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Africana Personal Papers at Indiana University: issues and questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Marion Frank-Wilson
Marion Frank-Wilson*
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Indiana University
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Indiana University (IU) owns several collections of Africana personal papers. In this presentation, I will discuss this conference's theme, that is the research potential of such papers, from a librarian's perspective, based on my work with those collections, and based on research which resulted from this work.

First, a brief overview of IU's collections of personal papers:

While IU's Africana collection in the Wells Library (i.e., the main library) is primarily a working collection, it also includes several collections of personal papers. Probably the most notable among them is the

• H.K. Banda Archive: this archive, dating mostly from the 1950s to the 1990s, was given to us by Dr. Don Brody, the late President Banda's official biographer.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 112 , 2010 , pp. 15 - 24
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Copyright © International African Institute 2010

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Special thanks go to Breon Mitchell, Director of the Lilly Library; Elizabeth Johnson, Head of Technical Services at the Lijly Library; and Becky Cape, Head of Public Services at the Lilly Library, for their advice, suggestions, and comments on this paper.

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