Fourah Bay College library got here into life in 1827 and it become affiliated with Durham in 1876. This association scheme enlarged the university regulations, and due to this, new levels of improvement had been brought and protected withinside the development withinside the situation of the library. Its first Board of Curators become appointed and a ordinary deliver of trendy newspapers and different guides had been furnished. Professor Richards become appointed Librarian-In-Charge with Mr. T. Taylor as Library Assistant.
DEVELOPMENT OF FOURAH BAY COLLEGE LIBRARY
Fourah bay College Library control become definitely set up, and attracted precious donations together with a unique series donated in 1881 via way of means of Rev. H. Wright who served as Honorary Secretary to the Church Missionary Society. Later in 1917 Bishop James Johnson bequeathed his set of 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica to the College Library.
During the World War II length, this is 1939-1945, little become achieved approximately the improvement of the College Library. By then the library become positioned at Mabang, and endured to hold a library which become firstly supposed to be an Agricultural College. The College had few instructors and a small pupil populace of approximately twenty students. The situations of the battle withinside the 1940`s triggered the library to be controlled via way of means of pupil librarians. The library become commonly confronted with loss of assets withinside the battle years. In the ones years the library minimum collections consisted specifically of theological and literary works which become transferred to Mount Aureol. The substances become housed in numerous homes together with the pupil eating hall, the university Chapel, the College Bookshop, shops and Games and Sports Office.
The library centers of the university at this level fashioned a part of the better training improvement programme. The maximum place of precedence at Fourah Bay university become the improvement of Library. With the status quo of a strong records Centre, Fourah Bay College have become an appealing venue for overseas price range. In 1954, following a go to to the Fulton Commission which advanced the repute of the university, the library become presented a furnish of $8,000 via way of means of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, for use for the acquisition of vital reference and bibliographic substances. The British complemented this donation in 1955 with a furnish of £15,000 from the Colonial Development Welfare Funds. Two-thirds of these donations (£10,000) had been spent on books and periodicals and the relaxation on gadget. These offers and different donations caused an improved increase of the library and fashioned the inspiration of a regular improvement all through the 60s. It become at this critecal length that the library become assigned its rightful function as a concern affiliated university of the University of Durham.
In 1961, the second one expatriate Mr. R.S. Burkett, relinquished his appointment as College Librarian after a length of 4 and the 1/2 of years. The 0.33 expatriate librarian, the overdue Mr. Michael Jollife (after whom the library has been named), become appointed in 1961. He become to start with involved with the development of the bodily centers of the library. In 1968, the university acquired complete college repute and with this elevation, the library additionally performed management position withinside the improvement of different librarians in Sierra Leone. Within the library itself, Mr. Jollife set up the Reprographic and Micrographic sections. In his 1961/1962 annual report, Mr. Jollife determined to the offer price range beneathneath the British Technical Assistance Programme for the acquisition of bindery gadget and Mr. W.J Askew, a British Book Binder become assigned this responsibility. He arrived in Sierra Leone in August 15, 1964. By then, there had been ten thousand (10,000) books and periodicals for binding and rebinding. Mr. S.T Browne, a Sierra Leonean craftsman succeeded Mr. Askew after his 3 years tenure in April 1966 as Head Book Binder. Currently, the Bindery is headed via way of means of Mr. Patrick James. At the quit of March, 1970, Mr. Michael Jollife resigned his submit to come to be Librarian at Royal Halloway College, London and become succeeded via way of means of A.C. Butler who arrived in 1971. Thus, Mrs. Gladys Jusu-Sheriff become the primary Sierra Leonean College Librarian after Mr. Butler left in 1972.
Fourah Bay College management reacted to an acute scarcity of library employees in that length, and instituted a route for the City and Guilds of London Assistant Certificate at the same time organised via way of means of the university library and the Extra-Mural Department. Deficiencies withinside the library certificates furnished an obvious long-time period want for a library route in Sierra Leone. This programme become a junior assistant's qualification which become only western device of library control and there has been an obvious hole among the City of Guilds and the ALA. There become a want to institute a programme regionally to offer an intermediate qualification to bridge the distance among the junior clerical stage team of workers and complete professionals. This delivered approximately the reaction for the formation of the Institute of Library, Archive and Information Studies in 1986 via the dynamic management of Mrs. Gladys Jusu-Sheriff who subsequently have become the primary director. In November 1999 the Institute become merged with the Mass Communication unit in the Faculty of Arts to shape the Institute of Library, Information and Communication Studies (INSLICS) imparting certificates, diploma, diploma and postgraduate qualifications.
The overdue Mrs. Deanna Thomas succeeded Mrs. Gladys Jusu-Sheriff as librarian of Fourah Bay College library in 1990 however traveled in another country in June 1997 all through the interregnum of Freetown. Mr. Oliver Harding acted as librarian in her absence till June 1998 while a extra senior officer withinside the University of Sierra Leone, the overdue Prof. L.N. M'Jamtu-Sie the then librarian of College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) become appointed to oversee sports withinside the library. She resigned in January 2005 and back to COMAHS. Mr. Donald Davies acted till August 2005 and become succeeded in an appearing potential via way of means of Rev. Oliver Harding who back to Sierra Leone from Nigeria after he received a 2d grasp diploma in Biblical Studies from West Africa Theological Seminary, Lagos (an associate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka). He remains the contemporary Acting Librarian at Fourah Bay College Library with only
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