Archives
Archives is one of the professional units of the Centre.  Its main function includes documentation, management and dissemination of information.  Essentially, the materials in this unit were inherited from the national and international secretariats of FESTAC ’77.  These include such documents as the minutes of the different meetings held at the planning and execution phases of the festival.  It also has all the colloquium papers (published and unpublished) presented at the festival, the booklets on the exhibition of African architectural technology.  The Archives also has in its custody all the identity cards of participants in the festival.

These collections have been complemented by audio tapes of colloquium proceedings and the Holy Quran donated to the Centre from Morocco.  Going beyond FESTAC 77 the centre has increased its archival collections through seminars, workshops, conferences, ministerial and inter-ministerial meetings.

 CBAAC archives provides consultancy services to countries and agencies wishing to establish archives.  It has been a tourist centre for foreign visitors and important dignitaries.
Some of the Materials Available :The Unit has well over 380 titles in its collections. Among these are:

• Communication Policy and Cultural Development

• Exploiting Nigeria’s Cultural Heritage for Nation Building.

• The State and National Conscience: The Image of a Nation.

• The Quest for Communication Freedom and Consequences for National Development.

• Ethical Regulations for Public Relations Practice.

• The Role of Community Arena and Drama for Rural Development

• Policy Guidelines for the Promotion of Rural based Media System.

• A Cultural Relations Programme in Aid of External Publicity.

• A cultural dimension of Nigeria’s economic development

• Common Heritage in Post Colonial States: The Nigerian Experience.

• The use of Cultural Heritage in Nigerian Education.

• Promotion of Creation and Creativity.

• Cultural Policy for Nigeria: Blue Print in Implementation Policy.

• Preservation and Conservation of Arabic Archival materials in Nigerian Libraries, archives and museums.

• Causes of the deterioration of library and archival materials in Nigeria.

• Factors influencing books’ theft and mutilation among library users and staff in Nigerian Libraries.

• Financing cultural development programme: Report of Inter – African Cultural Fund.

• World decade for Cultural Development 1988 – 97

• CICIBA: Art Contemporary Bantu Troisieme Biennale du CICBA.

• The right of the world’s children: A development education kit.

• Giving children a future.

• Religion and the Military

• Behold a Man.

• Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre.

• Conservation, Preservation and restoration practices for printed materials for Nigerian Libraries.

• American/Nigeria book distribution programme.

• The 20th edition of the Dewey Classification System.

• From wood to paper – Newsprint Manufacture.

• Evaluation in modern Language Teaching.

• Theory and practice of education

• Books and writers in Nigeria.

• Rationalization of Nigeria’s membership of international organizations and bodies.

• Africa and the New Information order.

• Communiqué on International workshop on Culture and Democracy.

• The World summit for Children.

• Action for children, Vol. V. 1990.

• Imperatives and problems of policy formulation and implementation in the cultural sector.

• Management techniques and executive decision making in the cultural sector.

• Strategic Planning Management .

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