Jason Farradane Award goes to Michael Koenig

The Jason Farradane Award, sponsored by Kompass, was awarded to Michael Koenig at the Third Annual International Information Industry Awards Dinner, which took place at the Royal Lancaster Hotel on 30th November during the Online Information 2005 Conference.

The Jason Farradane Award is presented by UKeiG to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the information field. For only the third time, the Award was presented in recognition of a lifetime's work, specifically - as the citation stated - for innovative and significant contributions to the field of Information Science, particularly in the areas of Library and Information Services and Production and Knowledge Management. The winner, Michael Koenig is currently Dean of the College of Information and Computer Science at Long Island University - one of the first of the new breed of "I Schools", but his contribution spans both academe and the world of commercial practice, in the domains of pharmaceutical information services (Pfizer) and commercial data services (Swets, ISI, Tradenet).

The Jason Farradane Award is currently sponsored by Kompass, and as Michael Koenig was unable to attend the dinner, Rod Kain Information Sales Director for Kompass, presented the award to Gary Horrocks, Chair of UKeiG.

For more information on the Jason Farradane Award and UKeiG go to http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/farradane.html