2018 Innovative Librarians Award

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The Gwinnett County Public Library’s Innovative Librarians Award, which is co-sponsored by the School of Information at San José State University, is open to all students who are currently enrolled and pursuing a graduate degree in Library Science, or who have graduated with an MLS/MLIS within the past two years.

The Innovative Librarians Award recognizes those library science graduate students who put forward new ideas that improve libraries and library services. Whether large or small, these ideas have the ability to change the way people experience libraries. Nominations are judged by public librarians with years of frontline, managerial, and administrative experience.

Five finalists are selected from all properly submitted applications. Those five finalists have their proposals published on this website and may be selected to be interviewed via podcast or webconference.

One entrant is selected from the five finalists to receive a $1,000 cash prize.

2018 Award Winner – Eké Williams

Gwinnett County Public Library and the San José State University School of Information have selected Eké Williams of San José State University from a group of five finalists as the winner of the 2018 Innovative Librarians Award. The award recognizes library science graduate students who put forward new ideas that improve libraries and library services.

Williams, a Technology Training Supervisor at Brooklyn Public Library, will receive a $1,000 cash prize for his work on the Documentary Photography Bootcamp. The bootcamp is an innovative seven-week workshop aimed at educating disconnected youth in the East New York community.

Nominations were blind-judged by public librarians and library and information science educators with years of frontline, managerial and administrative experience.

“We’re thrilled to offer this opportunity to library science students,” says Michael Casey, GCPL Director of Customer Experience. “This year’s innovations were amazing and we’re so happy that we can share them with libraries around the world.”

“The premise of this award was to celebrate our innovative librarians and recognize their ingenious ideas,” says Dr. Sandra Hirsh, professor and director at the SJSU School of Information. “They may be early in their careers, but they are already reshaping public libraries! I couldn’t be more pleased with the response to the call for submissions and the creative thinking happening in our field.”

2018 Finalists
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