Jennifer Richard to Receive the 2012 APLA Merit Award
The Atlantic Provinces Library Association is pleased to
announce that this year’s recipient of the APLA Merit Award is Ms.
Jennifer Richard, Head of Research Services at Acadia University’s
Vaughan Memorial Library in Wolfville, NS.
The APLA Merit Award is presented annually to someone who
has made an outstanding contribution to library services in our region. This
year, APLA has chosen a candidate who has shown herself to be a passionate and
engaged advocate for libraries, and someone who never hesitates to volunteer
her services on behalf of libraries and the library profession. One supporter
writes of Jennifer, “She believes deeply that libraries make a significant
difference in the lives of students and the lives of the public.”
She is highly regarded by friends and colleagues alike and is a familiar
name in the Atlantic Provinces library community.
Jennifer’s accomplishments include having served as
President of APLA in 2005-2006; establishing the APLA Grow-a-Library project
which provides financial support to libraries in developing countries;
organizing not one but two successful APLA conferences; and laying the
foundation for, and continuing to maintain, the APLA archives. On the
wider stage, Jennifer is the Founding Editor of Partnership: the Canadian
Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, and has been both
a Member-at-Large of the Canadian Library Association Board and a CLA
conference organizer. Closer to home, Jennifer was instrumental in
establishing Acadia’s e-theses project, as well as in developing the E.
C. Smith Digital Herbarium database.
Please join us in congratulating Jennifer Richard
for her many accomplishments, and thanking her for her service to our
region and our profession. And come celebrate with us as the award is
presented on Wednesday, May 24, 2012, at the annual Merit Award Banquet to be
held during the APLA conference in Wolfville.