UTech, Ja Annual Report 2017-18

University of Technology, Jamaica “Pioneering Past; Bright Future ” ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018 19 Leadership in the Use of Technologies to Expand and Facilitate Access to Electronic Content at the annual Acurilean Awards Ceremony. • Mr. David Drysdale received the award at the 47th annual conference of the Association of Caribbean Universities Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL), which was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from June 4-8, 2017 at the Condado Plaza Hilton Hotel. The theme of the conference was “Multidisciplinary Research in the Caribbean: A Collaborative Approach”. The Library last won this award at the ACURIL Conference in June 2013 also in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2012/2013 2013/2014 2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 R/O 51,522 17,191 16,262 16,043 11,838 10477 G/L 46,708 16,645 12,957 11,594 8,392 7564 RMC 13,002 3,788 2,486 1,451 126 564 74 31 6 0 80 1 Staff 1,056 309 166 40 48 23 Reading Room Usage 0 0 10,808 35,710 35,710 4308 David Drysdale, University Librarian, UTech Jamaica receives the EBSCO Award from Mary-Ellen Bache, EBSCO representative at the ACURIL 2017 Conference at the Condado Plaza Hilton Hotel on June 8, 2017 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.