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.
JOIN RAMSOZ.Membership is only 10
dollars per year.Benefits of memebership includes 30 percent discount
on all RAMSOZ WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCE.A free RAMSOZ
JOURNAL,ELIGIBILITY TO STAND IN RAMSOZ ELECTION HELD BIENNIALLY. UNITED
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