Aluka

Primary objective: Aluka is a not-for-profit international collaboration of educational and cultural institutions. The mission is to build a high-quality scholarly resource of materials from and about Africa. Aluka’s web-based platform provides powerful tools for research, teaching, collaboration, and knowledge exchange.

The website includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka’s partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides. By aggregating these materials online, the Aluka collections link materials that are widely dispersed and difficult to access, opening up new opportunities for research, teaching, and broader public discussion. One of Aluka’s primary objectives is to provide African scholars and students with access to scholarly materials originally from Africa, but now out of their reach.

Aluka also works closely with partner organisations in Africa to build capacity in digitisation and the use of online materials for teaching and research. In some cases this includes setting up digital labs and providing technical training in scanning and creating metadata records; in others, Aluka convenes training workshops for librarians, archivists, faculty, and heritage professionals on topics related to digital imaging, preservation, and the use of online tools in the classroom. 

Location: Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Executive Director: Thomas Nygren
Contact details:
Aluka
100 Campus Drive, Suite 100
Princeton, NJ  08540  USA
Tel: +1 609 986 2244
Fax: +1 609 951 0040
Email: info@aluka.org
http://www.aluka.org