[huridocs-tech] New HURIDOCS manual: What is Documentation

Dear colleagues,

HURIDOCS gladly announces a new series of brief, practical manuals aimed to
help build the capacity of human rights organisations with regard to
monitoring and documentation. The Human Rights Monitoring and Documentation
Series consists of two kinds of manuals: a "what is" manual provides an
overview of a certain topic, and a "how to" manual is meant to impart
specific skills. HURIDOCS will publish and distribute the following in 2001: 

    What is Monitoring 
    What is Documentation 
    How to Set Up Your Documentation Centre 
    How to Index 
    How to Search for Information 
    How to Record Names of Persons

The volumes in this Series are especially designed for small
non-governmental human rights organisations which often have limited
resources and a small staff who are assigned multiple tasks. The handy size
of the manuals make them excellent reference materials. In addition, they
are written in a style that facilitates learning and could serve
effectively as materials for training, including individualised and
self-initiated learning. 

The first volume is now available on the HURIDOCS Web site
<http://www.huridocs.org/tools>. It is called What is Documentation. This
practical manual is intended for documentalists and information workers of
human rights organisations. It deals with the following issues: what is
documentation, what is a document, why document, seeking information,
producing documents, acquiring documents, organising documents and
providing user services. This volume has been written by Manuel Guzman and
Bert Verstappen.

This volume is available in English and in French. It can be printed in
HTML and PDF formats.

With best regards,

Bert Verstappen
HURIDOCS
48, chemin du Grand-Montfleury
CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland
tel. 41.22.755 5252, fax 41.22.755 5260
huridocs@comlink.org, www.huridocs.org




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