Nominations invited for the Jason Farradane Award

The UKeiG Jason Farradane Award is offered to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the field of information science. The Award is sponsored by Sage Publications. Nominations are now invited for the 2006 Award. Nominations should be for achievement that meets 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 can or has become an exemplar to others;
  
• raising the awareness of the value of information in the workplace;
  
• development of a significant new information product or service;
  
• development of a product or service that has made a significant impact on the availability and accessibility of information.
  

Key characteristics that the judges will look for in nominations are innovation, initiative, originality and significance. The Award is open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world.

Nominations should take the form of a short description (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. Nominations should reach the judges by Friday September 15th 2006.

Nominations will be judged by a panel of experts, and the award will be presented to the winner during the annual Online Information Meeting in London in late November.

Previous award winners have included:

• 2005 - Michael Koenig, Dean of the College of Information and Computer Science at Long Island University
  
• 2004 - Julia Chandler, Internet and Intranet Manager at the Department for International Development
  
• 2003 - London Metropolitan University and the TUC for the web site "The Union Makes us Strong: TUC History Online"
  
• 2002 - William Hann for Freepint
  
• 2001 - Professor Bruce Royan for SCRAN
  

Further details can be found on the UKeiG website at: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/farradane.html

Nominations for the 2006 Award are now invited, and should be sent with full supporting documentation to:

Christine Baker
The Old Chapel
Walden, West Burton
Leyburn
North Yorkshire
DL8 4LE
Tel & Fax: 01969 663749
E-mail: cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

The closing date for nominations is Friday September 15th 2006.

Notes:

1. Sage Publications
SAGE Publications 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.

2. 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 organizing ourselves. The IIS first presented the award in 1979, to Jason Farradane.