable, literate and informed society." What: The Inform the World Program will train and place 10-15 American librarians in rural libraries in Zimbabwe. The volunteers will conduct practical service projects determined by the needs of their host libraries. Last year's volunteers trained Zimbabwean librarians in basic skills such as how to inventory, weed, repair and catalog books. They also used their knowledge and creativity to paint murals, make display boards, produce publicity fliers and pamphlets and help clean, brighten and re-organize Zimbabwean libraries. After returning to the U.S., the volunteers will also work with WLP to design projects that will continue to help the libraries they visit. When: The pre-departure cross-cultural and technical training will take place at the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from July 15 - July 17th. The volunteers will depart for Zimbabwe following the training and will return to the US on August 12th. When they arrive in Zimbabwe, they will participate in an in-country orientation before spending three weeks working at their host libraries. The trip will also include a visit to the Zimbabwe International Book Fair for both the American and Zimbabwean librarians and a debriefing/evaluation session for all participants. Eligibility: WLP invites professional librarians and library school students from all disciplines to apply. Flexibility, a sense of adventure and the ability to adapt to very basic living conditions are a must. * Cost: The maximum cost of the trip is $3,850. This includes placement, * training at the University of North Carolina, * materials, * in-country orientation and debriefing, * accommodations,odations, * most meals, * site visit by trip coordinator during project, * registration for the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, * in-country transportation * round-trip airfare from Durham to Zimbabwe. Travel to Durham, NC is NOT included. The final price of the trip will be determined by the amount of funding WLP is able to raise for the ITW scholarship fund. WLP distributes this funding equally among all the volunteers requesting financial assistance. WLP can provide materials and suggestions to help volunteers secure additional funding from other sources. Deadline: The Application Deadline is January 31st, 2000. Please see the WLP web site at http://rtpnet.org/wlp for the application and more trip information, or call (919)479-0163 or email Laura Wendell at yovo[at]prodigy.net Laura Wendell Executive Director The World Library Partnership 1028 Bahama Rd. Bahama, NC 27503 http://RTPnet.org/~wlp (919)479-0163 yovo[at]prodigy.net or Maggie Hite Assistant Director The World Library Partnership (919) 479-0163 hitem[at]ils.unc.edu *******************FREE THE BOUND PERIODICALS********************* Maggie Hite World Library Partnership School of Information and 1028 Bahama Rd. Library Science Bahama NC 27503 University of North Carolina http://RTPnet.org/wlp at Chapel Hill 919/479-0163 114 Manning Hall Margaret_Hite[at]unc.edu hitem[at]ils.unc.edu ___________________________________________________________________________top 14. Africana Librarians Council and Zimbabwe Book Fair Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:25:02 -0500 To: ALA Council List <alacoun[at]ala1.ala.org> From: Al Kagan <akagan[at]uiuc.edu> Subject: Africana Librarians Council For those interested in African Studies librarianship, see the homepage of the Africana Librarians Council, a 40-year old body of the African Studies Association. http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/amed/9asa.html ----forwarded message---- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:59:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Sarah Long <slong[at]nslsilus.org> Subject: Zimbabwe Book Fair Remember "Global Reach, Local touch"? That was Barbara Ford's theme when she was ALA president, 1997-1998. Acting on her theme, Barbara led a delegation of 13 U.S. librarians to the Zimbabwe Book Fair in August 1997. Their excitement for African authors and information about Africa was intense and contagious. When ALA was approached by the Zimbabwe Book Fair itself to set up a program that would support U.S. librarians' attendance at the Fair, the response was an enthusiastic "yes". The Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (FIL), (Guadalajara Book Fair) also became a sponsor along with Scholastic Inc. That's the way the ZIBF Free Pass program was born. This year 10 U.S. librarians attended and I was lucky enough to be among them. Here are some observations on my experience at ZIBF. 1. African publishing has a vitality or zest to it, especially the creative world, that is very compelling. My dormant interest in poetry was reawakened and I brought home "Song of Lawino" and "Song of Ocoi" by Okot p'Bitek and "Land Without Thunder" and other stories by Grace Ogot. There was lots more to tempt me, but room in the suitcase was limited. 2. There are terrible barriers between African publishers and the U.S. reading public. Generally speaking, in the U.S. we don't know about books published in Africa. They are not reviewed or mentioned in U.S. trade journals and U.S. jobbers don't stock these titles. Shipping costs are significant, often more than twice the cost of the book. 3. U.S. Libraries really need books from Africa. Democracy is young in Africa and the potential for Africa to play a dominant role in tomorrow's world - politically, socially and artistically is very great. Americans need access to African thinking via books and periodicals. Many persons of African heritage live in the United States. It is important that we collect African materials so that this portion of their heritage is accessible to them. New immigrants from Africa need to see materials in their native languages in the libraries that service them in the U.S. Books in Shona, Ndebele, Swahili and other African languages are very difficult to obtain in the U.S. As a part of the book fair, an opportunity to network with librarians from other countries was arranged. The Zimbabwe Library Association and other African Associations were represented. The Norwegian Library Association and other Scandinavian library associations were represented. And, of course, the American Library Association was represented. What interested me was that on a mega level, the major trends as reported by everyone were the same in all countries: * Concern over new education and continuing education for librarianship * Need to market library services more thoroughly and convincingly