About Resource Centre

1.    General Purpose

The resource centre aims to satisfy the information needs of its stakeholders or clientele.
 
2.    The Collection
 
The collection consists of materials such as
  • Serials
  • Technical reports
  • Documents
  • Monographs
  • Databases
    • Indexes and Abstracts etc Periodicals
    • Books
    • Audiotapes
    • Newspapers
    • Reports
    • Gray literature
    • Legal Instruments.
    • Newspaper articles
    • Law reports
    • Indexes to Law reports
 
The general subject boundaries summarizing the collection are outlined below;
  • Human Rights
  • Information Rights
  • Media
  • Elections
  • Gender and Media
  • Law governing the Media
  • Hate Speech
 
3.    Resource Centre users
 
  • The general populace
  • Journalists
  • Local community based organisations
  • Students from tertiary institutions
 
4. The Electronic Archive
 
In the process of documenting and analyzing media output, all the main radio and television news bulletins and news stories in the papers are digitally stored as part of MMPZ’s national news archive. This forms the basis of an important national historical resource facility for all manner of research work.