Superlibrarian spreads wings

A role model for new-style information professionals, Thiendou Niang has little of the characteristics of the 1970 s generation of librarians from which he came. Timidity, temerity, introversion, a dislike of doing deals, a fear of fixing, none of those belongs to his mind-set. He joined CTA in 1985 to run its documentation services and left in April 2002 to lead the REPA expert network on agricultural policy, based in his hometown, Dakar, Senegal. In 1996, he took over the new Information and Capacity Development Department incorporating training activities, rural radio programmes and customised information such as Question-and-Answer services. At the time, the wind of the computer age and Internet was blowing through both the institution of CTA and across the landscape of its many partners, and it was decidedly his department that best hosted the many opportunities of these new technologies. In his spare time, he completed his PhD on information profiling in small and medium-scale enterprises. Many who know CTA will have been first charmed by the flair and perseverance he applied to the job at hand a fine example of the empowerment he earnestly sought for others.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format:	News Item biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 2002
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/47596 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99602
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!