Enter your project for the UK's most prestigious library & information award
Entries are now open for the CILIP / LiS Libraries Change Lives Award - one of the leading accolades in the library and information world.
"Winning the 2007 Libraries Change Lives award was a real vote of confidence giving added credibility to the innovative approach and success of the Welcome To Your Library project."
Helen Carpenter, London Libraries Development Agency
The award highlights and rewards good practice in innovative library or information related projects that:
* Bring people together
* Involve communities
* Encourage reading
* Encourage learning
* Share information
* Demonstrate imagination and innovation
* Have the potential to be developed and adapted elsewhere
We welcome entries from ANY sector of the library and information world. They could be reading projects, learning projects, or projects that promote information. They must be shown to have affected people's lives for the better, whoever those people might be.
It doesn't have to be a big project to win, whether you're a small 1-person project or a large corporately funded one, no project is too big or small. "As the only member of staff working on the project my time is extremely precious. I found the award application process straightforward and the guidelines were very useful. I was thrilled to be a finalist and attend the award ceremony."
Margaret Drinkwater, School Library Service Manager, LARGE Project (finalist in 2007)
The judges will choose three finalists and all receive:
* National recognition
* Enhanced credibility with fund holders and decision makers
* The opportunity to celebrate your success with staff, users and partners
* Prize money to put into your project
* A VIP day at the Library + information Show
The overall winner will receive a trophy and prize money of £5,000. The two other finalists will receive a certificate and prize money of £2,000 each.
The awards will be presented at the Library + information Show on 23 April 2008.
How to enter:
* Submit your entry online www.cilip.org.uk/lcla
* Request a hard copy of the entry form from Mark Taylor, CILIP Marketing. Tel: 020 7255 0650 Email to: marketing@cilip.org.uk
Entries must arrive by 6 December.
See videos of the 2007 finalist projects online at www.myspace.com/librarieschangelives
Notes to Editors:
Press Contacts (do not print these details)
Mark Taylor, CILIP Marketing, tel. 020 7255 0650, marketing@cilip.org.uk
Tatti deJersey, Philippa Perry Associates, tel. 01256 381741, tatti@dejersey.co.uk
1. CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. It forms a community of around 36,000 people engaged in library and information work, of whom around 21,000 are CILIP members and around 15,000 are regular customers of CILIP Enterprises.
2. LiS is organised by VNU Exhibitions Europe, a B2B information provider specialising in producing highly focused trade exhibitions for the information technology, telecommunications and information industries.
For more information, please visit: www.vnuexhibitions.co.uk
For information about LiS and VNU Exhibitions, contact: Katherine Allen at VNU on 020 7316 9742. Email: katherine_allen@vnu.co.uk
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Updated: 24 January 2008