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Subject: Pioneering intranet networker wins Jason Farradane Award
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:45:53 -0000
From: Tim Buckley Owen <[log in to unmask]>
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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.

Contact:  Tim Buckley Owen, Head of Membership, Marketing & Media.
Tel: 020 7255 0652.
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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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