Next Library 2011 Scholarship Grantees! /
It is our great pleasure to announce the selected grantees for the 2011 Next Library Scholarship Grant! The Scholarship Grant was made possible with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Grantees will receive support in the form of the conference fee plus a maximum total grant of EUR 2000 for travel, accommodation and other expenses.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Amar Gurung will not be attending Next Library 2011. Replacing him is Erzébet Nyitrai from Hungary.
The five scholarship grantees are:
- Erzébet Nyitrai, Széchenyi Ístvan University Library, Hungary
- Bawaya Elisée Sare, Friends of African Villages Libraries, Burkina Faso
- Irina Vyalih, Fergana Regional Information-Library Center, Uzbekistan
- Omar Abdullah Abdi, Kenya National Library Service, Kenya
- Yu Zhang, China Evergreen Rural Library Service Center
We believe that the scholarship grantees are the best matches according to needs, representation of continents and potential spreading of knowledge.
We wish to thank all candidates for your applications.
It has been an amazing learning process to read the applications from dedicated library people around the world. We received a lot of applications from 26 countries:
ASIA: China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka and Singapore
AFRICA: Kenya. Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zimbabwe,
EASTERN / CENTRAL EUROPE: Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, Armenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Estonia and Lithuania
MIDDLE EAST: Palestine and Iran
LATIN AMERICA: Mexico