Building Better Communities Awards
2006 Building Better Communities Awards Recipients
Congratulations to the 2006 Building Better Communities Awards recipients! The five library organizations were recognized in a special ceremony during the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans on June 24, 2006.
SirsiDynix established the awards to call attention to libraries and the important roles they play in their communities. Each Building Better Communities Award recipient receives US$10,000 from SirsiDynix.
The five recipients are:
- Calgary Public Library (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) for its Open for All project, which explores technology with underserved/excluded, special needs, at-risk users. www.calgarypubliclibrary.com
- Delaware County Community College Library (Media, Pennsylvania), which provides resources to nursing students via PDAs during off-campus hands-on clinical practice. www.dccc.edu/library/
- Hamilton Public Library (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) for its innovative new Web site, myhamilton.ca, which offers city services to residents and business people. www.myhamilton.ca
- Hancock County Library System (Bay St. Louis, Mississippi), which provided a vital community service by restoring Internet and telephone service for community use in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. www.hancock.lib.ms.us
- INFOhio (Columbus, Ohio), which is leading a grassroots effort to provide all Ohio students with online resources, including a new K-12 portal in conjunction with SirsiDynix. www.infohio.org/default.html
During the ceremony in New Orleans, SirsiDynix also presented 10 finalists with a framed certificate. In all, 15 finalists were selected from a pool of more than 130 North American SirsiDynix libraries that were nominated. An independent committee of library leaders selected the finalists and the recipients.
For more on the Building Better Communities Awards ceremony and the recipients, read the press release.
