RBS
PO Box: 7099 Kigali-Kicukiro
Tel: +250-58 61 03
Information and Documentation Centre

An information and documentation centre plays an important role in facilitating  the bureau in its activities of formulating, promoting and applying standards specifications and codes of practices; by collecting, identifying, and disseminating information on standards and other related documents not only to staff members of the bureau but also to the external  users on national and international level.

Its main objectives
 
The main objective of the information centre is to disseminate information on standards and answering questions pertaining to standards from the public, at national and international level.
Functions

An information and documentation centre give access to standards information whether, they are national, regional or international. Other functions are:
  • Maintain sets of standards
  • Provide information on standards in accordance with the user needs
  • Identify technical regulations
  • Give the latest edition of standards and amendments that have been issued
  • Search for information and documents and produce a list of relevant standards and documents




Related websites
International Organization for Standardization
International Electrotechnical Commission
American Society for Testing and Materials

Last Update: 07-06-2010