 In 2006 she won an award for teachers of information science—Thompson ISI's Outstanding Information Science Teacher of the Year—from the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST).She was the first non-American to receive the award in its 26-year history.She is a member of the Programme Committees of a number of domestic professional conferences and seminars; Chair, Organising Committee of the CoLIS3 International conference, Co-director of the International Seminars Libraries in the Digital Age – LIDA (2000, 2001, 2002)

She has written more than 60 professional papers, reviews and notes, and has edited 16 books in the field of library and information science.