Nominate a Library Staff Champion!
Nomination form for LAI/CILIP Ireland Library Staff Champion Award 2024
What is the Award? The LAI/CILIP Ireland Staff Champion Award aims to recognise the many extraordinary staff who work in libraries throughout our communities. As library staff, we all know exceptional people working in the sector who make a significant impact in their roles, as colleagues and to our library users. We invite staff to nominate a colleague, in your library or in the sector, for the LAI/ CILIP Ireland Library Staff Champion Award 2024.
Who can be nominated for this Award? Colleagues are welcome to nominate anyone who works in, or is associated with, any library or wider information sector organisation, within the LAI/CILIP Ireland regions.
Who can nominate someone for this Award? Nominations are welcome from anyone who works in, or is associated with, any library or wider information sector organisation, within LAI/CILIP Ireland regions. Nominators will remain anonymous throughout the process, including to judging panel and will not be revealed to nominees at any stage.*
Nomination Process: To nominate someone for the Award, complete the online form which will ask for:
Name of person you are nominating, where they work, their email contact details, and the contact details for their line manager/head librarian, if you have it.
An explanation of why you are nominating this person for the Award. Examples and information shared on the reason for nominating should relate to their recent activities and achievements, within the last three years. You will have up to 500 words to share your reasoning with the judges. Nominators are invited to consider the following themes when making their nomination:
Transformative contribution
Inspiring colleagues
Impact at local/community, organisational or national level
Notes on Nomination Process:
All nominations are anonymous, nominees or judges will not know who made nominations.
Only information included in the online nomination form can be considered by the judging panel.
The closing date for nominations is Friday 29 November 2024 at 23:59
Following the announcement of a shortlist, the winner will be announced towards the end of Library Ireland Week, Sunday 1 December to Saturday 7 December.
Previous Library Staff Champion Award Winners:
2023 Winner - Kathleen Moran JCSP libraries
2022 Winner – Antanas Keturakis, Cork City Libraries
2021 Winners – Helen Fallon, Maynooth University and Martin O’Connor, Boole Library, UCC
2020: Marie Cullen, Maynooth University2019: Laura Rooney Ferris, HSE Library
2018: Ann Byrne, UCC & Thomas Maher, Laois County Libraries
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