Canberra, 29 November 2021: ALIA member Lisa Robertson, a Senior Library Technician at St Patrick’s College for Girls in NSW, is the winner of this year’s Marjorie Cotton Award. With a passion for young adult fiction and an outstanding track record in developing initiatives that foster a love of reading in students, Lisa is a worthy recipient of this prestigious award named for NSW's first professionally qualified children's librarian, Marjorie Cotton.
The Marjorie Cotton Award, maintained by the ALIA Children's and Youth Services Group, promotes the role and image of librarians working with young people, and recognises individual achievement and co-operative networking in providing services for young people in public libraries and school libraries.