UKeiG Awards: Call for Nominations for the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award and
the UKeiG Jason Farradane Award
UKeiG is now seeking nominations for these two prestigious awards, presented
annually at the November Online information Meeting in London. Both awards
are sponsored by Sage Publications and both honour achievement in the broad
field of information management.
The UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award is presented for an outstanding contribution
to the narrower field of information retrieval, while the UKeiG Jason
Farradane Award recognises brilliant work in information science. The
deadline for both awards is Friday 14th September 2007. Details of the
individual awards together with the addresses to which nominations should be
sent are given below and at <http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/index.html>.
UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award
Nominations should be for achievement that meets one or more of the
following criteria:
*	development of, or significant improvement in, mechanisms for the
retrieval of information, either generally or in a specialised field; 
*	development of, or significant improvement in, accessibility to an
information service; 
*	a sustained contribution over a period of years to the field of
information retrieval; for example, by running an information service or by
contributing at national or international level to organisations active in
the field; 
*	a major and/or sustained contribution to the theoretical or
experimental understanding of the information retrieval process; 
*	a major contribution to fostering the education, training and/or
general awareness of the importance and the technicalities of information
retrieval. 
Key characteristics that the judges will look for in nominations are
innovation, initiative, originality and practicality. 
Nominations should take the form of a short description (no more than 3
sides of A4) of the work in question, together with full contact details of
both the nominee and the nominator. Do not forget to include any
documentation, references or URLs which may support the nomination.
Nominations should reach the judges by Friday September 14th 2007.
Nominations will be judged by a panel of experts, and the statuette of an
owl will be presented to the winner during the annual Online Information
Meeting in London in late November. 
The Strix Award is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the
Institute of Information Scientists, who died in 1997. Tony Kent made a
major contribution to the development of information retrieval and
information services both in the UK and internationally, particularly in the
field of chemistry. The name Strix was chosen both to reflect Tony's
interest in ornithology, and the name of one of the last and most successful
information retrieval packages which he created.
Past winners have been Stella Dextre Clarke (2006); Jack Mills (2005);
Professor Cornelis Joost (Keith) van Rijsbergen (2004); Dr Herbert van
Sompel (2003); Malcolm Jones (2002); Professor Peter Willett (2001); Dr
Martin Porter (2000); Dr Donna Harman (1999); Professor Stephen Robertson
(1998).
Nominations for the 2007 Award are now invited, and should be sent with full
supporting documentation to:
Alan Gilchrist,
32 Friar Road,
Brighton BN1 6NH
UK.
Tel: 01273 705226
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
UKeiG Jason Farradane Award
Nominations should be for achievement that meets one or more of the
following criteria:
*	raising the profile of the information profession within an
organisation or field of endeavour in a way which can or has become an
exemplar to others; 
*	raising the awareness of the value of information in the workplace; 
*	development of a significant new information product or service; 
*	development of a product or service that has made a significant
impact on the availability and accessibility of information. 
Key characteristics that the judges will look for in nominations are
innovation, initiative, originality and significance. 
Nominations should take the form of a short description (no more than 3
sides of A4) of the work in question, together with full contact details of
both the nominee and the nominator. Do not forget to include any
documentation, references or URLs which may support the nomination.
Nominations should reach the judges by Friday September 14th 2007.
Nominations will be judged by a panel of experts, and the award will be
presented to the winner during the annual Online Information Meeting in
London in late November. 
Jason Farradane graduated in chemistry in 1929 at what is now Imperial
College and started work in industry as a chemist and documentalist. He was
instrumental in establishing the Institute of Information Scientists (IIS)
in 1958 and the first academic courses in information science in 1960 at the
precursor of City University, where he became Director of the Centre for
Information Science in 1966. On the research side his main contributions lay
in relational analysis, which can now perhaps be seen as providing a
precursor to work in the area of A.I., and the concept of information. He
saw information science as a step towards understanding and better
organizing ourselves. The IIS first presented the award in 1979, to Jason
Farradane.
Previous award winners have included University of Warwick Library for The
Learning Grid; Michael Koenig; Bruce Royan; Michael Keen; Newcastle
University Library; Sandra Ward; Phil Williams and Phil Holmes.
Nominations for the 2007 Award are now invited, and should be sent with full
supporting documentation to:
Christine Baker 
The Old Chapel
Walden, West Burton
Leyburn
North Yorkshire 
DL8 4LE
Tel & Fax: 01969 663749
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
The closing date for nominations is Friday September 14th 2007.
Notes:
UKeiG is an established professional group for all information
professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. The
Group encourages communication and the exchange of best practice and
knowledge across all sectors; and offers an e-journal, a mailing list, an
annual programme of training courses; and an array of awards and bursaries.
UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of
Library and Information Professionals. 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE.
Registered Charity No. 313014. 
SAGE Publications (www.sagepublications.com) is a leading international
publisher of journals, books and electronic media for scholarly, educational
and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a
global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. SAGE
Publications, a privately owned corporation, has principal offices in
London, United Kingdom; Thousand Oaks, California; and New Delhi, India.
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