Awesome Libraries Hosts Live Pitch Event at 2020 Midwinter Meeting

For Immediate Release
Fri, 11/15/2019

Contact:

Miguel Figueroa

Center for the Future of Libraries

American Library Association

mfigueroa@ala.org

The Awesome Libraries Chapter of the Awesome Foundation will host a live-pitch event at the 2020 ALA Midwinter Meeting’s Symposium on the Future of Libraries. The event will take place Saturday, January 25th, from 5:00 – 6:30pm in the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

Awesome Libraries held its first-ever live pitch event at the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting and gave away $1,000 to an awesome library project. The 2020 collaborative live-pitch event will once again invite participants to submit creative and inspiring library projects to the Awesome Foundation. Six finalists will be chosen to pitch their ideas live to a panel of judges and an audience of enthusiastic supporters. The selected winner will leave the pitch event with $1,000 to help implement their project.

Individuals interested in submitting a proposal for the live pitch have until December 27, 2019. For those interested in submitting a proposal, but who will not be attending the ALA Midwinter Meeting, an option to submit a video to present at the live pitch will be made available should the proposal be selected as a finalist.

ALA Midwinter Meeting attendees are invited to join the live pitch event to help cheer on innovators and to network across a group of colleagues committed to creativity and inspiration.
The Awesome Libraries Chapter believes that strong libraries create better educated citizens and communities with stronger social ties. The chapter was created by a small working group of passionate librarians who wanted to provide a catalyst for prototyping both technical and non-technical library innovations that embody the principles of diversity, inclusivity, creativity, and risk-taking. 

The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1,000 at a time. Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants. These micro-grants, $1,000 or the local equivalent, come out of pockets of the chapter's "trustees" and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects.