Oral history interview with Rookaya Bawa, 2011
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- Name
- Bawa, Rookaya (Interviewee)
- Clark, Mary Marshall (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Rookaya Bawa, 2011
- Abstract
- Early life in South Africa; marriage at age sixteen; one of ten people of color allowed to go to a white university; graduate education in England; member of black faculty at South Africa universities; work in libraries for South African Department of Education; mother of two girls; hired by Carnegie to develop a model library program in Africa; work in the field in Africa; importance of technology to African libraries; utilizing partnerships with local governments to ensure completion and sustainability of libraries; the library as safe space; development of library collections; inefficacy of mobile libraries; building of inter-library research commons; methods of activating interest in public libraries; choosing which libraries to work with; training public librarians; digitization of collections; benefits to philanthropy of hiring specialists or generalists; leadership of and disagreements with Vartan Gregorian; return to South Africa to care for ill daughter; future position as executive director of the academic library at University of Johannesburg; impressions of New York City; continuing role as consultant for Carnegie.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 3
- Subjects
- Libraries--Africa; Bawa, Rookaya; Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 33 pages. + index; 1 digital audio file (55 min.)
- Note (Biographical)
- Program Officer with Higher Education and Libraries in Africa and Manager of African Libraries Project, International Program.
- Note
- Interviewed by Mary Marshall Clark on December 14, 2011
- Note (Provenance)
- Gift of Rookaya Bawa
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 12811844
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-xsnv-ge48
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.