Interrogating Africa-Institute of African Studies

There is a site attached to the Balmerino library that aids in downloads of the Reference Management Software. The reference Management software helps in designing bibliography. The sites are; mendeley. com, zotero & m.note. They open sites of different data bases and relevant readings and publications

Faculties serve as marketers as well as partners to librarians to ensure the library is being used by students.

In its uniqueness, the Balme library has both the electronic resources and the hard copy. It is highly automatic with a library software to process material in the use of an online catlog. It is also word base to find out what is available to be read and where it can found from a particular library

The Balme Library is a University of Ghana based library providing excellent facility. It has several wings for easy accessibility like the Graduate wing, faculty research common, research common,24 hour reading room,; West Ghana Korea information access center as well as instruction and discussion rooms.

Sections of the Institute of African Studies Library cuts across Reading rooms, Newspaper Rooms, Thesis collection, Texts mainly on Africa, as well as Books on reserve. This library serves as a reference avenue for staffs and students.
The IAS library is centered on factuality in providing students and staffs with right informations needed to meet their needs and requests. It is not necessarily concerned about its currency.

The Senior Assistant Librarian is on air to present an overview on the Institute of African Studies Library and Balme Library in the University of Ghana

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The idea of Archiving in the University of Ghana, specifically the Institute of African Studies was put forth by one of the world's renowned ethnic musicology, Professor J. Kwabena Nketia whose name was identified with by the Institutes' Archives. The Archives is seen as a central umbrella serving the Institute's Administration purposes, Arabic Manuscript, photo collection as well as audio-visual collection. In this regard, it has a core aim of documenting life recordings.
J. Kwabena Nketia Archives pushes the mission of preseving needs of scholars, researchers and artistes in supporting research documentations, as well as collecting and dissemniating research findings. It also gears at facilitating teachings, supporting all sections in the Institute of African Studies and the University as a whole in promoting all cultural lines and African Traditional Arts. (It is a cultural unit exposed to external use).
Though the initial focus of the Archives was to have African-Ghanaian cultural documentation as the vision of the Institute suggests, "To be a pre-eminent institute for the study of Africa and the African Diaspora" , for some years now, it has in preservation other international documentations like the Indian music and dance movement which are used in comparism at some cases.
Digitization plays a central role in archives and the J. Kwabena Nketia Archives is striving to digitize all materials and have all contents appear in its original form.
It is interesting to know that aside documentation and preservation of research findings, there are in stock, story tellings, interviews conducted on prominent people, oral histories and even witches music.
A distinct of the J. H. Archives from others is that it has a rare filed recordings which are kept in safe storage ideas in addition to its commercial recordings.
Currently, there are 8,000 audio preservation in the Archives that are spread on different format as well as 7,000 video preservation also spread on different format.

Interrogating Africa brings to you a related insight on Archives, specifically, the J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives of the Institute of African Studies-University of Ghana, Legon. Join Madam Judith Opoku Boateng, Archivist, in this enlightenment

Its a usual Thursday date with you on Interrogating Africa, an Institute of African Studies Production aired live on Radio Univers, 105.7fm at 2pm. On today's desk is a discussion on housing in Ghana, dubbed, "Affordable housing in Ghana: Is it a mirage or reality?". Make a date with Dr. Edem Adotey as he hosts a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of African Studies, Dr. Irene Appeaning-Addo on the subject.

At the increasing foreign investment in Ghana today often at the expense of local goods, services and development, many Ghana and and Africans alike are questioning the impact of South by South Cooperation. China and Brazil have emerged as two leading countries in Ghana that specifically focus on commercial agriculture. However, the question posed is "Has the South South Cooperation constituted a new paradigm for development?

Interrogating Africa brings to you a discussion the Rising Powers and Agribusiness by Prof. John Amanor, Coordinator of the Societies and Culture section in the Institute of African Studies.