Pub Date : 2007-05-07DOI: 10.4314/ESARJO.V26I1.31014
P. Ngulube
Access to public records and archives in South Africa is diminishing rapidly largely due to inadequate preservation strategies and a dearth of knowledge of archival preservation techniques. Inadequate attention is being paid to preservation as a collection management strategy. Continued access to South African archives is going to largely depend on how they are preserved from creation right through their entire life cycle. The aim of preservation is to prolong the usable life of archives in order to ensure indefinite access to them. The situation regarding preserving public records and archives and making them available by archival institutions in South Africa was investigated. Based on a questionnaire survey, interviews, observation and content analysis of key documentary sources the study revealed the inadequate housing and environmental conditions of the archival holdings, a lack of awareness concerning preventive preservation measures, inadequate preservation programmes and limited conservation education, limited resources for conservation activities, and weak organisational structure and funding of archival institutions in South Africa in general. The study concluded that unless the existing situation is reversed, access to public records and archives in South Africa would diminish.
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Pub Date : 2007-05-07DOI: 10.4314/ESARJO.V26I1.31016
Phumzile Hlophe, J. Wamukoya
This paper discusses the findings of a study that was carried out to assess the utilization of archival information at Swaziland National Archives (SNA) by researchers at the University of Swaziland (UNISWA). Its purpose was to establish the researchers' information needs and their information seeking behaviour, as well as to determine how these needs were being met. It further wanted to establish the factors that hindered access and use of the archival information and how those factors could be addressed. The study methodology involved questionnaires, face to face interviews as well as structured observations. The respondents included lecturers, postgraduate students and archives personnel. The study results revealed that the SNA was underutilized by researchers at UNISWA, the search-room was not conducive for research purposes and the search-room staff took long to retrieve required documents. Factors contributing to this were found to include lack of skilled personnel, lack of proper marketing strategies, lack of user studies, lack of relevant information and inadequate opening hours. The authors' recommendations include training of existing staff and recruitment of additional personnel, conduct of user studies, improved marketing strategies, and extension of opening hours to include weekends.
{"title":"Utilization of Archival Information at Swaziland National Archives by Researchers at University of Swaziland","authors":"Phumzile Hlophe, J. Wamukoya","doi":"10.4314/ESARJO.V26I1.31016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ESARJO.V26I1.31016","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the findings of a study that was carried out to assess the utilization of archival information at Swaziland National Archives (SNA) by researchers at the University of Swaziland (UNISWA). Its purpose was to establish the researchers' information needs and their information seeking behaviour, as well as to determine how these needs were being met. It further wanted to establish the factors that hindered access and use of the archival information and how those factors could be addressed. The study methodology involved questionnaires, face to face interviews as well as structured observations. The respondents included lecturers, postgraduate students and archives personnel. The study results revealed that the SNA was underutilized by researchers at UNISWA, the search-room was not conducive for research purposes and the search-room staff took long to retrieve required documents. Factors contributing to this were found to include lack of skilled personnel, lack of proper marketing strategies, lack of user studies, lack of relevant information and inadequate opening hours. The authors' recommendations include training of existing staff and recruitment of additional personnel, conduct of user studies, improved marketing strategies, and extension of opening hours to include weekends.","PeriodicalId":125371,"journal":{"name":"ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128099613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-05-07DOI: 10.4314/ESARJO.V26I1.31012
H. Kemoni, P. Ngulube, C. Stilwell
The article presents the various points of view regarding the definitions and uses of records and archives amongst the recordkeeping scholarly and practitioner communities. It demonstrates that whereas records and archives are useful tools for facilitating transparency, accountability and good governance in society, they could be used as instruments of repression and human rights abuses. Attempts made by various regimes to destroy evidence documented in records to conceal actions related to misuse of power and human rights abuses are highlighted. The article concludes by emphasizing the need for records and archives personnel to collaborate in order to establish good recordkeeping regimes that facilitate the exploitation and use of records and archives as tools for governance, enhancement of public service delivery and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. It is hoped that the article will stir further debate and encourage more research among recordkeeping scholars, consultants, researchers and practitioners into the use of records and archives as tools for good governance and protection of human rights.
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Pub Date : 2007-05-07DOI: 10.4314/ESARJO.V26I1.31015
S. Keakopa
This article focuses on policies and procedures for the management of electronic records in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. Using the data collected in 2003 and 2004 as part of the author's doctoral research, the article reports that policies and procedures for the management of electronic records were non-existent in Botswana and Namibia. These policies and procedures are, however, important for directing and guiding records officers on better approaches to the management of electronic records. In contrast, South Africa was advanced in the area of policy development. The article makes recommendations on how Botswana and Namibia could proceed in their effort to develop policies and procedures for the management of electronic records in their countries.
