CREPUQ's Projet TRAP wins two awards at 2004 CLA conference

The Sub-committee on Libraries of the Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities (CREPUQ) is pleased to announce that at the 2004 annual conference of the Canadian Library Association, held in Victoria June 15 to 18, two awards were granted to Projet TRAP (Projet de traitement partagé – sharing cataloguing), an initiative of the Working Group on Cataloguing.

The OCLC Canada/Canadian Library Association Award for Resource Sharing, granted for a second time in 2004, recognized the project's innovative approach to cost sharing and providing equitable access to the consortia-purchased electronic resources amongst the libraries of the 18 CREPUQ universities, and also recognized the high potential of the infrastructure set up for Projet TRAP for further cooperation in cataloguing resource sharing as well as setting a standard for cataloguing products in the French language.

The Canadian Association of College and University Libraries (CACUL) Innovation Achievement Award is intended to recognize academic libraries which through innovation have contributed to the advancement of academic librarianship and library development.

Both awards, consisting of a framed acknowledgment and a cash prize, were presented at the CLA 2004 Annual Conference to the Working Group chair, Claire Boisvert (Université du Québec à Montréal), accompanied by Gaston Fournier (École de technologie supérieure), Pierre Latour (Université de Montréal) and Pat Riva (McGill University), all representatives of the CREPUQ Working Group on Cataloguing. The other members of the Working Group are Liliane Bédard (Bibliothèque nationale du Québec), Louise Goulet (HEC Montréal), Denis Houde (Bibliothèque nationale du Québec), Michèle Hudon (Université de Montréal), André Maltais (École Polytechnique), Laura May (Concordia University), France Paul (Université de Sherbrooke) and Marcel Plourde (Université Laval).

The members of the Sub-committee on Libraries wish to take this opportunity to congratulate all the members of their staff who have contributed to Projet TRAP for these two outstanding awards and to thank them for their cooperation in their work accomplished with rigorousness and precision, representing a new standard of best practices in cataloguing of French literature.