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Any official YALSA group or an individual volunteering for YALSA in an official YALSA capacity is eligible for this recognition. This award was first given in 2013. The recognition includes a one year membership to YALSA and a commemorative certificate for each category's winner(s).

The YALSA Volunteer of the Year Awards acknowledge the contributions of YALSA members who have demonstrated outstanding service to the , goals and work of YALSA during a given service year.

Awards are given out in the following categories (where applicable):

• Chair/Team Lead: leadership of a YALSA advisory board, blogging team, committee, jury, resource retreat, or task force
• Individual Member: contributions of an individual member who has volunteered for YALSA in an official capacity, such as serving on an appointed group, staffing a YALSA exhibit booth, writing for a publication or blog, etc.
• Group: work conducted as a whole by an advisory board, blogging team, committee, jury, resource retreat, or task force

Application & Deadline

Nominate yourself, a group or an individual by submitting the by December 1.

Previous Winners

2023

• Individual Member: Stephanie Charlefour
• Group: YALSA Symposium Planning and Marketing Taskforce

2022

• Not awarded

• Individual member: Gregory Lum, individual YALSA member
• Chair: Molly Dettmann, Coordinator of YALSA’s 2021 Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers Blogging Team
• Group: The 2019 Outstanding Books for the College Bound Committee: Yolanda Hood, chair, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada; Donna Steel Cook, Central ISD, Pollok, Texas; Kelsey Hughes, South Bowie Branch, Prince George's County Memorial Library System, Bowie, MD; Jane Nichols, Oregon State University Libraries and Press, Corvallis, OR; Jennifer Powell, Tarrant High School, Tarrant, AL. Jamie Watson, Baltimore County Public Library, Towson, MD.

• Individual member: Tegan Beese
• Chair: Tina Lerno, Chair of YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels Blogging Team Committee
• Group: The Michael L. Printz 2020 Award Committee; Chair Kim Keown Farnsworth, Sacramento (Calif.) Public Library; Tegan Beese, Lake Villa District Library, Lindenhurst, Ill.; Connie Poulsen-Hollin, Guernsey-Sunrise Schools, Guernsey, Wyo.; Elisa A. Garcia, Bronx (N.Y.) Library Center; Kay Hones, Civic Center Secondary, San Francisco; Connie Lin, San Francisco Public Library; Jenny Zbrizher, Maplewood (N.J.) Memorial Library; Stacey Shapiro, Cranford (N.J.) Public Library; Cameron Riesenberger, Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, Colo.; administrative assistant Suzanne Clerkin, Solano County Library, Fairfield, Calif.;

Individual member: Adrienne Strock

• Individual member: Molly Wetta; 2016-2017 The Hub member manager
• Chair: Angela Carstensen; Chair of the 2018 Printz Award Committee
• Group: 2017 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers Blogging Team:
  • Dana Hutchins, Coordinator
  • Jenny Zbrizher
  • Jodeana Kruse
  • Jessica Ormonde
  • Kay Hones
  • Lisa Krok
  • Laura Lehner
  • Karen Lemmons
  • Allison Stevens
  • Carrie Richmond

• Individual member: Dawn McMillan, member of the 2016 YALSA Symposium Marketing and Planning Taskforce
• Chair: Traci Glass, Chair of the Great Graphic Novels for Teens
• Group: 2016 Margaret Edwards Award Committee (Chair Valerie D. Davis, Campbell (Ky.) County Public Library; Dr. Joni Richards Bodart, San Jose (Calif.) State University School of Information; Elizabeth A. Burns, New Jersey State Library, Talking Book & Braille Center, Trenton, N.J.; Jose M. Ocasio, LaPlace (La.) St. John the Baptist Parish Library; Diane P. Tuccillo, Fort Collins (Colo.) Poudre River Public Library District).

• Individual member: Melanie Wachsmann, administrative assistant of the Amazing Audiobooks Committee
• Chair: Tara Smith, Chair of the Publications Advisory Board

• Individual member: Sarah Hashimoto, member of Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
• Chair: Robin Fogle Kurz, Chair of the 2015 William C. Morris Award Committee.

• Individual member: Kellie Tilton, administrative assistant of the Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers committee

• Individual Member: Gretchen Kolderup (Member Manager for The Hub)
• Group: 2012 YA Lit Symposium Planning Taskforce (Kate Pickett, chair, Johnson County Library, Shawnee Mission, KS; Hannah Berry, Aurora Public Library, Aurora, IL; Patricia Ann Carleton, Saint Louis Public Library, Saint Louis, MO; Carolyn A. Dietz, Saint Louis Public Library, Saint Louis, MO; Carla Riemer; and Tom E. Spicer, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Arlington Heights, IL)