Dr. Clara Ada Ogbaa from Ufuma, Orumba North LGA. She currently serves as the Director of Library Services at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven Connecticut, USA. She has over 35 years of experience in the university, college and public libraries nationally and internationally, with 20 years of effective leadership management and supervisory positions in academic libraries. She was a former Library Director at Gateway Community College, New Haven Connecticut, USA for ten years, and a former adjunct faculty at the department of Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven CT where she also served as an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Library Instruction at Buley Library for twelve years. She worked as an administrative librarian and the Head of Reference and Instructional Services at Texas State University, San Marcos as well as served as as a Lecturer at Imo State/Abia State University from 1982 to 1990.
Ogbaa has been involved in many campus, local, national and international partnerships and organizations. She was the Assistant National Secretary for ASA Women USA, 2013-2016 and the current Project Chair as well as attended the 2016 Medical Mission.
Ogbaa holds a Doctor of Education degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport Connecticut, a Master’s degree in Library & Information Science and a Bachelor’s degree in English both from the University of Texas at Austin. She also holds NCE degree in English and Igbo from Alvan Ikoku College of Education as well as attended the Harvard Ledaership Institute for Academic Librarians in Cambridge, Mass, and Kroc Faculty Institute’s “Teaching Peace in the 21st Century” at the University of Notre Dame. She belongs to many professional associations, community organizations and causes that provide support and services to the less privileged, children, orphans and widows in communities.