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Cataloguing Africana: the case for the integration of onomastics into training programs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Atoma Batoma
Atoma Batoma*
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Cataloguing principles and the rules that evolve from them have not been devised in a cognitive vacuum. The evolution took place in a Western cultural context and inevitably presents the problem of biases. When these cataloguing rules are applied to materials originating from non-Western cultures such biases surface and often constitute serious difficulties. This is the case with Africana materials that have caused and are still causing numerous problems to many a cataloguer. For example, many authors (Iwuji 1989, Aderibidge and Udo 1990) have pointed out the inadequacy of Library of Congress (LC) and Dewey Decimal (DD) classification schemes with regard to Africana materials claiming that they are restrictive, inhospitable, unfair, and biased.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 111 , 2009 , pp. 31 - 44
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 2009

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