In recognition of, and to celebrate the holding of the 2010 LILAC conference at Limerick, the LAI and CONUL (Consortium of National & University Libraries) agreed to sponsor an Irish Information Literacy award. Nominations were invited from individuals or teams who had engaged in IL initiatives in the Republic. Sixteen nominations were received from a range of academic, special and public libraries.
The winner was Wexford County Library. Details of the Wexford entry ar available at http://www.wexford.ie/wex/Departments/Library/LibraryResearchSkills/
A number of enquiries have been received as to the types of projects which had been entered for the award. We are delighted to list the runner-up entrants and their projects here to illustrate the range and calibre of IL work which is is currently in progress in Ireland.
| Institution | Project Title | Lead Person |
| A&L Goodbody Solicitors | Information literacy: formal legal research training programme | Celine Kelly |
| Dublin Institute of Technology | Developing the Information Literacy practitioner at DIT | Brendan Devlin |
| Dublin Institute of Technology | Get Smart! Enhancing the first year experience | Brian Gillespie |
| Dublin Institute of Technology | Information Literacy: A generic embedded module | Allison Kavanagh |
| Institute of Technology Tallaght | Online Tutorial: How to research your assignment | Philip Russell |
| Limerick Institute of Technology & LNSS: Library Network Support Services | Individual contribution | Padraig Kirby |
| National Documentation Centre on Drug Use | Evidence-based drug prevention practice: an e-learning course for allied health practitioners… | Brian Galvin |
| NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin & University College Cork | Graduate information skills module | Isolde Harpur; Niall McSweeney |
| NUI Maynooth | Double Impact: Design and delivery of an accredited undergraduate module in information literacy across two campuses | Rachel Hynes & Mairead McQuaid |
| NUI Maynooth | From library to lab and beyond:
Information Literacy for the Faculty of Science & Engineering |
Mary Antonesa |
| NUI Maynooth | LIST: Library Information Skills Training | Elaine Bean |
| University College Dublin | Teaching the UCD community how to avoid plagiarism | Ursula Byrne |
| University College Dublin: School of Information & Library Studies | Individual contribution | Claire McGuinness |
| University of Limerick | 23 Things @ UL | Peter Reilly |
| University of Limerick | UL – Cite it right: a guide to referencing at UL | Aoife Geraghty |