William Serwadda Explained

William Serwadda (sometimes referred to as G.W Serwadda) was a Ugandan librarian who served as the first ever Director of the Uganda Library Service.^[1] He held the position between July 1964 - November 1966.^[2]

Career

Between 1955 and 1957, Serwadda worked as a library assistant at Makerere University after which he departed to undertake library studies in Britain.^[3]

After his studies, Serwadda visited a number of libraries in "continental Europe including Scandinavia" then came back to Uganda and was published in the East African Library Association Bulletin. He was subsequently appointed the first director of the Uganda Library Service in July 1964 after the designated appointee resigned.

Published works

Serwadda has been quoted by a number of library scholars basing on his work that was published in a number of journals. The publications drawn on include but are not limited to

• In my View (Published in the East African Library Association Bulletin, 5 January 1967, pp.10-12)
• The Development of Library Services in Uganda (Published in the East African Library Association Bulletin, 7 June 1966, pp.26-28)^[4]

Related reading

• Evelyn Evans
• National Library of Uganda

References

1. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/288392828.pdf
2. Sturges . Paul . March 2001 . The Poverty of Librarianship: An Historical Critique of Public Librarianship in Anglophone Africa . . 51 . 1 . 38-48 . 10.1515/LIBR.2001.38 . 145150595.
3. Web site: Stranger-Johannessen . Espen . January 2009 . Student Learning through a Rural Community Library: A case study from Uganda . 2 August 2023 . www.researchgate.net.
4. Book: Libraries in East Africa . 1971 . Scandinavian Inst. of African Studies . 978-91-7106-051-8 . Wallenius . Anna-Britta . Uppsala . Arunsi . N. O..