The Daphne Clark Prize award is for excellence in practitioner based library and information research. The Prize is named after Daphne Clark, a founder member of LIRG and Chair of the Group when she died in 1983, who actively promoted excellence in library and information research through her own work.

The Elsevier/LIRG Research Award is to encourage research and innovation in library and information science. Particular attention will be paid to proposals intended to improve the accessibility, retrievability and usefulness of information.

The Library and Information Research Group invites nominations each year for the LIRG Student Prize for a postgraduate project. Each Department of Library and Information Studies is encouraged to nominate one of their students' projects for each category.

The closing date for nominations for the LIRG Student prize is 30th May 2003.