23 September 2010

IFLA 2010 Conference Grantees' reports

IFLA Grantees outside the IHM Hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden

After general announcements for IFLA-supported Grants for Gothenburg were made in early 2010, we received 235 applications from 50 different countries. Thanks to the added support of a number of sponsors, IFLA was able to help more than 40 colleagues from Asia/Oceania, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean to attend last month's Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden.  

The following grantees have submitted narrative reports documenting their personal experiences at the Congress:

• Sarah Akinola
  National Centre For Technology Management, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
• Lourdine Altidor
  Normalienne Superieure, Professionnelle de l'Information Documentaire, Port-au-Prince, Haïti
• Magdalena Biota
  Cataloguer, Biblioteca del Ministerio de Economía, Argentina
• Noraida Domínguez-Flores
  University of Puerto Rico at Carolina, Puerto Rico
• Mona Hegazy
  Reference Librarian, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
• Katherine Howard
  Project Officer, Royal Society for the Blind, Adelaide, Australia
• Sarah Kaddu
  Secretary General, Uganda Library & Information Association
• Anup Kumar Das
  Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
• Sophia R. Lashley
  Librarian, Caribbean Tourism Organization Library, Barbados
• Chimwemwe J. Mandalasi
  Library Assistant, University of Malawi
• Gwen Mar
  Librarian, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
• Lindiwe Mpindiwa
  Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, Harare, Zimbabwe
• Ronald Munatsi
  Principal Librarian, Parliament of Zimbabwe
• Grace J. Musoke
  Coordinator of the Uganda Community Libraries Association, Kampala, Uganda
• Kgomotso Radijeng
  Resource Centre Coordinator, Botswana National Productivity Centre
• Elviera L. Sandie
  Vice President, Cultural Centre of Suriname
• Elisangela Alves Silva
  Circulation Coordinator, Biblioteca Mário de Andrad, São Paulo, Brasil
• Jane W.F. Smith
  Director of Libraries, Anton de Kom University of Suriname
• S.A.D.H. Namali Suraweera
  Lecturer, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
• Nazymgul Tleubekova
  Senior librarian of International Resource Center, East Kazakhstan Pushkin Library, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan