CONUL T&D LIBRARY ASSISTANT AWARD
We are delighted to announce and congratulate the CONUL T&D LIBRARY ASSISTANT BLOG AWARD winners for 2023.
Award winners 2023:
1st Prize:
Evolving with Energy: Enhancing Spaces for Students at the Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick by Maeve Shanahan, University of Limerick
2nd Prize:
Camera, Action: Finding Photography in UCD Special Collections by Kathryn Milligan, University College Dublin
3rd Prize:
“It will be the Making of You”: Reflecting on my first 18 Months working in Maynooth University Library’s Makerspace by Heidi Campbell, Maynooth University
The 2023 CONUL Training & Development Library Assistant Award required entrants to submit a blog post on any library related topic. Entrants could opt to blog about any aspect of their current work for example training activities they undertook; a development in their own library or an item in their library’s collection. The prize winning and highly commended entries will be published on the libfocus blog over the coming weeks.
Very Highly Commended Entries:
My work on the Crawford Art Gallery’s Library Catalogue Project by Mona Power, University College Cork
Cataloguing an Archival Collection of Private Papers by Selina Collard, University College Dublin
Highly Commended Entries:
Unlocking Voices: DCU Library Creative Writing Competition and the Mountjoy Education Centre by Grace O’Connor, Dublin City University
“Brewing up a storm” – Outreach to develop your professional profile by Catherine Ahearne, Maynooth University
Bringing Collections to a Wider Audience – Digitisation @MU library by Bridie O’Neill, Edel King, Laura Gallagher, Maynooth University
CONUL T&D LIBRARY ASSISTANT AWARD – Previous Awards
CONUL T&D LIBRARY ASSISTANT AWARD 2021
The 2021 CONUL Training & Development Library Assistant Award required entrants to submit a blog post on any library related topic. Entrants could opt to blog about any aspect of their current work for example training activities they undertook; a development in their own library or an item in their library’s collection. The prize winning and highly commended entries will be published on the libfocus blog.
Award winners 2021:
1st Prize:
Embrace the Virtual Library Space by Iain McCool, Queen’s University Belfast
Joint 2nd Prize:
3rd Prize
Stop, Thief! Preventing Theft in Library Special Collections by Gretchen Allen, Maynooth University
Highly Commended Entries:
Preserving our cultural memory in the digital age by Stewart Killeen, TUDublin
3D Printing in a pandemic – Maynooth University’s role by Sheree Yeates, Maynooth University
CONUL T&D LIBRARY ASSISTANT AWARD – Previous Awards.
Previous Awards
2019 CONUL T&D LIBRARY ASSISTANT AWARD
The 2019 CONUL Training & Development Library Assistant Award required entrants to submit a blog post on any library related topic. Entrants could opt to blog about any aspect of their current work for example training activities they undertook; a development in their own library or an item in their library’s collection. The prize winning and highly commended entries will be published on the libfocus blog.
Award winners 2019:
1st Prize:
2nd Prize:
3rd Prize:
A fantastic photographic find: Countess de Markievicz by Saoirse Reynolds, NLI.
4th Place:
Highly Commended Entries:
Emergency Response: Learning from Disaster by Sarah Graham, Maynooth University.
Health and Happiness: Wellbeing in Academic Libraries by Emma Devlin, Queens University Belfast.
2018 CONUL T&D LIBRARY ASSISTANT AWARD
The 2018 CONUL Training & Development Library Assistant Award required entrants to submit a blog post on any library related topic. Entrants could opt to blog about any aspect of their current work for example training activities they undertook; a development in their own library or an item in their library’s collection. The prize winning and highly commended entries will be published on the libfocus blog.
Award winners 2018:
Joint 1st Prize:
2nd Prize:
Joint 3rd Prize:
Library Anxiety by Maolsheachlann O Cellaigh, University College Dublin.
Preserving Irish Voices: The Irish Poetry Reading Archive by Laura Ryan, University College Dublin.
Highly Commended Entries:
2016 ANLTC LIBRARY ASSISTANT AWARD
The 2016 ANLTC Library Assistant Award required entrants to submit a blog post on any library related topic. Entrants could opt to blog about any aspect of their current work for example training activities they undertook; a development in their own library or an item in their library’s collection. Prize winners were announced at the CONUL Conference on the 2nd June 2016. The prize winning and highly commended entries were published on the libfocus blog.
Award Winners 2016:
1st Prize Tradition and Technology and The Glucksman Library, UL by Seán Cafferkey, University of Limerick
2nd Prize A Captive Audience by Bernie Gardiner, Maynooth University 2 nd Prize The Kelmscott Chaucer by Helen McGinley, The Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin
3rd Prize Facing the Open Access Challenge – The experience of a University Open Access Team by Megan Corrigan, Queen’s University Belfast
3rd Prize Brian O’Higgins/Brian Ó hUigínn (1882-1963) by Olive Morrin, Maynooth University
Highly commended entries 2016
2014 ANLTC LIBRARY ASSISTANT AWARD
The 2014 ANLTC award required entrants to create a library themed blog in Wordpress. The winning entries were:
1st Prize – Bernadette Gardiner, NUI Maynooth. http://Librarystaffdevelopment.wordpress.com
Joint 2nd Prize Emma Boyce, NUI Maynooth http://libinfoservices.wordpress.com/
& Mary Crickard, Queen’s University Belfast http://carricklass.wordpress.com/
3rd Prize – Brendan Duffy, NUI Galway https://jhldigitisation.wordpress.com/
2012 ANLTC LIBRARY ASSISTANT AWARD
To promote and support staff development, ANLTC offered the Library Assistant Bursary to an individual library staff member at Library Assistant or equivalent grade. An award of up to €1,500 could be spent on travel, study, attendance at a conference or seminar or other relevant activities. Recent winners were:
2012: The ANLTC Poster competition attracted entries on a wide variety of library related topics.
Joint first prize was awarded to Louise Saults, NUI Maynooth and Emily Doherty and Debra McCann, UCD.
The judging panel described Louise’s poster Kindles: Mobile Technology for Your Library
as “an excellent poster with high visual impact.” (Available at http://eprints.nuim.ie/3639/)
Emily and Debra’s poster, “What do you need to know today?” UCD Library Roving Service was awarded joint first place. This was described, by the judging panel, as ““an excellent poster with a high information content.” ( Available here)
Joint second prize was awarded to Helen O’Connor, NUI Maynooth Self-service laptops at NUI Maynooth (Available at http://eprints.nuim.ie/3642/ ) and Bernie Gardiner and Della Webb, NUI Maynooth Motivating Library Staff in Recessionary Times: Some Initiatives at NUI Maynooth
(Available at http://eprints.nuim.ie/3640/)
Third prize was awarded to Bernie Mellon, NUI Maynooth Disability Awareness Course in the Library, NUI Maynooth. (Available at http://eprints.nuim.ie/3641/ )
2009: Maud Conry, National University of Ireland Galway – E-book Update in Irish Academic Libraries – an Overview
2007: Marie Cullen, National University of Ireland Maynooth – The British Library Digital Object Management Programme
2004: Petra Shurenhofer, University College Dublin (report); joint runners-up, Andrea Mullen, St. Angela’s College, Sligo (constituent college of National University of Ireland Galway) and Louise Walsworth-Bell (National University of Ireland Maynooth)
2001: Avril Patterson, University College Dublin; runner-up, Cecilia Kehoe, National University of Ireland Maynooth
1997: Irene Hennigan, Dublin City University
