The Jason Farradane Award is made each year by the UK eInformation Group (UKeiG), a specialist group within the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals . The award is given to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding contribution to the information profession, by meeting one or more of the following criteria:
5-561: It is an international award open to all. Recent winners include: Jason Farradane graduated in chemistry in 1929 at what is now Imperial College and started work in industry as a chemist and documentalist. After working in research at the Ministry of Supply and the Admiralty during World War II , he first made an impact with a paper on the scientific approach to documentation at a Royal Society Scientific Information Conference in 1948. He
10-517: Is now Imperial College London and started work in industry as a chemist and documentalist. After working in research at the Ministry of Supply and the Admiralty during World War II , he first made an impact with a paper on the scientific approach to documentation at a Royal Society Scientific Information Conference in 1948. Farradane is accredited for first use of the term information science , in which he recognized library science and information science as disparate, yet joint areas of study. He
15-423: The research side his main contributions lay in relational analysis, a precursor to work in the area of artificial intelligence , and the concept of information. Jason Farradane Jason Farradane (born Jason Lewkowitsch ; 29 September 1906 – 27 June 1989) was a British librarian of Polish descent. The son of the chemical engineer Julius Lewkowitsch , Farradane graduated in chemistry in 1929 at what
20-569: Was instrumental in establishing the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958 and the first academic courses in information science in 1963 at what eventually became City University, London and where he became Director of the Centre for Information Science in 1966. Of Central European origin, his commitment to science was reflected in the surname he created for himself – a combination of Faraday and Haldane , two scientists he particularly admired. On
25-465: Was instrumental in establishing the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958 and the first academic courses in information science in 1963, at what eventually became City University, London and where he became Director of the Centre for Information Science in 1966. Of Central European origin, his commitment to science was reflected in the name he created for himself – a combination of Faraday and Haldane , two scientists he particularly admired. On
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