Dr. Helena Asamoah-Hassan | |
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| Born | Cape Coast, Ghana |
| Occupation | Librarian |
| Website | web |
Helena R. Asamoah-Hassan [1] (born 1950s, Cape Coast) is a Ghanaian librarian who is the present executive director of African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), the board chair for the Ghana Library Authority [2] [3] and the secretary general of African Regional Memory of the World Committee. [4]
She is the immediate past University Librarian of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). [5] President of the Ghana Library Association from 2002 to 2006, [6] and the first president of the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA). [7] She served as the Chairperson of the International Advisory Committee for UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme 2013 – 2015. [8] [9] A member of the IFLA Governing Board 2010 - 2012 [10] and the Chairperson of the Management Committee of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) as well as a founding member from March 2004 to 2013. [11]
Asamoah-Hassan attended the Breman Asikuma Roman Catholic School and Howard Memorial Primary School in Takoradi, and continued at the Nyaniba Middle Boarding School in Nkroful and then to Konongo Odumasi Secondary School for her secondary education. She studied Library Science at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria (1977) for a bachelor's degree. She obtained her Master of Arts Degree in Library Studies from the University of Ghana in 1981, and a PhD from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2011. [13]
Asamoah-Hassan has written 96 papers, some of which include:
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