Friday, September 5, 2008

Award presentations

Derek Whitehead (president of ALIA) presented two ALIA Fellowships yesterday to:
  • Roxanne Missingham - Parliamentary Librarian
  • Christine Mackenzie - Yarra Plenty Regional Libraries
I had the honour of presenting three awards: 
  • International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) - Ena Noel Australian Encouragement Award to Markus Zusak.
  • ALIA Marjorie Cotton Award - Melinda McNaughton from Sutherland Shire Libraries (NSW)
  • ALIA Bess Thomas Award - Bidyadanga Community Library (WA) 
Margaret Whitaker from City of Sydney Libraries received the ALIA Study Grant to research public music libraries and write a proposal for Sydney.



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