Public Library Awards
These eight awards recognize library board members, library staff members, children’s librarians, public librarians, and library professionals who have made substantial achievements.
Spring Awards
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.
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.
Leadership in Adult Readers' Advisory
This award recognizes excellence in readers’ advisory service to adults.
Fall Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award
(Library Staff Member)
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
(Library Board Member)
This award recognizes a library board member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in governing a public library in Ontario.
The 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.
Joyce Cunningham Award
(Public Library Board of the Year)
This award recognizes one Public Library Board, or two Public Library Boards that participated in a collaborative effort, that has demonstrated a high level of collaboration and innovation to produce outstanding results.