Thursday, November 17, 2011

Bravo and Length of Service Awards 2011

Four LLRC staff were honored on Nov. 4th
We walked through the very bright "spot lights", on the very "red" carpet!
165 employees recognized for length of service
Congratulations to all!
 Nora Homan 5 years

Connie Tuisku 10 years-Colleen Shaffer 10 years

Pat Alvarez, Reference Librarian, was nominated for the Bravo Award for her work on the Digital Archive Collection. She took on this huge project to transfer all the Lake Worth campus library 'paper archives' to a 'digital medium'. 

This collection was in numerous boxes full of photographs, documents and other college memorabilia. Pat also coordinated the digitization project of print volumes through a grant from Lyrasis. These resources are now available on our Internet Archive, including our college catalogs and the Galleon [college yearbook].
 Quotes from our November Perspectives:
"The Bravo Awards have been described as the College's version of the Oscars. That metaphor was altogether fitting, as 18 nominees and their colleagues waited to hear the names called for an award that has annually recognized actions that go above and beyond the scope of an individual's day-to-day responsibilities. And in a masterly touch, the honorees made their way across a red carpet on the stage of the Duncan Theatre Nov. 4 to be recognized for their achievements."
 
 
"Also honored at the Duncan Theatre that same Friday were 165 College employees for their length of service-collectively, they represent 1,635 years of experience. To go back that far in time would take one to the days of the Romans battling the Visigoths for the control of eastern Europe."

Connie Tuisku-Colleen Shaffer-Brian Kelley-Nora Homan



Brian Kelley Pat Alvarez