The PR and Promotions Committee of The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) have announced in a press release that they are delighted to announce the winner of their 2010 Dissertation Award.
The Dissertation Award was first awarded in 2009 and is offered to any library school student who submits the best dissertation on a corporate or legal topic.
The winner of the award this year is Caroline Goulding (n?e Williams) . Caroline, who is Head of Knowledge and Information Strategy (jobshare) at the Ministry of Justice, completed her MSc Econ LIS in the Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University .
She submitted a paper that looked at the role of an information professional in a legal environment, entitled “A Comparison of The Role of the Information Professional in the Legal Environment in the Private and Public Sectors”. Ms Williams presented a small-scale, illustrative, qualitative study of the landscape for, and roles available to information professionals within the private and public sectors, focusing specifically on organisations that provide a legal service.
Ms Williams wins ?250.00 plus one year’s personal membership to BIALL.
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For those wishing to submit in 2011 the criterion for submission is:
* Open to all undergraduate and postgraduate library school students on a CILIP accredited course
* The topic must be of a corporate or legal matter
* The dissertation must be submitted electronically and include an executive summary
* It must be submitted (to vivian.grainge@freethcartwright.co.uk) by 1 Oct each year
* Only one dissertation from each course per library school may be submitted
* Submission at the discretion of the university not by individual students
Our congratulations to Ms Williams, and a reminder that the closing date for next year’s award will be Saturday 1st October 2011.
