AFAS Annual Programs (ALA, ACRL & Other Meetings)
Current Program
- 2009: Black Studies and Information Technology
Sunday, July 12, 2009
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Hyatt Regency McCormick (HRM), Conf. Ctr. 10 c/dThe program begins with a panel session of three vendors who will discuss marketing and business considerations for creating their products and demonstrate features of various Black Studies databases.
Having received funding from the Ford Foundation and institutional support from the National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, our featured speaker, Abdul Alkalimat, is advancing the field of Black Studies into the 21st century. Prof. Alkalimat will describe the NCBS/UIUC summer project “Information Technology and Black Studies.” Anyone interested in African American Studies and/or community informatics will find this program intriguing.
Speakers: Abdul Alkalimat, Professor of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Stephanie Garrett, Editor, History and Black Studies, Alexander Street Press; Sarah Nash Brechner, Senior Product Manager, ProQuest; Elaine L. Westbrooks, Associate Dean of Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Past Programs
- 2008: African Americans in Hollywood: Images, Performers, Films, Filmmakers, from 1903 to the Present
- 2007: Federal Documents in African American Genealogical & Historical Research [PDF]
- 2006: HBCU's and Libraries: Preserving and Strengthening Bonds [PDF]
- 2005: Chicago Blues: From the Delta to the World
- 2004: Her Eyes Were Watching Humanity: Zora Neale Hurston as Ethnographer, Novelist, & Feminist
- 2003: African American Librarianship in the Digital Age: Approaches and Best Practices (Cancelled)
- 2002: When Old Is New: The Art of Creating New, African American Special Collections
- 2001: 20th Anniversary Program Presentation by Dr. Stanton Biddle [PDF]
- 2000: Future Challenges for Ethnic and Cultural Academic Collections [PDF]
- 1995 (ACRL): Digitizing African American Resources for Electronic Access
- 1994 (BCALA): Using Internet Resource Location Tools to Find African American Studies Resources on the Net
- 1992 (ACRL): The African American Studies Collection: Its Development, Maintenance, and Future
- 1991: Strengthening Family Literacy in the Black Community
- 1990: Black Heritage in Video and Audio and
To Plead Our Own Cause: Black Publishing in American History and Library Programs - 1989: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Print
- 1989 (ACRL): Black Collections: How and Why
- 1988: Black People with White Minds -- Ethnic Notions
- 1985: Popular and Scholarly Trends in Black Publishing Since the 1960s
- 1982: The Future of Black Studies Collections and Librarianship
- 1981: The importance of Black Studies Collections