162:. She left her role in the Gold Coast in 1965. Since her arrival in 1945 the Gold Coast had gone from no libraries to over twenty. She had developed a library service for children and she had always planned that the service would in time not be run by the British. In 1967 she was in Libya and Ceylon for UNESCO and she remained in Ceylon until 1970 by which time she had designed the legislation that would create the Ceylon National Library Services Board. In 1975 she was invited back to Ghana to join in the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the library service she had initiated. The 1950 Ghana Library Board Act had not only created the service but it had committed the government to support it. Ghana was said to have had the first national library service in
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