Awards Committee

• Award Committee Officers
• ULA Award Winners
  
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  • List of past award recipients

The Awards Committee recognizes outstanding achievement in librarianship, service to libraries and the library profession, and service to the Utah Library Association. Recipients may be librarians, trustees, legislators, news media personnel, and friends of libraries. The committee also coordinates the awards given by the subsidiary units of ULA. 

ULA Distinguished Service Award
This is the creme de la creme. Here is a person "whose achievements in service to libraries are of the highest caliber." You do not have to be a librarian to be eligible.  Your accomplishments must "represent a sustained contribution over a period of several years." 

Librarian of the Year Award
Must be a librarian (worked in library or media center or have been involved in library science education; not necessarily MLS).  Outstanding service in recent past. 

Special Service to Libraries Award
Honoring Groups (library staffs, committees, library boards, similar library groups) or Individuals who have made significant contributions in support of libraries or library service.  Sustained contribution over several years or a notable effort over a shorter period of time.  

ULA Special Recognition Award
Librarians (as defined above) who have "contributed to the profession as a whole and who have benefited the library community in general over a period of many years.  

What constitutes award material:
Contributions in leadership, creativity, pioneering effort, and teaching. They may have developed a library, extensively participated in local, state or national library bodies, developed statewide public relations campaigns beneficial to libraries, successfully implemented new ideas for library services, or provided innovations in the library world. Being a ULA member is not required.