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This year’s Jason Farradane Award for outstanding work in the field of information science was today presented to Intute, the‘Intute's model of shared services has made the UK a world leader in delivering Internet services for education and research on a national level.’ JISC-funded free online search service.

With over 120,000 links to academic content on the Web, as well as a suite of virtual training tutorials and Internet information services, Intute has grown from its origins in JISC’s 1996 e-Lib programme to become a community resource, contributed to by subject specialists in libraries and other organisations across the UK.

The nomination describes Intute as ‘a great example of the UKlibrary community taking a long-term pioneering role in the Internet information environment, developing a national service through collaboration, which has grown to become well respected and highly used worldwide.’

The awards committee also praises the work of Executive Director Caroline Williams who helped forge Intute ‘into a single organisation with a unified culture, interface, technological platform and identity.’

The committee felt that ‘Intute's model of shared services has made the UK a world leader in delivering Internet services for education and research on a national level.’

The Jason Farradane Award is made to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the field of information science. The Award is sponsored by the Journal of Information Science, published by SAGE.

For further information on the award, please go to: Jason Farradane

For further information on Intute, please go to: Intute

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