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Ghana Library Board


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    • Ghana. Library Board
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      • Ghana. Library Board
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      • found: Its Report, 1957/58-
      • found: Bibliography series. Special subject bibliography, No. 2 (1963):t.p. (Ghana Library Board)
      • found: World of Irng., 1984-85:p. 541 (Ghana Library Board; f. 1950); 1952: p. 400 (Gold Coast Library Board; f. 1950)
      • found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014(Founded 1950)
      • found: OCLC, December 22, 2023(Ghana national bibliography, issued by Ghana Library Board, 1964-1999; no later usage)
      • found: 5th IBBYAfrica Regional Conference & IBBYGhana - Meshack Asare Prize, 2019:page 115 (Ghana Library Authority country report, by Hayford Siaw, Acting Director; the Ghana Library Authority (GhLA), formerly Ghana Library Board, was established in 1949 by the Gold Coast Ordinance CAP 118 and came into effect in January, 1950; the Ordinance was re-enacted as the Ghana Library Board Act, 1970 (Act 327) to establish, equip, manage and maintain public libraries in Ghana)
      • found: 70 years of transforming minds through libraries 1950-2020 : 70th anniversary brochure, 2020, viewed online December 21, 2023:title page (Ghana Library Authority) page 9 (the Gold Coast Library Board Ordinance cap. 118, passed in the Legislative Council in December 1949, came into operation on 1st January 1950; this made the Gold Coast Library Board the second public corporation in the country after the cocoa marketing board, 1947; membership of the first Ghana Library Board reflected the spirit of corporation [i.e., cooperation] for change and progress) page 21 (Prime Minister Dr. Nkrumah, speaking at the opening of the Accra Central Library on May 17, 1956, said that to a Gold Coast emerging on independence, the country was indebted to the Gold Coast Library Board for the progress it had made; independence was 1957) pages 37-39 (section title, Key milestones 1976-2016; milestones given are 2003 and later; the Government of Ghana with assistance of the Ghana National Commission for UNESCO acquired 10 mobile library vans for the Ghana Library Authority, which were inaugurated in August 2007 in the forecourt of the Ghana Library Authority Head Office)
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      • 1981-04-15: new
      • 2023-12-24: revised
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