Call for Nominations: Conover-Porter Award 2006, 01/06
Nominations close in 1 January 2006.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS:
2006 CONOVER-PORTER AWARD for
AFRICANA BIBLIOGRAPHY OR REFERENCE WORK
The Conover-Porter Award is the most prestigious award for published works of bibliography
or reference on Africa. The Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association
(U.S.) seeks nominations for the fourteenth biennial Conover-Porter Award for excellence
in Africana bibliography or reference work. Any Africa-related reference work,
bibliography or bibliographic essay published separately or as part of a larger work
during a prize of $300 to be presented during the 2006 annual meeting of the African
Studies Association. Nominations must be received by January 1, 2006. Please include a
brief justification and at least one review.
An online form for submitting nominations for the 2006 award is on the Web
site of the Africana Librarians Council at
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/amed/afs/alc/c-pform.html
Helen Conover was senior bibliographer, African Section of the Library of Congress,
serving 32 years before her retirement in 1963. Dorothy Porter Wesley was librarian of the
Moorland-Springarn Research Center, Howard
University, retiring in 1973 after 45 years of service.
The first award in 1980 was presented to Julian Witherell for The United States &
Africa: Guide to the U.S. Official Documents & Government-Sponsored Publications on
Africa, 1785-1975 (Washington:
Library of Congress, 1978). A list of Conover-Porter Award winners, 1980-2004, is
available at:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/afs/alc/c-p%20award%201980-02.html
Please send nominations to or request further information from: Peter Limb, Africana
Bibliographer, Michigan State University, 100 Library East Lansing, MI, 48824-1048 USA:
phone: (517) 432 6123 extension 239; fax:
(517) 432-3532; email: limb@msu.edu
The Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association (U.S.)
Page Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.