The paper reviews the digitization project carried out at the National Archives of Zambia. The patrimony of the National Archives of Zambia is immense and of unquestionable historical relevance. However, it has suffered ...
Archives administration in Zambia is the mandate of the National Archives of Zambia (NAZ) of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
This mandate is derived from the National Archives Act Chapter 175 of the Laws of Zambia, 1995 ...
This paper documents the learning experience of the Makerere University Digital Music Archive. It focuses on issues of digitizing sound, intellectual property management, and sustainability. Abrupt technological changes ...
The East African Community (EAC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation with a membership of five countries. Since its establishment in 1999 the Community has generated a lot of information and knowledge through its ...
EAC, a regional inter-governmental body since
1999: Republics of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda,
Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and United Rep. of
Tanzania
The EAC aims at widening and deepening cooperation
among the Partner States, ...
Education is a central socio-economic right that provides the foundation for life-long learning and economic opportunities.
Literacy data published by the UNESCO1 Institute for Statistics (UIS) in 2007 shows that the ...
The overriding policy in editing these papers, as for the proceedings of ICADLA-1 in 2009, has been to retain as much as possible the original “voices” of the contributors, all of whom have presented and written in English ...
Digitization has spread world-wide like an infectious disease and no country has been spared. Guidelines, instructions and policies can be found in abundance on the Internet. Nevertheless, it seems that the same mistakes ...
WDL -Internet based information resource co-sponsored by the LC and UNESCO
In 2005, Dr James Billington approached UNESCO
with a proposal - an online collection of unique materials - to access the documented heritage
The ...
With the agreement and subsequent signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Library of Congress (LC) and the National Library of Uganda (NLU) in 2009, NLU became an active partner institution of the World ...
The broadest definition of grey literature covers a body of literature that cannot easily be found by means of conventional published channels, and includes government research, non-profit reports and reports from other ...
The broadest definition of grey literature covers a body of literature that cannot easily be found by means of conventional published channels, and includes government research, non-profit reports and reports from other ...
From 1995 to 2008, Africa’s average economic growth was 5% per annum. In 2008 GDP growth in Africa was 5.5% against 6.5% in 2007, representing the fifth consecutive year when growth exceeded 5.5%. This has largely been ...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group was established in 1964, and its mission is to mobilize resources for Africa’s economic and social development. With this objective in mind, the institution aims at assisting African ...
• Primary source of SA published
documentary heritage
• Wealth of information
• Books, periodicals, newspapers, maps,
special collections, government
publications, foreign official publications
The objects of the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) and the functions it is required to perform are prescribed by the National Libraries Act, Act 92 of 1998. The NLSA is the primary resource of South African published ...
‘Digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material are essential to highlight cultural and scientific heritage, to inspire the creation of new content and to encourage new online services to emerge. They help to ...