Ghana Library Association

Ghana Library Association is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2012! 

Main theme of the celebration is  Libraries: Key to National Development

Sub themes:
1. Libraries: driving access to knowledge
2. Libraries: facilitators of knowledge generation
3. Knowing is not enough: engaging in the knowledge economy
4. Enhancing the culture of reading
5. The academic library of the future
6. The public library of the future
7. The special library of the future
8. The school library of the future
9. Building a strong library association
10. The illusive national library: the case of Ghana

Do join us throughout the year in a series of nationwide events, including

Regional aunches
Photo exhibitions in various libraries
GLA/PAWA/GAW collaboration
Visits to school libraries
Book donations to selected school libraries
Reading clinics
Professional seminars
Workshop
Radio talk shows & TV programmes
Interaction with Information Studies Students
Anniversary edition of the Ghana Library Journal
Thanksgiving service & dinner dance
Congress/AGM

Do watch this space, which will be regularly updated!
 

CALL FOR PAPERS:  Special 50th Anniversary Edition of the Ghana Library Journal (GLJ)

As part of its golden jubilee anniversary, the Ghana Library Association (GLA) announces the submission of scholarly articles to be published under the anniversary theme “Libraries: Key to National Development”. Interested members are required to submit abstracts on the following subthemes:

• Libraries driving access to knowledge.
• Libraries: facilitators of knowledge generation.
• Knowing is not enough: engaging in the knowledge economy.
• Enhancing the culture of reading.
• The Academic Library of the future.
• The Public Library of the future.
• The Special Library of the future.
• The School Library of the future.
• The elusive National Library: the case of Ghana.
• Building a strong library association.

Abstracts of approximately 300 words should be submitted electronically to Dr. Emmanuel Adjei ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), the Editor-in-chief of the GLJ, not later than 29 February, 2012.

The abstract should have the author(s) details (name, institution, position).  Authors of selected papers will be notified by 30 March, 2012.   Full papers are due 30 June, 2012.
 

The application deadline for the 2013 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program is 17 February 2012.

This program–jointly sponsored by the American Theological Library Association, IFLA and OCLC–provides early career development and continuing education for library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies.

For more information see the IFLA website

Last November I had the chance to sit with a group of 20 librarians, technologists, NGO workers, and ministry representatives in Accra, Ghana for a discussion about models of accessing information and the potential role of public libraries to power development objectives.

Participants shared anecdotes about recent or current development projects that involve partnerships with public libraries. Ibrahim Inusah, from the Ghana Information Network for Knowledge Sharing (GINKS) spoke of a project where GINKS and a library collaborated to develop an in-library resource center for fisherman. Unfortunately, GINKS is no longer in regular contact with the library and could not say if the resource center continues to operate.