About the African Studies Library
The African Studies Library (ASL) supports BU’s African Studies Center and all undergraduate, graduate, and faculty research on Africa. BU students, staff, and faculty, including those from area institutions and the general public, are welcome to consult our extensive collections.
Founded in 1953, the ASL provides access to current periodicals from and about Africa, African newspapers, maps, African documents and government publications, and books on African history. The rest of the 200,000 volumes dealing with Africa are shelved within their subject classifications throughout Mugar Memorial Library and its branches.
