Joe Lauer
Joseph J. Lauer, Africana Librarian
MSU Libraries – Room E223
100 Libraries, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048
Phone (517) 432-6123, est. 237; fax: 517-432-3532
E-mail: lauer@mail.lib.msu.edu
DUTIES include
* Africana selector, with primary responsibility for francophone, North
and Northeast Africa (including Ethiopia). (For anglophone and lusophone
Africa, see
Peter Limb.)
* Africana cataloger, emphasizing materials from or about Ethiopia
and the Sahel.
* Selector for Middle East (Western Asia).
* Supervisor of Africana
Library.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
* Coordinator for the Africana Subject Funnel for new or revised subject
headings.
* Compiler of lists of Recent
Doctoral Dissertations about Africa
* Past-chair of the Cataloging
Committee of the Africana Librarians Council (African Studies Association).
* Past editor, 1991-1999, of Africana
Libraries Newsletter
* Several papers in progress.
RESUME [to be added]
Last updated on Nov. 13, 2009