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An abridged version of an interview with Professor Opal Palmer Adisa , former University Director, Institute for Gender and Development Studies Regional Coordinating Office Sharon Alexander -Gooding: The UWI’s Archivist, 1996-2019 Shridath Ramphal and Sir George Alleyne and that of the first Principal of Cave Hill, Sir Sidney Martin, as well as other entities that relate to Caribbean integration. She developed and delivered the curriculum for Archives Administration in the Master of Arts in Heritage Studies programme at Cave Hill Campus. In 2014, she was promoted to University Archivist with record-keeping oversight of all four campuses. The fifth campus was established subsequently. Sharon was the first Caribbean Archivist/Records Manager to sit simultaneously on the Executive of the International Council of Archives (ICA) , the Caribbean Branch of ICA (CARBICA) , ARMA International , Barbados Association for Records and Information Management (BARIM) and government boards with respect to archival and records information management (RIM) development. She also consulted on the design and implementation of the National Records Centre and the Digitisation Centre for the Barbados Government. Sharon officially retired as University Archivist in 2019. How and when did you decide you wanted to be an archivist, and what has your journey been like? As a child, I was always reading; so everybody knew that they could make me happy by buying me books. I decided I would be a librarian; however, my first job was actually in accounting. When an opening came up in the Foreign Affairs Library in Trinidad and Tobago, I applied and started
Sharon Alexander-Gooding The UWI’s Archivist, 1996-2019
For the RECORD S haron Alexander-Gooding began her career at The UWI, Cave Hill Campus as the campus’s first Records Manager in 1996, after having served as Manager, Government Records Centre , and Acting National Archivist in Trinidad and Tobago. In 2000, she started the Certificate in Records Management Programme at Cave Hill, and in 2004, established the West Indies Federal Archives Centre at Cave Hill that brought together and preserved the original records, in all formats, of the West Indies Federation (The Federation) which were inscribed in the local, regional and international Registers of the UNESCO Memory of the World . In 2009, Sharon was promoted to Senior Assistant Registrar during which time she acquired the records of Chancellors Emeriti Sir
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