UKeiG Awards: Call for Nominations for the UKeiG Jason Farradane Award

UKeiG is now seeking nominations for the second of its prestigious awards, presented annually at the December Online Information Meeting in London. Both awards are sponsored by the Journal of Information Science, published by SAGE, and both honour achievement in the broad field of information management. The UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award is presented for an outstanding contribution to the narrower field of information retrieval, while the UKeiG Jason Farradane Award recognises brilliant work in information science. Full details of the award together with the address to which nominations should be sent is given below and at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/index.html.

Nominations for the UKeiG Jason Farradane Award 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.

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 14th 2007.

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 December.

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.

Previous award winners have included University of Warwick Library for The Learning Grid; Michael Koenig; Bruce Royan; Michael Keen; Newcastle University Library; Sandra Ward; Phil Williams and Phil Holmes.

Nominations for the 2007 Award are now invited, and should be sent with full supporting documentation to:

Christine Baker
Piglet Cottage
Redmire
Leyburn
North Yorkshire
DL8 4EH

Tel & Fax: 01969 625751
E-mail: cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

The closing date for nominations is Friday September 14th 2007.

UKeiG Awards: Call for Nominations for the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award

UKeiG is now seeking nominations for this prestigious award, presented annually at the December Online Information Meeting in London. Sponsored by the Journal of Information Science, published by SAGE, the award honours achievement in the broad field of information management.

The UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award is presented for an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval. The deadline is Friday 14^th September 2007. Full details of the award together with the address to which nominations should be sent is given below and at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/index.html.

Nominations should be for achievement that meets one or more of the following criteria:

• development of, or significant improvement in, mechanisms for the retrieval of information, either generally or in a specialised field;
• development of, or significant improvement in, accessibility to an information service;
• a sustained contribution over a period of years to the field of information retrieval; for example, by running an information service or by contributing at national or international level to organisations active in the field;
• a major and/or sustained contribution to the theoretical or experimental understanding of the information retrieval process;
• a major contribution to fostering the education, training and/or general awareness of the importance and the technicalities of information retrieval.

Key characteristics that the judges will look for in nominations are innovation, initiative, originality and practicality.

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 14th 2007.

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

The Strix Award is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, who died in 1997. Tony Kent made a major contribution to the development of information retrieval and information services both in the UK and internationally, particularly in the field of chemistry. The name Strix was chosen both to reflect Tony's interest in ornithology, and the name of one of the last and most successful information retrieval packages which he created.

Past winners have been Stella Dextre Clarke (2006); Jack Mills (2005); Professor Cornelis Joost (Keith) van Rijsbergen (2004); Dr Herbert van Sompel (2003); Malcolm Jones (2002); Professor Peter Willett (2001); Dr Martin Porter (2000); Dr Donna Harman (1999); Professor Stephen Robertson (1998).

Nominations for the 2007 Award are now invited, and should be sent with full supporting documentation to:

Alan Gilchrist,
32 Friar Road
Brighton
BN1 6NH
UK
Tel: 01273 705226
E-mail: cura@fastnet.co.uk

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eLucidate - May issue now available

The May issue of eLucidate is now available. This month's issue includes:

COUNTER: Getting the Measure of e-Books. An article by Jenny Walker, executive vice-president for Xrefer, and based in the Xrefer London office.

Abstract: This article is based on a workshop given by the author at the 2007 UK Serials Group Conference, entitled “Understanding, Implementing and Using the COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works”. Ebooks seem set to flourish in 2007, with great interest from publishers and librarians alike. The COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works, first released in 2006, provides standardization that can help with the tracking, comparison and analysis of ebook usage. Publishers and aggregators of ebooks and online reference works are urged to adopt and implement these standards at their earliest convenience; and feedback is actively sought from all interested parties.

Online - latest news from Johanna Westwood, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Internet. Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best practices for social software – a book review from Susan Miles.

Intranets. This month, Martin White of Intranet Focus has compiled an Intranet Miscellany- a round-up of recent intranet books and reports.

Reference Management. Updates and news on reference software packages from Tracy Kent, Librarian for Physics and Computer Science University of Birmingham

Public sector news from Jane Inman, Chair of ALGIS.

Meeting report on eInformation for eScience by Stephen Bull.

Intranets Forum: Planning your intranet strategy - report from Dion Lindsay.

Current Awareness - compiled and edited by Jane Grogan.

Please note that most of eLucidate is available only to members of UKeiG. If you have lost or forgotten your user name and password please contact Karen.Blakeman@rba.co.uk.

If you are not a member of UKeiG, further information on how to join is available on our web site.

Online payment options for UKeiG membership

UKeiG now offers electronic payment options for direct membership subscriptions and renewals. Anyone wishing to join UKeiG or renew their personal, student or unwaged membership direct with UKeiG can pay online via PayPal. You can use either your credit/debit card or PayPal account. Personal subscription rates are £25 a year and £10 a year for students and unwaged. (You do not have to be a member of CILIP to be a member of UKeiG).

If you are a member of CILIP - the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals - you can join via CILIP by specifying UKeiG as one of your Special Interest Groups.

Further details on membership are at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/join/index.html.