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/d

    The 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