PLS Awards & Scholarships
Public Library Building Awards
PLS offers an annual building awards alternating between renovation work and new construction.
Conference Scholarship Awards
Awards to encourage public librarians (professional degree not required) now in the field, or students in library school, to participate in NYLA or PLS activities.
The PLS Innovative Program Award recognizes and honors innovative, impactful programs produced in public libraries that are new to the library’s community, fulfill an identified need in the community, and which have a measurable, positive impact on the target audience
Best Practices Award (even years)
This year’s PLS Best Practices Award will be given to a public library or public library system that has focused on the best use of Web technology to promote library services.
L. Marion Moshier/Asa Wynkoop Award for Distinguished Librarianship (odd years)
L. Marion Moshier/Asa Wynkoop Award for Distinguished Librarianship honors a librarian who has given outstanding service to a community of population of 7,500 or less. It is given in odd years and a professional degree is not required.
PLS Developing Leaders Program
The Public Libraries Section believes in supporting public librarians, and their pursuit to lead in the field of public librarianship. For this reason, we award a full scholarship to the Developing Leaders Program to PLS members. On your application to the program, simply select 'yes' under question 10, "Please consider me for available scholarships."
Requests for PLS Programming Support
New York Library Association roundtables and affiliates are eligible to submit a request for conference programming support from PLS. This support is intended to help finance bringing speakers to the annual NYLA conference, or other public library conferences in New York State.
Each NYLA roundtable or affiliate may submit one request per year.
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Awards are offered for up to $1,000, with additional support considered as the annual budget allows.
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A maximum of five awards are given each year.
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Requests must be submitted by June 30th of each year.
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Roundtables that receive support will be required to credit PLS in conference publicity.
To apply for PLS programming support, please contact PLS President Meg Van Patten
PLS Award Recipients, 2007 - 2019