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News from UKeiG
Tuesday 28 November 2006
For immediate release (Please copy to online discussion lists)
Jason Farradane Award – Winner Announcement
UKeiG is delighted to announce the winner of the 2006 Jason Farradane Award
is the University of Warwick Library for the development of The Learning
Grid, a revolutionary information and learning service. The blended
service is a unique combination of a radical new library design, coupled
with ground breaking operating practices, all supported by advanced
information literacy training and learning support programmes for students.
The awards committee felt that this nomination strongly upholds the spirit
of the Jason Farradane award - a strong desire to promote good information
practice to the widest audience through the use of innovative information
techniques and approaches. The Learning Grid will directly impact the
lives of all students in the University of Warwick but its impact will be
felt more widely as other institutions follow their lead across the world.
The award was presented to the University of Warwick Library on Tuesday
28th November, during the annual Online Information Meeting and was
sponsored by SAGE Publications.
About Jason Farradane:
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 organising ourselves. The IIS first presented the award in 1979, to
Jason Farradane.
It is expected that the call for nominations for the 2007 Award will take
place in April 2007.
Further details can be found on the UKeiG website at:
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/farradane.html
Notes to Editors:
The Jason Farradane Award is made by UKeiG, the UK eInformation Group, a
special interest group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals. Through its activities, UKeiG 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. For more details
about UKeiG, please go to www.ukeig.org.uk.
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is
the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and
knowledge managers, with around 23,000 members working in all sectors,
including business and industry, science and technology, further and higher
education, schools, local and central government, the health service, the
voluntary sector, national and public libraries. For more information
about CILIP, please go to www.cilip.org.uk.
About the Jason Farradane Award Sponsor:
SAGE Publications www.sagepub.co.uk 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.
Previous award winners have included:
* Michael Koenig
* Bruce Royan
* Michael Keen
* Newcastle University Library
* Sandra Ward
* Phil Williams
* Phil Holmes
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