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LIBRARY MOSAICS/COLT
ANNUAL AWARDS
CALL
FOR NOMINATIONS
Nominations
Deadline: January 20 of each year
Library Mosaics/COLT Annual
Awards
Greetings from the staff
of Library Mosaics:
Library Mosaics,
in conjunction with the Council on Library/Media
Technicians
(COLT), sponsors two awards which are presented at the annual
COLT Conference.
The awards are presented to the Outstanding Support Staff
and the
Outstanding Supporter of Support Staff.
The following
criteria have been established for these awards. Applicants
must demonstrate
significant contributions or accomplishments in at least
tow of the
following areas:
1. Local
library and/or organization (example: innovative project or
activity
for their individual library or support staff organization;
encouraging
staff to participate in activities
2. Statewide/Regional
organization (example: coordinator of a regional
staff conference;
assisting staff in the organization of a support staff
program)
3. National
organization (example: officer of LSSIRT, COLT; or coordinator
of a national
workshop/program)
4. Innovative
Project or Activity: (example: creator of a specialized
database
or service which can be used by support staff)
It should
be noted that all projects and activities should directly
involve,
or be focused on, support staff working in libraries or
information
centers. Submissions and/or nominations should clearly state
the level
of participation of the nominee. Nominees will be rated
according
to their level of participation. For example, organizers and
coordinators
will be rated higher than a workshop or conference
participant.
Projects
and activities will be judged according to the degree by which
the status
and work of support staff has improved or has been enhanced
within the
library profession.
Nominations
are solicited from the entire library profession. Nominations
should include
the name of the candidate, his/her position and title, and
a description
(no more than 500 words) of their qualifications for these
awards.
An awards
committee consisting of officers of COLT, and the editor and
publisher
of Library Mosaics will review nomination and will make
selections
based on the above listed criteria.
Send nominations
by January 20, 2005 to: Awards Committee, Library
Mosaics,
P.O. Box 5171, Culver City, CA 90231.
The only way the people who make a difference
can be
recognized is if *you* nominate them.
Do
it now!
Annually Library Mosaics
and the Council on Library/Media Technicians
(COLT) present awards
for "Outstanding Support Staff" and
"Outstanding
Supporter of Support Staff."
These awards are given
to individuals who have
been outstanding in their
service to library support staff. Recipients are
recognized at the annual
COLT Conference. Each is presented with a $100
prize and a plaque noting
their special achievement. They are also the
focus of a cover and
feature article in Library Mosaics. The deadline for
nominations is January
20, of each year.
For additional information
about the awards contact
Library Mosaics, P.O.
Box 5171, Culver City, CA 90231.
Nomination criteria and
information about past recipients are on the COLT
home page at
colt.ucr.edu/awards.html
Please be specific about
the nominee's accomplishments.
*Supporter*
of Support Staff annual award
Who has helped you be
your best?
Many of us who are active
in library support activities receive positive
support from our library
directors or department heads. That support
ranges from money to
attend conferences, time to write articles or positive
comments about what we
do. One library administrator encouraged her staff
to present a conference
program and provided a supportive environment for
the staff to participate
in professional activities. She was thanked by
the staff when they recommended
her for the 1995 Library Mosaics COLT
award. In 1996 Dr. Willie
Hardin's support of the Arkansas Library
Paraprofessional Association
networking and continuing education programs
resulted in his receipt
of the award. Since then five additional persons
have been recognized.
Who has helped you by
providing a positive environment or
concrete assistance
as you pursue you library professional
activities? Why
not submit that librarian or library administrator for the
Library Mosaics COLT
Supporter of Support Staff Award. It is not hard to
do. Just send a
few paragraphs to Library Mosaics describing why the
person is deserving of
the award and give information about how to contact
that person and yourself.
Do
it now. The deadline for nominations is January
20, of each year.
Details can be found
at http://colt.ucr.edu/COLT/awardsnominations.html
or
contact Library Mosaics
at :
Library Mosaics
P.O. Box 5171
Culver City, California,
90231
(310) 645-4998
Library Journal's Annual Awards
Is there a paraprofessional
who is key to the success of your
library? Paraprofessionals,
now the largest constituency of
library workers, are
the backbone of libraries. In recognition
of their many contributions
to library service, Library Journal
will honor one support
staffer with its fifth annual
Paraprofessional of the
Year award in its March 1 issue.
The
deadline for nominations is January 7, 2005.
The Paraprofesssional
of the Year award recognizes the essential
role of paraprofessionals
in providing excellent library service
and places special emphasis
on the efforts of the winner to
further the role of paraprofessionals
in the library
profession. The editors
consider this award as equal in
importance to LJ's annual
Librarian of the Year Award, which
debuted in 1989 and recognizes
those who hold the MLS.
2005 Library Journal Paraprofessional
of the Year Award.
