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CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures and the Commercial Interior Design Association (IIDA) are currently accepting applications for the 9th annual IIDA/91´«Ã½ Library Interior Design Awards honoring excellence in library interior design and...
Terri Lesley Receives IFRT Immroth Memorial Award
The 91´«Ã½'s Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) Immroth Award Committee is pleased to announce Terri Lesley as the recipient of the 2022 John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award, which honors notable contributions to intellectual...
Jillian Rudes wins Scholastic Library Publishing Award
CHICAGO – Jillian Rudes has been named the 2022 winner of 91´«Ã½’s Scholastic Library Publishing Award. This award of $1,000 and certificate of achievement, sponsored by the Scholastic Library Publishing Company, recognizes a librarian whose unusual...
Baylor University Libraries presented the LIRT 2022 Innovation in Instruction Award
CHICAGO — The Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) of the 91´«Ã½ is pleased to announce that the 2022 Innovation in Instruction Award will be presented to Baylor University Libraries. Created to recognize a library that...
CHICAGO — The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District (Las Vegas, Nevada) has been selected to receive the 2022 91´«Ã½/Information Today, Inc. Library of the Future Award. The award, sponsored by the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) and Information Today...
Sara Lowe chosen as the 2022 recipient of the LIRT Librarian Recognition Award
CHICAGO — The Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) of the 91´«Ã½ has chosen Sara Lowe, associate librarian at IUPUI University Library, as the 2022 recipient of the LIRT Librarian Recognition Award. The Librarian Recognition Award...
Jamie M. Gregory Receives IFRT Oboler Memorial Award
The 91´«Ã½'s Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award is presented each year for an excellent work in the area of intellectual freedom. The 2022 award cycle marked a change for the Oboler Award. Starting this year, articles and books will be...
ALSC Names Betsy Diamant-Cohen as 2022 Distinguished Service Award Winner
Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen is the 2022 recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children’s (ALSC) Distinguished Service Award. This prestigious award honors an individual who has made significant contributions to library service to children and to...
EXTON, Pennsylvania - Friends of Maxwell Memorial Library (Camillus, N.Y.) and Friends of the Lewis County Public Library (Hohenwald, Tenn.) are winners of United for Libraries’ National Friends of Libraries Week Awards. Each group receives $250 and will...
Nominations for 91´«Ã½ Trustee Citation accepted through April 7
EXTON, Pennsylvania - United for Libraries is accepting nominations for the 91´«Ã½ Trustee Citation through April 7, 2022. The 91´«Ã½ Trustee Citation, established in 1941 to recognize public library Trustees for distinguished service to library development...
Prince receives 2022 ALSC Bechtel Fellowship
CHICAGO - The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has awarded the 2022 Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship to J. Joseph Prince. The Bechtel Fellowship is designed to allow qualified children’s librarians to spend up to four weeks reading and...
YALSA selects Grace Hammond for 2022 Innovation in Teen Services Award
CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has selected Grace Hammond, media specialist at the Delaware Area Career Center (DACC) in Delaware, Ohio, for her Work Smarter Boot Camp as the recipient of its 2022 Innovation in Teen...
Submissions Now Open for the 2022 John Cotton Dana Award
The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) is now accepting submissions for the 2022 John Cotton Dana Award (JCD). The John Cotton Dana Award is one of the most prestigious awards given to libraries and honors outstanding library public relations. Up to eight...
Submit a Nomination for the Core/OCLC Margaret Mann Citation for Cataloging and Classification
Applications are open for the Core/OCLC Margaret Mann Citation, which recognizes outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification either through publication of significant professional literature, participation in professional...
Submit a Nomination for the Prestigious Kilgour Technology Research Award
Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures (Core) and OCLC, Inc. invite nominations for the 2022 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. The deadline for nominations is January 31, 2022. The Kilgour Research Award...
