Library sector recognised in 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours

A number of members of the library sector were recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.

John Neville Shipp was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for ‘significant service to library and information management in the tertiary education sector, and to emerging technologies’. Shipp was previously president of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and president of the Council of Australian University Librarians.

Andrew Wells was also awarded an AM for ‘significant service to academic librarianship, to the development of innovative information delivery technologies, and to professional councils’. Wells was a librarian at University of NSW and has been chair of CAVAL since 2012.

Julie Cox, former chair of the State Library of Victoria Foundation and member of the State Library of Victoria Board, received an AM for ‘significant service to the arts through executive roles supporting cultural institutions, and to special education and child welfare’; and archivist Michael Piggott, adjunct lecturer in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, received an AM for ‘significant service to the community as an archivist with national and international educational and cultural institutions, and as an author’.

A complete list of the Australians recognised in this year’s awards can be found here.

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