Literati Awards for Excellence
Literati Awards for Excellence
On 26 April, 1999, MCB University Press held its annual Awards for Excellence and Editors' workshop at the Hilton National London Olympia Hotel, UK. Editors of many of MCB's journals, attended an afternoon workshop where various topics were discussed including International Research Registers (go to http://www.mcb.co.uk/literati/research_registers/for further details), copyright, the role of the publisher and quality of publications. The workshop was followed by an award ceremony where authors of the most outstanding papers from the 1998 volume for each journal were recognised and presented with a plaque by the guest of honour, The Reverend Graham Cornish, who is responsible for copyright law within the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC). The award for Engineering Computationswent to E. Stein of the Institut für Baumechanik und Numerische Mechanik,Universität Hannover, Germany, and M. Kreienmeyer of the Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Hannover, Germany for their paper, "Coupling of BEM and FEM by a multiplicative Schwarz method and its parallel implementation",Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 173-99. Professor Stein collected the award (Plate 1).
Plate 1. Professor E. Stein receives his award from the Reverend Graham Cornish
The authors' awards were followed by awards for Leading Editors and finally for the Editor of the Year, which went to Patricia Layzell-Ward, the editor of Library Management. The ceremony was followed by a champagne reception and a dinner for all the winning authors, editors, guests and MCB editorial staff. It was a wonderful event and a very productive evening. Many of the attendees said that it was very useful to meet up with fellow authors and editors, both in their own fields and from other disciplines. We at MCB found it a great help to be able to put some names to faces. It was good to meet up with old acquaintances and to make some new ones. We look forward to next year's event.
Cathy AplinManaging Editor
