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
Hear 2011 ALSC Distinguished Award winner Dudley Carlson read her acceptance speech at the 2011 ALA Annual Conference (6 min, 34 sec).
Criteria
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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
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The nominee and the individual making the nomination must be personal members of ALSC as well as ALA; organizational members are not eligible
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Individuals nominated my be chosen from any facet of library services to children
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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
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The designee may be active or retired
Announcement of the winner
The winner will be announced at ALA Midwinter Meeting in late January.
How to nominate
Nomination forms for the 2013 Distinguished Service Award will be available soon.
Please contact the chair of the Distinguished Service Award committee, Carol Doll, with questions at cdoll@odu.edu. Applications and supporting materials must be emailed by December 1, 2012.
Committee resources
Distinguished Service Award manual (Word)
Distinguished Service Award manual (PDF)
