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The battle for world literacy is
too often a story of unsung heroes. That’s one reason the NALD newsletter
will bring to you on a regular basis a list of those individuals, programs and
organisations honoured with international, national and provincial recognition
for outstanding work in the global literacy initiative.
INTERNATIONAL
International Reading
Association Literacy Award
Workbase, the National Centre for Workplace
Literacy and Language, New Zealand
Noma Literacy Prize
Instituto
Brasileiro de Estudos et Apoio Comunitário (IBEAC), Federative Republic
of Brazil
King Sejong Literacy Prizes
-- Tianshui Education
Commission, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China
-- Projet
Alfatitbonit/Alfa Desalin, Republic of Haiti
Malcolm Adiseshiah
International Literacy Prize
Direction de l’Alphabétisation
et de l’Éducation de Base (DAEB), Republic of Senegal
NATIONAL
Canadian
Library Association Awards - Recipients 2001:
CLA Awards
Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award : Ernie Ingles, Associate
Vice-President (Learning Systems) and Chief Librarian at the University of
Alberta
CLA/RoweCom Marketing Award : Windsor Public
Library
CLA/Information Today Award for Innovative Technology:
Waterloo Regional Library
Student Article Contest: Wanda
Haayen
William C. Watkinson Award: Jeffery Simpson, national
affairs columnist for the Globe and Mail, and Doug Hull, Director General for
the Information Highways Branch of Industry Canada
Canada Post Literacy Awards 2001
Individual Literacy Achievement Awards : Richard Miller,
Shoal Harbour, NF; Gail Purcell, Verdun, Québec; Donna Arce-Black,
Winnipeg, MB; Carey Rigby, Saskatoon, SK; Sharron Szott, Camrose, AB; Larry
Loyie, Vancouver, BC; Robin LaPointe, Cambellton, NB; Claudette Audet, Val
d'Amour, NB; Paul Dulong, Meteghan River, NS; Mabel English, Inuvik, NT, Ed
Thomas, Hamilton, ON; Anne M. Christopher, Summerside, PE; Léona
Bernard, St-Raphael, PE; Simon Leduc, Longueuil, QC; Ponsawan (Bee) McDiarmid,
Mayo, YT.
Community Leadership Awards : Rainbow Literacy
Society,Vulcan, AB; Victoria READ Society, Victoria, BC; Weyburn and Area
Supportive Employment Services Inc., Weyburn, SK; Literacy Partners of
Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB; ABC Canada Literacy Foundation, Toronto, ON; Alpha
Haute-Yamaska, Granby, QC; New Brunswick Coalition for Literacy, Fredericton
NB; Learning & Reading Partners Adult Learning Systems, Charlottetown, PE;
Cobequid Neighbourhood Work Activity Program, Truro, NS; Battle Harbour
Literacy Council, Mary's Harbour, NF; Inuvik Centennial Library, Inuvik,
NT.
Literacy Educators : Esther Chassé, Whitehorse, YT;
Michael Maloney, Belleville, ON; Elma Gerwin, Winnipeg, MB; Mario Raymond,
St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC; Ida Stanley- Tober, Calgary, AB.
Business
Leadership Awards : Winnipeg division of Boeing Canada
Technology
PROVINCIAL
Nova
Scotia
Dr. William Pearly Oliver Award - Recipient 2000 :
Noel Johnston (1925-1995) |
