Joseph Lauer

Joseph J. Lauer, Africana Librarian
MSU Libraries – Room E223
100 Libraries, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048
Phone (517) 432-2218; 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.
* Coordinator for NACO (Name Authority program component of LC's Program for Cooperative Cataloging)
* Supervisor of Africana Library and of Area Studies team of bibliographers.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
* Chair of the Cataloging Committee of the Africana Librarians Council.
* Coordinator for the Africana Subject Funnel for new or revised subject headings.
* Compiler of lists of Recent Doctoral Dissertations about Africa
* Past editor, 1991-1999, of Africana Libraries Newsletter
* Author of several papers in progress.

RESUME [to be added]

Last updated on May 22, 2003