Commendation Recipients
2024
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Anderson Reads
Community Advocates for Public Education (CAPE)
Families Against Book Bans (FABB)
Free to Read Project
Free to Read Spartanburg
Legislator Invite Tour by the Walter P.J. Gilefski Media Center
Maryland State Education Association
Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC)
North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Reading for Change
Right to Read Coalition
Seneca City Museums
Teachers Association of Baltimore County and the Anti Book Banning Committee
Title Wave Book Mobile
Turn the Page KC
U-Turn in Education
Worcester County Public Schools Media Expo
2023
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of South Carolina
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Missouri
Book Riot's Weekly Censorship Roundup and Archives by Kelly Jensen
Delaware Library Association (DLA)
Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization (DAYLO)
Florida Freedom to Read Project
Free to Read Rochester
Get Ready, Stay Ready: Community Action Toolkit
Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship
Magic Book Bus of Rosman, North Carolina
Maryland Library Association (MLA)
South Carolina Education Association (SCEA)
2022
All CT Reads
All Ready Access Program/Schlow to School
Bookmarks Kids & Schools Program
Colorado State Library
The Conscious Connect, Inc.
Nebraska Library Association
Nebraska Library Commission
North Hunterdon-Voorhees Intellectual Freedom Fighters
Palmetto State Teachers Association Hill Day Program
Promising Pages
Rainbow Library
Tennessee Youth Coalition
2021
Baltimore County Public Library Partnership with Baltimore County Public School System
Baltimore County Public School: Librarians Resource Wiki
BJC Book Brigade
"Celebrating Librarians During National School Library Month" WATE (ABC), Knoxville, TN
Green River Regional Educational Cooperative Library Media Specialists Network
The Greenville Drive Reading All-Stars Challenge
Kentucky Academic Standards for Library Media
Literacy in the H.O.O.D. (Helping Out Our Disenfranchised)
Louisiana School Librarians: Navigating School Library Programming in the Face of COVID-19
The New Library Learning Video from Nebraska Loves Public Schools
One Book Baltimore
Read to Succeed (Wilson County, TN)
Refugee Doll Project
Teen Lit Mob – Vermont
2020
#PALibChat
Bull City-NC SLAM (Schools & Libraries Achieving More)
Cbus Libraries
Glencoe UMC Read To Success Program
Greensboro Bound Authors Engaging Students
The Guilford Green Foundation
I'm Your Neighbor Welcoming Library
INFOhio
The National Library Legislative Teen Contest
New Jersey Education Association
The Noble Neighbor
One Book Blitz
Pennsylvania Department of Education Office of Commonwealth Libraries
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures' Words & Pictures Program
The SC State 1890 Research & Extension Program
South Carolina Center for Community Literacy
United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Holiday Book Drive
2019
AASL National School Library Standards Regional Trainings facilitated by the Oklahoma State Department of Education
Book Build sponsored by Bookmarks
Books on Break sponsored by Book Harvest
Dublin Literacy Conference sponsored by the Dublin City School District
Eleanor G. Hughes and Carol Dyetta Hughes Literacy Program
Great Lakes Great Books presented by the Michigan Reading Association
nErDcampVT
Pirates Tales Summer Reading Program presented by the Pittsburgh Pirates
Raleigh’s Rolling Readers
Signing of Missouri Senate Bill 743
Teachers Strike coordinated by the United Teachers Los Angeles
Wyoming Reads sponsored by the Sue Jorgensen Library Foundation
2018
Illinois Reads
Cards for All
Great Michigan Read
nErDcampMI
Massachusetts State Legislature
New Hampshire Fisher Cats Reading Challenge
Books for Bedtime
Crime Cats Mystery Club
Read Up, Greenville
Fang's Reading Club
2017
Book 'Em
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Unlock Student Potential
#txlchat
Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival
Columbia Fireflies Reading Program
2016
Authors in April
The Pennsylvania Library Association’s Information Literacy Summit
Read Your Way to the Big Game
Southeastern Young Adult Book Festival
2015
Common Ground Conference
Children's Festival of Reading - Knox County Public Library
NJ's Makers Day
EverFi's Ignition Digital Citizenship Course
Statewide Convention Collaboration- New York State Council for the Social Studies
Oregon Department of Education
Redskins Read
The Summer Institute for Human Rights and Genocide Studies
United Way of Delaware County’s Imagination Library Week
Wondermore
2014
Indiana Pacers (and Foundation)
Homeport’s Bright Ideas Book Bank
Hoosier Family of Readers
Reading Rocks!
School Librarians’ Day – University of NE Omaha
College Readiness Dialogues: Together We Learn!
2013
Common Ground 2013: Leading and Learning in the Digital Age (Maryland’s Premier Professional Development Event)
Library: A Weinberg Project (Weinberg Foundation)
Second and Seven Foundation “Tackle Illiteracy”
Cleveland Plain Dealer "Tapping Into Parent Power"
Gary Literacy Coalition
Humanities Tennessee Student Reader Day Program
Librarian to Librarian Networking Summit
Tennessee First Lady’s Read20 Book Club
YALLFest: Raising local literacy through great YA authors
BE A PRO - Digital Literacy for Families
2012
Kansas Summer Institute
Oklahoma Teaching with Primary Sources Project
Southern Kentucky Book Fest
Leap into Reading with Read-it!
TALL Texans Leadership Development Institute
Reading Rocks in Richland One
Radical Readers Pilot Program – Read Across Maryland
Team Read & Hit A Homerun Reading Program presented by the Bowie Baysox Minor League Baseball Team, Keys for Reading Program presented by the Frederick Keys Minor League Baseball Team, Hit the Books Reading Program presented by the Delmarva Shorebirds Minor League Baseball Team and Hagerstown Suns Reading Challenge presented by the Hagerstown Suns Minor League Baseball Team
2011
Children's Literature Festival at the University of Central Missouri
Henrico County Public Schools Library Mentoring Program
Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List created by the Texas Library Association's Young Adult Round Table
Ohioana Book Festival
Outcome Evaluation of the Library Media Program on Information Literacy Skills
Passing of House Resolution 987 by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Texas Parent Teacher Association
2010
American Girl Place Chicago
Curriculum Instruction and Instructional Technology Section, New York State Education Department
Longwood Summer Literacy Institute
Librarianship Upgrades for Children and Youth Services
Maryland Library Leadership Institute
READesign® Library Makeover Project
2009
New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC)’s Commission on Public Secondary Schools
No Book Left Unread Summer Reading program from the South Carolina State Department of Education
The William Allen White Children’s Book Awards Program
2008
Cocky’s Reading Express at the University of South Carolina
The North Dakota Department of Public Education and the Educational Standards and Practices Board of North Dakota
Washington Coalition for School Libraries and Information Technology aka “The Spokane Moms”
2007
Annual Statewide Read-In, presented by the South Carolina State Library
A(ugusta) Baker’s Dozen
New Jersey Department of Education, Offices of Licensure and Credentials and Abbot Implementation
One for Books – Scholastic Book Fairs
2006
Children, Libraries, and Literacy – An Initiative for South Carolina
Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education (ILILE)
