Profile: Tirong arap Tanui

Tirong Arap Tanui

doi:10.1629/20242

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Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.

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Dr Tirong arap Tanui is the University Librarian at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, and known to your Editor from a British Government consultancy project at Moi University – undertaken by a team from Loughborough University between 1990 and 1996
The University began to expand very rapidly and it became clear to Tanui and his colleagues that they needed to lobby very hard for improvements to the library service. Using his contacts in the UK, Tanui and his colleagues succeeded in gaining the interest of the British Government and in 1986 a team of British consultants visited to undertake a feasibility study for a new library building
Tanui was given the job of overseeing the project, working with the team of British consultants led by Prof Tony Evans from Loughborough University

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Introduction

Dr Tirong arap Tanui is the University Librarian at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, and known to your Editor from a British Government consultancy project at Moi University – undertaken by a team from Loughborough University between 1990 and 1996. In 1968 the Kenyan Government established the first secondary school in the district and Tanui was selected along with 25 of the brightest children from his region to attend the new school. It was a long way from home and he had to live with another family near the school for four years.

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