William Serwadda

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William Serwadda (sometimes referred to as G.W Serwadda) was a Ugandan librarian who served as the first ever Director of the Uganda Library Service. [1] He held the position between July 1964 - November 1966. [2]

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Career

Between 1955 and 1957, Serwadda worked as a library assistant at Makerere University after which he departed to undertake library studies in Britain. [3]

After his studies, Serwadda visited a number of libraries in "continental Europe including Scandinavia" then came back to Uganda and was published in the East African Library Association Bulletin. [2] He was subsequently appointed the first director of the Uganda Library Service in July 1964 after the designated appointee resigned. [2]

Published works

Serwadda has been quoted by a number of library scholars basing on his work that was published in a number of journals. The publications drawn on include but are not limited to

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-07-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 Sturges, Paul (March 2001). "The Poverty of Librarianship: An Historical Critique of Public Librarianship in Anglophone Africa" (PDF). Libri . 51 (1): 38–48. doi:10.1515/LIBR.2001.38. S2CID   145150595.
  3. ↑ Stranger-Johannessen, Espen (January 2009). "Student Learning through a Rural Community Library: A case study from Uganda". www.researchgate.net. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  4. ↑ Wallenius, Anna-Britta; Arunsi, N. O., eds. (1971). Libraries in East Africa. Uppsala: Scandinavian Inst. of African Studies. ISBN   978-91-7106-051-8.
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