Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Records and Library Management Conference Results 18-20 December2011

Records and Library Management Conference Results 18-20 December2011 The above conference which was hosted by the RAMSAZ at KWEKWE HIGH went on well.The meeting was attended by Records and Information Assistance and Librarians from government colleges namely Marymount Teachers College,Mutare Teachers College,Kwekwe Po...lytechnic,Bulawayo Polytechnic,Joshua Mqabuko Technical Teachers College,MIn of Public Service HQ,and Kwekwe High School.The total attendance was 28 pple. 
 
Our anticipated facilitators gave apologies at the last minute but we manage to source other facilitators Patson Muchemwa Chinda who graduated at MSU with a degree in Museum Studies facilitated in Records Management topics which included Records Preservation,Managing Records Offices,Starting a new records man.program in an org etc.Jerry Mathema a ZOU graduate in Media Studies and also a holder of an HND Library and Information Science facilitated in LIS topics which included Censorship vs Intellectual Freedom,information literacy skills etc. 
 
Since the meeting was the first to be organized by RAMSAZ we call it a success of which the participants demanded more of such kind of meeting in 2012,they expressed bigger interests for the meeting to hosted at prestigious hotels and bigger towns like Bulawayo,Harare,Mutare and even VIc Falls. We had our short comings as organizers of the conference and we look ahead to improve on our second conference scheduled for April in BULAWAYO.The meeting is expected to be attended by Human Resource Personnel in addition to librarians and records assistants. Meanwhile the meeting was attended by Kudzayi Chiwanza ZOU Lis and RAM acting departmental Chair,she will be our patron and adviser.Yes people are still skeptical of what we are doing but we strive to get the confidence of every information practitioners and students in Zimbabwe and beyond.
 
We decided to change the name of the organisation from Records and Archives Management Student Association of Zimbabwe[RAMSAZ] to Records and Archives Management Society of Zimbabwe[RAMSOZ].We saw it as a fit name as we try to make it a professional org.Ms Chiwanza promised to assist us to publish a professional journal early 2012. 
 
 
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