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IFLA Honours and Awards

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Call for nominations

Deadline: 1 March 2009

The IFLA Governing Board decided in March 2003 on a revised system for Honours and Awards to be bestowed by IFLA.

The following categories of Honours and criteria were agreed:

  • Honorary Fellow
    A rare and unusual award for long and distinguished service to IFLA. The expectation is that it would be awarded only four or five times a decade.
  • IFLA Medal
    Awarded for distinguished contribution either to IFLA or to international librarianship. The expectation is that, on average, two such medals would be awarded each year, one of which would be from the country hosting the WLIC/IFLA Congress that year.
  • IFLA Scroll of Appreciation
    Awarded to the WLIC/IFLA Congress host committee for that year. No nominations are therefore required for this. But it is also awarded to individuals who have given distinguished service to IFLA, such as long serving core activities staff, for whom nominations are required.
  • IFLA Certificate of Service
    Awarded to those retiring from IFLA activities who have served eight years or more in the capacity of an IFLA officer. Such service does not need to be consecutive.

The Board decided that a call for nominations for the Honours would be made in the final quarter of each year.

Nominations should be accompanied by a citation. The case for an Honour would be strengthened if there were multiple nominations for a candidate. The Executive Committee will consider nominations in confidence in April 2009. The awards will be announced and conferred during the World Library and Information Congress in Milan, Italy, in August 2009.

All authorised representatives of Members and Personal Affiliates are eligible to make nominations.

Nomination form in Word or Adobe PDF format:

Download in word format   Download in Adobe PDF format Nomination Form

Nominations for awards to be conferred in 2009 are therefore invited, in confidence, on this form, which may be posted or sent by fax to:

Honours and Awards
IFLA
P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH The Hague
Netherlands
Fax: +31 70 3834827

Nominations may also be sent by email to: magda.bouwens@ifla.org provided that full details as required on the form are provided.

Nominations must arrive no later than 1 March 2009.
Please note that late submissions will not be considered.

This call for nominations is being issued on IFLANET, IFLA-L and in IFLA Journal. It is not being posted separately. Previous recipients of IFLA Honours are listed at: http://www.ifla.org/III/eb/honmem.htm

Neither the Executive Committee nor the Secretary General will enter into correspondence on individual nominations.

Jennefer Nicholson
Secretary General