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Sidney Hockey (commonly credited as S.W Hockey) was British librarian

Education
According to a 1971 profile, Hockey was educated at University College School of Librarianship in London between 1930 and 1933.

Career
Later on, between 1948 and 1953, Hockey served as the Director of the Eastern Caribbean Regional Library. He later succeeded In 1959, Hockey was appointed by the British Council as a Libraries Development Organiser for the Kenya Colony, Tanganyika Territory and the Protectorate of Uganda. While in this position, he authored the Hockey report their choice was S.W. Hockeywhile working as a librarian at the British Council, Hockey

He was Director of the Eastern

Caribbean Regional Library 1948-53, of the Jamaica Library

Service 1953-55, and of the Trinidad Central Library and

Eastern Caribbean Regional Library 1956-60. During 1962-64

he was Libraries Organizer in East Africa and during 1960-69

Legacy
Having been appointed as Libraries Organiser for East Africa by the British Council, Hockey in 1960 authored a report titled "The Development of Library Services In East Africa" at times referred to as the Hockey Report.

(The establishment of the East African School of Library and Information Science (EASLIS) at Makerere University

Related reading

 * William Serwadda
 * National Library of Uganda