Paraprofessional of the
Year Award Nominations
Library Journal will honor
one support staffer with its fifth annual
Paraprofessional of the
Year award in its March 1, 2005, issue.
Sponsored by Brodart
Library Supplies & Furnishings, which underwrites
the $1500 cash prize
and a reception to honor the winner at the American
Library Association conference
in June, the award recognizes the
essential role of paraprofessionals,
now the largest constituency of
library workers, in providing
excellent library service. It places
special emphasis on the
efforts of the winner to further the role of
paraprofessionals in
the library profession. The winner will be profiled
in the March 1 issue
of LJ.
Nominating criteria
The criteria for LJ's
Paraprofessional of the Year are excellence in
performing their job,
including contribution(s) enabling the library to
best serve its constituents
and/or its community (whether town,
college/university, school,
or corporation), the encouragement of
reading and the use of
the library's resources, a commitment to free
access to information
for all, and the candidate's work to build
networks, organizations,
and/or groups to back excellence in library
work and new career paths
for support staff, and improved communication
and the breaking down
of barriers between support staff and the MLS
librarians with whom
they work.
Nominating
letters should name the candidate and describe in 500 words or less why
the nominee deserves the award. Supporting letters and accompanying
material will be considered, but the nominating letter
itself will be of prime importance.
Please note: the deadline
for all nominations is January 7, 2005.
Nominations may be e-mailed
to fialkoff@reedbusiness.com
.
Nominations sent through
regular mail should be addressed to:
Francine Fialkoff
c/o Library Journal
360 Park Avenue South.
New York, NY 10010.
Please
note: the deadline for all nominations is January 7, 2005.
Library Journal's LIBRARIAN
award:
Librarian of the Year
award
http://www.libraryjournal.com/loy.asp
More on Award programs
in Libraries:
Article on Findarticles.com
Searcher
Sept 1, 1998
May
I Have The Giraffe Please?
A Brief Exploration of
1998 Library Awards.
Figuring out who gets
to "pick" nominee's
and deciding what qualifys
for nomination, can be difficult,
but the process should
be fair and honest.
When employees trust
the process of an award system,
they feel they can trust
the "award winners" as really
being picked by a fair
& honest system of judgement.
Make sure that those who
Nominate
Includes "everyone" who
works in the Libraries
of your organization.
Not everyone can attend
Conferences,
Not everyone can be a
Speaker and
Go out and "talk up"
the libraries
Not everyone is as "valued"
by their Administrators
as they would like to
be.
But some employees, do
Extraordinary jobs and
are mentors, role models
To their fellow staff,
but may never receive the attention
Or "allocades" of their
Superiors/ and-or/Directors because they are not
seen or known by these
people.
And it might be those
people, who may be in a position
to"judge" or "nominate"
for a particular award.
Remember small regular
contributions or everyday ordinary
things an employee does
on a regular basis, may actually
provide "big contributions"
to the workflow of the Library.
If a Library chooses to
"create" their own awards system,
they can be creative
& fun with the whole idea of
rewarding employees,
for any number of reasons.
Not every award has to
be the same as the way "other Libraries"
do it or how National
Organizations offer awards.
And libraries can also
be "creative" with what the actual award
will be or given.
And most times it is
best to have "one" annual awards function,
where everyone is invited.
If you choose to have "frequent"
awards - given out during
the year, keep the celebrations
brief.
Some Libraries do have
separate functions for
awards to Student employees, and/or Volunteers.
Sometimes employees are
not even aware that awards,
have deadlines, for nominations
or applications.
And they may not be aware
of what awards are currently
being "awarded" to Library
employees.
Do as much as you can
to Educate, and
Inform all employees
of the Libraries
About the Awards and
Honors that are either
Local inhouse awards,
or Community or even
State and National awards.
- so that
Everyone has the time
and opportunity
To nominate a candidate.
Inform them via Print
Flyers, E-Mail,
Websites, discussion
groups
etc.
Remember to consider all
Library Employees,
That are not classified
as "Librarians"
Example:
From Glossary for
ASCLA important issues
http://www.ala.org/ascla/bph_standards.html
Definition of " Other"
(paraprofessional catergories)
Other professional/paraprofessional.
Positions that do not
require a library degree,
but may require
appropriate degrees or certification in another field.
Responsibilities
do not include reader advisory service.
Position responsibilities
and qualifications are greater than
those for technical/support
staff.
Examples may include
but are not limited to system manager,
studio manager,
volunteer coordinator,
production specialist
or manager, outreach
coordinator
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The
websites listed here, address their own agendas and ideas for
Awards and honors.
They give you some basics
for "forming" a
Written proposal for
a "framework" of an award criteria
& nomination
for the award.
The basis for any award
or honor is to encourage
Participation in a staff
person's own library, organizations,
And their community.
