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Leaders in Information Management Celebrated at Agatha Bystram Award Ceremony
Ottawa, September 14, 2005 - In recognition of outstanding contributions
to information resources management, Library and Archives Canada and the
Council of Federal Libraries have selected two winners this year for the
annual Agatha Bystram Award for Leadership in Information Management. The
Awards ceremony was held today at the Ottawa Congress Centre on the occasion of
the annual Fall Seminar of the Council of Federal Libraries.
The first winner, Monica Hourihan, of the Homeless Individuals and Families
Information System (HIFIS) Initiative at Human Resources and Skills Development
Canada, has taken a lead role in establishing a community-driven national
information system for shelter service providers. Homelessness is the most extreme
manifestation of poverty, social exclusion and marginalization, and it often combines
some of the most severe health, social, income and developmental conditions that
individuals and families can face. The HIFIS system helps facilities with operational
and planning activities while also serving as a source of comparable data on the
characteristics of the homeless population across Canada.
From the National Research Council of Canada, the second winner is the
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) Secure Desktop
Delivery (SDD) Project team. CISTI's clients wanted to have documents delivered
directly to their desktop. Unfortunately, Canada's copyright legislation allowed
electronic transmission of a document only if the end-user received a paper copy.
The SDD Team came up with a solution: by restricting the number of times users
can display and print the digital image, the Project met the needs of both end-users
and publishers.
"Congratulations to the winners for their remarkable work in the field
of information management," said Ian E. Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of
Canada. "The Agatha Bystram Award recognizes that demonstrating leadership
in information management means more than doing a regular job well: it involves
breaking open barriers and changing paradigms."
Instituted by the Council of Federal Libraries in 1995, the Agatha Bystram
Award recognizes the contribution of Agatha Bystram (1934-1994), a distinguished
member of the federal library community and one of the most respected pioneers
in the management of federal information. The Award is presented each year to
employees of the Canadian government who are innovators in the management of federal
information resources.
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Information:
Pauline M. Portelance
Media Relations Officer
Library and Archives Canada
613-996-6128
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