Winners for 2025 Bernadette Bean SA Records Management Service Excellence Award
Created in memory of the late Bernadette Bean, this prestigious award celebrates individuals and teams whose innovation, leadership and dedication have made a significant impact in records, information, knowledge, archives, museum and library collections management, and in preserving history, cultural heritage and community memory.
🏆 2025 Award Recipients
After reviewing a competitive and diverse field of nominations, the committee and judging panel are proud to recognise:
Winner’s Award
Christopher Mantle - President, Port Lincoln History Group Inc.
Runners-Up Awards
Corporate Records Management Team - Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN)
MOD. (Museum of Discovery) Team - University of South Australia (SA)
Research and Development Committee and Teams - SA Genealogy and Heraldry Society Inc. (Genealogy SA)
Merit Awards
Mark Sammons - Clinical Documentation Manager, Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network (BHFLHN)
Samantha Everett - former Information Management Project Officer, City of Unley.
👉 See the exceptional work behind these achievements by visiting the Current and Past Award Winners webpage here.
Congratulations to all the 2025 award recipients!
RIMPA Global prooudly support these awards and Christopher Mantle will receive a free RIMPA Global Membership.
About the Award
The Bernadette Bean SA Award celebrates and showcases best practice, innovation and improvement in areas such as:
Enhancing management and preservation: Improvements in governance, capture, digitisation, preservation, or digital access practices and services.
Advancing system technologies or digital transformation: Innovations in ECM, EDRMS, archiving, collection management, imaging, AI (artificial intelligence) and workflow/business automation.
Demonstrating leadership: Excellence in research, project delivery, teamwork, mentoring, collaboration or contributions to an organisation or the industry.