The Royal College of Defence Studies hosts the Central Top Level Budget Commendation Awards.
The Vice Chief of Defence Staff, General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman, and the Second Permanent Under Secretary, Sir Ian Andrews, presented the Central Top-Level Budget Commendation Awards at the Royal College of Defence Studies, Seaford House, on 9 May 2008. The event, to recognise the exceptional effort made by people in the Central TLB, consisted of a formal ceremony, at which framed certificates of achievement were presented to the award winners.
Of particular importance to the Defence Academy and RCDS was the following award to Mrs Anita Brady Director of Information Services Centre – RCDS.
Mrs Anita Brady - Royal College of Defence Studies
This award is in recognition of how, over the past two years Mrs Brady has transformed RCDS IT and Library facilities, to the great benefit of the College, the Defence Academy, and the Department. She has contributed tremendously to the Defence Academy intellectual capitalization initiative, not least in digitizing the last 16 years worth of Members’ dissertations. She has also delivered the RCDS Alumni Database, fundamental to maintaining and enhancing the RCDS Worldwide network. She has radically improved internal communications developing the Members’ intranet into the main conduct for all essential course information, and introducing state-of-the-art electronic notice board technology to the College. Much of the creative work on this has been her own initiative, and all against a background of chronic library staff shortages. In addition she has generated substantial cost savings, while always delivering world class library support.