Sally Njie (Librarian)

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Sally PC Njie , also Sally N'Jie , Sally N'jie and Aunty Sally N'jie (* 1932 in Bathurst , British Gambia ; † August 25, 2020 ) was a Gambian librarian and author.

Life

Njie attended the Methodist Girls' High School (now the Gambia Senior Secondary School ) in Banjul . After completing school, she worked for the Gambian Post and the British Council . In 1957 she completed a one-year internship with the Ghana Library Board , which had only recently been formed (1949) , the first national library in Sub-Saharan Africa . She then went on to study librarianship in Great Britain and then worked in the Gambia in a council library .

When the British Council ceased its work in Gambia in 1963 and closed the library, it handed 5,000 books over to the Gambian government. Njie was commissioned to build a Gambian national library on this basis . The resources available for this were very limited. By the early 1970s, the library had 4,500 volumes and 3,600 awards. In addition, she started programs to promote reading, including a mobile library for schools.

Njie wrote an annual bibliography of all works published in Gambia ( Bibliography of The Gambia ). In 1978 she created and published the country 's first Gambian Who's Who . She also published the speeches given by Dawda Jawara from 1965 to 1975 . These writings, collected under the name “Gambiana”, are still considered to be particularly useful for scholars for studying the country.

She also trained librarians, but above all librarians, and from the 1970s onwards she also began to train primary school teachers for libraries. It also assigned local ISSN and ISBN numbers, thereby promoting local publishing. Njie also set up branches of the national library in Basse and Bansang .

Njie has long been a member of all relevant library associations in the Commonwealth, as well as the Committee on Bibliography in Africa .

Publications

  • Sir Dawda speaks , Banjul, 1977.
  • A study tour of Ghana , Nigeria and Sierra Leone, 1977
  • Who's who in The Gambia , Banjul, 1978.

literature

  • Hassoum Ceesay : Gambian women: an introductory history . 1st edition. Fulladu Publishers, Gambia 2007, p. 63-64 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hassoum Ceesay: Tribute: Mother of Library in The Gambia Gone. In: thepoint.gm. The Point, August 28, 2020, accessed August 28, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ Lamin Njie: TRIBUTE: Sally PC Njie (1932-2020), (The Gambia's First Librarian; Pioneer Chief Librarian Of The Gambia National Library). In: fatunetwork.net. August 29, 2020, Retrieved August 30, 2020 (American English).
  3. ^ Mary Ellen Quinn: Historical Dictionary of Librarianship . Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8108-7545-6 , pp. 123 ( google.de [accessed on January 20, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Accessgambia.com: Gambia National Library Service (GNLSA). Retrieved January 20, 2019 (Access Gambia names April 1962 as the date).
  5. ↑ a b c d Hassoum Ceesay: Njie, Sally . In: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr (Eds.): Dictionary of African Biography . tape 4 . Oxford Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5 , pp. 476 .
personal data
SURNAME Njie, Sally
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Njie, Sally PC; N'Jie, Sally; N'jie, Sally
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian librarian
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bathurst
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2020