About the Department

The Department was founded in 1961 as a Library School under the authority of the Ghana Library Board, became the Department of Library Studies in 1965, and was renamed the Department of Library and Archival Studies in 1975, when it was affiliated to a UNDP/UNESCO Regional Centre for the training of Archivists. In 2014/2015, following the adoption of the collegiate system of management in the running of academic units, the Department ceased to operate under the then Faculty of Social Studies and became part of the School of Information and Communication Studies under the College of Education.