GNBA to develop Information and Resource Centre
The Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) invites UNESCO Consultant, Pioneer Multimedia Librarian, Mrs. Maureen Webster-Prince to Guyana with the mandate to train and guide executives of the Authority in the development of its Information and Resource Centre. Throughout the past week our UNESCO Consultant met with a number of relevant stakeholders, with the aim of sensitizing those individuals and/or organizations about the vision and objective of this project, which will be spearheaded by the GNBA. The outreach exercises were organized as a fact finding mission to ascertain the availability of information, the skills in the industry and to examine the possibility of forging interagency collaboration.
Some of the organizations the GNBA and the UNESCO Consultant engaged during the past week included the National Archives, National Communications Network, UNESCO Guyana, University of Guyana (UG): Centre for Communication Studies / UG Library and CARICOM. Those engagements were especially fruitful. The GNBA is optimistic that collaborations are forthcoming, as the various stages of this important project are operationalized.
The Information and Resource Centre of the GNBA is envisaged as an information and resource hub for stakeholders, where audiovisual content, scholastic pieces, research, documentaries and other relevant information will be preserved for posterity.
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