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Black Studies on Disc 2002 Release
Published
by G.K. Hall & Co.
Black
Studies on Disc is made up of two components: a) The Catalog of the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture, and b) G. K. Hall & Co.'s annual
Index to Black Periodicals, published since 1988, which covers a wide range of
scholarly and popular journals.
The
Catalog of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is the first
cumulative catalog of the Schomburg Center's holdings in electronic form.
Unlike earlier editions of the Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection,
it includes material in all formats - books, serials, microforms, audio and
audio-visual resources, photographs, manuscript collections, art, artifacts
and ephemera. The combined database of almost 198,000 records provides
bibliographic access to over 50% of the more than 5 million items in the
Center's collections. Monographs, sound recordings, and microforms are
cataloged at the item level. Manuscripts, photographs, art works and other
special collection materials, on the other hand, are cataloged at the
collection or folder level. Topical subject headings and key words provide
access to related materials irrespective of format.
The
database includes information by and about people of African descent
worldwide. Concentrating on the humanities, the social sciences and the arts,
its geographic scope emphasizes the Americas, the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan
Africa.
Items
date from the 8th Century A.D., but are strongest for the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. English is the predominant language, supplemented by
materials in French, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, Russian and other
European languages. Works in over 200 indigenous African languages and creole
dialects, as well as translations of materials in Asian languages, are also
included.
The
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research unit of The New
York Public Library. Established in 1925 as a non-circulating reference
collection in this Library's 135th Street branch, it has evolved into a
state-of-the-art research center. A national research library, it is widely
recognized as one of the foremost repositories in the world devoted to
acquiring, preserving, providing access to and interpreting research resources
which document the histories and cultures of people of African descent
worldwide.
The
Schomburg Center's collections of print, visual, audio-visual, manuscript and
artifactual materials number in excess of five million items. They are
organized by format into five research divisions: the General Research and
Reference Division, the Art and Artifacts Division, the Manuscripts, Archives
and Rare Books Division, the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, and the
Photographs and Prints Division. This disc provides electronic bibliographic
access to a significant portion of the Schomburg Center's vast and diverse
holdings of print and non-print materials.
The
first efforts to publish a record of the holdings of the Schomburg Center
appeared in the December, 1925 issue of the Bulletin of The New York Public
Library, Branch Library Book News. The February, 1930 issue of the Branch
Library Book News carried an annotated bibliography of works, by or about
blacks, the majority of which were published during the first three decades of
the twentieth century.
The
first published catalog of the holdings of the Schomburg Center ( named the
"Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints" (1925), the
"Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature, History and Prints" (1940
after A. A. Schomburg's death), and the "Schomburg Collection of Negro
Literature and History" until 1972) appeared in 1942 with the publication
of the Calendar of the Manuscripts in the Schomburg Collection of Negro
Literature (New York, 1942). Prepared and published by the WPA Historical
Records Survey, the calendar made available for the first time in published
form a detailed annotated item-level description of the five manuscript
collections in the original Schomburg Collection.
The first comprehensive catalog of the Center's printed holdings did not appear until 1962, however, when G. K. Hall published The Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History. This nine-volume work provided bibliographic access to the Collection's more than 36,000 bound volumes. Manuscripts, photographs, prints, sheet music, art and audio-visual materials were not included.
Two
supplements were published at five-year intervals, in 1967 and 1972. They
added 7,000 and 15,000 titles respectively, bringing the cumulative catalog to
some 58,000 titles.
In
1972, the Schomburg Collection was transferred from The Branch to The Research
Libraries administrative unit of The New York Public Library. The Center's
card catalog was closed in December 1971 and beginning in January 1972, all
additions to the Schomburg holdings were included in The Research Libraries'
automated catalog. A third supplement published in 1974 included bibliographic
data added to the Schomburg Center from January 1972 through September 1974.
Materials processed since September 1974 have been published annually in G. K.
Hall's The Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies.
Published/Released: 2002
ISBN:
0-7838-9693-X Price: US
$1,299.00
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