Interviews with the 2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award winners now available

 

The 10 award winners were asked what winning 2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award meant to them. Visit atyourlibrary.org to hear their answers.

 

Each of the librarians were recognized for service to their communities, schools and campuses from a pool of more than 1,500 library patrons nationwide nominated a librarian.  The 10 award recipients are: 

 

Dorothy J. Davison

Horrmann Library, Wagner College

New York, N.Y

 

Roberto Carlos Delgadillo

Peter J. Shields Library

University of California, Davis

 

Beatriz Adriana Guevara

Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Charlotte, N.C.

 

Rachel Hyland

Tunxis Community College Library

Farmington, Conn.

 

Susan Kowalski

East Syracuse (N.Y.) Minoa School District: Pine Grove Middle School Library

 

Rae Anne Locke

Saugatuck Elementary “Secret Garden” Library

Westport, Conn.

 

Greta E. Marlatt

Naval Postgraduate School - Dudley Knox Library

Monterey, Calif.

 

Mary Ellen Pellington

Octavia Fellin Public Library 

Gallup, N.M.

 

Madlyn S. Schneider

Queens Library

Queens Village, N.Y.

 

Julie Hatsell Wales

McNair Magnet School

Rockledge, Fla.

 

Each received a $5,000 cash award and was honored at a ceremony and reception in New York, hosted by The New York Times.

 

In their nominations, library patrons told stories of how their librarians make a difference in their communities.  This year’s winners include a librarian who coordinates her library’s mail-a-book program for homebound patrons, a bilingual librarian who specializes in outreach to her community’s Latino population and a college librarian who transformed her library into a supportive, 21st century research space.

 

Nominations were open to librarians working in public, school, college, community college and university libraries.  Fifty librarians nationwide have won the I Love My Librarian award since 2008.  More information about the award recipients is available at www.atyourlibrary.org/ilovemylibrarian.  

 

The award is a collaborative program of Carnegie Corporation of New York, The New York Times and the American Library Association.    

 

Atyourlibrary.org is the public facing website of the Campaign for America’s Libraries, the ALA’s public awareness campaign that promotes the value of libraries and librarians.  Thousands of libraries of all types – across the country and around the globe - use the Campaign’s @ your library® brand. The Campaign is made possible in part by ALA’s Library Champions.