You want the Awards to
mean something and
You'll want all Staff
to have an equal chance
For nomination and have
the ability to
Be considered.
Awards Criteria & Nomination website
examples:
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COLT Awards information
page
http://library.ucr.edu/COLT/awards.html
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Ohio Library Council
Awards and Honors
http://www.olc.org/awards.html
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Oklahoma State University
Library - awards
http://www.library.okstate.edu/about/awards/criteria.htm
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Excerpt from:
Tennessee Library Association
http://www.lib.utk.edu/~tla/comm1.html
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Federal Library Awards
Includes Library Technician
award
http://lcweb.loc.gov/flicc/wg/wg-award.html
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CNIB (Canadian National
Institute for the Blind) Library Awards
http://www.cnib.ca/library/awards/recognition.htm
South Dakota Library Association
- Support Staff award
http://lib.sdstate.edu/salonen/award.htm
Montana Library Association
Awards Committee
http://www.mtlib.org/manual/awardscmte.html
Indiana University (Bloomington)
Staff Awards
http://www.indiana.edu/~libadmin/iuln/04iuln0502.html
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Mid-Atlantic Chapter
of Medical Library Association
Awards Criteria
http://www.cbil.vcu.edu/mac/awards.html
New York State Library
Assistants - NYSLAA
Awards
for Library Staff
WALE - Washington Association
of Library Employees
Outstanding
Employee of the Year Award
MIT Libraries Infinite
Mile Awards *no forms, or nominating criteria, noted on site page*
http://libraries.mit.edu/about/staff.html
General Library Award
Programs
ALA Awards, Grants, and
Scholarships
www.ala.org/work/awards/
Public Library Association
Awards & Honors
www.pla.org/awards/info.html
Australian library awards
and prizes
The Australian library
profession acknowledges and awards excellence:
www.nla.gov.au/libraries/resource/prizes.html
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Examples on
the net of some Guidelines for award programs
UC Santa Cruz - Guidelines
http://library.ucsc.edu/internal/personnel/award.html
Forms & Examples of
types of Awards
George A. Smathers Libraries:
Staff Recognition Awards
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/pers/develop/Staff_Awards.html
Jean and Alexander Heard
Library
Recommendations for Staff
Awards Program
Staff Development Coordinating
Committee
http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/staffdev/awards.html
Indiana University - Library
Staff Awards
http://www.indiana.edu/~libpers/iuawards.html
University of Maryland
Libraries
UM Libraries' Staff Awards
Program
Implementation Procedures
and Forms
http://www.lib.umd.edu/PUB/AWARDS/desc_awards.html
University of Michigan
- Library Staff Awards program
http://www.lib.umich.edu/staff/awards/
UC Berkeley - Staff
recognition award nomination form
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Staff/SDC/nomform.html
Related/Miscellaneous
Information:
I have a page with links
to online sites that have ideas/products that might make useful awards
for
the winners of the Library
Staff recognition award programs:
Take a look at shop4gifts.html
Library Associations
& Organizations may have award programs,
check out your States
information
ALA State Association
Guide
http://www.ala.org/cro/state_guide.html
Library Organizations
and Associations
http://www.libraryhq.com/orgs.html
Yahoo Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Libraries/Organizations/
and
http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Organizations/
Open Directory listing
Reference: Libraries:
Friends
of the Library: National and State Associations
A good day - to honor
Support Staff in your Library with an annual award might be
Library Support Staff
Day - usually held during National Library Week
Online article:
How Did Library Support
Staff Day Come About?
http://www.ku.edu/~assoc/kendall799.html
Please NOTE the link
included in this online article to:
The Library Support Staff
Resource Center is outdated - the correct link is:
http://flightline.highline.ctc.edu/lssrc/
This information is from
my
page with What's Happening this Month, Week, Day or being Observed
National
Library Week is observed each year in April,
generally the second
full week.
National Library Week/
School Library Media
Month
National Library Week
will be observed April 6-12, 2003
Promoting Library Week
http://www.ala.org/events/promoevents/
Dates in the future for
National Library Week:
2004 – April 18-24
2005 – April 10-16
2006 – April 2-8
2007 – April 15-21
2008 - April 13-19
2009 - April 12-18
2010 - April 4 -10
2011 - April 10-16
National Student Employment
Week
http://www.neasea.org/sew.html
The first full week of
April is designated National Student Employment Week
across the nation. Employers
honor their student employees during this time
in many ways: taking
the student employee out to lunch or coffee,
luncheons or department
banquets, certificates, thank you letters, to name a few
Student Employee Celebration
Suggestions
http://www.neasea.org/ways.htm
National Volunteer Week
http://www.pointsoflight.org/programs/programs_nvwintroa.htm
For volunteers in programs
for youth
http://www.4-h.uiuc.edu/events/volweek.html
Quotes for Volunteers
[Use these to inspire, as you celebrate your Library Volunteers!]
http://216.149.206.183/nvw2000/nvw_quotes.html
Monetary Awards
~
See to: my page with
information about:
Funding Program$ for
Scholarships for Library education, Attending Conferences etc.
