APSIG newsletter no. 58: July 2005

University of Goroka Library

Sir Paulias Matane, Governor General of Papua New Guinea officially opened the new three-storey library complex at the University of Goroka, Eastern Highland Province, in May 2005. The project cost the PNG government thirteen million Kina. The building was designed by a retired library professor and constructed by Downer PNG over a two year period. The reading tables and chairs are all made of tropical hard wood such as kwila and rosewood.

The University of Goroka Library is believed to be the second largest in Papua New Guinea. It has a stock of over 100 000 monographic volumes, 400 periodical titles, 1000 video tapes and several thousand audio-visual materials.

University of Goroka started as a teacher training college in 1962 to train primary school teachers. The college was transferred to the University of Papua New Guinea from the Teacher Education Division of the Ministry of Education in 1975 to offer teacher training courses for secondary education. In 1997, the University of Goroka Act 1997, formally established the campus as the University of Goroka. There are about 1350 students, 71 faculty staff and three faculties: Education, Humanities and Science.

Deveni Temu