ANLTC/Swets Award 2009
The ANLTC/Swets Award 2009, which encourages practitioner-based research among librarians in ANLTC member libraries was awarded to Caleb Derven, University College Dublin, for his proposal Evaluating Services and Specifications for Reading List Systems. Presenting the award Jessie Kurtz, co-ordinator of the award remarked that the outlined methodology demonstrated the feasibility of the proposal, which was well presented, structured and deliverable. The breadth of focus bringing systems into the public service area was especially laudable. The ANLTC looks forward to the results which will have broad applicability across the CONUL libraries and beyond.
Commenting on winning the award Caleb said “I’m delighted to win this award and am looking forward to embarking on my research. I hope my findings will prove useful to a variety of academic libraries.”
In addition, the Judging panel for the ANLTC/Swets Award 2009 was impressed by the proposal from Marie Cullen, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Staff Development: a case study of the ANLTC Library Assistant Bursary. Marie has been commissioned and funded by ANLTC, with an extended criteria brief, for this piece of research which will be of interest and potential impact for the ANLTC.
Library Assistant Bursary 2009
The Library Assistant Bursary 2009 was awarded to Maud Conry, National University of Ireland Galway for the proposal E-book Update in Irish Academic Libraries – an Overview. Presenting the award, Philip Cohen, Chairperson of Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL) remarked “This is an exemplary proposal, in terms of presentation, project aims, scope and workplan. It is well structured and the author demonstrates the ability to define clear achievable objectives while maintaining an awareness of potential project constraints. The topic is timely with cataloguing, service and user education implications. The project has personal development benefits and wider transferability to both the home institution and the ANLTC community.”
Second prize in the Library Assistant 2009 Bursary was awarded to Elaine Bean, National University of Ireland Maynooth for her proposal The Development of shared library orientation and information sharing training programmes. Commenting on the proposal Philip Cohen said “This is an excellent idea and will contribute to further the student experience. It fits nicely with the current emphasis on information literacy. The proposal builds on “real world” work already being done and seeks to do this collaboratively across ANLTC libraries.”
Seamus McMahon, chairperson ANLTC was master of ceremonies for the event. Siobhan Fitzpatrick, President of the Library Association of Ireland (LAI) briefly addressed the gathering. Marjory Sliney, editor of An Leabharlann was among the guests, who included representatives from the CONUL committee, the ANLTC committee and staff from member libraries. The presentations were followed by a buffet lunch.
Photographs from the Awards
Award Winning Entry
Library Staff from NUI Galway Celebrate
(left to right) Seamus McMahon, Chairperson ANLTC, John Cox, Librarian NUI Galway, Maud Conry, NUI Galway, winner of the 2009 Library Assistant Bursary, Ann Mitchell, NUI Galway, Philip Cohen, Chairperson CONUL and Edward O’Loughlen NUI Galway, who was highly commended in 2009 Library Assistant Bursary.
Award Winning Entry
Jessie Kurtz, Trinity College Dublin, Caleb Derven, University College Dublin winner of the 2009 ANLTC/Swets Research Award, Carmel O’Sullivan, University College Dublin and Seamus McMahon, Chairperson ANLTC
Staff from NUI Maynooth celebrate
Marie Cullen, who has been commissioned by ANLTC to carry out research on the Library Assistant Bursary, Cathal McCauley, Mary Kearney, Andrew Sliney, Etáin O’Siocháin and Elaine Bean who was awarded second place in the 2009 Library Assistant Bursary.
Philip Cohen, chairperson of Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL) congratulates Elaine Bean, who was awarded second place in the 2009 Library Assistant Bursary.
Four of the five winners of the ANLTC Library Assistant Bursary. The Bursary has been in operation since 1997. (Left to right) Avril Patterson, UCD, Marie Cullen, NUI Maynooth, Maud Conry, NUI Galway, Petra Schurenhofer, UCD. Missing from the picture is the first winner, Irene Hennigan (DCU)
ANLTC / Swets Research Award 2007
The objective of this biennial funding award is to encourage practitioner-based research. The winner of the 2007 award is Siobhan Dunne, Dublin City University for her proposal, Local Community Engagement: extending the role of the academic library to meet the university’s mission.
ANLTC Staff Development Award for Library Assistants 2007
The ANLTC committee is happy to announce the winner of the ANLTC 2007 Staff Development Award for Library Assistants. The award was won by Marie Cullen, NUI Maynooth. She will use the funding to investigate areas of digital object management and digitization as possible topics for a thesis, which is part of the Masters of Library and Information Studies she is undertaking in 2007-2008.
ANLTC Staff Development Award for Library Assistants 2004
Congratulations to the following winners of our Staff Development Award for Library Assistants, 2004:
First Prize – Petra Shurenhofer, University College Dublin
Joint Second Prize – Andrea Mullen, St. Angela’s College, Sligo (constituent college of National University of Ireland Galway) and Louise Walsworth-Bell (National University of Ireland Maynooth)
Two other entrants receive a €50 book token: Cheree McGill (University of Limerick) and Wanda Carin (Dublin Institute of Technology).
ANLTC Survey 2004 Prize Winner
Congratulations to Penny Salholm from Dublin City University who won the survey prize of a weekend for two at The BrookLodge and Wells Spa, Co. Wicklow. See the photo of Penny receiving her prize. Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey. We had 224 entrants and will publish findings soon.