4libedu$.html
This
note was posted on Libsup-L November 2004
from Doug Morrison -
and is quoted below:
"The LIBSUP-L Recognition
of Accomplishment Award",
it will recognize a member
of the Library support staff family and will be given in honor of
someone who is a member
of the list.
Membership to the list
is defined as being able to send or receive emails from
LIBSUP-L -
**Find info on joining
the list at
http://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/libsup-l
Many of you may remember
and had participated in the old Libsup-L Poster of
the Year awards that
ended somewhere around 2001 or so that was related to selecting
the best among us who
had provided the list-members with the best post or
information through the
listserv as a communication tool for the benefit of all of us.
The idea of re-starting
the award had been in the back of my mind for some
time and I had discussed
it with some of my colleagues. One of the items under
consideration was that
the time for this particular type of award has past - in it's own way it
was a celebration of
thought and idea, but it was also a recognition of a certain type of
inactivity.
I went back to the drawing
board and re-read some old libsup-l post that I
have archived here.
A statement made by Martha
Parsons in an earlier post this year. LSSIRT,
COLT, and many regional
library support staff organizations are actively working towards
betterment of the working
conditions and environment under which the paraprofessionals of
today as well as tomorrow
will labor under. There are also a variety of awards and means of
recognizing the activities
of these people. However, there is both a uniqueness and a
level of recognition
and penetration into the work lives of library support staff around this
nation and other countries
that other venues and groups just do not have readily available and the
means for near instantaneous
feedback that LIBSUP-L provides.
As a result of this and
in recognition of the fact that the earlier award
needed some updating
and revamping and that conditions have changed in many ways since that
earlier time. I am announcing and proposing a new award uniquely
based and tied to the
LIBSUP-L as it's venuefor
nomination and process consideration.
The new award will be
called "The LIBSUP-L Recognition of Accomplishment
Award", it will recognize
a member of the Library support staff family and will be given in honor
of
someone who is a member
of the list. Membership to the list is defined as being able to
send or receive emails
from LIBSUP-L
The award will be given
to a nominee that has been actively working on
behalf of the library
support staff segment of the larger library community, whether this activity
has
been on a national, regional,
or state/institutional setting and has carried out these activities in
one
of the following ways:
by publication of articles
or other writings
by participation in a
library support staff related organization on any level
by being active in changes
regarding library support staff positions in
their library institution
by participating in continuing
education or professional development activities
by pursuing course-work
that would lead to a degree or certification
by being an example and
encouraging others to serve or continue to improve
themselves
by other demonstrated
means of improvement....
Self nominated individuals
will not be considered, anyone at any level
within the greater library
community that meets
the earlier stated criteria in this message will be
considered.
Nominations are to be
sent to this email address: morrison.244@osu.edu
Nominations should contain
the following information:
- The name of the nominee
- The position and library
institution of the nominee
- A description of what
activities qualify the nominee to be eligible for
this award
- The activities for
which the person is being nominated must have taken
place during
the present
year (2004).
All nominations are to
be sent to the above email address no later than
December 9th 2004.
Nominations should be
submitted in the body of the email message nominating
them and not submitted
as an attachment file.
Nominations received after
the above date will not be considered. All
nominations received
by that date will be processed and distributed between the Judging panel.
The
Judging Panel consists
of 2 Award Judges who will select the top three nominations by a
blind review process
and will then forward these selections back to me for final
consideration.
The Award Judges will finish their work by December 16th 2004 and the winner
will be announced via
the LIBSUP-L list on December 17th 2004.
What will the award recipient
receive?
- The congratulations
and salutations of their peers.
- An electronic awards
form/certificate suitable for printing from their
computer printer.
- And finally, I have
lined up an Anonymous Contributor who will allow me
to take a book order
from the
winner for up to $20.00. The book(s) of the winners choice
would be purchased and
then shipped
to an address the winner will provide and hopefully in time
for the holidays!
:-)
This undertaking is supported
by no institution, organization, or
individuals other than
myself, the award judges, and the anonymous contributor. We are also
grateful for the support and permission of Listmom Mary!!! :-)
Questions, Comments, and
Nominations are to be directed to me here at this
email address. email
- morrison.244 at osu.edu
Thank you for the time
and consideration,
Douglas Morrison
Reference/Serials Librarian
Ohio State ATI Library
O.L.S.S.I. Website: http://www.olssi.lib.oh.us/
PLEASE
NOTE: If you are reading this past the noted dates within note,
please
contact Doug for current information regarding this award.
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