Purpose
Honoring a collaborative effort to promote innovative library-based initiatives involving the community.
Eligibility
All Maryland library staff are eligible. Note: this is a team award.
Criteria
The Libraries Change Communities Award is presented to a collaborative community effort that recognizes positive achievements and promotes outstanding library-based initiatives in Maryland. The award recognizes good practice in any innovative library-related effort that involves communities, demonstrates imagination and innovation, and has the potential to be developed and adapted elsewhere.
Community can be defined in the broad or narrow sense depending on the collaborated effort (e.g. school or school districts, state or county agencies). The initiative should affect people’s lives for the better, contribute to equality of access, and impact the end users.
Please submit all of the names of the people who were essential to the initiative.
Award Recipients: 2024 - Present
- 2026
- Biblio Consulta Team - Ann McIntire, Ana Martinez, Efi Asaha, Paul Morena, Giovanna Sandoval, Dan Ramirez, Nancy Coleman, Yolanda Carino, Magali Pena Cabello, Norman Lezama, Yesenia Gutierrez, Vilma Diaz, Idalis Mendoza-Bustos, Nelly Rosales-Mendez, Heather Jackson (Prince George's County Memorial Library System)
- 2025
- Nay Keppler, Baltimore County Public Library - Community Reading Festival
- Sarah Mullen, Michele Noble, and Vilma Sandoval-Sall, Anne Arundel County Public Library - Partnership with Seeds for Success
- 2024
- East Columbia Library Team for their teen programming- Coach G. Young, Carmen Jessop, Suki Lee and the East Columbia Team