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Alan Jeffreys Award

The Alan Jeffreys Award was established in 1996 in memory of Alan Jeffreys, a former chairman of the group. It is awareded to recognise those who have made significant contributions to the understanding and development of cataloguing, indexing and related fields of librarianship.

The recipient of the award should have made a substantive contribution to the development, teaching or practice of cataloguing or indexing. Nominations for the award should be sent to the Honorary Secretary. Nominations should provide evidence of exceptional achievement in one or more of the following categories:

  • Teaching or Professional Development
  • Leadership in a changing environment
  • Delivery of a project

Evidence should include assessment of the impact the nominee has had. This may include, but is not limited to, improved access to collections; academic performance or efficiencies. Nominations will be evaluated by the MDG committee. Nominees are excluded from the evaluation process.

List of laureates


Bursaries

We offers bursaries to our members for the MDG biennial conference and also for CILIP's conference each year. Only MDG members who have not previously received sponsored attendance at events or training are eligible to apply. Full information will be posted here and via our social media channels nearer the time.

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