[Michlib-l] 2014 Pletz Award Nominations Welcome

[Laura Covey]

MLA is seeking nominees for the 2014 Frances H. Pletz Award for Excellence 
in Service to Youth. The award is given annually to a Michigan library 
staff person who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of 
library service to youth, ages 0-18, throughout their career. The winner 
will be announced and presented with the award at the Spring Institute 
2014 Conference in Battle Creek, March 27-28, 2014.
Background: The award is named for Frances H. Pletz, a former Executive 
Director of the Michigan Library Association, because of her exemplary 
library service to teens in our state. This award was established in 1978 
by the Young Adult Division of the Michigan Library association and was 
given to a teen librarian. In 2010, the Pletz Award combined with the 
Children’s Services Award of Merit to create the Frances H. Pletz Award 
for Excellence in Service to Youth.
Qualifications:

• The nominee must be a member of the Michigan Library Association or an 
MLA organizational representative.

• The nominee must be an employee of a library in the state of Michigan.

• The nominee must have at least three years of experience in a public 
library.

• The nominee must have provided significant service to youth, ages 0-18, 
through a library that exposed youth to the library in at least one of the 
following ways: innovative programming; service on a committee; 
contributing research; presenting at a workshop; or developing materials 
for a workshop.

• A degree in library and information science is optional.

• A Michigan Librarian’s Professional Certificate is optional.
Recommended:

• Active in the Michigan Library Association is encouraged.

• Additional community service.
Eligibility: Anyone who is a current individual member of the Michigan 
Library Association or the MLA organizational representative, may be 
nominated for the award, except for members of the Pletz Award Work Group.
Deadline for entry is Friday, January 31, 2014. To nominate someone for 
the 2014 Pletz Award, please review the full guidelines and complete the 
nomination form.

Thank you,

Laura Covey
Director of Membership, Communications, and Marketing
Michigan Library Association
1407 Rensen St., Ste. 2
Lansing, MI 48910
Phone: 517-394-2774 ext. 211
Fax: 517-394-2675
www.mla.lib.mi.us

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