OPLA Awards
OPLA offers six awards that recognize library board members, library staff members, children’s librarians, and library professionals who have made substantial achievements.
OPLA Spring Awards
OPLA Children's or Youth Services Librarian of the Year Award
This award recognizes a children’s librarian who has made a positive impact on children’s or youth services librarianship.
OPLA Advocacy in Action: Excellence in Children's or Teen Services Award
This award recognizes excellent library staff, either an individual or group, working with children or youth.
OPLA Leadership in Adult Readers' Advisory
This award recognizes excellence in readers’ advisory service to adults.
OPLA Fall Awards
OPLA Lifetime Achievement Award
This award recognizes a library staff member who has given life long service to the profession and has contributed significantly to the growth and innovation of public libraries in Ontario.
James Bain Medallion
This award recognizes a library board member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in governing a public library in Ontario.
The OLBA W.J. Robertson Medallion (Public Librarian of the Year)
This award recognizes a public librarian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the advancement of public library service in Ontario.
OLA Technical Services Award
This award recognizes the Ontario librarian, teacher-librarian, technician, library worker or department who has made a substantial achievement to their institution and/or the library profession in the area of technical services.