ALA awards deadline extended

For Immediate Release
Tue, 12/06/2016

Contact:

Cheryl Malden

Program Officer

Governance

American Library Association

(312) 280-3247

cmalden@ala.org

CHICAGO — The deadline has been extended to Feb. 3 for several American Library Association (ALA) awards and grants, including the Melvil Dewey Award, Equality Award, Gale Cengage Learning Financial Development Award, Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship, Paul Howard Award for Courage, Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity., Scholastic Library Publishing Award and the Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children Award.  

Melvil Dewey Medal honors an individual or group for a recent creative professional achievement in library management, training, cataloging and classification, or the tools and techniques of librarianship. The award includes $2,000, a Dewey Medal and a gold-framed citation, donated OCLC/Forest Press, Inc.   Application

Equality Award honors an individual or group for an outstanding contribution that promotes equality in the library profession.  The award includes $1,000 and a 24k gold-framed citation donated by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.   Application

Gale Cengage Learning Financial Development Award is given to a library organization that exhibited meritorious achievement in carrying out a library financial development project to secure new funding resources for a public or academic library.  The award includes $2,500 and a 24k gold-framed citation, donated by Gale Cengage, Inc.   Application

Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship honors an individual for contributing significantly to the public recognition and appreciation of librarianship through professional performance, teaching and/or writing.  The award includes $1,000 and a gold-framed citation, donated by Ken Haycock, PhD.    Application

Paul Howard Award for Courage honors a librarian, library board, library group or an individual who has exhibited unusual courage for the benefit of library programs or services.  The award, given every two years, includes $1,000 and a 24k gold-framed citation, donated by Paul Howard.  Bi-annual award application deadline is December 1, 2014.  Application

Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity honors a librarian who has faced adversity with dignity and integrity intact.  The award includes $10,000 and an odd symbolic object from Lemony Snicket’s private stash.  Donor: Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket.  Application

Scholastic Library Publishing Award (formerly Grolier) honors a librarian whose “unusual contribution” to the stimulation and guidance of children’s and young adult reading exemplifies outstanding achievement in the profession.  The award includes $1,000 and a gold-framed citation, donated by Scholastic Library Publishing. Application

Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children honors an individual who has shown exceptional understanding and support of library service to children while having general management/supervisory/ administrative responsibility that has included public library service to children in its scope.  The recipient will receive a plaque and recognition artifact.  The donor is Peggy Sullivan. Application

For general information about these and other ALA awards, visit http://ala.org/ala/awardsgrants/index.cfm