AFAS Annual Programs (ALA, ACRL & Other Meetings)

Current Programs

• 2008:  African Americans in Hollywood: Images, Performers, Films, Filmmakers, from 1903 to the Present

Past Programs

• 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