12 July 2010

ALIA Board of Directors awards its highest honour

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The ALIA Board of Directors is delighted to announce that Jan Fullerton has been awarded the distinction of the HCL Anderson Award, to be presented on Wednesday 14th July, 2010, at the National Library of Australia.

The HCL Anderson Award is the Association's highest honour that can be bestowed on an Associate member of ALIA. It is awarded in recognition of outstanding service to the library and information profession in Australia, to ALIA, to the theory of library and information science, or to the practice of library and information services.

Jan Fullerton has made an extraordinary contribution to library and information profession in Australia, showing outstanding leadership, particularly in her work to make unique Australian library materials accessible to everyone through innovative resource discovery services and digitisation, and collaboration with other libraries and cultural institutions.

In her position as Director of Collections and Reader Services, and subsequently as Director-General of the National Library of Austuralia, Jan was instrumental in leading the development of the National Library’s digital collection and access policies and services.

This commitment to increase the visibility of collections and services can be seen in the Treasures exhibitions, resulting in a greatly increased awareness of the value of national and international documentary heritage. In opening up free access to the national catalogue, Libraries Australia, Jan has taken the nations collections to the virtual doorstop of all Australians.

Jan’s library background has spanned all the fundamental areas of library operations including cataloguing, acquisitions and collection development, preservation, information services and document supply.

On behalf of the library community, we congratulate Jan Fullerton on this prestigious award.