What do Jane Botham, Henrietta Smith, Marilyn Miller, Caroline Ward, Mimi Kayden, Ginny Walter, Julie Cummins, Phyllis Van Orden, Maggie Kimmel, Peggy Sullivan, Lillian Gerhardt, Spencer Shaw, Zena Sutherland, Ginny Moore Kruse, Virginia Mathews, Carolyn Field, Augusta Baker, and Bill Morris have in common?
Each has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) in recognition of their significant contributions to and impact on ALSC and library services to children.
Do you know an ALSC member who has made an immediate or sustained contribution to the understanding or expansion of library services to children and to the Association for Library Service to Children? This is your opportunity to nominate a fellow ALSC member for the 2010 Distinguished Service Award and add another name to the august group listed above.
The nomination form and other information about the award may be found here: ALSC Web Site –> Awards & Grants –> Professional Awards –>ALSC Distinguished Service Award.
Please note that both nominee and nominator must be members of ALSC.
The nominee may be a practicing librarian in a public or school library, a library or information science educator, a member of the library press, or an editor or other employee of a publishing house. The individual may be active or retired.
In your nomination please describe why you think the nominee has made significant contributions to and has had an impact on ALSC and library services to children. Include a list of his or her achievements that support the nomination. The Distinguished Service Award Committee will evaluate each nominee based on outstanding contribution(s), innovative ideas, breadth of influence, and length of service. Each nomination will be weighed on its own merit. Letters of support or additional nominations for the same person need not be solicited.
Nominations must be submitted by December 1, 2009, midnight EST, to
Cynthia K. Richey, Chair, ALSC Distinguished Service Award Committee.
Email: richeyc@einetwork.net
Fax: 412-531-1161
USPS mail: (please submit 4 copies if sent this way) 99 Inglewood Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15228-1503.
The committee looks forward to receiving your nominations.
Sincerely,
Cynthia