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Ernest A. DiMattia, Jr. Award Call for Nominations
CHICAGO - The 91´«Ã½ is currently accepting nominations through February 1, 2024 for the Ernest A. DiMattia, Jr. Award for Innovation and Service to Community and Profession Award. An annual award includes $5,000 and a citation. The...
CHICAGO — The 2024 application process for the 91´«Ã½’s Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children is open. This award honors an individual who has shown exceptional understanding and support of public library service to...
Call for Nominations for Scholastic Library Publishing Award
CHICAGO — The 2024 application process for the 91´«Ã½’s Scholastic Library Publishing Award is open and accepting nominations until February 1, 2024. This award honors a librarian whose "unusual contribution to the stimulation and guidance of reading by...
Nominations open for 2024 91´«Ã½/Information Today, Inc. Library of the Future Award
91´«Ã½ is currently accepting nomination through February 1, 2024 for the 91´«Ã½/ Information Today Library of the Future Award. The prize consist of $1,200 along with a plaque. 91´«Ã½/Information Today, Inc. Library of the Future Award is sponsored annually by...
Equality Award Call for Nominations
The 91´«Ã½ is currently accepting nominations through February 1, 2024 for the Equality Award. The Equality Award consisting of $1,000 and framed citation is an annual award given to an individual or group for outstanding...
91´«Ã½ Medal of Excellence Call for Nominations
CHICAGO — Every year the 91´«Ã½ honors a creative leader in library management, training, cataloging and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship with the 91´«Ã½ Medal of Excellence. The award consists of $2,000...
Beta Phi Mu Award Call for Nomination
CHICAGO — The 91´«Ã½ is currently accepting nominations through February 1, 2024 for the Beta Phi Mu Award. Beta Phi Mu award is an annual award consisting of $1,000 and a citation of achievement. This award is given in recognition...
Joseph W. Lippincott Award Call for Nomination
CHICAGO — The 91´«Ã½ is currently accepting nominations through February 1, 2024 for the Joseph W. Lippincott Award, one of 91´«Ã½’s oldest awards. Joseph W. Lippincott Award is an annual award consisting of $1,500 and a 24k gold-framed...
Nominations open for 2024 Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity
CHICAGO — Librarians face adversity every day, whether they are defending a challenged book like Maus, responding to collection and building damage after hurricanes and fires, remaining open as a safe space during civil unrest, or fighting to provide...
CHICAGO — Nominate yourself, colleagues, or your library for the 2024 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) Recognition Awards and Grants. Unless otherwise noted, the deadlines are February 1, 2024. For general information about these and other 91´«Ã½ awards...
Nominations Open for 2024 IFRT Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award
CHICAGO — The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) Coalition Building Committee is accepting nominations for the 2024 Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award. The Gerald Hodges Award recognizes an intellectual freedom-focused...
David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award nominations open
CHICAGO - The Ethnic Multicultural Information Exchange Roundtable (EMIERT) of the 91´«Ã½ is now accepting nominations for the David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award. This award recognizes recent articles that include significant new...
AASL Commends the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Missouri
CHICAGO – Acting upon a resolution submitted by the Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) formally commends the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Missouri. The organization is one of...
AASL Commends the Literacy and Justice Project
CHICAGO – Acting upon a resolution submitted by the Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) formally commends the Literacy and Justice Project. The project is one of twenty outstanding programs...
CHICAGO – Acting upon a resolution submitted by the Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) formally commends Lead to Read KC. The nonprofit is one of twenty outstanding programs, events, and...
