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Helena Asamoah-Hassan

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Helena Asamoah-Hassan
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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]

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Career

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]

Positions held

  • Treasurer, UST Branch of UTAG, January 1999 to 2001
  • Treasurer, UTAG National, September 1999 to 2001
  • Member, Board of Governors, Konongo Odumasi Secondary School, (KOSS) February 1998 to 2014.
  • Member, Executive Committee of UST Branch of UTAG, January 1997 to December 1998.
  • Commissioner, National Media Commission of Ghana, 2003 to 2006[12]
  • Member, Board of Directors, New Times Corporation, Ghana, May   2011 to 2013
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Education

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]

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Publications

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Asamoah-Hassan has written 96 papers, some of which include:

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Awards

  • 2012 BioMed Central's Open Access Advocate of the Year[19]
  • IFLA Service Medal – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ( IFLA), 2012[20]
  • Certificate of Honour and Life Member, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria,  Society of Library Science Students, from June 1988.
  • Fellow, Ghana Library Association, 2006

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