It is always nice to know your efforts are appreciated by the patrons you serve each day at your library and the Carnegie Corporation, in conjunction with the New York Times and the American Library Association (ALA), are creating an official channel to help make that happen.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded the ALA $489,000 to support the new Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times "I Love My Librarian Award." Administered by the ALA's Public Information Office and Campaign for America's Libraries, the award will launch this year and will continue annually through 2013. It encourages library users to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community college and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives of people in their community.
Find out more about this award, including marketing tools available from the ALA to help your library publicize this award, by visiting http://www.ilovelibraries.org/lovemylibrarian/home.cfm.