13 Apr 2023

Bernadette Bean SA Records Management Service Excellence Award

2023 Nominations celebrating the best and brightest are now open!

The award established in honour of the late Bernadette Bean provides a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the best and brightest professionals in the industry; fund small initiatives; and help shine a light on service excellence by showcasing collections, management practices and solutions that contribute to local, regional or State memory or culture.

The award recognises and celebrates service excellence by eligible SA award nominees who have achieved, or are working towards, best practice and improvement in the practice areas of records and information management; archives management; knowledge management; and history, cultural heritage, museum and library collections management. Focus areas include:

  • capture, management, preservation, governance, digitisation or digital access practices and services
  • system technologies or digital transformation (including ECM, EDRMS, archive, collection management, imaging, workflow/business automation, AI systems and solutions)
  • innovation and creativity, leadership and teamwork, knowledge sharing or mentoring, research, project management, or dedication and contribution to the industry.

Nominations are encouraged for current, new and past eligible SA practitioners, teams / groups, students, researchers, historians, volunteers and other individuals - including quiet achievers or those who go the extra mile - whose outstanding service or initiative in the above practice and focus areas deserve recognition and celebration.

Visit the award website to learn more about Bernadette’s outstanding legacy; and the award purpose, eligibility criteria, timelines and past award winners.