From: Prof. M. Kathleen Price
NYU Law School Library
40 Washington Sq. So. Rm 108
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-998-6320
Fax: 212-995-4559
E-mail: pricek@turing.law.nyu.edu
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To: Law Librarians from schools being visited as part of ABA Sister Law
School program and others interested in Africa:
U. Alabama (Ethiopian Civil Service)
U. Arkansas (Ethiopian Civil Service; Dar)
Columbia (Uganda)
Cornell (Zambia)
Florida (Uganda)
Georgetown (Uganda)
Golden Gate (Moi)
Howard (Nairobi: Dar)
Illinois (Zambia)
U. Mississippi (Uganda)
NYU (Asmara; Uganda)
UNC (Asmara)
NCCU (Ghana Law School)
No. ILL, (Malawi)
Pitt (Moi, Nairobi)
Santa Clara (Moi)
Stetson (Zambia)
Texas So. (Malawi)
U. Wis. (Malawi)
Wayne State (Addis)
Northwestern (Addis)
Michigan (U. Ghana)
S. Ill. (Ghana L.S., U. Ghana)
Wasburn (Malawi)
Kansas (Malawi)
Ohio No. (Dar)
Southwestern (Dar)
Deans and faculty in the U.S. as part of the above program have left for
their law school visits. Not only did Peter Marin provide an excellent
overview of disk and network based systems, but we had frank
discussions of the limited funding available under the grant ($30,000
divided by 11 scholars). For those with appropriate infrastructure, we
recommended that they discuss with you a pc/CD-ROM set up to be
supplemented with free CD-ROMs (NYU has had good experience
getting permissions from the CD-ROM vendors to send superseded disks
to Eritrea) and Nutshells.
We have warned the Africans that the cost of shipping and logistics of
book distribution in Africa make book purchase and donation plans
problematical. A few of the schools are interested in used text books
either in multiple copies for student use or singly to assist in compilation
of teaching materials. One dean is bringing a wishlist of mostly English
texts which provide additional postal charges as well as the political
problem that USIA funds are generally restricted to US vendors. Several
deans are interested in law reviews: we suggested that they ask you
about superseded periodical indexes, too.
None of the deans had received our survey form from ABA. They all
have copies with them so you may want to use the questions to identify
the state of their libraries and computer support.
Four countries (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia) are interested in
receiving a library consultant/trainer. Those interested U.S.
librarians with sabbaticals or funding opportunities (e.g. Fulbrights or
institutional support) should notify George Pike.
George will convene the U.S. sister group in Pittsburgh. Meanwhile
those with questions, suggestions for increasing the meager financial
proposals available, and suggestions should notify George or me post to
the net.
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