The winners of the 2011 Edublog Awards have been announced. Some of Libraries Interact’s friends were nominated and we congratulate them on this amazing honour. Check out the winners and runner ups – I am sure you’ll find something to add to your feed reader.

Salem Press has announced the call for nominations for the 2011 Library Blog Awards. The Library Blog Awards aim “to recognise blogging excellence across the library spectrum.” This year’s vote will be ‘bigger & better” with more judges, more blog categories and a public vote. Judges include Andy Woodworth (Agnostic, Maybe) and Jessamyn West (Librarian.net), [...]

The 2011 Library Journal Movers and Shakers have been announced. There are quite a few familiar names spread through the lists of fifty innovators, community builders, tech leaders, marketers, advocates and change agents, who have been recognised for their “extraordinary work to serve their users and to move libraries of all types and library services [...]

Nominations are now open for both these prestigious library awards. The Library Journal Movers and Shakers Awards recognise excellence in librarians across a wide range of disciplines, not just technology. They are a great way for applauding the wonderful work librarians do to elevate our services and our profession and to improve the services, organisation [...]

This just in from VALA: “****Information technology award**** VALA is inviting nominations for its most prestigious award, the Robert D. Williamson Award 2010, and we’d like them by Monday 15 November 2009 (but keep them secret!). This biennial award, always a surprise to its recipient, is presented to an individual or organisation who or which [...]

The Library Society of the World has been around for a couple of years – many of the LINT team are members, some of us even active in it.  From their wiki: “The Library Society of the World is a loose group of librarians, archivists, information professionals, and information educators dedicated to promoting libraries and [...]

The list is out.  Library Journal has announced their 2009 Movers and Shakers. There are many well-deserved names on this years list and many others who I am looking forward to finding out more about.  Check out the Library Journal Movers and Shakers 2009 list and the links to their respective blogs (courtesy of Bobbi [...]

Nominations for VALA travel scholarships and the VALA award for innovative use of information technology close on the 27th of October. The VALA award is open to all libraries and information centres in Australia. It is presented every two years and applications implemented between July 2006 and June 2008 are eligible. The travel scholarships include [...]

We at Libraries Interact are keen watchers of the Library Journal Movers and Shakers awards announced March each year, so perked up when we heard that the nominations were open for the 2009 awards. For those new to Movers and Shakers, this from the LJ Website: “The editors of Library Journal need your help in [...]

Presented by ALIA President Derek Whitehead ALIA Fellowship was awarded to: Christine MacKenzie: CEO of Yarra Plenty Regional Library ALIA Fellowship was awarded to: Roxanne Missingham: Commonwealth Parliamentary Librarian Presented by Mylee Joseph Ena Noel Award was awarded to: Marcus Zusak for Book thief Marjorie Cotton Award was awarded to: Melinda McNaughton – Team Leader [...]