The Library Society of the World has a fun new (okay, so I’m a few days late to the party) idea: instead of waiting for someone else to declare you an award winner, declare it yourself! Everyone can be a 2009 Shover and Maker (with reference to, but no affiliation with, Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers). Go ahead – announce that you’ve won! Here’s my acceptance speech:

Hi! My name is Graham Lavender, and while I’m still an MLIS student at McGill at the moment, I’m planning to shove and make my way into a library near you in the next few months (please hire me!). In my spare time, I enjoy organizing Web 2.0 conferences (http://web2pointyou.pbwiki.com) and writing on a blog that has almost outlived its name (https://inspiredlibraryschoolstudent.wordpress.com). I’m also finishing up a practicum project about how to improve the McGill Library subject guides, in which I held focus groups and discovered that the students had no idea what I was talking about. I look forward to meeting as many of the other Shovers and Makers as I can in the near future!