ALIA Excellence Award winners named

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced the winners of the 2017 ALIA Excellence Award, which honours contributions to the library and information sector.

The recipients are:

• Kerry Smith (HCL Anderson Award), in recognition of her ‘outstanding service to library education; her many contributions to ALIA through committees, groups and the ALIA Board (President 1997), and her continuing support for library and information professionals in Western Australia’.
• David J Jones (HCL Anderson Award), in recognition of his ‘leadership role in the development of library buildings across Australia and SE Asia; in writing valuable library and information science publications, and in the promotion of Australian library history’.
• Alisa Howlett (Metcalfe Award), in recognition of her ‘achievements and contribution as an early career librarian, notably as a practitioner researcher and active member of ALIA Groups and Committees’.

The HCL Anderson Award is the Association’s highest honour that can be bestowed on an associate member of ALIA, and the Metcalfe Award recognises high achievement by an ALIA personal member in their first five years of practice.

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