Pressmeddelande från det internationella DAISY-konsortiet 29 mars 2006
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http://www.daisy.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsId=244   
Press Release
The DAISY Consortium Board of Directors has awarded the 
2006 DAISY Culture of Sharing Award to Ingar Beckman 
Hirschfeldt, Director of The Swedish Library of Talking Books 
and Braille.
The award is the highest honour the Consortium can confer 
upon an individual or organization. The recipient must 
exemplify outstanding qualities of leadership, the meaning of 
sharing and the ethics of service, social awareness and 
collaboration. In addition, the recipient’s activities and 
contribution must have helped to move DAISY into the 
mainstream, that is, to the world.
The Board’s Motivation:
The award is made to Ingar Beckman Hirschfeldt for 
recognising the need for a common non-proprietary format for 
digital talking books, transforming DAISY from a project at TPB 
into a worldwide standard for accessible media. Ms Beckman 
Hirschfeldt is a truly inspired individual. When confronted with 
obstacles that, to many, would have seemed insurmountable, 
she moved forward with her vision and invited the key libraries 
and organizations for the blind around the world to form an 
international consortium in 1995. The fruits of her labours, and 
realization of her vision, are apparent in what we know today 
as The DAISY Consortium. In her eight years as president, 
Ingar brought DAISY to the world.
DAISY has selected an Inukshuk, in glass sculpture, to 
represent the magnitude of this award. The Inukshuk, 
pronounced IN-OOK-SHOOK, meaning "in the image of man", 
are magnificent lifelike figures of stone erected by the Inuit 
people. Unique to the Canadian Arctic they stand along its most 
northern shores. Enduring symbols of leadership, they 
encourage us to remember the importance of friendship and of 
our dependence upon one another to achieve what one person 
alone could not possibly achieve.

For the DAISY Consortium
Elsebeth Tank President 
George Kerscher Secretary General