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ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMENTS ON ACHEBE AND BALDWIN
Interesting comments and observations on the two princiDal speakers at the 1980 African Literature Association Conference (University of Florida, Gainesville) are available in Occasional Paper #3 (April 1981) of the Pacific Coast Africanist Association, Chinua Achebe and James Baldwin: Two LiteraryGiants Meet. For copies write to: Ernest Valenzuela; P.C.A.A. Diablo Valley College; Pleasant Hill, California 94523. Please include $1.00 (check, cash or stamps). Discounts arranged for over five copies.
A CALL FOR PAPERS
The New York African Studies Association Annual Conference will be held October 2-3, 1981 at S.U.N.Y. Binghamton. The conference title: "Critical Issues in African Affairs: Implications for the 1980s." Papers are invited in the fields of Visual Arts, Education, Politics and Economics, Language and Literature, Anthropology, Agriculture and Geography, and Folklore. There will also be a panel for independent papers. Manuscripts or abstructs should be submitted by August 1st to: Dr. Peter van Lent Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures
St. Lawrence University
Canton, N.Y. 13617
AFRICAN STUDIES INFORMATION RESOURCES DIRECTORY PROJECT
The African Studies Association has received a grant for $15,100 through the Resea-,ch Coll.ections Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will be used to prepare a dictionary to collections of library and related research materials and information services for African Studies in the United States. Jean E. Meeh Goseurink, former Librarian for African Studies at the Indiana University Libraries, is the project director.
The directory will provide up-to-date, concise statements describing library and special collections, information resources and services relevant to Africa south of the Sahara and African Studies. In addition to traditional library collections, it will survey map collections, collections of visual and aural documentation and computerized data collections. Information for the directory is being gathered by questionnaire and from published sources.
For more information about the project or to make comments and suggestions about it, contact Jean E. Meeh Gosebrink, Project Director, 3533A Wyoming, St. Louis, MO 63118; (314) 773-3667.