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The Jason Farradane Award UKeiG is pleased to announce that the winner in 2015 is Sheila Webber, nominated for excellence in education and teaching in information science and for raising the profile of the information profession. UKeiG is particularly pleased to make this award in view of Sheila's long history with the Group - serving on the Management Committee for a number of years and editing one of our popular <http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/about-ukeig/ukeig-publishing- history> Guides. Sheila Webber is Senior Lecturer at the Information School, University of Sheffield, and Head of the Libraries and Information Society Research Group, Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research, and Director of Alumni Relations of the iSchool. Her nominations notes that "nomination notes her deep insight into the library world and understanding of the pressures of a modern information workplace which together make her a fantastic supervisor and mentor who always supports her students, even those who are not on campus."Further details can be found on the <http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/awards-bursaries/jason-farrad ane-award/jason-farradane-award-winners/2015> 2015 Jason Farradane Award Page. The Tony Kent Strix Award UKeiG, in association with the Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry; the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, is delighted to announce that this year’s winner of the Tony Kent Strix Award is Peter Ingwersen, Professor Emeritus at The Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, Professor II at Oslo University College, Norway and Docent at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Professor Ingwersen's major contribution to the theoretical and experimental understanding of information retrieval not only informed the design of automated search intermediaries, such as iPhone’s Siri, but his 30+ years of research excellence laid the foundations of Interactive Information Retrieval. Further details can be found on the <http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/awards-bursaries/tony-kent-st rix-award/tony-kent-strix-award-winners/2015> 2015 Tony Kent Strix Award Page. Both Awards will be presented in London on 21 October: the Tony Kent Strix Award at 12.10 during <http://www.enterprisesearcheurope.com/2015/> Enterprise Search Europe, and the Jason Farradane during the Closing Plenary at <http://www.internet-librarian.com/2015/> Internet Librarian International. _______________________________________ Chris Armstrong - [log in to unmask] Awards & Admin for UKeiG - UK eInformation Group www.ukeig.org.uk Follow us on Twitter - @ukeig _________________________ UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP Registered Charity Number 313014