This year's winner of the De Gruyter Saur IFLA Research Paper Award 2012 is Adam Girardwith his paper "E-books are Not Books: The Challenges and Chances in the New Media Context". Adam is a Ph.D. student at the School of Information and Library Studies, Unversity College Dublin (Ireland) as well as a tutor for the school.
This year's topic of the De Gruyter Saur IFLA Research Paper Award was: "Libraries and eBooks, challenges and chances". The jury unanimously agreed on their selection: "Girard's paper is clearly on topic and provides a well-researched and thoughtful overview. By classifying e-books not as books but as new media, it opens up new ways of thinking for librarians, publishers and other stakeholders, in providing access to e-books in the near future."
The award is aimed at encouraging research and publication by those relatively new to the profession. Adam Girard has worked as metadata librarian at Northwestern University Evanston, IL (USA) and as audiovisual librarian Highland Park Public Library, Highland Park, IL (USA). His awarded paper will be published by De Gruyter Saur.
Congratulations Adam on a job well done!
A link to the full press release can be found here:
http://www.ifla.org/en/news/de-gruyter-saur-ifla-research-paper-award-2012-winner
