Law Research Service Wins National Award
Melbourne Law School is delighted to announce that the Law Library’s Law Research Service has won the Australian Law Librarian of the Year Award for 2009.
The annual award, which comprises a trophy and cash prize donated by Legal Library Services Ltd, is made by the Australian Law Librarians’ Association (ALLA) to a librarian or team who has demonstrated excellence in the service they have provided. Nominees are measured on the value of the service provided to their organisation, and to the legal information profession as a whole.
This is the first year of the Law Research Service, which was introduced to support academic research in the Melbourne Law School by undertaking discrete research tasks and facilitating access to information. Research assistants are drawn from the law student body and supervised by Law Librarians to undertake sophisticated legal and interdisciplinary research and provide detailed research memos and relevant materials.
In making the award, ALLA noted that within its first six months the Law Research Service had been used by more than half of the faculty at Melbourne Law School and had received glowing testimonials.
Melbourne Law Librarian, Carole Hinchcliffe, and Law Research Service Advisor, Robin Gardner, accepted the award at the recent ALLA conference dinner on behalf of Alissa Sputore, Manager of the Law Research Service and her dedicated team.
Pictured above are (l-r): Robin Gardner (LRS Adviser), James Kearney, Cosima McRae, Elliot Luke, Julia Wang, Harvey Liu (Research Assistants), and Alissa Sputore (LRS Manager). Absent: Elly Patira