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iassist-138	Asiedu, Edward Seth	A Network System For the Flow of African Administrative Information Materials	1986	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3517	119	24	It is quite fair to say that this growing literature of adminisuative sciences is not yet under adequate bibliographic control and it is exceedingly difficult to know how to obtain access to the information and experiences which have been investigated in prinL With this growth of African administrative information comes an increasing demand to know about African experiences in the various aspects of administrative and managerial development It is an awareness of this situation, as well as the realization that no one African country can ever hope to become self-sufficient in the face of an expanding universe of administrative information, that the African Training and Research Centre in Administration for Development (CAFRAD) has, in keeping with one of its constitutional mandates, and in concert with African governments, initiated the African Network of Adminstrative Information (ANAI) - a description of which follows: Objectives of ANAI ANAI is aimed at bringing together materials from different African perspectives on administrative sciences as they relate to the African continent and bringing together literature which may have been gathered by different African libraries and/or documentation centres, but which provide in their combination a new and much greater resource, and synthesizing and disseminating the collected data at regular intervals and upon request Thus, the objectives of ANAI are: to improve co-ordination between the existing African administrative information services - i.e. libraries/ documentation centres of institutions and agencies of public administration and management; to foster the improvement and building of national administrative information services or systems; to supplement local collections by drawing more effectively on African external resources; to avoid unnecessary duplication and waste of resources; to provide a referral service for enquiries from organizations both inside and outside the African continent; to serve more users and improve national. 'Presented at lASSIST/IFDO International Conference May 1985, Amsterdam fall/Winter 1985 26 - iassist quarterly Sources of administrative information What is administrative information?	cache/iassist-138.pdf	txt/iassist-138.txt