Of TOYIN FALOLA LIBRARY FOUNDATION or USA-AFRICA Library foundation

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

Mr.Cornelius Hamellberg   its is a great idea you put forward about  those on this platform donating their books. maybe we should formalise it as The TOYIN FALOLA LIBRARY FOUNDATION or the USA AFRICA LIBRARY FOUNDATION.the name would help to open doors,

 and we could use  those on this platform to reach out to others to declutter their houses or homes. i am just thinking about the number of retired professors around the world donating their books to  Africa

and then we build a virtual shipping company to deliver the books to libraries the lenghth and breadth of Africa, we have to do some sorting.

this may be done by volunteers    ,maybe undergraduates and they put in on their CV as  real work

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

powerful vision

--
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfric...@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDial...@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialo...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/usaafricadialogue/CAP9m8jK3FPinQBJ7hcrTTJxmchrujdL6C0ZpbT8jXWgepYeiAQ%40mail.gmail.com.

[Abdulakeem Sodeeq SULYMAN]

This is an amazing and timely endeavour that should be given absolute support by every distinguished intellectual on this platform.

Histories have revealed to us that all great libraries such as the Library of Congress in the United States, the Nationale Bibliotheque in France, the British Museum in the United Kingdom, the Alexandria Library in Egypt and a host of other libraries were beneficiaries of donations/supports from individuals that sacrificed their intellectual assets for the benefits of the populace.

Many academic libraries in Africa, especially Nigeria have their Collections named after scholars/intellectuals that supported them with books and other information materials. I will not be surprised to see our erudite Professor Toyin Falola joining such league with this novel and insightful project.

As an act of service, I am ready to be one of the volunteers for this laudable project. I am an Academic Librarian trained in Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State and Kwara State University, Malete, Nigeria. My experience spans different aspects of Library and Information Services and I have several publications to affirm my dexterity in the domain of Librarianship. For more findings on my LIS grooming, I am offering my Orcid for perusal: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9139-3273.

It will be a great honour for me to be considered worthy to volunteer in this project that will offer intellectual renaissance to Africa and beyond!

Abdulakeem Sodeeq SULYMAN

--

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

fantastic from Sodeeq

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/usaafricadialogue/CAA%2BmDEysxZsupoEw98pXjtm8eiuPftw%3DU8f4a-qcQyCW10%3Dv%3DA%40mail.gmail.com.