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African Hospital Libraries: How Shane Godbolt inspired and shaped a seedling
Author(s) -
Blacklock Claire
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
health information and libraries journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.779
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1471-1842
pISSN - 1471-1834
DOI - 10.1111/hir.12348
Subject(s) - sierra leone , government (linguistics) , referral , service (business) , nursing , library science , work (physics) , health care , medicine , political science , business , sociology , ethnology , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , marketing , law
The co‐founderof African Hospital Libraries (AHL) chronicles how this charity grew from a tiny pop‐up library set up by two VSO volunteers and the hospital management team, to establishing health care library services in three provincial government referral hospitals (Makeni, Bo, Kenema) in Sierra Leone, and supporting link‐ups with a shared maternity and paediatric hospital library service in Freetown and two libraries in healthcare training institutions. She reflects on the impact that Shane Godbolt had and continues to have on the work and growth of the organisation.