Foster City, Calif., June 24, 1996— Information Access Company (IAC) and Online Inc., co-sponsors of the 15th annual Information Authorship Award, take great pleasure in announcing the judging committee for this year’s award program.
The Information Authorship Award, which is comprised of three writing awards, ranks among the oldest and most prestigious in the information industry. This year’s Information Authorship Award will be presented at the Online World Conference & Expo, which will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Monday, October 28, 1996. The presentation of the awards will precede the keynote address.
J.D. de Haseth, Vice President of Marketing for IAC’s Corporate Division, comments: “Now entering its fifteenth year, the Information Authorship Award Program encourages the highest level of professionalism and scholarship among writers, researchers, managers, and users within the information community. IAC joins Online Inc. in saluting the superior authorship exhibited by the articles and columns under consideration. We also extend out best wishes to the eight nominated judges whose mission it is to select the finest examples of authorship from among an extraordinary body of work.”
The 1996 Information Authorship Award Program recognizes superior scholarship in the following areas: best article appearing in eitherONLINEorDATABASEmagazine; best article appearing inCD-ROM PROFESSIONALmagazine; and best column. Recipients of the 1996 award for best article will each receive a $1,000 cash prize. The award-winning regular columnist will receive a $500 cash prize.
Winners are chosen by a committee of internationally distinguished information industry professionals who select the most outstanding articles and column from the previous year’s issues ofONLINE, DATABASE, AND CD-ROM PROFESSIONAL. Articles and columns are judged on insight, practicality, content, scholarship, style, and impact on the industry.
The eight information professionals on this year’s judging committee are broken out into two separate panels– one that judges best article appearing in ONLINE or DATABASE; and one that judges best article appearing inCD-ROM PROFESSIONAL. Members from both panels will judge best column.
The 1996ONLINE/DATABASEpanel members include:Paula Galbraith(Mary Kay, Inc., Dallas, TX);Cindy Hill(Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA);Carmen Miller(Carmen Miller Resources, Seattle, WA); andMarydee Ojala(Information Consultant– Holte, Denmark and Park City, UT).
The 1996CD-ROM PROFESSIONALpanel members include: Rich Bowers (CompuServe, Columbus,OH);Barry Cinnamon(Allegro New Media, Fairfield, NJ);Roger Hutchison(CD ROM, Inc., Golden, CO); andA. Frank Johansen(Americ Disc, Aurora, Ontario, Canada).
Headquartered in Foster City, California, Information Access Company is an indirect subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation, and acknowledged as one of the premier providers of electronic databases to corporations throughout the world– delivering timely, information-based solutions to several million people each day via online services, the internet, CD-ROM, and LAN/WAN distribution to the desktop. Information about IAC’s products and services may be found on the World Wide Web at http://corporate.iacnet.com, or by calling 1-800-419-0313 or 1-415-358-4643.
Online Inc. is headquartered in Wilton, Connecticut. In addition to publishingONLINE, DATABASE, CD-ROM PROFESSIONAL, ONLINE USER,andMULTI-MEDIA SCHOOLS, it sponsors the largest online conference held in North America. Information on this year’s Online World Conference & Expo may be found on the World Wide Web athttp://www.onlineinc.com/olworld, or by calling 1-800-248-8466, ext. 513, or 1-203-761-1466.