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The ACRL Awards Process Implementation Task Force has completed its work and the ACRL Board of Directors approved the task force’s recommendations at their January 26, 2024 Virtual Board meeting. Included in the approved recommendations was the establishment of the ACRL Awards Coordinating Committee; lifting of the awards’ pause; ending cash awards; and aligning awards policies and procedures to ACRL’s Core Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. You can read the full report and recommendations in the (Doc 17.1). These recommendations included that, during the 2024-2025 program year, each awards committee be charged with reviewing the description, selection criteria, and selection process for the award(s) it juries. For more information, please contact Brian Lim.

Established in 2015, this award is intended to recognize librarians, archivists or curators whose contributions to providing professional development opportunities for librarians have been especially noteworthy or influential. The effect of these contributions may be the result of continuous or distinguished service to the profession, but may also be the result of extraordinarily active, innovative or collaborative work that deserves national recognition.

Award

A certificate for the award recipient, sponsored by . This award is administered by the ACRL University Libraries Section (ULS) and is juried by the ACRL/ULS Award Committee.

Eligibility

Any individual who holds, or has recently held an appointment as a librarian, archivist or curator at a public, academic or national library, archive or museum. Award recipients must be members of ACRL and ULS, or join ACRL and ULS upon receiving the award.

Criteria

At least two of the following four criteria need to be met:

• Implementing innovative or creative professional development ideas or activities that have measurably impacted library users and / or the profession.
• Active participation in special projects, efforts or initiatives related to providing professional development opportunities that have measurably impacted library users and / or the profession.
• Evidence of service and/or collaboration over time related to providing professional development activities that clearly benefited a number of library professionals and library users.
• Exemplary and influential research and/or scholarship pertaining to professional development for librarians.

Submissions

Submissions are not currently being accepted.

Electronic submissions through the online submission form are required. Nominations should include:

• A full and clear description in two (2) pages or less of the nominee(s)' work as it pertains to the development and provision of high quality continuing education opportunities for librarians
• One (1) letter of support from a beneficiary (may be a library professional or a library user) of the professional development opportunities detailing how the professional development has benefited the library profession
• If applicable, a list of publications or research conducted by the candidate(s), with an explanation of how the research pertains to providing high quality professional development activities for librarians.

Questions should be directed to Brian Lim, blim@ala.org.

View the full awards committee roster here.

2021 Recipients

Nimisha Bhat, Hailley Fargo, Chelsea Heinbach, and Charissa Powell, members of the editorial team for LibParlor -

Previous Recipients

• 2020 – Mary Anne Hansen -
• 2019 – Lynda Kellam -
• 2018 – Corey Halaychik and Ashley Maynor
• 2017 – Alanna Aiko Moore
• 2016 – Nicole Pagowsky