My primary objective (you'll pardon the pun) in connecting students and primary source materials is to foster inquiry-based learning conducive to cultivating primary source literacy competencies. In order to facilitate our work together, I ask that you do the following:
1) Please do contact me as soon as you think you might want to use primary source material in your course. Many of the primary source materials in our collections are held off-site or for other reasons, require significant lead time to get them ready for class use.
2) Please share your course syllabus with with me as soon as possible. If that is not possible, please share the course objectives in an e-mail. This will allow me to plan a more impactful intervention within your course, with better learning outcomes for your students.
3) Please plan to meet with me in person once per collaborative class session. When we meet, we will discuss effective primary source literacy strategies, and co-develop session outcomes. These meetings can be brief (and I am happy to come to you!).
4) Please review IUCAT, the finding aids in Archives Online and Images Online, and the other pages in this guide, to see which archival holdings might be good matches for the assignments you have in mind.
5) Please have an idea of when and how you would like to incorporate primary source material into the course but please also remain flexible in terms of timing and available materials.
6) Please don't hesitate to contact me with questions or concerns as you plan your course! I want to help you successfully incorporate primary source materials into your curriculum, and I am very excited to work with you and your students!
Ephemera (usually used in plural) are generally paper items (such as posters, broadsides, and tickets) that were originally meant to be discarded after use but have since become collectibles.
"Ephemera." Merriam-Webster.com.
Ephemera
The African Studies Collection of ephemera consists of a variety of newsletters, indexes, library acquisitions lists, pamphlets and posters. The Pamphlet Collection and the Poster Collection have their own pages within this guide. Much of the collection, including the pamphlets, is located behind the elevators on the 6th floor of the Research Collections in the Wells Library. Please ask for assistance with these materials in the African Studies Collection Office, Wells Library E660.
Ephemera are acquired selectively by gift, exchange, and purchase which complement materials acquired and cataloged for the Indiana University Library. Emphasis is given to materials of scholarly value which are not cataloged under current Indiana University Library policies, especially to sample serials and newsletters and other irregular publications of social and political organizations that are active in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sample periodicals will be kept for ten years, then given to another library that needs them or added to the pamphlet collection if no major library holds them.
Serials and Institutions:
Africa Insider
Africa Notes (Institute for African Development, Cornell University)
African News (University of London, Centre of African Studies Newsletter)
Boston University -African Studies Center
The BUN (Buea University Newsletter)
Centre for Development Research-Copenhagen-Researching Development Newsletter
Development Index (Department of International Development (DFID), UK)
Development Index (Overseas Development Administration, UK)
Indiana University
-African Students Association Newsletter
-African Studies Outreach: a Newsletter for Teachers
-African Studies Program Newsletter
-International Programs Newsletter
MANSA Newsletter (Mande Studies Association)
Michigan State University African Studies Center -Tuesday Bulletin
Mwenge (Peramiho)
Northwestern University Program of African Studies - PAS News and Events
News from Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
News from Zambia
South Sudanese Lens
Spotlight on Zimbabwe
Sudan Human Rights Voice (London)
Tamale Institute of Cross Cultural Studies
Special Items:
AFORD bumper sticker.
Botswana Congress Party Sticker.
COD Flag.
Nigerian Woman Save Democracy flyer.
Nouakchott, Mauritania Map
SWAPO Party Information Mobilization and Voters Education flyers, sticker, and flag.
