Reference and Information Services Librarian
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Grace is the reference and information services librarian at E. Latunde Odeku Medical Library, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is currently the Acting Medical Librarian (Acting Direct) of the Library. As a reference and information services librarian, she provides reference services to patrons including undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Medicine, faculty, health care providers including doctors, nurses, residents, and other allied health professionals and students in the University College Hospital (UCH), where students receive their clinical training.
She also conducts training for students, faculty, non-teaching staff and healthcare workers on how to access, retrieve and use electronic information resources including databases, portals (HINARI), gateways and digital archives, e-books, e-journals, and reference sources. She has been conducting Hinari training since it was launched in 2002, having been part of the first group of African librarians to receive Hinari training sponsored by WHO, Tropical Disease Research in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2002. In addition, she conducts regular training on use of bibliographic management tools including EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley.
As an academic librarian in the University of Ibadan, she conducts research, write, and publish findings of her studies in peer review journals. She has presented papers at both national, regional, and international conferences. She has also published in both national, regional, and international peer review journals. Her research focus is on access, retrieval and use of online health information resources, ICT use in libraries with special interest in training and utilization of Internet health information resources. She is also interested in Systematic review process, digitization of library resources and development of institutional repositories. She provides consultancy services to individuals, institutions, and organizations in training/manpower development, literature search and digitization and institutional repository development.
Grace had been an associate lecturer at the Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies (LARIS) where she taught undergraduate and graduate students information literacy, reference sources and services, marketing library information products and services among other courses. She also supervised the research projects of undergraduate and graduate Library and Information Science Students in LARIS department.
She has implemented a couple of projects and involved in group research projects with other team members including Ingenta Research Grant (2008), Elsevier Foundation, Innovative Libraries Grant Award, (2014); Formative Research for Serial Drama in Selected Pidgin English Speaking States of Nigeria- A research grant awarded by Population Media Centre, (2016); Quality of Tuberculosis Service Delivery and Treatment Outcomes in Nigeria: A research grant awarded by Association for Reproductive and Family Health, (2017), and Endline evaluation of radio serial dramas Jangala and A Dade Ana Yi in selected states in Nigeria; a research grant awarded by Population Media Center, 2017. Other project awards include development of the Africa Health Library and dissemination of HIV/AIDs information to rural dwellers in Oyo State funded by Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), US. Department of State and International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions / Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (IFLA/FAIFE) respectively.