Documentation Centre - Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN) formed the Documentation Centre in 1990 to provide women with a place where they could access information on issues concerning them as well as on gender and development issues. It acquires, processes, and disseminates unpublished and published material on women's issues, gender and development, as well as feminist writings from Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, and the rest of the world. Objectives of the Documentation Centre are:
- to provide information about the women's movement in Zimbabwe institutions
- to inform, support, and strengthen the advocacy and lobbying activities of the organisation
- to identify gaps in the area of gender and development and fill them.
Main Communication Strategies
The Centre provides women with these services:
- Borrowing/Lending: - One can become a member of the library by paying a nominal subscription fee. Members can borrow three documents for 2 weeks. Materials can only be renewed once and periodicals cannot be lent out. A rental is charged per day for video rentals.
- Reading Facilities - Reading space is provided for users visiting the Documentation Centre. Viewing of videos within the Centre can also be arranged.
- Bibliographies - Subject bibliographies can be produced on request. They can also be purchased from the Documentation Centre.
- Acquisitions Lists - These are produced regularly and sent to other libraries, documentation centres, and interested individuals.
- Referral and Reference Services - Queries relating to the Centre may be answered on the telephone and also in person. Clients can also be referred to other organisations when necessary. In addition, Internet searches can be carried out for individuals, organisations on specific subjects for a nominal fee.
The collection is composed of the following:
- Books on women issues, gender, and development
- Reference material such as directories and files on women's organisations and NGOs and donor agencies, funding sources, dictionaries on gender terminology
- "Grey" or unpublished materials such as papers presented at workshops, conference/seminar/workshop reports, theses, and research documents
- Periodicals, newsletters, and magazines from Zimbabwe, Africa and the rest of the world. Newspaper clippings from the daily newspapers
- Videos, CD-ROMs on gender, population and development, and other subjects.
- Information on training courses on gender training and development
- Special collections with information on various United Nations world conferences
- ZWRCN discussion papers, factsheets, and workshop reports.
Development Issues
Women, Gender.
Key Points
The Centre maintains documents in a CDS/ISIS database. This text retrieval programme is designed and distributed free of charge by UNESCO. Click here for more information.
Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site July 08 2004
Last Updated July 24 2009
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