Mr. Fred Kwaku Hayibor

Mr. Fred Kwaku Hayibor is a founding staff of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) Library. Currently a Junior Assistant Librarian, Fred is in charge of library e-resources and training. He holds a Master of Information Technology (M.IT) degree from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Studies from University of Ghana, Legon. Fred is constant and consistent in continuing professional development and holds several certificates of accomplishment in research writing, open science, and library collections and technical services. He is also a certified trainer of the UN’s Research4Life programmes, and an open access champion. Fred’s M.IT education was sponsored with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He is also a winner of the Medical Library Association (MLA) Librarians Without Borders®/Elsevier Foundation/Research4Life Grants for 2020. Fred has made and continues to make very high impact contributions to the University Library including his practical, problem-based and resource-focused teaching of Information Literacy, a university required course. No doubt, he was rated “Excellent” (Green) by the university’s Quality Assurance Unit in 2017 for effective teaching. His action research on “Building an Institutional Repository at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana” has helped to shape the Institutional Repository (IR) policy, and several other findings from this study are currently being considered for informing improvements in the implementation approach. Fred also wrote the University Library’s Collection Development Policy, and is the brain behind most of the Library’s capacity building initiatives. He is a member of the Ghana Library Association. Prior to starting his career in academic librarianship in 2013 here at UHAS, Fred worked in various capacities as ICT educator, business developer and administrator in both public and private sectors. Fred loves community work, and currently supports NGOs in health, education and governance to empower indigenous people to value education, empower women and hold their duty-bearers accountable. He does this through proposal development, field implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning, and reporting. Fred is also the founder and President of Capstone Information Literacy Institute (CILI), an organization dedicated to making suitably qualified persons university- and research-ready by exposing them, through intensive competency training, to current digital and learning skills to survive in world-class university education environments.

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Email: [email protected]

Phone: (+233) 242 735 196