The UK eInformation Group (UKeiG) is a professional body for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. Its aims are to promote and advance the effective exploitation and management of electronic information in all formats. UKeiG has individual and corporate members across all key sectors: government, legal, business and commerce, science, technology and healthcare, higher and further education, and the public sector.

The Group was founded in 1978 as UKOLUG - the UK Online User Group. It changed its name to the UK eInformation Group in 2004 to reflect changes in technology and the wider activities in which the Group had become involved.

UKeiG offers a number of awards including:

• Jason Farradane award
  Jason Farradane award
  The Jason Farradane Award is made by UKeiG to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding contribution to the information profession, by meeting one or more of the following criteria:...
  
  
• Tony Kent Strix award
  Tony Kent Strix award
  The UKeiG Strix award is an annual award for outstanding contributions to the field of information retrieval and is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists , who died in 1997...
  
  
• Research award
• Student Bursary
• Student Conference Grant

UKeiG is a special interest group of CILIP - the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is a professional body representing librarians and other information professionals in the United Kingdom.-History:...