ALA awards deadline extended

Contact: Cheryl Malden


Program Officer


ALA Governance


312-280-3247

cmalden@ala.org

NEWS


For Immediate Release


December 16, 2008

CHICAGO - The deadline has been extended to Feb. 1 for a number of American Library Association (ALA) awards and grants, including the Beta Phi Mu Award, the Melvil Dewey Award, the Gale Cengage Learning Financial Development Award, the Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship, the Scholastic Library Publishing Award and the Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children.

  • Beta Phi Mu is presented to a faculty member of a library school or an individual for distinguished service to education in librarianship. The award includes $1,000 and a 24k-gold-framed citation donated by
    Beta Phi Mu International Library Science Honorary Society.


  • 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, Dewey Medal and a 24k gold-framed citation, donated by OCLC/Forest Press, Inc.

  • 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.

  • 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 24k gold-framed citation donated by Ken Haycock, PhD.

  • 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 24k gold-framed citation donated by Scholastic Library Publishing.


  • 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.

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