{"id":16609,"date":"2017-09-30T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=16609"},"modified":"2017-09-25T08:04:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:04:42","slug":"nominate-someone-distinguished-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/nominate-someone-distinguished-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should nominate someone for the Distinguished Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year since 1992, ALSC has awarded the distinguished service award to someone who has made a lasting contribution or impact on library services for children or ALSC.\u00a0 \u00a0Any member of ALSC (and ALA) can nominate someone who is also a member of ALSC (and ALA) (this, hopefully, means you).\u00a0 Below are a few reasons why you should think about it, along with a picture of my cute cat (because who doesn\u2019t need another cute cat picture?).<\/p>\n

Top Ten Reasons to Nominate Someone for the Distinguished Service Award Today:<\/strong><\/p>\n

10. There are only approximately 62 days before the December 1<\/strong> deadline to nominate someone inspiring for ALSC\u2019s Distinguished Service Award.<\/p>\n

9. It\u2019s easy to fill out a quick application:http:\/\/bit.ly\/2oGT63D<\/a>.<\/p>\n

8. This is a good opportunity to talk to other friends and colleagues (who doesn\u2019t like that?). Tell them who you\u2019re thinking of nominating and convince them to fill out an application as well.\u00a0 They can fill out the application here:\u00a0 http:\/\/bit.ly\/2oGT63D<\/a>.<\/p>\n

7. Nominating someone for the award is good karma.<\/p>\n

6. You are surrounded by thoughtful, inspiring professionals who rarely get awards. The DSA is a way to see their work recognized.<\/p>\n

5. In these often turbulent times, it is often difficult to feel like you can easily contribute and make a difference.Nominating someone for DSA is good practice for making your voice heard (and it will be heard!) for the road ahead.<\/p>\n

4. If your nominee wins, you get to hear them give what is typically an inspirational speech at annual about their career. It\u2019s been one of my favorite parts of ALA Annual! Videos and transcripts of some of the speeches are on the ALSC website http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/profawards\/distinguishedservice<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Recipients of the award receive a cash award of $2,000 and an engraved pin.This is just plain old cool.<\/p>\n

2. Did I mention the whole \u2013only 3 months until December 1<\/span> thing? Nominate someone TODAY.<\/p>\n

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(Pcture of a cat, maybe not actually my cat\u2026he is cute, but, not particularly good at holding still).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1.\u00a0 Finally, it\u2019s the right thing to do. All the cool cats are doing it.<\/p>\n

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Today’s blog post was written by Jennifer Knight, a youth services librarian and member of the Distinguished Service Award committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year since 1992, ALSC has awarded the distinguished service award to someone who has made a lasting contribution or impact on library services for children or ALSC.\u00a0 \u00a0Any member of ALSC (and ALA) can nominate someone who is also a member of ALSC (and ALA) (this, hopefully, means you).\u00a0 Below are a few reasons why you should think about it, along with a picture of my cute cat (because who doesn\u2019t need another cute cat picture?). Top Ten Reasons to Nominate Someone for the Distinguished Service Award Today: 10. There are only approximately 62 days before the December 1 deadline to nominate someone inspiring for ALSC\u2019s Distinguished Service Award. 9. It\u2019s easy to fill out a quick application:http:\/\/bit.ly\/2oGT63D. 8. This is a good opportunity to talk to other friends and colleagues (who doesn\u2019t like that?). Tell them who you\u2019re thinking of nominating and convince them to fill out an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[12,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-scholarships","category-guest-blogger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}