Sudan's National Documentation Centre

Abstract

The National Documentation Centre in Khartoum was set up by the Sudanese Government in 1974 as part of the National Council for Research, which had been set up in 1973. The aims of the National Council for Research are toencourage, organise and promote scientific research in its various aspects with a view to the realisation of economic and social development within the framework of the state policy.Within the same Act there was provision forestablishing documentation centres, statistics bureaus (sic) scientific information centres, computer centres and other institutions which the Council deems necessary for the purpose of facilitating research.Thus on the face of it, the National Documentation Centre exists solely to provide research information in order to facilitate government research. In practice, the Centre has taken on and is attempting to take on far broader responsibilites in the fields of librarianship and information science.