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Ismail Abdullahi wins 2018
John Ames Humphry/OCLC/
Forest Press Award
By Delin Guerra, OCLC
CHICAGO — Dr. Ismail H. Abdullahi, professor of global library and information science at the School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University,
has been named the 2018 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) International
Relations Committee’s John Ames Humphry/OCLC/Forest Press Award, presented to a librarian or person who has made significant contributions to international librarianship.
The award, sponsored by OCLC/ Forest Press, consists of $1,000 and a plaque to be presented at
the International Relations Round Table reception on Monday, June 25, at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. OCLC/Forest Press donated the cash award.
Abdullahi has spent over four decades immersed in the global library and information community, working to improve the profession around the world. His involvement in the international library field began as a student at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he had the opportunity
to attend his first International Federation of International Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Conference in 1979.
Abdullahi started his career at
the Danish National Library of Education in the 1970s, and his Ph.D. dissertation was “A Study
of Cooperative Programs among University and Special Libraries in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania.”