*sent on behalf of the IRMS Awards Committee and with apologies for cross posting*

Dear All,

The nominations for this year’s IRMS Industry Awards are now published! 

The full list of all nominees is set-out below. The exceptions to this are the nominees for the IRMS Lifetime achievement award, the entrants for IRMS Alison North Award for New Professionals and the nominees for the Tribal Content of the Year Award (for content in the Bulletin)- the winners of which awards are determined by panel adjudication rather than by voting.

The winners in the various awards are determined by various voting groups: Innovation (the Awards Sub-Committee); Professional and Supplier (blind ballot of the Exec Team) and Team (membership vote).

Voting will commence over the next 10 to 14 days with the winners being announced at the Awards Ceremony at the Society’s Annual Gala Dinner, held this year at the Glasgow Hilton on the evening of the 22^nd of May.

Ahead of announcement on the evening, the only people who will know the names of the winners will be the Chair of the Society, the other three members of the Awards Sub-committee and the engraver!

So, to the nominations…

Innovation of the Year

• The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) for the re-imagined Digital Preservation Handbook
• The Vault Project Team of the (UK Government) Department of International Development for the Digital Vault record storage and retrieval system

Supplier of the Year

• Box-it- for general achievement in 2016
• Crown Records Management- for general achievement in 2016
• The Digital Preservation Coalition- for achievement since establishment in 2002
• Objective Corporation- for their Thurrock Council EDMS implementation
• Restore Records Management- for general achievement in 2016
• Web-footed Designs- for going the extra mile in managing the IRMS website in 2016

Team of the Year

• Cyngor Gwynedd Council iGwynedd e-file project Team
• Direct Line Insurance Records Management Team
• The Digital Preservation Coalition Team
• Fife Council Archive and Records Store Project Team
• NHS England RM Toolkit Team
• Health and Safety Authority (Ireland) e-files Storage and Disposition Project Team
• Ofwat IG Improvement Project Team
• (UK) Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PHSO) Egress System Implementation Team
• The Storetec Hull Team
• The Translink Information Management Team

Professional of the Year

• Rowenna Fielding- IG lead for various third sector organisations
• Andrew Harvey- Head of IG, Western Sussex Hospital Trusts
• Madi McAliister- IG and IM Officer, Merton Borough Council
• Sarah Norman- UK Legal Entity Controller (Records), Bank of New York Mellon
• David Paris- Head of IG, Historic Environment Scotland

Congratulations all!- a truly world-class array of talent!

IRMS members please look out for your e-voting form arriving over the next 10 to 14 days.  If we do not hold a current email address for you, or if you wish to join IRMS, please get in touch on [log in to unmask]

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A big hand please for all our nominees!

All the best,