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Tanzania University Book Project

A part of the mission of the Foundation is to impact the RIM profession internationally through educational assistance. This project is a Foundation initiative intended to further this aspect of our mission.

As many of us are aware, records management education in developing nations is poor or non-existent. Such has been the case with the University of Tanzania which has failed to start an undergraduate records management and archives program due to lack of text books and reference materials.

In Tanzania there are currently two colleges which run certificate and diploma courses in records management. The colleges take in approximately 50 students for each level each year per semester. In order to provide these universities with the best possible resources for their students, the ARMA International Educational Foundation (Foundation) has undertaken a project to provide basic and intermediate records management texts for the schools. In order to do so, we need your help.

If you would like to help make a positive difference for Tanzania in records management, please provide new or used records management texts and/or a donation to the Foundation ear marked for this purpose. The Foundation will see that your donation directly assists the students in Tanzania. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated and recognized.

This donation to the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania will be made in memory of Michael J. Kinunda (1949 – 2008) who, throughout his career, spent days and nights restructuring education programs across the world in order to make sure everyone received the best education possible. He was the First Secretary of Education before joining the UN (UNESCO and UNICEF) where he remained in the education sector as a diplomat. The position with the UN, gave him the opportunity to reach the masses across the world. Education was Mr. Kinunda’s passion! No matter what positions he held across the world, he always signed his name as M.J.K, the Educationalist. His main purpose was to use his position to help others.

Ironically, Michael’s son, Joseph Kinunda, lives and works in the U.S. in the field of records and information management for an insurance company and he is quite honored that this donation will be made in memory of his father who passed away unexpectedly on January 26, 2008.

The books currently needed in Tanzania urgently for the upcoming Spring term are:

Managing Electronic Records, 3rd ed, by William Saffady (member price: $41.00)

Records and Information Mgt: Fundamentals of Professional Practice, by William Saffady (member price: $35.00)

Winning Strategies for Successful Records Management Programs, by Mark Langemo (member price: $44.00)

All publications are available from the ARMA bookstore. Multiple copies (10 or more) of each book are needed.

The foundation has made special arrangement with the ARMA bookstore for any chapter or person wishing to purchase books directly as donations for this project. To reach the ARMA Bookstore click ARMA Bookstore

The checkout routine will require that the "ship to" address (as shown below) is entered precisely. This will assure that the books are sequestered for AIEF to ship later.

Because of the integration of the ARMA bookstore software with UPS, there will be a charge for shipping. The donor will have to pay for this shipping charge in order to complete the transaction. However, the books will not actually be shipped anywhere and by means of an accounting entry, the donor shipping charges will be applied to the AIEF actual shipping costs when we ship to Tanzania.

From a donor perspective, the tax deductible donation amount will be for both the cost of the books and the related shipping, which will show on the donor's invoice.