Press Release
Extended Deadline: May 16, 2015
IFLA/ekz LIS Student Paper Award 2015
Berlin, April 28, 2015
The IFLA Education & Training Section in collaboration with ekz.bibliotheksservice GmbH has the pleasure to announce the IFLA/ekz LIS Student Paper Award for 2015. The IFLA/ekz LIS Student Paper Award will honour students of Library and Information Science whose abstract submissions have been accepted by any IFLA Section or IFLA Unit to be presented at the upcoming 81st IFLA Congress, 15–21 August, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa http://conference.ifla.org/ifla81. Three finalists will be recognized for their outstanding achievements.
Students must first follow one of the deadlines of any IFLA section Call for Papers (http://conference.ifla.org/ifla81/calls-for-paper). Once the paper is accepted for presentation by any IFLA section at the World Congress (not a satellite conference), you may then send your full paper to SET to apply for the award not later than 15 April 2015.
The winner will receive in total up to 1000 € to support the current IFLA Congress registration fee as well as visa, economy airfare and economical lodging. Furthermore the paper will be recommended for publication in the IFLA Journal. Second and third place finalists will receive a certificate.
The finalists will be announced in May 2015. The winner will be announced officially during the Press Conference of the Congress in Lyon.
For details, please visit: http://www.ifla.org/set/student-paper-award