Brief Description: Awards Committee Files containing applications, committee correspondence, awards ceremony programs, and photographs of ceremonies for AASL awards (1976-91, 1993-99); AASL Blanche E. Wools / Newsbank Instructional Leadership Award (1995-97); AASL President Crystal Apple Award (1998); ABC-CLIO Leadership Development Award (1987-1991, 1993-99); Bill Backer Memorial Scholarship (1989-90), Distinguished Library Service Award for School Administrators (1968-91, 1996-99); Distinguished Service Award (1988-92, 1996-99); Emergency Librarian Publication Award (1990-1995), Frances Henne Award (1986-1991, 1996-99), Grolier Grant (1957, 1966-75), Highsmith Research Grant (1996-98); ICONnect Prize (1999-2001); ICONnect Mini-Grant (1998); Information Plus Continuing Education Scholarship (1996-98); Information Technology Pathfinder Award (1998); Intellectual Freedom Award (1982-91, 1996-98); MAXI Award (1973), Microcomputer in the Media Center Award (1985-91), National School Library Media Program of the Year Award NSLMPY (1984-86, 1994-98); President's Award (1978-87); School Library Media Program of the Year Award SLMPY (1963-83); School Librarians' Workshop Scholarship (1996-99, 2003).

Record Series Number: 20/76/5

Created by: American Association of School Librarians (AASL) (1915-), American Association of School Libraries. Awards Committee.

Volume: 10.0 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 7/31/96; 9/5/02; 10/2/14

Arrangement: Alphabetical and chronological thereunder

Biographical Note for American Association of School Librarians (AASL) (1915-) :

The first annual meeting of the School Libraries Section was held in East Hall, University of California, at 9:30 Saturday morning, June 5, 1915, with an attendance of 250. In the opening meeting, the purpose of the section was outlined. "The school library being one of the great problems of library endeavor, it is fitting that there should be a section in the American Library Association devoted to the discussion of work with all classes of schools" (1).

The American Association of School Librarians (ASSL) is interested in "the general improvement and extension of library services for children and young people."

The American Association of School Libraries became a division of ALA on January 1, 1951. Formerly it was a section of the Division of Libraries for Children and Young People; and before 1941 it was the School Libraries Section of ALA organized in 1915 (2).

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