SLA prize for student work on local chess collection

Published by Juliet Eve | Filed under Announcements

This year’s SLA Europe (Special Libraries Association) prize for best student dissertation has been awarded to Frances Warrell for her research into the National Chess Library, a special collection at UCH (University Centre Hastings), part of the University of Brighton. Frances used McCarthy’s 4 Ps of marketing as a framework to inform a marketing policy for the collection. The work was undertaken for her dissertation as part of her MA Information Studies degree at the University of Brighton. She will be presented with her award by members of the SLA at the official opening of the National Chess Library by Charles Clarke MP, on June 10th 2008.

 The SLA Europe are currently sponsoring a number of student awards at LIS departments around the UK; this is the second year the prize has been awarded. Last year’s winner, Ben Bose (see posting from May 2007) has gone on to work with a local company, icrossing (formerly spannerworks).