Title: Preservation and Conservation of Information Resources in the University of Zambia Library
Abstract: Abstract Preservation and conservation of library materials is an important aspect of library and information management. Their importance and necessity are more paramount in countries where resources are limited and libraries need to balance them with the needs of an ever increasing number of students hoping to use them. This articles reports on the current state of preservation and conservation activities at the University of Zambia Library. KEYWORDS: conservation preservation libraries University of Zambia Africa Zambia Notes 1. University of Zambia Library, 2005 Annual Report (Lusaka: UNZA library, 2005). 2. The University of Zambia, The University of Zambia Calendar 2007–2008 (Lusaka, Zambia: University of Zambia, 2007), 420. 3. Patrick Ngulube and Lindiwe Magazi, “Protecting Documents Against Disasters and Theft: The Challenge Before the Public Libraries in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa,” South African Journal of Library and Information Science 72, no. 3 (2006): 185–197. 4. Peter Ralph Coates, “JICPA Survey of Conservation Facilities and Experts in Africa, 2000,” http://www.epa-prema.net/jicpa/survey.htm (accessed August 26, 2008). Among countries included in the survey were Angola, Benin, Cape Verde, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zanzibar, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 5. Frederick Bearman and Eléonore Kissel, “A Global Approach: Setting Up a Preservation Program at Makerere University Library in Kampala, Uganda, 2000,” The Book and Paper Annual Group, Vol. 18. http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/bpg/annual/v19/bp19-02.html (accessed August 26, 2008). 6. Wole Michael Olatokun, “A Survey of Preservation and Conservation Practices and Techniques in Nigerian University Libraries,” Libres 18, no. 2 (2008): 1–18, libres.curtin.edu.au/libres18n2/Olatokun_FINAL.pdf. accessed 20 May 2009). 7. Christine Wamunyima Kanyengo, “Managing Digital Information Resources in Africa: Preserving the Integrity of Scholarship,” The International Information and Library 41, no. 2 (2009): 1–13. 8. Muyoyeta Simui and Christine Wamunyima Kanyengo, An Investigation into the Funding of University Libraries in Zambia (Oxford: INASP; Kampala: SCANUL-ECS, 2004). 9. Christine Wamunyima Kanyengo, “Managing Digital Information Resources in Africa”; Patrick Ngulube, “Knowledge and Skills: Nexus between Funding and Preservation of Documentary Materials” (Paper Presented at the South African Preservation and Conservation Group Conference on Preservation on a Shoe-String, Kimberley, South Africa, July 25–27, 2006), http://www.sapcon.org.za/docs/conf06-p2.pdf (accessed 21 May 2009); S. E. Ezennia and E. O. Onwuka, “The Battle for Preservation of Library Materials in Nigeria,” Library and Archival Security 13, no. 1 (1995): 29–39; M. E. Ojo-Igbinoba, The Practice of Conservation of Library Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University, African Studies Program, 1993), http://hdl.handle.net/2022/133. (accessed 21 May 2009). 10. The University of Zambia, The University of Zambia Calendar 2007–2008, 20. 11. Suman Jain, “An Empirical Economic Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Zambia,” CEEPA Discussion Paper No. 27, 2006, CEEPA, University of Pretoria, http://www.ceepa.co.za/docs/CDPNo27.pdf (accessed September 2, 2008), 6. 12. Kanyengo, “Managing Digital Information Resources”; Ngulube, “Knowledge and Skills”; Olatukan, “A Survey of Preservation and Conservation Practices.” 13. Patrick Ngulube, “Guidelines and Standards for Records Management Education and Training: A Model for Anglophone Africa,” Records Management Journal 11, no. 3 (2001): 155–173. 14. Patrick Ngulube, “The Achilles Heel of the Preservation of Documentary Materials in Sub Saharan Africa: Knowledge and Skills or Funding?” Restaurator 28, no. 3(2007): 159–168; Ngulube, “Knowledge and Skills”; Christine Wamunyima Kanyengo, “Managing Digital Information Resources in Africa.” 15. M. E. Ojo-Igbinoba, The Practice of Conservation of Library Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa (Bloomington: Indiana Univ., African Studies Program, 1993) http://hdl.handle.net/2022/133. (accessed 21 May 2009). 16. Edward P Adcock, Marie-Theéreèse Varlamoff, and Virginie Kremp, IFLA Principles for the Care and Handling of Library Material (Paris: IFLA PAC, Washington DC: CLIR, 1998).
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-09-03
Language: en
Type: article
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