Dear colleagues,

HURIDOCS gladly announces the second volume in a new series of brief,
practical manuals aimed to help build the capacity of human rights
organisations with regard to monitoring and documentation. The Human Rights
Monitoring and Documentation Series consists of two kinds of manuals: a
"what is" manual provides an overview of a certain topic, and a "how to"
manual is meant to impart specific skills.

The second volume is called What is Monitoring and is now available on the
HURIDOCS Web site . This practical
manual is intended for documentalists and information workers of human
rights organisations. It deals with the following issues: what is
monitoring, purposes of monitoring, types of monitoring, methods of
monitoring, and data analysis. This volume has been written by Manuel
Guzman and Bert Verstappen. It is at the moment available only in English,
and can be printed in HTML and PDF formats.

The first volume in the series, "What is Documentation", is also available
on our Web site, in English and French.

The volumes in this Series are especially designed for small
non-governmental human rights organisations which often have limited
resources and a small staff who are assigned multiple tasks. The handy size
of the manuals make them excellent reference materials. In addition, they
are written in a style that facilitates learning and could serve
effectively as materials for training, including individualised and
self-initiated learning.

During 2001, the following volumes will be added in this series:

How to Set Up Your Documentation Centre
How to Index
How to Search for Information
How to Record Names of Persons

With best regards,

Bert Verstappen
HURIDOCS
48, chemin du Grand-Montfleury
CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland
tel. 41.22.755 5252, fax 41.22.755 5260
[email protected], www.huridocs.org