John Bruce Howell (June 17, 1941 – February 28, 1997)Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. was an American

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and

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. He was Africana and International Studies Bibliographer at the

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Libraries, a profilfic bibliographic author, and "a national leader in Africana librarianship".Joseph Caruso
OBITUARY: John Bruce Howell
, 24 March 1997

Life

Howell gained his B.A. from

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in 1965 and an M.A. in

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from the

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the following year. Between 1969 and 1980 he held various positions at the

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. In 1984 he completed a PhD in library and

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from the

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, and he joined the University of Iowa in 1985.

Works

*
East African Community: subject guide to official publications
', (Library of Congress, 1976) *
Tanganyika African National Union: a guide to publications by and about TANU
', (Library of Congress, 1976) *
Kenya: subject guide to official publications
', (Library of Congress, 1978) *
Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi Party, 1957-1977: a bibliography
', (Library of Congress, 1978) * ''Style manuals of the English-speaking world: a guide'', 1983 * ''A history of the Dublin Library Society, 1791-1881'', 1985 * ''Third World/Iowa: books, journals, maps, and microforms about 138 developing countries acquired by the University of Iowa Libraries, 1980-1986'', 1987 * ''Rural health in Kenya: a guide to the literature'', 1988 * ''Index to the African studies review/bulletin and the ASA review of books, 1958-1990'', 1991 * ''Guides, collections, and ancillary materials to African archival resources in the United States'', 1996

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Howell, John Bruce 1941 births 1997 deaths American librarians American bibliographers American Africanists 20th-century American non-fiction writers University of Michigan School of Information alumni Columbia University School of Library Service alumni University of Illinois School of Information Sciences alumni