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Survey Report on the Establishment of National Cooperative Archive in Tanzania: Prospects and Challenges

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dc.contributor.author Mruma, Albert O.
dc.contributor.author Forecast, Rebecca
dc.contributor.author Iwata, John J.
dc.contributor.author Sama, Salehe
dc.contributor.author Silayo, Rogathe
dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-26T11:58:30Z
dc.date.available 2023-07-26T11:58:30Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.citation Mruma, A.O., Forecast, R., Iwata, J. J., Sama, S., & Silayo, R. (2014). Survey Report on the Establishment of National Cooperative Archive in Tanzania: Prospects and Challenges. Information and Knowledge Management.4(4),96-106. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2224-5758
dc.identifier.issn 2224-896X
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/413
dc.description A full text article from Library, information science and knowledge economy from www.iiste.org en_US
dc.description.abstract Moshi University College of Cooperative and Business Studies in collaboration with Cooperative College of Manchester launched a project known as “Preserving East African Co-operative Heritage (PEACH)” in January 2011. As the first step in implementing this project a team composed of staff from MUCCoBS and Cooperative College, Manchester conducted a survey in cooperatives and other stakeholders in seven regions of Tanzania. This survey was a pilot study aiming to identify the extent, availability, location and preservation needs of co operative archives in Tanzania and establish potentials and challenges to establish National Cooperative archive. The surveys established the existence of a long range of cooperative records with archival value and therefore validated the intention of MUCCoBS to establish National Cooperative Archive. However many archival materials identified, were mostly in a bad condition, they are fragile, dirty, strained, brittle, crumbling, sometimes bent and full of rusty metal clips and they are stored in dirty rooms. Most cooperatives visited do not know the difference between archival records with long term value and records with no value that can be destroyed. The survey established that all cooperative stakeholders are supporting the idea of establishing National Cooperative Archive and are willing to surrender the archival materials to MUCCoBS for preservation. It was observed that there is high commitment of the management of MUCCoBS to establish the cooperative archive and the staff of the College needs some capacity building to acquire the required competency to manage the cooperative archive to be established. As a way forward it was proposed that MUCCoBS should strive to establish the repository to be used to preserve cooperative archive. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Information and Knowledge Management en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries volume 4;4
dc.subject cooperative archive en_US
dc.subject cooperative society en_US
dc.subject repository en_US
dc.subject records en_US
dc.subject survey en_US
dc.title Survey Report on the Establishment of National Cooperative Archive in Tanzania: Prospects and Challenges en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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