ALIA silver pin

An ALIA silver pin is awarded to recognise a member's contribution to ALIA. It is to thank them for volunteering their time to ALIA activities. To be eligible a member must have served on an ALIA group committee for five terms.

It was my great pleasure on Thursday 29 January to award an ALIA silver pin to Ms Chris Gissing. Chris has been an active ALIA member since 1987. In the Northern Territory she was a committee member from 1993-1996 and newsletter editor for the branch from 1995-1996. In Queensland, Chris has been a council member (1997-1998), president of the Queensland Public Libraries Section (1998-1999) and a founding committee member of QUORUM (2000).

Chris's hard work and dedication over the last couple of years has been with mentoring. She was the co-ordinator of the ALIA Qld Mentoring Program (2001-2002) and was instrumental in establishing an innovative mentoring program between ALIA and QUT students (2002) of which Chris is also the co-ordinator of this program (2002-2004) The silver pin is an acknowledge of all the hard work that Chris has undertaken and one writing the above it is hard to imagine where Chris founds the time. Once again congratulations Chris Gissing on an exceptional job.

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