INFORUM AWARDS

The INFORUM 2003 Awards were awarded to the most important Czech and Slovak products, services or acts related to electronic information resources of a great importance to the Czech and Slovak information community since January 2002. The awards were announced at the INFOCONCERT festive evening in the Chapel of Mirrors of the Klementinum Palace on May 28.

INFORUM 2003 Awards (listed alphabetically)	Country
Czech database of terminology of librarianship and information science (TDKIV) - TDKIV is a unique and long time awaited information resource of terminology, which was created in the Czech National Library in 2001-2002 thanks to the Ministry of Culture grant and with contributions by dozens of collaborators. The database contains nearly 3000 articles incl. explanations and English equivalent terms for selected terminology in the filed of librarianship, information science and related diciplines. The TDKIV will be updated in order to keep pace with the terminology development. (Czech Nationa Library and the collective of authors)	CZ
Specialty news reporting of the Ikaros journal - A continuously updated news stories are now published within the Ikaros electronic journal, consisting of news in the field of librarianship and information studies in the Czech Republic and abroad (e,g. INFORUM - video broadcasting and live reporting, the Week of the Libraries, March - the month of the Internet, floods in 2002). (Ikaros editorial board)	CZ
SKIP - the public ???sbírka??? AID TO LIBRARIES and information gathering about flood-damaged libraries - for organizing a public ???? to help Czech libraries damaged by the 2002 floods and for gathering information on these libraries. (SKIP - the Association of Librarians and Information Professionals of the Czech Republic)	CZ
Union Catalogue of Periodicals - Few people for a few money managed to do a big thing for users and librarians (University Library in Bratislava)	SK
Special Award of the INFORUM 2003 committee
Jaroslav Winter and the BMI Association - for promotion of libraries within the "March - the month of the Internet" (BMI) event

NOMINATIONS

Anyone could make a nomination to the INFORUM AWARD via a www form (in Czech) until February 17th, 2002.

VOTING

Conference participants from the Czech Republic and Slovakia voted for the nominated products etc. on their conference applications. The most voted nominations will then be awarded by the INFORUM 2003 Delegates Award. The deadline for voting is the same as the registration deadline.