MANAGEMENT OF ARABIC MANUSCRIPT RESOURCES FRDM STORAGE, PRESERVATION AND CDNSERVATIDN PERSPECTIVES: THE CASE DF NORTHERN HISTORY RESEARCH SCHEME, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA

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2010-07-16
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IBRAHIM, Dogara
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Arabic manuscripts are not new phenomena in Nigeria, Africa and the world over. Their importance to the educational development and societal reconstruction along moral, ethics, spiritual, social, economic, political and what have you, is yet to be known, due to the poor understanding of where they can be found and access to them easily obtained, and to know their intellectual content. It is in view of these that this paper set to investigate the management of the Arabic manuscript resources in the Northern History Research Scheme of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, from the perspectives of storage, preservation and conservation. Some of the problems inhibiting the proper storage preservation and conservation of these resources were identified and the way forward towards Arabic and Ajami manuscripts management in Nigeria was highlighted.
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A PAPER PRESENTED AT THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF PUBLIC/PRIVATE ARABIC MANUSCRIPT REPOSITORIES IN NIGERIA HELD AT THE AREWA HOUSE CENTER FOR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION (A.B.U) KADUNA BETWEEN 15-16™ JULY, 2010