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The UKOLUG Public Sector Award Celebrating Innovative Use of Electronic Resources in the Public Sector An award of £1,000 is offered to a public sector library or library authority that has instigated an innovative use of electronic resources. The Award will be presented at the CILIP Gala Awards Day. In order to find a winner, UKOLUG is asking readers to nominate a library or information service for this award. If you know of a particular worthy service offering electronic resources to members of the public please let us know by sending in a nomination. A panel of judges will select the most innovative, noteworthy and useful application. If yours is the successful nomination, you too will receive a small award - a £50 Book Token. While setting no limit on the range of uses, applications or installations that may be nominated, we offer these as examples of the kinds of activity likely to attract the award: · An innovative means of presenting or delivering information to a particular user group; · A significant electronic resource presenting an unusual range or type of information; or · An innovative electronic outreach programme to counter social exclusion Nominations should take the form of a brief description (perhaps two A4 pages) of the resource and its intended users, as well as details of the location and the library or authority. Please try to make your descriptions as detailed as possible and specify the type and location of the resource and the target user group. It may help to offer some assessment of its success. Past winner: 2002 Derbyshire Libraries and Heritage Department Nominations for the 2003 Award are now invited, and should be sent with full details of both the nominator and the nominee and with full supporting documentation to: Christine Baker UKOLUG Administrator The Old Chapel Walden West Burton LEYBURN North Yorkshire DL8 4LE UK. Tel/Fax: 01969 663749 Email: [log in to unmask] The closing date for nominations is Friday June 27th 2003 >>. . . . . . . . . . . . .<< The Tony Kent Strix Award The Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval 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 the judges will look for in nominations are innovation, initiative, originality and practicality. The Award is open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world. Nominations will be judged by a panel of experts, including the recipient of the previous year's Award, and the statuette of an Owl will be presented to the winner at the CILIP Gala Awards Day. 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 science 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: 2002 Mr Malcolm Jones 2001 Professor Peter Willett 2000 Dr Martin Porter 1999 Dr Donna Harman 1998 Professor Stephen Robertson Nominations for the 2003 Award are now invited, and should be sent with details of both the nominator and the nominee and with full supporting documentation to: Alan Gilchrist 32 Friar Road Brighton BN1 6NH UK. Tel: 01273 705226 E-mail: [log in to unmask] The closing date for nominations is Friday June 27th 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .