Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Documentation Centre, Institute of African Studies

    • Postal Address:

      P.O.B. 73
      Legon, Accra
      Ghana

    • Telephone:

      021-500-512, 021-502-397

    • Facsimile:

      021-500-512, 021-502-397

    • E-mail:

      IAS@ug.gn.apc.org

    • Director:

      Dr. Irene Odotei

    • Year founded:

      1961

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Archive

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Grey literature
      Manuscripts
      Music
      Newspapers

    • Holdings:

      The library holds approximately 21,000 volumes of materials comprising newspapers, books, journals and periodicals, maps, oral traditions and Arabic manuscripts. All these materials are strong in all aspects of African Studies with a few borderline materials.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, French, Spanish, Swahili, African languages, Arabic.

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Written consent

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications: