2012 Williamson Award Announced

 

Williamson MedallionCongratulations to Christine Mackenzie from the Yarra Plenty Regional Library Service for receiving VALA’s most prestigious award, the Robert D. Williamson Award for 2010.

Christine’s Williamson Award Citation is now available on the VALA web site.

Named after one of the early pioneers of our industry, Bob Williamson. This biennial award is presented to an individual or organisation who or which, in the opinion of the judging panel, has made and is currently making an outstanding contribution to the development of information technology usage in Australian libraries and is positively and significantly influencing development in information technology usage within libraries.

The VALA web site provides details about the Robert D. Williamson Award and past recipients.

 

eM-power yourself with VALA2012 hash tags

 

Get more out of VALA2012 and enrich and eM-Power your experience by using hash tags. The main conference hash tag is #VALA2012, while all the VALA2012 sessions, as well as the L Plate and Boot Camp have their own hash tags. See the VALA2012 Programme and VALA2012 Proceedings for details.

There is an excellent article about using Twitter hash tags at the VALA2012 conference on Google Docs.

According to Twirus, during the week of the VALA2010 Conference, #VALA2010 was in the top 5 most popular tweet hash tags in Australia! On 11 February 2010, #VALA2010 was the most popular tweet hash tag in the country! To the best of our knowledge this was the first time a library related hash tag was in the top 5 in Australia let alone the most popular hash tag!

 

As was noted in the VALA2010 opening address, “the delegates who post to blogs and tweet during the conference not only help document the debates, they enrich the experience for all of us.”

 

So get tweeting and blogging and have a great VALA2012.

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