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Pub Date : 2006-12-12DOI: 10.4314/ESARJO.V23I1.30965
Alexio Motsi
Africa has a rich and diverse culture that has been documented in many different ways, some of which are not as conventional as the western ways. Documentation methods in Africa range from word of mouth (oral history) to the modern electronic systems. Leaves, skins, tree bark, stones, clay, rocks, string are some of the traditional ways in which information was documented. The notion that Africa is a continent of song and dance must be revisited and corrected. The discovery of the Islamic manuscripts going back to the 12th Century AD in North and West Africa is a clear proof that scholarly work has been going on for centuries in Africa. The challenge to us is how to preserve these diverse materials considering that the world is advancing at a very fast rate with worrying issues such as the depletion of the ozone layer and ravaging poverty. Governments are faced with different challenges that tend to push heritage preservation to the bottom of the list of priorities for justifiable reasons. ESARBICA Journal Vol.23 2004: 62-67
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Pub Date : 2006-12-12DOI: 10.4314/ESARJO.V23I1.30966
S. Keakopa
Within the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) region, little or no information is available on budgeting systems for archival institutions in the region to enhance preservation and conservation programs. Preservation and conservation requires both economic time management and fiscal prudence. With limited budgets throughout the region, there is an acute need for proper budgeting and costing in an effort to maximize the limited resources. This paper attempts to highlight the importance of budgeting and costing in conservation and preservation practices by archival institutions in the ESARBICA region. The paper concludes by proposing the need for preservation and conservation managers to formulate a deliberate and conscious strategy aimed at promoting best and sound accounting practices to ensure maximization of resources. This would convince the skeptics of the necessity of channeling more funding to promote preservation and conservation activities. ESARBICA Journal Vol.23 2004: 68-74
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Pub Date : 2006-12-12DOI: 10.4314/ESARJO.V23I1.30964
Jim Suderman
The electronic environment has caused archivists to re-examine what they do and why they do it. What was understood or perhaps taken for granted in the paper environment is not understood and cannot be taken for granted in the new electronic environment. But such a re-examination also tells us that archivists do not believe themselves to be simply part of a production line, overseeing the acquisition of some records and the destruction of others. It reminds us that we believe ourselves to be active and responsible participants in the shaping of human memory and contributors to the quality of life within our societies. It is not surprising then that we should look to our processes to see how they are accountable to our stakeholders. And central to any concept of archival accountability is our understanding of the records we seek to preserve. In this way the remarkable impact of modern information and communications technologies on the conception, creation, use and preservation of records requires us to not only refine our understanding of what we mean by records but also how we accountably fulfil such a core function as appraising them. It is my goal to outline a framework for understanding archival appraisal accountability. The paper begins by describing archival appraisal as a business process of archivists that is executed within archival institutions and goes on to address apparaisal principles and ethics. It concludes by suggesting that an essential component of any accountability framework is determining for how long archivists are accountable. ESARBICA Journal Vol.23 2004: 51-61
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Pub Date : 2006-12-12DOI: 10.4314/ESARJO.V23I1.30959
T. Adami, K. S. Khamis, Jones O Lukose
Ten years on from the horrors of the civil war in Rwanda in 1994, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [ICTR] has come a long way in terms of its recordkeeping practices. In four years since 2000 many innovative and sustainable practices have been adopted. The main focus of the work of the Judicial Records and Archives Unit has been to provide a service based on satisfying the users’ requirements. The court proceedings are the raison d’etre of the work of all staff at ICTR. We have developed some innovative and feasible solutions to practical problems. This article sketches some of the challenges we faced in managing records of ICTR. ESARBICA Journal Vol.23 2004: 3-16
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Pub Date : 2006-12-12DOI: 10.4314/ESARJO.V23I1.30963
P. Sebina
Governments around the world are often praised for good or rebuked for bad governance. This paper argues that good governance is predicated on the adoption of functional records management and the enactment of Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation by governments. Records that are accumulated and used by government are reflective of the activities undertaken and the processes that have or are being initiated on behalf of the public. Management of these records enables government to operate in a transparent fashion and be able to account to the public who brought it to power. Promulgation of FOI by government is an assurance to the public that it is transparent and accountable. Existence of proper management of government records backed by FOI is an assurance that governance is carried out to reflect and protect the will of the public. FOI and records management are guarantees of good governance. ESARBICA Journal Vol.23 2004: 45-50
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Pub Date : 2006-12-12DOI: 10.4314/ESARJO.V23I1.30967
Celina Mabokhatse Qobo
The paper is on the preservation and conservation practices at Thomas Mofolo library. It examines the situation and the environment under which the library and archival materials are kept and made accessible to the users so as to pinpoint the main enemy of the TML collection. It goes on to look at the impact of increasing number of users on the dwindling resources. The paper is divided into six parts. The first part is the introduction which deals with the structure of the paper. The second part is the background information on Thomas Mofolo Library. The third part is on the problems Thomas Mofolo Library experience with regard to the preservation and conservation of its collection. The fourth part is on the measures taken by Thomas Mofolo library to preserve its collection. The fifth part deals with the future activities of Thomas Mofolo Library on preservation and the sixth part is the conclusions. ESARBICA Journal Vol.23 2004: 75-81
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