About the African Studies Library
The African Studies Library (ASL), founded in 1953 as the departmental library of the African Studies Center and now a department of Mugar Memorial Library, supports Boston University's undergraduate, graduate and faculty research on Africa and serves as a resource for the broader community's African interests, nationally and internationally. The collection is interdisciplinary, with major strengths in the social sciences and broad representation of the humanities and sciences. In its reading room and stack area on the sixth floor of Mugar Memorial Library, the staff of ASL provides reference and research service and access to current periodicals from and about Africa, African newspapers, maps, African documents and government publications, and books in African history (the classification DT). The rest of the 200,000 volumes dealing with Africa are shelved within their subject classifications throughout Mugar Memorial Library and its branches.
The following call numbers for African related materials can be found in the stacks on the sixth floor of the Mugar Library:
BL 2400 - 2490: African Religions
BR 1360 - 1470: Christianity in Africa
BV 3500 - 3630: Missions in Africa
DT: African History
Folio DT: Oversize volumes, African History
GN 643-661: African Anthropology
GN 861 - 865: African Archaeology
GR 350 - 360: African Folklore
HC 501-599: African Economic History and Conditions
HC 800 - 1085: African Economic History and Conditions
PL 8000 - 8844: African Languages and Literature
PQ 3980 - 3989: African Literature in French
PR 9340 - 9408: African Literature in English
Z 3501 - 3971: BibliographiesAfrican Documents (LC Classification. Received and cataloged after 1982)
"J" Documents (An older in-house classification scheme. Documents received and cataloged prior to 1982)