(via the Illinois Library Association)
This is a reminder that nominations for the Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award are due Friday, May 15. The general criteria are below. Additional information, including instructions for submitting a nomination, is available here.
Please direct any questions to ila@ila.org.
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Established in 1985, this award recognizes an Illinois librarian who is making an outstanding statewide contribution to academic or research librarianship and to library development.
The recipient must be a personal ILA member or be employed at an institution that is an ILA member. The recipient must have distinguished himself/ herself in notable service to the forum and to the Illinois Library Association, as well as exhibited leadership and exemplary library service in an academic setting.
To assure equitability of representation of awardees among the various types of academic libraries and constituencies represented in the forum’s membership, the awards committee will give consideration, on a revolving basis, to these factors in the selection process. Individuals nominated should have demonstrated achievements in such areas as the following ones.
- service to the organized profession through ILA, the IACRL Forum, and related organizations;
- significant and influential academic or research library service;
- contributions to academic or research library development through research or publications; or
- planning or implementing a library program of exemplary quality.
Nominees do not have to meet all the above criteria.