Jason Farradane Award Sponsored by Kompass

Nominations invited for top award

Nominations are invited for the Jason Farradane Award, sponsored by Kompass and supported by UKeiG and the Industrial and Commercial Libraries Group (ICLG). It is made to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the information field. Examples of such work include:

• the development of an innovative product or service
• activities that have raised awareness of the value of information and the information profession within the workplace
• work that has raised the profile of the information profession amongst a wider community, and which can or has become a role model for others
  

This winner for 2004 was Julia Chandler, the Internet and Intranet Manager at the Department for International Development.

Previous years' winners include the London Metropolitan University and the TUC for the web site 'The Union Makes Strong", William Hann for FreePint, and Sandra Ward for her work in raising the profile of industrial information services

The award was first made to Jason Farradane in 1979. Farradane was the founder of the Institute of Information Scientists and a cornerstone of information science teaching and research.

It is an international award open to all.

Nomination
To make a nomination visit www.online-information.co.uk/awards. Nominations may also be submitted to w.k.reid@livjm.ac.uk

Closing date: 18th October 2005

About the Jason Farradane Award sponsor

Kompass Publishers is one of the world's leading providers of business information. It supplies data on international markets and some 1.8 million companies in 75 countries via its directories, CDs and web site www.kompass.co.uk.

Kompass was launched in the UK in 1962, but its roots go back nearly 60 years. The original concept was dreamed-up shortly after the Second World War by a Swiss businesswoman called Irma Neuenschwander. She recognised the need for up-to-date information on products and services in order to rebuild the devastated European economies.

Since 1944, Kompass has grown from a single directory into a global information giant, used by thousands of buyers, marketeers and business people to find suppliers, research markets and launch new products.