The Ghana Library Association (GLA) is the main

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representing libraries and information services in

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

. It was founded in 1962 by the West African Library Association (WALA). Eve Evans had started the WALA and she was to have an important role in creating a library service in Ghana. The GLA is a registered professional association established under the Professional Bodies Decree NRCD 143 of 1973 with Registered No. PB 21 on 2 August 1986 in accordance with the laws of Ghana. It publishes the ''Ghana Library Journal'', a

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. The association has been in existence for over 54 years. It went through a period of activity and inactivity in the 1970s, but since 1983 it has been revived and growing steadily. The Association has an elected governing council for a two-year tenure, chaired by the President, who sees to the running of the association. The 20th President of the Association was Mrs. Comfort Asare, who was the acting Librarian at

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. The 21st President of the Association is Mr. Kodjo Antwi, the Librarian at th
Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre.

Membership

* Fellow * Chartered Member * Associate member * Student * Retired Member * Life Member * Ordinary member

Membership of professional bodies

The Association is a member of the following professional bodies: * International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) *

African Library and Information Associations and Institutions The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), commonly referred to as AfLIA, is an International non-governmental organization, international not-for-profit organization headquartered in Accra, Ghana. The Association ...

(AfLIA)

List of presidents

Ghana Library Journal

''Ghana Library Journal'' is a biannual double-blind

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published by the Ghana Library Association. The journal publishes

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scholarly articles in different aspects of

Library and Information Science Library and information science (LIS)Library and Information Sciences is the name used in the Dewey Decimal Classification for class 20 from the 18th edition (1971) to the 22nd edition (2003). are two interconnected disciplines that deal with inf ...

which are intended for library professionals and educators, information scientists as well as students. As a

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journal, manuscript published in the journal are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). The editor of the journal is Monica Mensah Danquah. The journal is abstracted and indexed in African Journals Online (AJOL) and Sabinet African Journals.

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External links

Ghana Library Association
Libraries in Ghana English-language journals Library and information science journals biannual journals Academic journals established in 1963 {{Ghana-stub