<div dir="ltr">FYI,<div><br></div><div>Suzanne L. Sager</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Wood</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org">dwood@ala.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:55 AM<br>Subject: [alacro-l] I Love My Librarian Award<br>To: "<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>><br><br><br>





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Librarians touch the lives of the people they serve every day.  The I Love My Librarian Award encourages library
 users like you to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional public, school, college, community college, or university librarians.  We want to hear how you think your librarian is improving the lives of the people in your school, campus or community.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Each year 10 librarians are selected. Each librarian receives a $5,000 cash award, a plaque and a travel stipend
 to attend the awards ceremony and reception in New York City, hosted by The Carnegie Corporation of New York.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Each nominee must be a librarian with a master’s degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association
 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nominations for the 2015 I Love My Librarian Award are open through September 28.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.ilovelibraries.org/nominate-school-librarian" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Nominate a School
 Librarian</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.ilovelibraries.org/nominate-public-librarian" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Nominate a Public
 Librarian</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.ilovelibraries.org/nominate-college-community-college-or-university-librarian" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Nominate
 a College, Community College, or University Librarian</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If you want to resubmit a nomination from a previous year,
<a href="http://www.ilovelibraries.org/resubmit-i-love-my-librarian-nomination" target="_blank">
<span style="color:blue">we've made it easy</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.ilovelibraries.org/lovemylibrarian/email-alert-i-love-my-librarian-award" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Sign
 up here</span></a> to be notified about future I Love My Librarian Award activity.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Questions? </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Email Megan McFarlane,
 Campaign Coordinator,<br>
American Library Association, <a href="mailto:mmcfarlane@ala.org" target="_blank">
<span style="color:blue">mmcfarlane@ala.org</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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