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Winning isn't everything, but a publications award can work magic on the morale of editors, designers, publishers, and advertisers. Why?

• Awards confer credibility. Audience and publisher feel new appreciation for an award-winning publication.
• Awards are uppers. Hardworking editorial and design staff learn their efforts have value outside the company's four walls — it's called outside validation.
• Awards are sales tools: Publishers can link the announcement of an award with publicity for other company services and products.

from: My Big Sourcebook: For People Who Work with Words of Pictures, EEI Press, 1997

The librarypublicrelationscouncil conducts the "Share the Wealth" and "L. PeRCy" competitions each year with winners announced at the ALA Conference.

The "Share the Wealth" is a juried competition in which lprc looks for innovative and effective public relations/publicity pieces. The judges select: 40 to 50 entries which are then assembled in packets and mailed to the entire lprc membership.

The "L. Percy" Awards honor outstanding publicity materials produced by libraries serving populations of different sizes. To encourage participation by libraries of all types and size, entry categories vary from year to year.

You will find information and an entry forms on the "Share the Wealth" Packet entry form and the "L. PeRCy" Awards entry form with information about the 2002 competitions here.

John Cotton Dana Award

Rules & Regulations

1. Description: A John Cotton Dana Award honors outstanding public relations programs. Examples might be: promotion of a new building, a fundraising campaign, initiation of a new service, or an overall public awareness campaign.
2. Who May Enter: The contest is open to all libraries and agencies that promote library service. An organization may not enter if they are a unit of the American Library Association or The H.W. Wilson Company.
   Entries will not be accepted from institutions represented by John Cotton Dana judges, whether they be friends groups, foundations, staff associations, branch libraries, other.

Library Association UK - Public Relations, Publicity Awards and Metals. For Information:

Special Libraries Association (SLA) Media Award

The SLA Media Award recognizes a journalist who, in the opinion of the SLA Public Relations Committee, published an outstanding feature on the special libraries profession, preferably in a general circulation publication or radio or television production. The award is intended to encourage journalists to develop stories on the various aspects of special libraries and the information professionals who manage them.

For information about this and future contests look in at (http://www.sla.org/content/memberservice/communication/pr/awdindex/index.cfm)

For information:

Special Libraries Association
Director, Public Relations
1700 Eighteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009-2508
Fax: (202) 265-9317

Swap n' Shop - "Best of Show" Competition Awards

The "Best of Show" Competition Awards are presented by the Swap n' Shop Committee (of the Public Relations Section of the Library Administration & Management Association of the ALA) for the best in PR and communications in several categories including Annual Reports, Bibliographies/Booklists, Calendars of Events, Fundraising Materials, Newsletters and other original materials.

The awards will be presented at ALA Conference. Go to http://www.ala.org/lama/awards/bestofshow/index.html.

ALA Awards, Grants, and Scholarships — The Complete List!

Go to http://www.ala.org/work/awards/index.html.

What you will see is a complete list of all ALA Awards.

Click on the name of the award to send an email message to the person to contact for more information. For units where the award contact position is vacant, the ALA toll-free number and an extension are provided.