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
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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
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