GIG Award
About the GIG Award
In 1998 the Government Libraries & Information Group launched its annual award to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Group's founding.
The GLIG (now GIG) Award is granted to mark a major contribution to the work of government libraries. If the work in question relates to something concerning one particular library, it must have a wider application i.e. it must be a concept which could usefully be introduced elsewhere. It can apply to a publication (in whatever format), a system development, a working practice, work on a committee, and so on. It is open to anyone, individuals or groups, working in government libraries, irrespective of whether they are members of the GIG, CILIP, or the profession, and to GIG members, students and others, who do not work in government libraries, but who can produce evidence of a piece of work which meets the key criterion of being a major contribution to the work of government libraries.