Posted on July 12, 2012
Deadline: September 12, 2012

Nominations Open for Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Awards

The Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award encourages library users in the United States to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional public, K-12, college, community college, and university librarians. Administered by the American Library Association, with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and the New York Times, the program seeks nominations that describe how a librarian is improving the lives of people in a community, school, or campus.

Nominees must be a librarian with a master's degree from an ALA-accredited program in library and information studies or a master's degree with a specialty in school library media from an educational unit accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. Nominees also must currently work in the U.S. in a public library, a library at an accredited two- or four-year college or university, or at an accredited K-12 school.

Nominators of public librarians must be public library users. Nominators of librarians in college, community college, or university libraries must be users of those libraries (e.g., students, faculty, or staff members). Nominators of school library media specialists must be library users (e.g., students, teachers, school administrators or staff members, or parents or caregivers of children at schools where the school library media specialist works).

Up to ten winners will be selected to receive a $5,000 cash award, a plaque, and a $500 travel stipend to attend the awards reception in December in New York hosted by the New York Times.

Complete program details, the nomination form, and information on previous years' winners are available at the ALA's At Your Library Web site.

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Primary Subject: Arts and Culture
Geographic Funding Area: National

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