Nominations accepted for Gale Cengage Learning Financial Development Award

CHICAGO — It’s time to let everyone know about a library that has had a successful library financial development program. Recognize a successful project with a nomination for the Gale Cengage Learning Financial Development Award, funded by Gale Cengage, Inc.

Since 1985, The Gale Cengage Learning Award recognizes a library organization that has exhibited meritorious achievement in carrying out a library financial development project to secure alternative sources of funding. The award recognizes an innovative, creative, well-organized project which successfully developed income from alternative sources. The alternative sources may include, but are not limited to: individual gifts, foundations, endowments, "challenge" grants and related efforts. A variety of academic, public and school libraries have been the recipient of this award which honors a financial development project garnering new funding for library services.

Former award recipients include the Cedar Park Public Library (Cedar Park, Texas) (2014), University of Massachusetts at Amherst Library (2013), Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundation (2012), Princeton Public Library (2010), the New York University Bobst Library (1990) and the Friends of the Town of Pelham Library. The award includes $2,500 and a 24k gold-framed citation.

ALA is currently accepting nominations for the Gale Cengage Learning Financial Development Award http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/210/apply,

ALA is accepting online nominations at http://www.ala.org/tools/gale-cengage-learning-financial-development-award-application. Nominations are to be submitted to ALA by Dec. 1, 2014. Selection of the awardee will be made by the end of February, 2015 and announced in early March 2015. For additional information, contact Annie Zeidman-Karpinski, Award Jury Chair annie@uoregon.edu or Cheryl Malden, ALA Governance Office, cmalden@ala.org