This award honors an individual member of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) who has made significant contributions to and an impact on, library service to children and ALSC.

ALSC Distinguished Service Award

This award honors an individual member of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) who has made significant contributions to and an impact on, library service to children and/or ALSC.  The recipient receives $1,000 and an engraved pin at the ALSC Membership Meeting during ALA Annual Conference.

Current Distinguished Service Award Winner
Past Distinguished Service Award Winners

Criteria

• Applicant should be an individual who has made an immediate or sustained contribution to the understanding or expansion of library services to children or ALSC

Requirements

• The nominee and the individual making the nomination must be personal members of ALSC as well as ALA; organizational members are not eligible
• Individuals nominated my be chosen from any facet of library services to children
• The designee may be a practicing librarian in a public or school library, a library or information science educator, a member of the library press, or an editor or other employee of a publishing house
• The designee may be active or retired

Announcement of the Winner

The winner will be announced at ALA Midwinter Meeting in early January.

How to Nominate

The 2010 ALSC Distinguished Service Award Committee is now accepting nominations. Please complete and submit a nomination form. 

The nominee may be a practicing librarian in a public or school library, a library or information science educator, a member of the library press, or an editor or other employee of a publishing house. The individual may be active or retired.

In your nomination please describe why you think the nominee has made significant contributions to and has had an impact on ALSC and library services to children. Include a list of his or her achievements that support the nomination. The Distinguished Service Award Committee will evaluate each nominee based on outstanding contribution(s), innovative ideas, breadth of influence, and length of service.

Each nomination will be weighed on its own merit. Letters of support or additional nominations for the same person need not be solicited.

Committee Resources

Distinguished Service Award manual (Word)
Distinguished Service Award manual (PDF)