to the general public and to funding authorities * Need to embrace technology After the book fair, our ALA/ZIBF group and other visitors were invited by the Rural Libraries and Resources Development Program (RLRDP) to visit libraries in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. It's a beautiful, mountainous area, but indeed-very rural. We visited the Nyanhundu School Community Library, Nyanga, and the Nyajezi School/Community Library. Both were small in size but big in impact on the community. One of the librarians told me that test scores jumped to the 90% pass rate after the library was established. The RLRDP serves as a library development group similar to services provided by many state libraries. One innovative feature displayed at the book fair was their brand new donkey-drawn bookmobile, complete with solar panels. The bookmobile will service about six schools. Donkeys were chosen because they are plentiful and are able to navigate the rough dirt roads in the area. The bookmobile is stocked with books, magazines and videos. Solar panels were added to operate the video player. Most of the villages don't have electricity. Children need to see videos, to be ready for the world in Harare or Bulawayo as well as the contact and stimulation that only a video can provide. I felt humbled and invigorated by my African experience. Think about participation in the Zimbabwe Book Fair program in August next year. Here's the way the ALA/ZIBF program works: complete an application form by April 15. The forms are available on the ALA website (www.ala.org/work/international) or contact the ALA International Relations office (1-800-545-2433, ext. 3201). If you are chosen to attend, you will receive several nights lodging at the book fair and a $200 stipend toward your airfare. It's modest support but it is encouragement to attend an event that will open your eyes to things unexpected and cause you to think differently about your work. Al Kagan Africana Unit, Room 328 University of Illinois Library 1408 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61801, USA tel. 217-333-6519 fax. 217-333-2214 e-mail. akagan[at]uiuc.edu ___________________________________________________________________________top 15. Resources on Africa Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography of Resources by Al Kagan and Yvette Scheven 1999, Scarecrow Press. 262 pp. ISBN 0-8108-3585-1 $49.50 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. _Africa: Africa World Press guide to educational resources from and about Africa_, compiled and edited by WorldViews. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1997. 198 pages. http://www.igc.org/worldviews/awpguide/ ISBN 0-86543-588-X paper $21.95; ISN 0-86543-643-6 cloth This 200-page annotated directory contains 28 topically arranged chapters describing education resources on a range of Africa-related topics including religious belief systems, African cinema, Africa's debt burden, the environment, human rights, literature, refugees, and the voice of women. Also included are extensive lists of Africa related curriculum guides, films and videotapes, organizations and more. The stated aim of the directory is "to provide educators and others with resource tools that contribute to more informed and enlightened understandings of Africa and its peoples." The compilers sought "to magnify the voices of those whose perspectives on Africa are not now adequately represented in the mainstream media and in materials used in libraries and schools outside Africa - especially writers, publishers, film makers, educators, and others from Africa." Two additional aims of the directory are (1) to illustrate how Africa's peoples are finding innovative solutions to problems such as AIDS and regional conflicts, and (2) to highlight the richness of the African continent in the areas of literature, music and cinema so that educators will have the resources at hand to present a complete and textured picture of Africa's peoples and nations. -WorldViews 14, nos. 1-2 (January-June 1998) Reprinted in Counterpoise 2:2, April 1998 Details at http://www.liblib.com .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. THE ELECTRONIC AFRICAN BOOKWORM: A WEB NAVIGATOR http://www.hanszell.co.uk/contents.htm : Meta list of sites with focus on Africa. Includes: African publishing & book trade, Newspapers and Media in Africa, Publishers with African studies lists (outside Africa), African & Africanist journals, African literature, African literary & cultural journals and General resources... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. African Development Review http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=1017-6772 ISSN: 1017-6772 African Development Review is a professional journal devoted to the study and analysis of development policy in Africa. The Review emphasizes policy relevance of research findings, rather than purely theoretical and quantitative issues. The African Development Review is published twice a year, in June and December for the African Development Bank. The African Development Bank is a regional multilateral development finance institution the members of which are all of the 53 countries in Africa and 25 countries from Asia, Europe, North and South America. The purpose of the Bank is to further the economic development and social progress of African countries, individually and collectively. To this end, the Bank promotes the investment of public and private capital for development, primarily by providing loans and grants for projects and programs that contribute to poverty reduction and broadly based development in Africa. The review contains: High quality articles analyzing recent critical issues related to Africa's economic and social development; Empirical analyses and case studies either of single countries, or of comparative nature, which shed light on development policy choices; and Book reviews, conference reports and comments on Review articles. It covers, amongst others, the following subjects: Macroeconomic Policies (Fiscal, Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy); Economic and Structural Reforms including Issues of Financial Sector Reforms; Sectoral Issues on Agriculture, Energy, Mining and Industry; Issues of Building Infrastructure and Human Resource Capacity; Private Sector Development; Regional and International Concerns such as Debt, Trade, Capital Flows, Regional Integration, South-South Cooperation and Globalization; and Socioeconomic Issues of Income Distribution and Poverty Alleviation. Contact: Editor: T. W. Oshikoya