Awards for Excellence
Article Type: Awards for ExcellenceFrom: New Library World, Volume 109, Issue 9/10
The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for New Library World
``The wrong path and the right path: The role of libraries in access to, and preservation of, cultural heritage''
Michael Gorman
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of libraries in access to, and preservation of, cultural heritage in concert with a wide range of other cultural institutions.
Design/methodology/approach - Considers a contest of values and the devaluation of reading and of the print culture as a feature of this contest. Rejects the values of information technology and scientific management and calls for their replacement by the humanistic values of libraries as one of a range of cultural institutions.
Findings - Relates "cultural heritage" records to a variety of cultural institutions who could be allies with libraries within a shared culture.
Originality/value - Calls for a structure and agreements between libraries and other cultural institutions aimed at pooling resources and harnessing energy and expertise to achieve cultural goals - particularly the organization,preservation, and transmission of the human record and the cultural heritage that it embodies.
Keywords: Archives management, Culture, Heritage, Information management,Libraries, Museums
This article originally appeared in Volume 108 Number 11/12, 2007, pp. 479-89, New Library World
The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award
"Time for a change: new approaches for a new generation of library users''
Tamar Sadeh
This article originally appeared in Volume 108 Number 7/8, 2007, New Library World
"Internationalization of LIS education in Europe and North America''
Ismail AbdullahiLeif KajbergSirje Virkus
This article originally appeared in Volume 108 Number 1/2, 2007, New Library World
"Opening up information for better public value''
Robert Davies
This article originally appeared in Volume 108 Number 11/12, 2007, New Library World
Outstanding service award
Linda Ashcroft, Editor. For her work on New Library World over 15 years
Linda Ashcroft is Reader of Information Management at the Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Previous experience includes the management of both Information and Public Relations for a national organisation. She manages various funded research projects, has developed special expertise in the research area of electronic resources, and publishes widely in the professional press. She presents papers at international conferences, has organised international conferences and has edited conference proceedings.
For 15 years, Linda has edited New Library World, a reviewed international journal which aims to chart the latest developments for the profession. She has also guest edited the Journal of Managerial Psychology, and is an International LIS advisor to Emerald.
Linda is active in IFLA and serves on the committee of the Section for Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning, previously served on the committee for the Library and Information Science Journals Section, and chaired the Continuing Professional Education Round Table. She also served two terms as Chair of BAILER (British Association for Information and Library Education and Research). Linda was also a member of the government advisory body on 'Empowering the Learning Community'. She is an external examiner for Loughborough University and the University of Central England.
Professional affiliations include CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
