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Sudan's National Documentation Centre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Richard M. Weyers
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The National Documentation Centre in Khartoum was set up by the Sudanese Government in 1974 as part of the National Council for Research, which had been set up in 1973. The aims of the National Council for Research are to

encourage, organise and promote scientific research in its various aspects with a view to the realisation of economic and social development within the framework of the state policy.

Within the same Act there was provision for

establishing documentation centres, statistics bureaus (sic) scientific information centres, computer centres and other institutions which the Council deems necessary for the purpose of facilitating research.

Thus on the face of it, the National Documentation Centre exists solely to provide research information in order to facilitate government research. In practice, the Centre has taken on and is attempting to take on far broader responsibilites in the fields of librarianship and information science.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 49 , 1989 , pp. 10 - 15
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 1989

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References

National Councilfor Research Act. 1973, p.5. Democratic Republic of Sudan, Khartoum 1973.Google Scholar
Ibid. p. 5-6.Google Scholar
CCF: The Common Communication Format. Second Edition. Edited by Simmons, Peter and Hopkinson, Alan, Paris, Unesco. 1988. (PGI 88/WS/2).Google Scholar
Sudan Gazette No. 1243, June 15, 1978.Google Scholar