We are pleased to announce our 2023 Innovation Award winners!
The awards were intended to offer financial support to professionals and organisations seeking to develop new ideas and proposals for the wider benefit of the information community.
We welcome applications that embody our values around learning and sharing, openness and inclusion and align to one or more of the four themes of our strategic vision: include, connect, innovate and deliver.
EARLL
EARLL (http://www.earll.co.uk/) is a professional network established to represent the Early Career Librarian community in London and the south east. The network was originally founded in 2019 using a UKSG innovation grant. The 2023 grant will be used to fund three CPD events to be hosted at the LSE library.
Lead contact: Hannah Boroudjou, LSE
Global Equity Network
The award will be used to organise an “Action Learning Set” as part of the Global Equity Network – an Academic Libraries North (ALN) affiliated network for current and aspiring Library, Information and Knowledge workers from the global majority/UK ethnic minority. The aim of the ALS is to “learn through doing” and make positive contributons to the wellbeing, development and empowerment of members, enabling them to thrive in their careers.
Lead contacts: Siobhan Haimé, Birkbeck; Shirley Yearwood-Jackson, Liverpool; Jen Bayjoo, Salford; Josh Sendall, Leeds
Higher Education Library Technology
The award will be used to provide an innovative “re-boot” to HELibTech and provide a much-enhanced open resource of accurate data about systems and technologies deployed by libraries in UK HE institutions. This is a one year project and will fund a set of community editors focussing on specific themes and expand HELibTech’s existing coverage to include an expanding range of technologies and systems to support research – especially open research/open access.
Lead contact: Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting
Open Institutional Publishers Association (OIPA)
The award will be used to fund an in-person symposium on institutional open access publishing, and bring together members of the new association and other interested parties directly connecting those involved in open institutional publishing in its different forms. The programme for the symposium is anticipated to cover key topics such as open publishing platforms, institutionally run journals, university press publishing and licensing.
Lead contact: Kate Petherbridge, York
Open Science: Wheel of Prosperity
The award will be used to develop and disseminate and use gamification to include, teach and connect the scholarly communication community around various aspects of open science/research. The game will be shared online under a CC By license and fund travel, conference fees to publicise its development.
Lead contacts: Sarah Coombs, Saxion University of Applied Sciences and Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences (NAUAS); Aisling Coyne, Technological University Dublin; Katrine Sundsbø, DOAJ