Reminder: Bernadette Bean Award Nominations Close 8 July 2026. There is still time to nominate an outstanding individual or team for the 2026 Bernadette Bean SA Records Management Service Excellence Award — but nominations close soon. We encourage you to consider nominating a colleague, team, or yourself.
This prestigious Award recognises and celebrates the often-unsung champions of records, information and archives management — and related fields — across South Australia. Eligible nominees may come from state, federal and local government sectors; hospital and health services; educational institutions; libraries, galleries and museums; local history groups; historical societies; cultural heritage organisations; religious and charitable bodies; community and regional organisations; volunteer groups; and other not-for-profit sectors.
📝 About the Award
Established in honour of the late Bernadette Bean, the Award recognises individuals and teams who demonstrate dedication, leadership, service excellence or innovation in:
📚 Records, information and knowledge management
📚 Archives management
📚 Library, history, museum and cultural heritage collections management.
⭐ Who Should Be Nominated?
We encourage nominations of eligible individuals and teams who have delivered — or are working towards — measurable impact, best practice or continuous improvement in areas such as:
✅ Strengthening capture, governance, management, preservation, digitisation and digital access policy frameworks and practices.
✅ Advancing technologies and digital transformation, including ECM, EDRMS, imaging, archives and collection management systems, workflow automation, digital dashboards and AI-enabled solutions.
✅ Organisational change, exceptional teamwork, collaboration, mentoring and knowledge sharing
✅ Research, project delivery, professional leadership, building capability and innovative solutions, and contributing to organisational or sector-wide improvement.
Nominations are welcome for eligible practitioners at all career stages — including emerging professionals, established leaders, quiet achievers, high-performing teams, promising students, dedicated volunteers, retired knowledge workers, and current records and information management practitioners, archivists, librarians, historians, museum professionals, cultural heritage custodians and researchers.
🎖️ Why Nominate?
This is your chance to recognise and celebrate those whose hard work and commitment are shaping and advancing the future of organisational governance practices, systems, information assets, collections, stewardship and preserving access to our shared organisational, local community, regional or State cultural heritage. We particularly encourage nominations from those whose valuable work often happens behind the scenes but delivers lasting organisational, community, regional or public benefit.
✨ Award Endorsement
We are thrilled to advise the Bernadette Bean Award is proudly endorsed and supported by Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance (RIMPA Global).
🏆 Prize Package
The award is a fantastic opportunity to gain industry recognition and open doors to further career and professional development with the 2026 Award winner receiving:
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- An Award Governance Committee prize package valued at $1,000
- A 12-month RIMPA Global membership (if not already a member). Membership includes exclusive access to professional development resources, networking opportunities, mentoring and scholarship programs, industry updates, complimentary webinars, job listings, and discounted education and training events, including the RIMPA Global Live Convention.
👉 How to Nominate
Submitting a nomination is easy – just visit the Award Nomination Form page and follow the simple steps!
📌 Nominations close 8 July 2026. 📢 Award recipients announced: August 2026
If you know an individual or team who deserves recognition, don’t miss this opportunity to acknowledge their contribution. We particularly encourage organisations to nominate individuals and teams whose valuable work often happens behind the scenes but delivers lasting organisational, community, regional or public benefit.
Help us celebrate service excellence across the sector by submitting a nomination by 8 July!
