Congratulations 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.