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The Ghana Library Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2011

Evelyn JA Evans
Evelyn JA Evans
Affiliation:
Former Director of Library Services, Ghana Library Board looks back over the foundation of the Ghana Library Services

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Looking back over the steps undertaken before the Ghana Library Services were established, it seems very important that so much preliminary work was embarked on. First a country-wide survey was made, and a detailed plan worked out of the future development, taking into account the educational system, the general standard of literacy and the rate of its increase, the languages in common use, population distribution, the transport and communication systems, the demand - as opposed to the need - for books, the pattern of local authorities and their view on the principles of library provision and - very importantly - who would ultimately be responsible for the financial needs of the library system, the purpose of the library provision and what it hoped to achieve, the resources needed for the Services and draft estimates for the first five years.

Type
Building up Library Systems, 1947–1997
Information
Africa Bibliography , Volume 1995: Africa Bibliography 1995 Works on Africa Published during 1995 , March 1996 , pp. xxv - xxvi
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 1996