Daphne Douglas
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Daphne Douglas | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 September 1924 Kingston, Jamaica |
| Died | April 2024 (aged 99) |
| Occupation | Librarian |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of the West Indies |
Daphne Rowena Douglas CD (26 September 1924 – April 2024) was a Jamaican librarian, academic and public servant. She was the first Jamaican woman to become a professor at the University of the West Indies, where she was head of the Department of the Library Studies, and later served as chairman of the National Library of Jamaica from 1997 to 2011. Douglas died in April 2024, at the age of 99.[1]
Douglas was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to Rowena Theresa (née Davis) and Thomas Edson Douglas. She grew up in Brown's Town, attending St. Hilda's High School, and later returned to Kingston to attend Suthermere Commercial School. Douglas joined the Jamaica Civil Service in 1944 as a secretary and stenotypist. After studying library science in Trinidad and the UK, she was admitted to the British Library Association and began working for the Jamaica Library Service in 1956. She was chief librarian of the Institute of Jamaica from 1961 to 1963 and librarian of the Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations from 1963 to 1964.[2]
