It is our great pleasure to announce that Ian Hildebrand of Mt Barker Community Library was named the 2008 South Australian Library Achiever of the Year at last night’s award ceremony.
Ian was nominated for Innovative program development and creation of local business and community links for Mount Barker Community Library.
In the past five years, under the leadership of Ian, Mt Barker Community Library has positioned itself as the heart of the community. Over this period the number of people visiting the library has increased by 60%.
Ian has developed partnerships with a variety of local and statewide organisations including booksellers and publishers, TAFESA Wallis Cinemas, Dominos Pizza and Monarto Zoo. He has used the media very effectively to promote the library and it’s services.
His innovation in children’s programming has resulted in a 500% increase in participation levels in the past three years, some examples of the many programs include living library, school holiday discos, and Rock Star for a Day program.
Ian was successful from a strong field of contenders and all nominees are congratulated on the quality of their nominations.
ALIA South Australian Student Awards
Acknowledgement was also made to South Australian recipients of the ALIA student awards for Information Studies courses.
Heather Iveson received the award for completion of the Graduate Diploma. Janet Bradshaw received the award for completion of the Bachelor Degree.
ALIA Silver Pin recipients
ALIA silver pins were presented to Bill Cations (Flinders University), Christine Cother (University of South Australia) and Hayley Morton (SA Water) who have all served for five or more terms on ALIA committees.
Thanks again to Raeco for sponsoring the Library Achiever of the Year Award, 3M Library Systems, Ex-Libris, Public Libraries South Australia for sponsoring the award presentation evening, and the State Library of South Australia for provision of the lovely venue.
Benita Wheeler & Hayley Morton
ALIA SA Co-Convenors
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