Email Address: w.oshikoya[at]afdb.org -or, e-help[at]blackwellpublishers.co.uk From NewJour - http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Africa Research Bulletin - Economic, Financial and Technical Series http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=0001-9852 ISSN: 0001-9852 Africa Research Bulletin is the leading bulletin service on Africa providing impartial summaries of, and extensive reports on, political and economic developments throughout Africa. Drawing on over 100 local press and radio sources, as well as information from government gazettes, international organizations and agencies, and the European and American press and news agencies, the Bulletin also contains first-hand comment from internationally recognized experts. All sources are acknowledged and each issue is comprehensively indexed. Cross references guide readers to related articles in previous issues of the Bulletin. Used together the accumulated knowledge of the Political and Economic Bulletins give readers an in-depth understanding of Africa since 1964. The Economic Bulletin is divided into six sections , with countries and regional entities listed alphabetically within each. Conferences, Co-operation and Trade: Regional and international conferences, foreign co-operation and trade agreements, trade figures and foreign direct investment. Internal Policies: Changes in economic policies. Development plans, key facts and figures, economic reviews with maps for each country. In-depth budget analysis where possible. Tax changes, interest rates, currency devaluations or changes, bond issues, S&P rating. Infrastructure: New links or facilities, company progress and projects in air, sea, road, rail and telecommunications including regional projects. Commodities: Monthly updated market review with price changes. Production figures and developments of major commodity producers, agricultural and mineral. Tables of African production. Industries: General manufacturing and the development of specific industries within a country or region. Company briefs, which highlight new companies entering Africa, unbundling of large ones, particularly good returns and co-operations with or investment in a country. Aid: Extensive details of all new aid: origin of aid, type of agreement, amount and project. The Bulletin appears in two series - Political, Social and Cultural, and Economic, Financial and Technical - available separately or in a combined subscription. Please click here to link to Africa Research Bulletin (Political) Key Features: Authoritative and comprehensive - a wide range of reports covering the whole continent. Subscription includes a free annual cumulative index Published monthly, so you can be sure that all information is as up-to-date as possible Contact: Editor: Pita Adams Email Address: R.Burt[at]ex.ac.uk -or, e-help[at]blackwellpublishers.co.uk From NewJour - http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Africa Research Bulletin - Political, Social and Cultural Series http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=0001-9844 ISSN: 0001-9844 Africa Research Bulletin is the leading bulletin service on Africa providing impartial summaries of, and extensive reports on, political and economic developments throughout Africa. Drawing on over 100 local press and radio sources, as well as information from government gazettes, international organizations and agencies, and the European and American press and news agencies, the Bulletin also contains first-hand comment from internationally recognized experts. All sources are acknowledged and each issue is comprehensively indexed. Cross references guide readers to related articles in previous issues of the Bulletin. Used together the accumulated knowledge of the Political and Economic Bulletins give readers an in-depth understanding of Africa since 1964. The Political Bulletin is divided into five sections, with countries and regional entities listed alphabetically within each. Conferences, Political Relations: detailed reports of annual conferences, such as Organisation of African Unity. Updates on meetings of regional blocs - AMU and ECOWAS - relations between Africa states and refugees Government Changes: all changes to government ministers and constitutional amendments. Elections results, parties standing and that of leading figures. Political parties, thier role and leaders Internal Security: extensive reports and analysis with up-to-date maps. Clear background information and comments on future developments, from a significant range of sources. Overseas Relations: defence.arms agreements, as are diplomatic overtures, changes, sanctions and international meetings, cuch as Commonwealth, which include Africa. Also changes of gpvernment or presidency, which may have a profound effect on Africa Social and Cultural: overviews of a specific topic. Subjects covered include: media, health, education, archaeology, conservation, sport, film, street children The Bulletin appears in two series - Political, Social and Cultural, andEconomic, Financial and Technical - available separately or in a combined subscription. Please click here to link to Africa Research Bulletin (Economic) Key Features: Authoritative and comprehensive - a wide range of reports covering the whole continent. Subscription includes a free annual cumulative index Published monthly, so you can be sure that all information is as up-to-date as possible Contact: Pita Adams Email Address: R.Burt[at]ex.ac.uk From NewJour - http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour ___________________________________________________________________________top 16. The Bookhouse Classifications, a cosmic baseball team http://www.clark.net/pub/cosmic/98bcr.html The BOOKHOUSE CLASSIFICATIONS are a new cosmic baseball team. They were created on February 15, 1998. The team players are related to the Library of Congress book classification system. Cosmic Baseball Association: http://www.clark.net/pub/cosmic/cba1.html The CBA is a baseball league of the imagination. Our focus on the great game of the quadrature is more poetic than athletic. Beginning with the notion that the game of baseball is really a metaphor for the life of the mind, CBA expresses itself with the desire for and love of individual and collective creation. We hope the Cosmic Baseball Association will be experienced as an art exhibit or as an educational resource. It could also be enjoyed as just a fantasy game of the imagination played for fun and for pleasure and for laughs. 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