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News from CILIP
Thursday 2 December 2004
For immediate release (Please copy to online discussion lists)
Pioneering intranet networker wins Jason Farradane Award
Coveted award, sponsored by Kompass, is part of International Information Industry Awards for first time
Julia Chandler, the Internet and Intranet Manager at the Department for International Development, has won the prestigious Jason Farradane Award in recognition of outstanding work in the information field. Her achievement was celebrated at a Gala Dinner last night by Kompass's Information Sales Director Rod Kain and United Kingdom eInformation Group Honorary Secretary Karen Blakeman. The event was held at London's Royal Lancaster Hotel to celebrate the International Information Industry Awards, and was hosted by TV personality and museums champion Loyd Grossman.
Sponsored by Kompass Publishers, the Award is managed by the UK eInformation Group (UKeIG) and the Industrial & Commercial Libraries Group - both special interest groups of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. This is the first appearance of this long established award at the International Information Industry Awards and, in recognition of its upgraded status, Kompass is presenting the winner with one of its latest innovations, a one-year free subscription to the UK file on Kompass.co.uk with its new advanced download facility. The four runners up will each receive a six-month subscription to the Kompass UK database.
"We are delighted to be once again sponsoring the Jason Farradane Award," said Kompass's Rod Kain. "We feel that it embodies the same priorities as our own business of innovation and new product development."
Julia Chandler beat off stiff opposition to win this year's Award. Based at the UK Government's Department for International Development, she identified the need for a group bringing together intranet managers across government, some of whom were, like her, information professionals. Under her initiative, the group rapidly developed an independent life of its own. It now has a membership of over a hundred, solely by word of mouth, and involves not only people in central government but also those in UK agencies, the voluntary sector and professional bodies.
"No group coming out of government bringing together such a range of disciplines has existed before," said Suzanne Burge, Information Manager at the Office of the Parliamentary Commission for Administration and a CILIP Councillor, who nominated Julia for the Award. "We tend to stay confined in our professional and departmental silos, however hard some of us try to change this," she continued. "The Group has also served to highlight the skills which information professionals can bring to intranet (and internet) management to organisations which had not previously considered this."
The Jason Farradane Award, launched in 1979, was named after the pioneer of information science who was a founder member of the Institute of Information Scientists and was instrumental in establishing the first academic courses in information science. It is made to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the information field.
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Notes to Editors
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers, with around 23,000 members working in all sectors, including business and industry, science and technology, further and higher education, schools, local and central government, the health service, the voluntary sector, national and public libraries. For more information about CILIP, please go to www.cilip.org.uk.
Kompass is one of the world's leading suppliers of business information. It supplies data on international markets and some 1.85 million companies in 75 countries via its directories, CDs and web site www.kompass.co.uk. Since 1944, Kompass has grown from a single directory into a global information giant, used by thousands of buyers, marketers and business people to find suppliers, research markets and launch new products.
UKeIG - the UK eInformation Group - is a professional body for users and developers of electronic information resources. The Industrial & Commercial Libraries Group represents library and information workers in commercial and industrial workplaces, and independent consultants. Both are special interest groups of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. For further information, go to www.cilip.org.uk and follow links to Special Interest Groups.
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