22 January 2009

Australian Library and Information Association IOG Excellence Award

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The prestigious Australian Library and Information Association IOG Excellence Award recognises excellence and/or innovation in performance by information professionals. The award carries a prize to the value of $10 000 and the winner shares their experiences with the information community via Online On Tour.

'The panel congratulates the nominees for the variety of applications, which highlighted the diversity of projects happening within the profession', said Marian Morgan Bindon, Conference Marketing Coordinator for the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) IOG committee. Marian, on behalf of the ALIA IOG committee, also said, 'We want to thank the panel for the time and consideration that went into their evaluation.'

The panel reviewed 22 nominations and shortlisted six finalists. The final six were evenly distributed, with two each from national/state libraries, special libraries and education libraries.

Three finalists were present at the Information Online Conference Dinner where the award ceremony took place. In order of receipt of their original nomination, the three finalists were:

• Elena Evendenskaia – Engineers Australia,
• Elibrary Team – Australian Taxation Office,
• Southnary Tan – University of Sydney.

The winner of this year's Australian Library and Information Association IOG Excellence award was the ATO elibrary Team – Australian Taxation Office, for successfully deploying and continuing to develop, a best-practice eLibrary solution, making information quickly and easily available to over 25 000 ATO desktops Australia-wide. This was achieved by selecting, acquiring, configuring and deploying cutting-edge information applications, resources and content.

Accepting the award on behalf of the ATO eLibrary Team was Sue Sinclair (First assistant Commissioner for the Australian Taxation Office).

ENDS