RESOURCE CENTRE MANUAL
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• Encourage meetings to be held in the resource centre, either by staff of the
organisation that the resource centre is part of, or other organisations (at
times when they will not disturb users).
• Hold open days and exhibitions in the resource centre.
• Give a brief talk about the resource centre at public gatherings or meetings
of health management teams or village health committees.
Producing and distributing materials
• Distribute acquisitions lists (lists of materials newly added to the resource
centre collection – see Section 7.9).
• Distribute leaflets containing brief details of services offered, opening times,
charges and who to contact for further information. Display them in the
resource centre itself and other places where users are likely to see them,
such as training institutions or at conferences, or include them in response
to written enquiries. Ask community health and outreach workers to
distribute them when visiting other organisations, or meeting with members
of the resource centre’s target groups.
• Distribute a newsletter to keep people across a wide area in touch with the
resource centre’s activities, if you can afford to produce it.
• Distribute an annual report of the resource centre or organisation that the
resource centre is part of, describing the resource centre’s activities and
highlighting key developments and plans.
Networking
• Develop links with other resource centres (see Section 8.3: Networks and
networking).
SECTION 8: MAKING LINKS
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