The Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award

About the Award

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The Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award encourages library users to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional public, school, college, community college, or university librarians. The awards program will demonstrate how librarians are improving the lives of the people in their communities.

Up to ten winners will be selected annually and will receive a $5,000 cash award, a plaque and $500 travel stipend to attend an awards reception in New York hosted by The New York Times at TheTimesCenter on December 9, 2008. In addition, a plaque will be given to each award winner’s library.

The award is administered by the American Library Association with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The New York Times.

Eligibility Requirements

Who Can Nominate a Librarian

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.

Who Can Be Nominated

Each nominee must be a librarian with a master’s degree from a program accredited by the ALA 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 must be currently working in the United States in a public library, a library at an accredited two- or four-year college or university or at an accredited K-12 school.

How Nominations Are Accepted

Nominations will be accepted online at www.ilovelibraries.org/ilovemylibrarian. No paper nominations will be accepted.

Timeline for Nominations

Nominations for public libraries are now closed. Nominations for college, community college, or university librarian and school library media specialists are now closed. All winners will be announced in early November.

Choosing the Winners

Winners will be chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award Committee, comprised of representatives from academic libraries, public libraries and school library media centers, with representatives from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The New York Times.

Notification of Winners

Winners will be notified in November 2008. A listing of the winners will also be posted at www.ilovelibraries.org/ilovemylibrarian.

Questions?

Contact mhumphrey@ala.org.