An Analysis and Bibliography of Recent African Atlases: Supplement One

1963 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Richard E. Dahlberg ◽  
Benjamin E. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
University Of California ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
The University

This listing of recent African atlases is supplementary to that published in this Bulletin, October 1962. As in that article, atlases have been grouped according to major areas covered, and contents classified. Subject headings are: historical (hist.), physical and terrain (phys.), geology (geol.), climate (dim.), vegetation (veg.), soils, hydrography and irrigation (hydro.), political and administrative (pol.), agriculture and land use (agric.), forestry (for.), minerals and mining (min.), transportation (trans.), communications (commo.), miscellaneous economic (misc. econ.), population (pop.), tribes and races (trib.), languages (lang.), religious (relig.), health and diseases (health), African regions (regional), city and vicinity (city), other African subjects (other sub.), and non-African or extra-regional areas (other areas). This analysis is based mainly upon atlases examined at the Map Division in the Library of Congress, the American Geographical Society in New York, and the University of California, Los Angeles. This article is part of a research project supported by the African Studies Center at UCLA. The authors welcome comments on errors or omissions.

An Analysis and Bibliography of Recent African Atlases

1962 ◽  
Vol 5 (03) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Richard E. Dahlberg ◽  
Benjamin E. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
University Of California ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
World War ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
The University

Some of the most accessible sources for African maps are the new atlases which have been published since World War II. If we interpret the term “atlas” loosely so as to include any assemblage of maps which can be placed on a book shelf, the range of subject materials covered is surprisingly large -- from agriculture to zoogeography. But despite the wealth of data which is presented in convenient map form, it is difficult to obtain information about atlases and their contents. The purpose of this article is to provide a guide to the kinds of information which is available, and a list of atlases and other publications with African maps which have appeared since 1945. The analysis is based mainly upon atlases examined at the Map Division in the Library of Congress, at the American Geographical Society in New York, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. A few additional atlases were obtained through inter-library loan. Mrs. Clara Egli LeGear, of the Map Division, Library of Congress, provided especially helpful bibliographic aid at the early stages of the survey. This article is a part of a research project supported by the African Studies Center at U. C. L. A. More extension listings of African maps and atlases are in preparation; the authors would therefore welcome comments upon errors or omissions which may be noted in the article.

Innovation, Participation, and “A Horrible Musical Stew”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gough ◽  
Peggy Seeger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Federal Music Project ◽  
The University

This chapter explores California's Federal Music Project (FMP), which produced the largest, most comprehensive and eclectic of the Music Projects in the western region. More than in any other state outside of New York, the opera proved quite popular in California, and musical productions drew tremendous critical praise and public interest. African American choral groups in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles also garnished much approval and remained some of the most popular of all Federal One efforts. Moreover, the California Folk Music Project—cosponsored by the University of California, Berkeley—collected and preserved an extensive array of traditional music, and several orquestas tipicas in Southern California grew and public approval. Federal Music in California also engaged the first female conductor of a major symphony orchestra.

New African Studies Centers: A UCLA/Hew Pilot Program

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 223-225
Author(s):  
John F. Povey
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
University Of California ◽  
African Studies ◽  
National Defense ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
National Defense Education Act ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Education Act ◽  
The University ◽  
Considerable Discussion

There has been considerable discussion recently in recognition of the need to develop African studies in this country on a far wider basis than at present, where it is concentrated too narrowly in a few major centers of great academic strength. Such discussion has been exacerbated by the demands of Afro-Americans whose concern for African studies is not less significant for the debatable academic basis upon which it is posited. The problem with all previous programs to inaugurate new African programs has been that they focused totally upon the training of faculty. There have been a series of summer courses, many of which have in themselves been of high quality and substantially imaginative. Yet they did little to innovate new programs on the campus, owing to the sluggishness of the administrative machinery or the relative indifference to the new faculty interest. The program which the African Studies Center at the University of California at Los Angeles planned for the summers of 1968 and 1969 attempted to remedy this deficiency. The project was financed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare under National Defense Education Act funds and was organized and administered by Michael F. Lofchie and John F. Povey, themselves joint assistant directors of the UCLA African Studies Center.

African Urban Notes

1967 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-571
Author(s):  
Michael Safier
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
University Of California ◽  
African Studies ◽  
News Letter ◽  
Urban Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Edward Soja

An occasional news-letter, monitoring all aspects of urban research in Africa, is at present edited by Ruth Simms Hamilton, George Jenkins, and Edward Soja, and produced under the auspices of the African Studies Centre at the University of California, Los Angeles. Eight issues of African Urban Notes have so far appeared, the first in April 1966 and the most recent in August 1967, together with three bibliographical supplements.

scholarly journals Cumulating the Supplements to the Seventh Edition of LC Subject Headings

1973 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Roy B. Torkington
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
California Institute ◽  
Cooperative Effort ◽  
Library Automation ◽  
Seventh Edition ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Processing Software ◽  
The University

<p class="p1">A description <span class="s1">is </span>presented of the project of the University of California Library Automation Program to cumulate the 1966 through 1971 supplements to the Library of Congress Subject Headings. The University of California Institute of Library Research MARC processing software, BIBCON, was used, with specially written programs. The resulting cumulation was edited, printed in book form, and made available to <span class="s2">li</span>braries. The final task involved merging six MARC files into one file of over 125,000 records and then printing that file in a format similar to that of LC Subject Headings. The project was a cooperative effort with participation by people from several UC campuses.</p>

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Antiquity ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 80 (310) ◽  
pp. 1033-1034
Author(s):  
Madeleine Hummler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Social Archaeology ◽  
History Of Emotion ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
History Of ◽  
Transition To Agriculture ◽  
The University
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