Awards (Scholarships & Grants)
Accepting Applications for the 2025 Lois Ann Gregory-Wood Fellowship
The American Library Association announces a call for applications for the Lois Ann Gregory-Wood (LAGW) Fellows Program. Visit the LAGW Fellows page for more information about the application process. Lois Ann Gregory-Wood worked at ALA for fifty years...
Myla G. Corn Selected as the 2024 Tony B. Leisner Scholarship Recipient
The American Library Association (ALA) has selected Myla G. Corn of Apopka, Florida as the recipient of the 2024 Tony B. Leisner Scholarship. The $3,000 scholarship, named for an active ALA member and former member of the ALA Council, is awarded to a...
Tyler Brady Selected as the 2024 Miriam L. Hornback Scholarship Recipient
The American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to announce the selection of Tyler Brady of Honea Path, South Carolina as the 2024 Miriam L. Hornback Scholarship recipient. The $3,000 award is given to an ALA or library support staff member to help...
Rowan Wiebe Selected as the 2024 ALA Century Scholarship Recipient
The American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to announce the selection of Rowan Wiebe of Canada as the 2024 Century Scholarship recipient. The $2,500 scholarship funds services or accommodation for a library school student with disabilities admitted...
GNCRT Celebrates 2024 Recipients of the Comics Librarian Conference Travel Grants
The American Library Association's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) is excited to announce Rachel Perrone of Cranston, RI and Valerie Tohom of Los Angeles, CA as the recipients of the 2024 GNCRT Comics Librarian Conference Travel Grants. Rachel...
2024 John Cotton Dana Awards Announced
The 2024 John Cotton Dana (JCD) Award winners, recognized for their strategic communications efforts, have been selected. The John Cotton Dana Awards provide up to eight grants for libraries that demonstrate outstanding library public relations. The award...
Congratulations to the 2024 Winners of the Core Career LIFT Award
CHICAGO-- Congratulations to the 2024 recipients of the Core Career LIFT Award. The recipients are: Kristin Lansdown LIFT Award Sponsored by OCLC In her position as the Librarian and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility (IDEA) Coordinator, Kristin...
Ten AASL Members Receive Jewish American Heritage Month Collection Development Grants
CHICAGO—Ten American Association of School Librarians (AASL) members have been awarded $500 collection development grants. Generously sponsored by The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, the grants allow recipients to create or expand...
ALA awards $10,000 grants to 16 libraries serving incarcerated persons or assisting those re-entering society to build capacity
The American Library Association (ALA) today announced $10,000 Building Library Capacity Grants to 16 libraries across the country serving incarcerated persons or assisting those re-entering society.
AASL Announces Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) Collection Development Grants
CHICAGO — Ten collection development grants are available to AASL members to create or expand their collection with content to provide context and content that explores Jewish experience, Jewish achievement, and Jewish identity as an antidote to...
Carnegie Whitney Grant 2024 award winners
The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants for the preparation, either in print and/or electronically, of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliographies, indexes and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types of...
Hoboken (NJ) Public Library and Independence (KS) Public Library Awarded ALA’s Libraries Transform Communities Engagement Grant
The American Library Association (ALA) has awarded its fifth Libraries Transform Communities Engagement Grant to the Hoboken (NJ) Public Library and the Independence (KS) Public Library. The winning libraries will bolster their initiatives aimed at promoting food security and addressing homelessness within their communities.
Three Libraries Awarded ALA’s 2024 Peggy Barber Tribute Grant for Exceptional Civic Education Programs
The American Library Association (ALA) has awarded its 2024 Peggy Barber Tribute Grant, a programming grant named after the transformative ALA leader, to the Library System of Bradford County (New Albany, Penn.), Danbury (Conn.) Public Library and Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Libraries (Mount Pleasant, Mich.).
James Patterson gives bonuses to library workers & booksellers in celebration of his latest book
In celebration of the release of his latest nonfiction title, "The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians" world’s bestselling author James Patterson is honoring select American Bookseller Association and American Library Association members with bonuses.
“The First Amendment and the Freedom to Read” receives AASL Roald Dahl's Miss Honey Social Justice Award
“The First Amendment and the Freedom to Read” project from Townsend Harris High School in Flushing, New York, is the recipient of the 2024 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Roald Dahl's Miss Honey Social Justice Award. Sponsored by Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House, the Roald Dahl Award recognizes collaboration between school librarians and teachers in the instruction of social justice using school library resources.
Wendy Gassaway receives AASL Innovative Reading Grant
Wendy Gassaway, school librarian at Alder Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, is the recipient of the 2024 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Innovative Reading Grant. Sponsored by Capstone, the $2,500 grant supports the planning and implementation of a unique and innovative program for children that motivates and encourages reading, especially with struggling readers.
Hutchinson Memorial Library awarded 2024 Baker & Taylor Summer Reading Program Grant
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has awarded the 2024 ALSC/Baker & Taylor Summer Reading Program Grant to the Hutchinson Memorial Library in Randolph, Wisconsin. The grant encourages outstanding summer reading programs by providing financial assistance while recognizing ALSC members for outstanding program development.
Emma K. McNamara and Don Michael Jr. are the 2024 recipients of the SRRT’s Conference Travel Grants
The Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) of the American Library Association has named Emma K. McNamara and Don Michael Jr. as the 2024 winners of the SRRT Conference Travel Grants to attend the upcoming 2024 ALA Annual Conference in San Diego, CA. The SRRT Conference Travel Grants sponsored by the Social Responsibilities Round Table help finance SRRT member attendance at the ALA Annual Conference. The $1000 award covers limited fees related to airfare, lodging, and conference registration. SRRT funds up to two applicants per year.
Washington Library Association- School Library Division Awarded AASL ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant
The Washington Library Association (WLA) - School Library Division is the recipient of the 2024 American Association of School Librarians (AASL) ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant. Sponsored by ABC-CLIO, the $1,750 grant is given to an AASL Chapter for planning and implementing leadership programs at the state, regional, or local level.
University of North Carolina Wilmington chosen as the 2024 recipient of the LIRT Innovation in Instruction Award
The Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) is please to announce the Randall Library at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) is the recipient of the 2024 Innovation in Instruction Award.