UKeiG has recently published a call for nominations for the Jason Farradane Award 2018.
Nominations should be received no later than Friday 21st September 2018.
Given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the information profession, the Award honours Jason Farradane
who made an impact with a paper on the scientific approach to
documentation at a Royal Society Scientific Information Conference in
1948 and was instrumental in establishing the Institute of Information
Scientists in 1958 as well as the first academic courses in information
science in 1963 at the precursor of City University, where he became
Director of the Centre for Information Science in 1966.
The
nomination could highlight achievements such as raising the profile of
the information profession within an organisation or field of endeavour
in a way which has become an exemplar to others or simply raising the
awareness of the value of information in the workplace; demonstrating
excellence in education and teaching in information science; or making a
major contribution to the theory and practice of information science.
The UKeiG Jason Farradane
Award is made to an individual or a group of people in recognition of
outstanding work in the information profession. The Award embraces
activities in the information profession in its widest sense, while the
Group's other award, the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award focuses more
narrowly on information retrieval.
Nominations should meet one or more of the following criteria:
*Raising
the profile of the information profession within an organisation or
field of endeavour in a way which has become an exemplar to others;
*Raising the awareness of the value of information in the workplace;
*Demonstrating excellence in education and teaching in information science;
*A major contribution to the theory and practice of information science.
Key
characteristics that the judging panel will look for in nominations are
innovation, initiative, originality and practicality. None of the
criteria should be read as necessarily implying activity over an
extended period. The Award is open to individuals or groups from
anywhere in the world.
Nominations should take
the form of a short description (a document of no more than 3 sides of
A4) of the work in question, together with full contact details of both
the nominee and the nominator. Do not forget to include any
documentation, references or URLs which may support the nomination. See
some examples and a list of previous winners:
Nominations for the 2018 Award should be emailed with the full supporting documentation to:
The
closing date for nominations is Friday September 21st, 2018. We hope to
present the award at ILI - Internet Librarian International - on
Wednesday 17th October.
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