Superintending the education of girls, encouraging library development, and working with leprosy patients kept a former Cheltenham Ladies' College and librarian of Girton College, Cambridge, very busy in pre independence West Africa. Reports on Ethel Fegan's library activities, her co-workers, and the issues they faced in British colonial Africa of the 1940s.
BT - Library Association Record IS - 2 LA - English N1 -Biographical essay on Ethel Fagan (1877-1975), a British librarian who served as Lady Superintendent of Education for the Nigerian Government (1930-35) and later surveyed library needs in West Africa for the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
N2 -Superintending the education of girls, encouraging library development, and working with leprosy patients kept a former Cheltenham Ladies' College and librarian of Girton College, Cambridge, very busy in pre independence West Africa. Reports on Ethel Fegan's library activities, her co-workers, and the issues they faced in British colonial Africa of the 1940s.
PY - 1997 SP - 96 EP - 97 T2 - Library Association Record TI - An African Pioneer VL - 99 ER -