Awards,
Publicity and PublicationsAwards,
Publicity and Publications
Chasing the Sun has won the following awards:
Swets Australia Professional Envoy Award 2004
The Swets Australia Professional Envoy Award enabled Sue Rockliff to travel to
Canada where she presented a paper on the Chasing the Sun service to the
Canadian Health Libraries Association conference in St Johns in May 2004.
International Information Industry Awards December 2004 - Best team in the
public sector
Chasing the Sun was presented with the award for the Best Team in the Public
Sector at the awards dinner in London in December 2004. It recognized the
innovative use of technology to solve the problem of providing a reference
service after hours.
Articles in the press and publicity about Chasing the Sun:
‘After hours virtual reference services makes (sic) international headlines’
@Health 2(3):
March 2005, 3
‘All the news
that fit to print: SA awarded for world first libraries’ initiative’
@Health 2 (1): January 2005,
2
‘Hospital gets help from other side of the world.’ Bath Chronicle. 5th
February, 2005.
http://www.thisisbath.com/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=163041&command=newPage
‘Chasing the Sun wins
international award’
MLA News. International News.
February, 2005 page 8.
‘Log on for a late night librarian.’ E-Health Insider. 9th December,
2004.
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=961
Health Informatics
Community NHS.
December, 2004.
http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=1078&d=11&h=24&f=46&dateformat=%25o%20%25B%20%25Y
ResourceShelf.
Resources and News for information professionals
February 4th, 2005.
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2005/02/major-launch-of-international-co.html
Zentral und
Landesbibliothek. Berlin
( Central and State Library.Berlin) Information Service web page news link
collection, 11th February 2005.
http://linksammlungen.zlb.de/1.2.1.100.1.html
Medinfo weblog -Bibliotheken.
December 3rd, 2004.
http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2004/12/03/204/
Incite. News
magazine of the Australian Library and Information Association,
Vol 26: Jan-Feb 2005, page 10.
‘Chasing the Sun heads for success’
Australian Library News.
January 27th, 2005 page 1, continued on page 3.
‘Chasing the Sun wins international technology award’
Australian Library News.
Issue 163.
December 2004, 2.
Michigan Library
Consortium communique.
September 2004, page 3.
http://www.mlc.lib.mi.us/public/communique/sep04/092004p5.htm
Formal publications:
Rockliff S. Peterson M. Martin K. Curtis D. Chasing the sun: a virtual reference service between SAHSLC (SA) and SWICE (UK). [Journal Article] Health Information & Libraries Journal. 22(2):117-23, 2005 Jun.