ola meeting space: ola meeting space -> 2010 OLA and OLA Divisional Award winners

OLA salutes the best! The following are the 2010 OLA and OLA Divisional Award winners.
All awards will be presented at the OLA Super Conference happening Feburary 24-27, 2010.

OLA’s Awards:

OLA’s Les Fowlie Intellectual Freedom Award
Winner: Book & Periodical Council for Freedom to Read Week

OLA’s Media and Communication Award
Winner: Toronto Public Library – Make Some Noise project

OLA Presidents Award for Exceptional Achievement
Winner: Eric Walters and Deborah Ellis

Forest of Reading Evergreen Award
Winner: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

ABO-Franco’s Awards:

ABO-Franco
prix Micheline Persaud
Winner: Louise Godbout-Legault, Service des bibliothèques de l'Ontario-Sud

OCULA’s Awards:

Award for Special Achievement:
Winner: Project Conifer, a consortial implementation of the Evergreen Open Source library system by its project partners:

Leddy Library, J.N. Desmarais Library, Algoma University, Wishart Library, University of Sudbury, Hearst, Bibliothèque Maurice-Saulnier, Huntington College Library, Paul Martin Law Library, Northern Ontario School of Medicine (West), HRSRH Health Sciences Library, Northern Ontario School of Medicine (East), Xstrata Process Support Centre Library, NOHIN, Instructional Media Centre, Laboratoire de didactiques, E.S.E., Vale Inco, Mines Library, Willet Green Miller Centre, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Curriculum Resource Centre, Sault Area Hospital and Centre Franco-Ontarien de Folklore

Lifetime Achievement Award:
Winner: Toni Olshen, York University

OSLA’s Awards:

Teacher-Librarian of the Year Award:
Winner: Mary-Beth Snyder, Waterloo Region District School Board

Award for Special Achievement:
Winner: Tim Gauntley, Toronto District School Board
Winner: Marlene Turkington, retired from Thames Valley District School Board

Administrator of the Year Award:
Winner: John Kostoff, Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board

OLITA’s Awards:

OLITA Award for Technological Innovation:
Winner: Project Conifer, a consortial implementation of the Evergreen Open Source library system by its project partners:

Leddy Library, J.N. Desmarais Library, Algoma University, Wishart Library, University of Sudbury, Hearst, Bibliothèque Maurice-Saulnier, Huntington College Library, Paul Martin Law Library, Northern Ontario School of Medicine (West), HRSRH Health Sciences Library, Northern Ontario School of Medicine (East), Xstrata Process Support Centre Library, NOHIN, Instructional Media Centre, Laboratoire de didactiques, E.S.E., Vale Inco, Mines Library, Willet Green Miller Centre, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Curriculum Resource Centre, Sault Area Hospital and Centre Franco-Ontarien de Folklore
OPLA’s Awards:

OPLA's Children's Librarian of the Year Award
Winner: Janis Marshall, Milton Public Library

OPLA's Excellence in Youth Services Award
Winner: Christy Geisler, Kitchener Public Library

OPLA's Adult Readers’ Advisory Award
Winner: Richard Ficek, Oshawa Public Library

OPLA’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Winner: Stephen Nelson, Woodstock Public Library

James Bain Medallion / Public Library Trustee of the Year
Winner: Claudette Richardson, Kingston Frontenac Public Library
Winner: Dr. John J. Flynn, Seguin Public Library Board

OLBA’s Award:

W.J. Robertson Medallion / Public Librarian of the Year
Winner: Adele Kostiak, Brampton Public Library