Cyril Barnard Memorial Prize
Barnard Prize for Margaret Forrest
The Cyril Barnard Memorial Prize for 2008 was awarded to Margaret Forrest on Tuesday 22nd August at the end of the 2008 HLG Conference in the impressive Assembly Rooms at Cardiff City Hall. Margaret chose a piece of Caithness glass entitled 'Moving On' for her award, which was presented by Melanie Brocklehurst, Chair of Health Libraries Group.
Although now working at the University of Edinburgh as Academic Liaison Librarian for the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, prior to April 2008 Margaret was a health librarian for the past 25 years. She was nominated by HLG Committee for this year’s award for her continual dedication to the profession, and as an exemplar of professionalism and good practice. For 10 years from 1997 to 2007, Margaret edited the Health Libraries Group newsletter, encouraging many first time authors to put pen to paper. An author of many articles herself, she also edited the 2004 supplement to Health Information and Libraries Journal in commemoration of the life and work of Mona Going, a pioneering hospital and community care librarian whom she knew well. Margaret was also chair of SHINE, the Scottish Health Information Network for a number of years and continues her work as a standing committee member of IFLA’s 'Libraries Serving Disadvantaged People' section. In accepting her award, Margaret paid homage to Mona, and many other health librarians whose support she had received over the years.
2005 Barnard Prize for Jean Shaw
Jean Shaw was presented with the Cyril Barnard Memorial Prize for services to librarianship by Tom Roper, HLG Chair, following the HLG presentation at the Online Information Exhbition at Olympia, London, November 2005.
This is the 15th Cyril Barnard Memorial Prize 2005
Jean's distinguished career included being the first librarian of the Medical School in Leicester and she has contiued to be professionally active since her retirement in 1995. She has edited the Eahil Newsletter and has led Partnerships in Health Information for over ten years. Jean highlighted the importance of the international role, pointing out that disease is no respecter of international boundaries and that those who are involved in combatting it can derive great benefits from working internationally.
History
The Cyril Barnard Memorial Prize was announced by the Medical Section of the Library Association in 1959 and was awarded for the first time in 1962 in memory of Cyril Barnard. The prize is awarded by the Health Libraries Group Committee in recognition of outstanding services to medical librarianship and is awarded every three years.
Selection
Award recipients are nominated by the Health Library Group Committee.
Previous Recipients
2002 Bob Gann
1999 Judith Palmer
1996 Margaret Haines
1993 Derek Law
1989 Michael Carmel
1986 Shane Godbolt
1983 Anthony J Harley
1980 Roy Tabor
1977 John Thornton
1974 William R LeFanu
1971 Leslie Morton
1968 Brian Armitage
1965 Frank Rogers
1962 William J Bishop (posthumously)
Updated: 29 July 2008