Anne Harrison

Anne Harrison (1923–1992) was an Australian librarian. The Anne Harrison Award of ALIA Health Libraries Australia was established to remember Harrison's work and serve as a medium for encouraging others to make their own contributions to the development of health librarianship in Australia. Harrison founded the Central Medical Library Organization (1953–1994). She was also a founder of the Australian Medical Librarians Group in the 1970s, and later of the LAA Medical Librarians Section which is currently ALIA Health Libraries Australia.

While in BML, Harrison contributed to the development of the University's medical faculty. Some of her contributions were moving the library from a wing of the university's original Pathology building into a newly established Brownless Medical Library in 1967, and transitioning from print indexes to the use of online databases, such as Medline in 1977.

As a way of encouraging others to make their own contributions to the development of health librarianship and in memory of Harrison's work, The Anne Harrison Award of ALIA Health Libraries Australia was established.