2012 FLA Award Nominations Opportunity

Recognize your library, staff and library supporters:

Nominate them for a FLA Award

Nominations are due February 1, 2012

Does your library get the recognition that you and your staff so richly deserve? Why don’t you nominate a program, service or person for one or more of the Florida Library Association’s (FLA) Awards? Let local, state and national leaders know about the difference your library makes in people’s lives.

Application: http://www.flalib.org/awards.php. You do need to be a Florida Library Association member to submit a nomination, but you may nominate non-members.

FLA has a variety of awards you could win. Awards honoring individuals include the:

• Outstanding Citizen Library Award
• Friends, Foundations and Boards Outstanding Member Award
• Librarian of the Year Award

Other awards recognize special programs and services and include the:

• Exemplary Learning Design Award
• Library Innovation Award
• Library Web Site Award
• Libraries Mean Business Award
• Library of the Year

Visit the Florida Library Association website to see a complete list of the awards as well as last year’s winners.

The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2012.

For more information about these awards contact Sandy Newell at Sandy.Newell@DOS.MyFlorida.com or 850.245.6624. Sandy chairs the FLA Awards Committee and is the public library administration consultant with the Office of Community Development in the Division of Library and Information Services