LIANZA Student Awards

Mary Fleming Prize
David Wylie Prizes
LIANZA Prize
Te Pumanawa Award

MARY FLEMING PRIZE

This award commemorates the outstanding services of Mary Smith Fleming (1908-1964) to New Zealand librarianship, especially in the fields of classification and cataloguing. Mary Fleming was Senior Lecturer in Cataloguing at the New Zealand Library School from 1946 to 1964.

The Prize is awarded annually by the Victoria University of Wellington Professorial Board to the student attending the class in LIBR 526, bibliographic organisation, who in the opinion of the Chair of the Department of Library and Information Studies is the best student of the year and is worthy of the award.

The Prize is $250.00 and a book or books approved by the Chairperson of the Department of Library and Information Studies. 

First established 1964

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DAVID WYLIE PRIZES

The David Wylie prizes are provided annually in memory of the former Victoria University of Wellington Librarian, David Wylie (1925–1985), and in recognition of his long concern with education for librarianship.

VUW

This prize is awarded annually on behalf of LIANZA by the Academic Board of Victoria University of Wellington, on the recommendation of the Chairperson of the School of Communication and Information Management and the University Librarian, to a student at the School of Communication and Information Management, Victoria University, who completes the best piece of written work on an aspect of library and information studies and is worthy of the award. The prize is a book or money to the value of $250.00.

TOPNZ

This prize will be presented on behalf of LIANZA by the Section Manager, Information and Library Studies, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand to the student of the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand who is considered to have provided the best piece of work dealing with library and information issues. It will be awarded from work submitted for the papers 72 370 Library and Information Issues and 72 371 Policy and Planning for Information Services in any given calendar year. The prize is a book or money to the value of $250.00.

Established 1986

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LIANZA PRIZE (TOPNZ Diploma course)

This Prize commemorates the establishment in 1942 and administration of the Association's Certificate course, the forerunner for many years of the New Zealand Library Studies Certificate, and the Association's long-standing interest in the students of those courses.

This award is made annually to the student of the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand achieving the highest overall academic achievement in either Level 5 or Level 6 Diploma of Information and Library Studies. Those eligible for this award will be all those students who completed a Diploma at either level in any given calendar year, regardless of when it was begun. The LIANZA Prize is awarded on the recommendation of the Principal Lecturer of the course.

The Prize is $250.00 and free membership of the Association for the following full financial year. An appropriate certificate shall also be presented.

First established in 1982.

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TE PUMANAWA AWARD

The Te Pumanawa Award was initially part of the NZLIA prize which commemorates the establishment in 1942 and administration of the Association's Certificate course, the forerunner for many years of the New Zealand Library Studies Certificate, and the Association's long-standing interest in the students of those courses.

This award is awarded annually to the student of the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand who completes the best piece of work on a bicultural theme in any of the courses which make up the Information and Library Studies major.

The winner will be judged to have produced a piece of work which displays a significant understanding and appreciation of biculturalism in New Zealand. A representative of Te Rōpū Whakahau will be on the panel which assesses the work for this award.

The Prize is $250.00 and free membership of the Association for the following full financial year. An appropriate certificate shall also be presented. The winning paper may be published in an appropriate LIANZA publication.

Established 1999

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