UKeiG, the UK e-information Group, is calling for nominations for this years’s Jason Farradane Award.
The Jason Farradane Award is given to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the information profession. The Award embraces a broad interpretation of the information profession’s activities. Previous individual winners include: Professor Charles Oppenheim (2013) Professor Hazel Hall (2016) Sheila Webber (2015). Previous team winners include the Chemoinformatics Research Group in the Information School, University of Sheffield (2012) and the United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR).
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
- Making a major contribution to the theory and practice of information science.
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:
https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=201314&id=805315
The closing date for nominations is 5 pm on Friday 6th September, 2019.