The Pierre Gorman Award is awarded biennially. Recipients across Victoria have implemented various projects to improve library services for people with a disability.
Past recipients
2012
Yarra Plenty Regional Library's Connected Community – Auslan and Voice Unite project delivered a range of initiatives to provide high quality library services to adults and children with a hearing impairment.
2010
The Geelong Regional Library Corporation and the City of Greater Geelong Aged and Disability Services developed a program to foster better interactions between library staff and community members with a disability, and inclusive library services and events.
2008
The Goldfields Library Corporation, in partnership with Scope, provided library services to six Bendigo aged-care centres.
2006
Denece Sippo from the East Gippsland Shire Library implemented Boardmaker, software that enables signs to be produced in pictures and symbols for people with communication difficulties.
2004
Lloyd Brady from the Maribyrnong Library Service and Steven Hurd from the City of Maribyrnong acquired hand-held digital audio players for playing talking books through their 'Digital Audio for the Disabled' project.
2002
Richard Stone of the Corangamite Regional Library Corporation and Graeme McDonald of Rural Access ran an information expo and community mapping project to make information about adaptive technology available to potential users.
2000
The State Library of Victoria's Larry Stillman developed a version of the Opera internet browser (configured for people with sight and mobility difficulties) for installation in public libraries.
1997
Jillian Morley from the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind conducted research for her masters degree on trends in the production of information for people with print disabilities.
