Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship
The fellowship is named in honour of the late Jean Fleming Arnot, MBE, FLAA, a former staff member of the State Library of New South Wales, who retired as head cataloguer in 1968 after a distinguished career of over 47 years of service. Miss Arnot was active in women's organisations and a pioneer in the campaign for equal pay.
The Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship is funded by a generous donation from the National Council of Women of New South Wales Incorporated and the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Associations Incorporated as a memorial to Miss Arnot and her achievements.
The fellowship will be awarded to a female librarian or female student of librarianship for an outstanding original paper of no more than 5000 words on any aspect of librarianship.
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2008
Lucy Kinsley, Lismore Area Librarian, Richmond-Tweed Regional Library: ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover – The Living Library: connecting communities through conversation.’
2007
Patricia Kennedy, Senior Librarian, Electronic Publishing, Queensland Environmental Protection Agency, Brisbane: 'Manifestations of metadata: from Alexandria to WCMS [Web Content Management Systems], the old is new again'
2006
Elizabeth Beales, Children & Youth Services Team Leader, Barossa Council Public Library, Nuriootpa, SA: 'The Librarian as Cybernanny'.
2005
Carolyn Bourke, Community Outreach Librarian - Children and Youth, Fairfield City Library Service, NSW: 'Building social capital through networking: how public libraries can be more than repositories of information'
2004
Karen Williams, University of South Australia, Adelaide: 'A call to arms: what in the world is happening to information?'
2003
Irene Bonella, Wollongong City Library: 'A century of pay inequity: is the end in sight?' and Kate Burnham, NSW Attorney-General's Library: 'The Librarians' pay equity case 2002 - not just a pay rise' (joint winners)
2002
Emma Downing, Townsville Public Library Service, Qld: 'Digital preservation as the critical issue to provide a sustainable digital or hybrid library'
2001
Frances Manning, Librarian, Holy Family School, Luddenham, NSW: 'From one to wonderful: changes in a school library from poorly perceived facility to vibrant resource centre'
