Adapted from Alumni Award Guidelines of the School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, as approved by the FIAA executive on February 18, 2010. (amended January 2014)
1. Purpose
Each year, the Faculty of Information Alumni Association (FIAA) honours a distinguished graduate of the Faculty (and its predecessors) who has made significant contributions in innovation and/or leadership in libraries, archives, museums or information management, professional organizations, publications/research, or the community at large.
2. Criteria
Recipients have characteristics that make them an innovator, leader, mentor, researcher, or a catalyst, an alumnus/ae who has made a significant contribution to the profession.
3. Eligibility
i) A member of the Alumni Association with all rights of full membership (any person who has received a Master of Information Studies, or Master of Library Science or Master of Library and Information Studies [MLIS] degree or Bachelor of Library Science degree from the University of Toronto).
ii) The Award may not be given posthumously. However, in the event that a nominee dies after having been nominated for the FIAA Outstanding Alumni Award, the nomination may be considered in the selection process.
iii) The Award will not be given more than once to the same person.
4. Nomination/Selection Procedures
Nominations for the Award shall be solicited through advertisements posted in the Faculty of Information Alumni E-newsletter, Informed, various library / archives / information system list servs, the Faculty of Information website, FIAA social media groups, Feliciter (CLA journal), and through any other means deemed appropriate by the Selection Committee.
i) All nominations must be submitted in writing and must include the following: a completed Nomination form; a letter by the nominator addressing why nominee should receive the award; a biographical sketch (or resume/curriculum vitae) of the nominee; and a letter of support by an individual other than the nominator.
ii) Nominations are submitted by e-mail addressed in care of the Selection Committee, FIAA Outstanding Alumni Award.
iii) All nominations must be emailed by March 31 each year.
iv) Nominations of persons previously nominated but not chosen may be resubmitted.
v) If, in the opinion of the Selection Committee, a sufficiently worthy candidate has not been nominated, the Committee may recommend to the Executive of the Faculty of Information Alumni Association that the Award not be issued in that year.
5. Selection Committee
i) The Selection Committee is a task group of the Grants and Awards Committee of FIAA.
ii) The Selection Committee will notify each nominee soon after having received the nomination to confirm that he/she is willing to be considered as a candidate for the Alumni Award.
iii) The Selection Committee will evaluate and choose the Award recipient from among the nominations received and submit its recommendation in writing by April 30th of each year to the Executive of FIAA.
iv) The Executive of FIAA are responsible for notifying the recipient, all nominees, and the Faculty, and for publicizing the name of the Award winner in the list of above locations and other publications of information management and related professional organizations.
6. Award
i) The Award shall consist of: an individual plaque inscribed with the name of the Award, recipient’s name and Award year to be given to the winner;
ii) Normally only one Award will be made in a given year.
iii) The Award shall be presented by the President of the Faculty of Information Alumni Association at the annual Alumni Reception in the year the Award is given.