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

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Librarians, use the tools on this page to promote the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award award locally.

The tools include:

a sample press release
downloadable logos for your newsletter or website
a web badge for your website
flyers to download and distribute at your library
an ad that appeared in The New York Times

Press Release

Customize this press release and distribute to newspapers or list in your library newsletter:

Sample Press Release

For immediate release
DATE
Contact: (name, title, phone number)

Nominate a librarian/school library media specialist for the 2008 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award

(CITY, STATE) – Librarians in our nation’s 123,000 libraries make a difference in the lives of millions of people every day. If a librarian has made a difference in your life, now is the chance to tell your story.

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

Nominations for public librarians run from August 15 through October 1. Nominations for school and academic librarians begin September 2 and continue through October 15.

Up to 10 librarians in public, school and college, community college and university libraries will be selected to win $5,000 and will be honored at a ceremony and reception in New York at TheTimesCenter, hosted by The New York Times. In addition, a plaque will be given to each award winner’s library.

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.

For more information and to nominate a librarian, visit www.ilovelibraries.org/ilovemylibrarian.

The award is supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York and The New York Times.

It is administered by The American Library Association (ALA), the oldest and largest library association in the world, and The Campaign for America’s Libraries, ALA’s public awareness campaign about the value of libraries and librarians.

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Downloadable Logos

Download the I Love My Librarian logo. To download, right-click on the size and type of image you'd like, then choose "Save."

Color: EPS (Resizable) | JPG (Hi-res) | GIF (Lo-res)

Black and White: EPS (Resizable) | JPG (Hi-res) | GIF (Lo-res)

Web Badge

I Love My Librarian Award Web Badge To put this web badge on your website, right-click and save the image to the left, then add the following HTML code beneath it:

<a title="I Love My Librarian" href="http://www.ilovelibraries.org/ilovemylibrarian>Nominate your librarian today for the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award!</a>

Flyers

Print out these flyers and give them to your patrons to encourage them to nominate you or your fellow librarians.

General Flyer for All Librarians (PDF)

Public Librarians (PDF)

School Library Media Specialists (PDF)

College, Community College and University Librarians (PDF)

New York Times Ad

Download the ad (PDF) that appeared in The New York Times!