Dr. 离石Kwasitsu

教育

• Ph.D., Librarianship; Monash University, Australia
• Master of Arts, Librarianship; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Graduate Diploma, Librarianship; University of Ghana
• Bachelor of Arts (Hons), English; University of Ghana

Areas of Teaching

• Research Methods
• Information Literacy
• 阅读 & 写作

Research Passion

• Quantitative analysis of scholarly communication
• Information-seeking behavior of artisans, professionals and students
• Early printing 和 book trade
• Oral history interviews with the residents of Mepe and its environs

奖

• Monash University Graduate Scholarship, Melbourne, Australia.
• South Africa Research Fellowship, Center for African Studies, University of Cape Town.
• Mellon Research Fellowship, Center for Virginia History, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.
• Student Liaison Co-Chair, Executive Board, Special 库, Association Western 加拿大 Chapter, 埃德蒙顿, AB, 加拿大.
• Student Practicum Supervisor, University of Alberta School of 图书馆 & Information Studies 埃德蒙顿, AB, 加拿大.

Background

Dr. Kwasitsu joined the Warner Pacific faculty in 2017 after working for 15 years as a Research Librarian/Information Analyst, 在英特尔公司. Prior to moving to the United States, he was a Prospect Researcher, Development Office, at University of Alberta, 加拿大; 和 Research Services Supervisor, EPCOR, 公司., 加拿大’s first municipally owned electric utility.

Dr. Kwasitsu taught Librarianship at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica 和 University of Ghana. He was a Research Fellow, Center for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Kwasitsu served as the Head, Technical Services, University of Maiduguri 图书馆, Nigeria 和 Foundation Secretary of the University’s Senate 图书馆 Committee. He was also a Cataloger/Space Planner, University of Calabar 图书馆, Nigeria. Dr Kwasitsu is an usher at the Palace of Praise, United Pentecostal Church, 在阿罗哈, Oregon and he enjoys traveling and cooking.

Learn more about Dr. Kwasitsu by visiting him on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lishikwasitsu/

出版物

• “The University of Calabar definitive library building: history and future development”, 利布里 35:3 (1985), 218-226.
• “An estimate of Charles Elliott’s revenue from the Nelson Examiner, 1842-1874”, The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 9:4 (Fourth Quarter 1985), 121-138.
• “Early libraries in Nelson”, New Zealand 库 45:1 (March 1986), 1-6.
• “The production of the Nelson Examiner in the context of the early New Zealand press”, The Turnbull 图书馆 Record (New Zealand) 19:2 (October 1986), 123-140.
• “Establishing a colonial society: the Melbourne Advertiser 和 Port Philip Gazette, 1831-51”, The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 10:2 &3 (1986), 46-60.
• “新闻 reporting in the Nelson Examiner, 1842-1874”, The Turnbull 图书馆 Record (New Zealand) 20:1 (May 1987), 31-43.
• “The University of Calabar definitive library building: history and future development”, International 图书馆 Review 19 (January 1987), 73-80.
• “Caribbean publishing, 1711-1900: a preliminary subject analysis”, Scholarly Publishing (加拿大) 22:4 (July 1991), 231-240.
• “The availability and use of books in libraries in nineteenth century Bendito, Australia”, 库 & Culture: A Journal of 图书馆 History (USA) 27:2 (Spring 1992), 143-176.
• “Some aspects of the printing 和 distribution of the Bendigo Advertiser”, The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 16:2 (Second Quarter, 1992), 75-83.
• “Printing in Victoria, Australia, 1850-1900”, 图书馆 (Great Britain) Sixth Series 16:1 (March 1994), 30-42.
• Printing 和 book trade in early Nelson (Wellington, NZ: Elibank Press), 1996 ISBN:0-9583496-1-4.

• “Information-seeking behavior of design, process and manufacturing engineers”, 图书馆 & Information Science Research 时候(美国)25:3 & 4 (2003), 459-476.
• “Promoting commercial activities in Cape Town newspapers, 1976-1901”, Social Dynamics (South Africa) 30:1 (2004), 170-192.
• “Advertising in Australian newspapers: the case of the Bendigo Advertiser 和 Bendigo Independent”, Publishing History (Great Britain) 56 (2004), 53-70.
• “Publishing in Victoria, Australia, 1851-1900”, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 101:2 (2007), 170-192.
• “Mobile information behavior of Warner Pacific University students”, 图书馆 & Information Science Research Volume 41, Issue 2,(2019), 139-150.