Congratulations to Paul Hagon from the National Library of Australia (and VALA2010 speaker) for being recognised as a the first Australian Mover and Shaker by the Library Journal.

Now in its ninth year, the LJ's Movers & Shakers spotlights librarians from all corners of the library world. Acknowledged as a major honour within the library community, Paul is the first Australian to be recognised as an LJ Mover & Shaker. Paul's nomination recognises the world class work he has done with library mashups and APIs. To quote:

"Paul uses his skills as a web developer to mash together digitised images from libraries, museums, and archives around the world, helping to expose some real treasures from library collections in beautiful, useful, and interesting ways."

At VALA2010 Conference Paul delivered two papers "Making our catalogue as easy as 1, 2, 3", and "Everything I know about cataloguing I learned from watching James Bond", as well as delivering a VALA L-Pate Series presentation on "Library Mashups and APIs".

Both the VALA Committee, and the VALA2010 Programme Committee, would like to congratulate Paul for this wonderful achievement.

Paul's Movers & Shaker citation is now available on the Library Journal web site.