Awards

VALA TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS 2008

Every two years VALA offers up to two Travel Scholarships to enable suitable persons to travel overseas to examine aspects of library automation. Candidates proposing to study newer technologies of potential application in Australia but not yet seen here are most likely to be successful. No formal qualifications are required. Although candidates should be working in library or information related areas, they need not be employed in traditional library environments.

The VALA Travel Scholarship for 2008 is awarded to Kathryn Greenhill from Murdoch University. Kathryn will be travelling to the United States and Canada in order to study Alternative Discovery Layers and Open Source Library Management Systems. She will investigate what they do technically and whether organisations that implement them have common factors that make them early adopters of technology.

We look forward to hearing the results of Kathryn's research at the VALA2010 conference.