Idowu AdegbileroIwari

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Idowu AdegbileroIwari Biography

Adegbilero-Iwari Idowu formerly Adeniyi Adegbilero Idowu is a native of Ijan-Ekiti, a neighbouring farming community to Ado-Ekiti, the capital city of Ekiti State, southwest, Nigeria. He obtained a good Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture before proceeding into his preferred profession of Library and Information Science after completing his MLIS programme at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria in 2010. Idowu has since worked in three libraries as Digitization Consultant at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture of the CGIAR Group, Medical Librarian at Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti before his current job as Emerging Technologies Librarian at Elizade University. Idowu in 2015 won the Carnegie Grant to train at the University of Pretoria, South Africa between May and June alongside other librarians from five Carnegie African countries. He is also a winner of the prestigious Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Fellowship award for the year 2016. This gave him, with four other young librarians, opportunity to travel across three US states and the DC to understudy libraries and librarians. He was honoured as a member of the American Library Association and a Certified Librarian of Nigeria (CLN) . Idowu is passionate about open access, technologies in library, public and community library development and modernization of the library environment. He is a seasoned presenter and trainer on emerging scholarly technologies. He is has organized and facilitated numerous training within and outside his institution, some of which he has won internationally competitive grants (e.g. INASP/UNESCO OA Week Grant) to organize. Idowu is full of precious ideas to transform librarianship in Nigeria and also impact on the future generation of societies by investing his time, energy and resources in today’s children.)

The Best Poem Of Idowu AdegbileroIwari

Harvey

Harvey,
You came so hard with forces so ferocious
In a manner we rarely see, you stormed Texas
With shivers you put Louisiana on edge
You ravaged Houston, flooded the streets and blasted her walls

Harvey,
The rampant storm that rendered the houses rustling
And the people homeless, for safety scampering
Shelters were shattered by you, children crying
And miles and bridges in rumbles you left

Harvey,
You broke the addiction of Addicks
She spilled her waters that boats plied the watery roads
And the cars of Houston were submerged like submarine
Monuments were moved ashore by your rivers

Harvey,
Austin and Washington could not but answer your thunderous call
As compassion flurried from all of earth
Prayers and vigils from distant lands to strengthen
The gallantry of men and women on ground, lives to rescue

Harvey,
You have left a trail and a tale that will long be searched and told
Now you must go away and let alone
The city of my love that hosted my feet for four hours
When she admitted me to the nation that put her trust in God

Harvey,
You have done your part, now the people shall arise
Their bits to do with courage and steel themselves
To turn the gory story that Harvey has told
To a tale of glory the world shall ever tell

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