C.W. Post Professor Wins Prestigious
International Information Industry Award

December 15, 2005 – Michael E.D. Koenig, a professor of library and information science at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, has received a prominent international award.

Dr. Koenig, a professor in C.W. Post’s College of Information and Computer Science, is the 2005 winner of the Jason Farradane Award, which recognizes outstanding work in the information field. The award is jointly sponsored by CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, the largest organization of librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the UK, and by the UK Electronic Information Group, a major information industry organization. It is presented annually at IOLIM, the International Online Information Meeting in London, the world’s largest conference focusing on online and digital information.

Dr. Koenig was the founding dean of the College of Information and Computer Science, which is described by the UKeiG as “one of the first of the new breed of ‘I Schools.’” He has since returned to full-time teaching and research.

Dr. Koenig was honored for “innovative and significant contributions to the field of Information Science, particularly in the areas of Library and Information Services and Production and Knowledge Management,” spanning “both academe and the world of commercial practice.”