The University of Guyana Library has received the highly prestigious Albertina Pérez de Rosa Award at the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) 52nd conference held in Kingston, Jamaica.
A University of Guyana press release stated that the conference was held from June 5 – 9 under the theme ‘From Metadata to Big Data: Trends and Hidden Treasures in Libraries, Museums, and Archives of the Caribbean’.
The award was presented by the ACURIL Puerto Rico Chapter in the recognition of the excellent collaborative work between the libraries of the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen and Berbice, campuses, for piloting, implementing and documenting the success story of the Koha Open-Source Library Management System (LMS), the release said. The three researchers who documented the Koha LMS implementation at the University of Guyana were Gwyneth George, Simone Bernard and Somattie Sayrange. The award was received by Savrange on behalf of the University of Guyana Library, Turkeyen and Tain campuses.
