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Dr Anthony Olden

BA MLS PhD FCLIP MCIPR

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Professional Studies School of Computing and Technology



Teaching or Work Interests

 Teaching on the MA Library and Information Management, the MSc Corporate Communication, and other programmes.
Professional writing and editing in addition to research writing.

Research Interests

 Information and education in the Developing World, in particular in Africa.
The information world of refugees.

Research Publications
Olden, Anthony. “‘For Poor Nations a Library Service Is Vital’: Establishing a National Public Library Service in Tanzania in the 1960s.” Library Quarterly 75 (2005): 421-45.
Bokre, Desta Arefaine, and Anthony Olden. “Elementary Education in Eritrea: How Mother Tongue Language Policy Affects Pupils and their Access to Information.” Alexandria 18 (2006): 81-95.
Olden, Anthony. “Somali Opposition to Government Education: R.E. Ellison and the Berbera School Affair, 1938-1940.” History of Education 37 (2008): 71-90.
Issa-Salwe, Abdisalam M., and Anthony Olden. “Somali Web Sites, History and Politics.” Aslib Proceedings 60 (2008): 570-82.