Report On a Three-Day Workshop on Digitisation and Institutional Repository at Ghana Korea Information Access Center (IAC), University Of Ghana, Legon 18 – 20th February 2014

Abstract

The University of Ghana was established in 1948 and one can imagine the scale of documents and records generated since. The records of students, senior members, principal officers, policies, acts, and minutes of various kinds can be difficult to grasp without proper management. The University of Ghana Library Systems (UGLS), Archives and other Departments and Units are repositories for heritage materials as well as rich local, national and international resources. Without proper organisation and planned preservation, information in these documents cannot be easily accessed and they can be lost due to deterioration. The workshop was sponsored by Office of Research Innovation and Development (ORID), University of Ghana, covering the period February 18-20, 2014. The purpose was to sensitise the university community on the digitization and IR projects going on in the university so that all constituents in the university will become aware and buy into it and also participate. Thirty–eight (38) participants from the various departments and units of the university, made up of administrators, IT personnel, hospital staff, archivists, and librarians who have something to do with records and document management were invited to the workshop.