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SirsiDynix Recognises Six Libraries for Building Better Communities (News, Managing Info.)
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
Alliance Library System – This regional library system in central Illinois started a library in the three-dimensional virtual world of Second Life to gain experiential knowledge about providing library services in a virtual world.
SirsiDynix has announced the recipients of its Building Better Communities Awards, which recognize libraries for creative and enterprising uses of technology to improve their user communities.
The 2007 Building Better Communities Awards recipients are: Alliance Library System, East Peoria, Ill.; BOPCRIS Project, University of Southampton Library, Southampton, United Kingdom; Lincoln Trail Libraries System, Champaign, Ill.; Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, N.C.; Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS), Washington, D.C.; and SUNLINK: Florida Department of Education, Tallahassee, Fla. Each recipient will receive US$10,000. The six recipients, as well as nine other finalists, were recognized at a special ceremony today during the American Library Association Annual Conference.
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