NZ Library Web Site Competition

[Alastair Smith, DLIS, Victoria University, New Zealand]

Librarians from outside New Zealand may be interested to know that to mark
New Zealand's Library Week (24-30 June), the New Zealand Library and
Information Association (generously aided in kind by Sun Microsystems and
The Web Ltd) has been running the:

Library Web Site Competition
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All the libraries which entered included useful and original features in
their web sites. For example Auckland Institute of Technology uses image
maps to guide users around the library; Tasman District Library makes
Internet services available to a rural community; Lincoln University
maintains a guide to NZ resources that has become critical to finding NZ
information on the Web; and Dunedin Public Library makes excellent use of
graphics.

Judging was by an international panel (which included Web4Lib's own Roy
Tennant) - the intercontinental email judging consultation was difficult due
to the range of qualities in the entries, but in the end the following
winners were chosen:

First: $800 from Sun Microsystems 
*** H.B. Williams Memorial Library, Gisborne "This site has useful
information, combined with an appropriate "sun and surf" graphic theme"
(this library's other distinction is that it's probably the first public
library in the world to see the sun!)

Second equal: $600 each from Sun Microsystems 
*** University of Auckland Library "University of Auckland provides well
organised and effective access to the library's wide range of electronic
resources" 
*** Canterbury Public Library. "Canterbury Public Library is exploring
innovative approaches to providing public service online". 

Third: Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 600 printer, Microsoft Front Page software
and a mouse pad from The Web Ltd 
*** Pakuranga College Information Resource Centre/Library. "Pakuranga
demonstrates how a school library can introduce students to the information
highway, and includes a thorough Internet Access Policy". 

Full details, and links to the sites, are at:

        http://www.vuw.ac.nz/dlis/ssbubl/webcomp/

-Alastair

Alastair Smith                               |Alastair.Smith at vuw.ac.nz
Department of Library and Information Studies|Voice: +64 4 495 5233 x 8687
Victoria University of Wellington            |Fax:   +64 4 496 5446 
PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa |http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/