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Kumara, Swaran.
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Swaran Phatak was an Indian-born librarian. Phatak was born December 8, 1927 in New Delhi, India, the only child of Pritam Das and Krishna Devi. After graduating from Punjab University with a bachelor of arts, she obtained an MLIS from London Polytechnic in 1956. She held a variety of roles in libraries in India, England, the West Indies, Canada and the United States including as librarian at the New Delhi Public Library, the British Council Library, the U.S. Library of Congress Book Procurement Centre and the London Public Library. Phatak moved to Kitchener-Waterloo from Rochester, New York in 1964 where she served as children's librarian at Kitchener Public Library (1964-65); chief librarian at the Preston Public Library; and as deputy chief librarian at Waterloo Public Library.
Phatak moved to Georgia in 1975 with her husband, Sharad C. Phatak, and their two children where Sharad worked as an associate professor at the University of Georgia. Phatak died November 21, 2009 in Tifton, Georgia.
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Former librarian in the Kitchener-Waterloo public library systems.
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Created April 2023 by DR.
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- Swaran Kumari Phatak. The Tifton Gazette. November 21, 2009.
- "Book Loans Up 3,652 During May". The Kitchener-Waterloo Record. June 11, 1965, p. 3.