DR NGOZI BLESSING UKACHI
librarian
Dr Ngozi Blessing Ukachi is the Acting Medical Librarian, College of Medicine, University of Lagos. She is professionally interested in the areas of electronic information service delivery, scholarly communication, and user study and education. She is the first Nigerian to win the prestigious IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Award in 2012. She is a renowned researcher. This is evidenced in the Emerald Literati Award of Excellence which she received in the year, 2016, following the selection of one her publications as an award winning paper by Emerald Publishers, United Kingdom. She has also won several other international awards which include; the “Essay Competition Award for IFLA 2010 (organized by the Academic and Research Section of IFLA) which she received in Gothenburg, Sweden, Carnegie Corporations Fellowship Award in 2015 during which she was trained at University of Pretoria, South Africa, etc. She has published widely and has also presented papers locally and internationally in varying areas of Library and Information Science. Ngozi is the immediate past Chairman of the Information Technology (I.T.) Section of the Nigerian Library Association and a Past General Secretary of Nigerian Library Association, Lagos State Chapter. She is passionate about training and disseminating information on trends and current ICT skills necessary for effective information service delivery.