Articles

David T. Stuart-Mogg. The Chamare Museum, Mua Mission, Malawi.

Joel Sam. National bibliography in Ghana

J.H. McIlwaine. Birds of Africa: a guide to reference material.

Conferences, meetings, seminars

Africa at IFLA 1997, by J.H. McIlwaine

The 1997 Zimbabwe Internatonal Book Fair by Anthony Olden

Book reviews

Review article: African Historical Dictionaries re-visited (J.H.McIlwaine) Historical dictionary of Burundi. 2nd ed. comp. Ellen K. Eggers; Historical dictionary of Congo. [3rd ed.] comp. Samuel Decalo, Virginia Thompson & Richard Adloff; Historical dictionary of Mali. 3rd ed. comp. Pascal J. Imperato;Historical dictionary of Morocco. New [i.e. 2nd] ed. comp. Thomas K. Park; Historical dictionary of Tanzania. 2nd ed. comp. Thomas P. Ofcansky & Rodger Yeager; Historical dictionary of Togo. 3rd ed. comp. Samuel Decalo

Records of the Colonial Office, Dominions Office, Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office by Anne Thurston (Harry Hannam)

An African biographical dictionary, by N.C. Brockman (Terry Barringer)

East and Northeast Africa bibliography, by Hector Blackhurst (Barbara Turfan)

Africa today: a multidisciplinary snapshot of the Continent in 1995, ed. Peter F. Alexander et al. (Terry Barringer)

Directory of expertise on Africa in Scottish universities (John McIlwaine)

The effects of job satisfaction on publication output among librarians in Africa: a case study from Nigerian universities, by U. Selong Edem (John McIlwaine)