The library challenge

The Library Challenge was open to any library staff member at an EPIC Library or EPIC registered school.  Their challenge was to tell a story about epic in their library and be in to win $2500 Thomson Gale e-books

The EPIC Library Challenge judges were Maryce Johnstone from Thomson Gale, and EPIC Governance Group representatives, Beverly Fletcher (Rodney Libraries) and Heather Jenks (AUT).  They had the difficult, and fun, job of selecting the winner of the Thomson Gale E-Books.

The 3 finalists were announced at the LIANZA (Library and Information Association of Aotearoa New Zealand) Conference.  

They were:

The Epicureans at Manukau Libraries for their innovative online movie:

Facial Attraction:
http://mm.dfilm.com/mm2s/mm_route.php?id=1947625

Marion Lienert and Maria McMillian at Dev-Zone for an insight into a unique library service and how access to the EPIC resources has made a difference for them.

Heather Cox, Burnside High School for her cleverly penned EPIC Doggerel.

And the winners are:

2nd runner up was Manukau Libraries with $80 of book vouchers from EPIC

and Thomson Gale.

1st runner up was Dev-Zone with $120 of book vouchers from EPIC and

Thomson Gale.

And the grand prize of $2500 of Thomson Gale E-Books for the library

was won by Heather Cox, Burnside High School with the following:

A LITERARY EPIC

(or epic doggerel)

When you're looking for a title or a topic that's not hot
When you can't remember who-wrote-when - or why or how or what
When your memory cells are overstretched and can't tell verse from
prose

There's only one place left to go - EPIC knows the knows.

When your students are all searching for strange literary themes
Such as man-and dog dependence, or dystopia, or true dreams
When Google gives 10 million hits and leaves you quite depressed
There's only one place left to go -EPIC is the best.

When the person you're researching can't be found just anywhere
When the Net proclaims they don't exist, you start to tear your hair.
But wait, don't feel as though you're going slowly round the bend

There's only one place left to go - EPIC is your friend.

If it's anything historical that you are looking for
But you can't locate that info that will help you even more
When resources are exhausted and you're feeling really frazzled.

There's only one place left to go - EPIC leaves you dazzled.

When you're researching anything and don't know where to go
Don't' waste your time by spending hours searching high and low
Go straight to EPIC database, you'll find the work soon done.

I've said there's just one place to go - EPIC is the one.

(Apologies to Dr Seuss)