Public Relations Award
Mississippi Library Association Public Relations Award
The Public Relations Award winners will be announced during the Awards Luncheon at the annual Mississippi Library Association convention held in October of each year.
Entries representing Mississippi libraries will be accepted in an organized format relevant to the project: scrapbooks, displays, audio/video tapes, slides, DVDs, online submissions, etc. The categories of entries are as follows:
- Best effort by an individual library to publicize library services around a single theme or event.
- Best coordinated effort of several libraries to publicize library services around a single theme or event.
- Best year-round effort by an individual library to publicize library services in general.
- Best year-round coordinated effort by a group of libraries to publicize library services in general.
- Golden Book Award–Most outstanding volunteer effort by an individual or group deemed to have contributed most to library awareness in the past or present.
- Best newsletter submitted by library group. Please submit one newsletter edition that best represents the library’s best public relations activities.
Guidelines are as follows:
- All entries are required to have a project abstract. Failure to submit abstract will render entry invalid. Online submissions require a written abstract to be submitted providing the appropriate links to entry and the information requested below.
- All parts of an entry must be clearly identified, and their role in the project must be stated.
- Public Relations Awards Criteria have been developed to aid in submission and judging. Please be sure to consult these criteria as entries are developed. Entries will be judged based on these criteria. Based on the Awards Criteria, a minimum score of 75 is required for consideration of award.
See MLA Public Relations Awards Criteria (PDF) - Awards will not be presented if the criteria and minimum score aren’t met.
- Each entry must be accompanied by a separate entry form and include the following information:
Type of Library:
( ) College/ University ( ) Institution ( ) Public ( ) Special ( ) School
| Name of Library | |
| (If branch, list headquarters) | |
| Address | |
| Name and Affiliation of Person Reporting | |
| Phone Number | |
| Entry’s Audience | |
| Entry’s Objective | |
| Estimated Population Served by Library |
The timeframe for entries is the fiscal year (October-August) prior to the MLA convention. Entries must be received by September 27 of each year.
Please send your entry (with the above entry form) to:
Mississippi Library Association
Attn: Mary Julia Anderson or Jennifer Walker
PO Box 13687
Jackson MS 39236-3687
5 Comments Add your own
1. Leigh McWhite | July 21st, 2008 at 4:38 pm
We would like to submit an entirely online entry this year for the PR award, providing the judges with a link to a website specifically designed as an award entry.
Would this be acceptable?
2. Anonymous | September 8th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
is the deadline for the public relations award still October 1?
3. Web Committee | September 12th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Yes, the deadline is still October 1st.
4. admin | September 15th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Yes, you can submit an online entry.
5. Judy Kirkpatrick | September 16th, 2010 at 10:56 am
Last August, 2009 Jackson Academy was given a collectin of signed, first editions, manu-
scripts, photos and other ephemera. We now have an added Dept., housed in the Secondary School Library.
Thhis collection was given by Dr. Luke and Louise Lyell Lampton of Magnolia, Miss. where Dr. Lampton practices medicine and owns and edits The Magnolia Gazette.
He is a graduate (Class 1984) of Jackson Academy.
We plan to have authors (Miss.) for a forum
in Jan. on researching for writing a book or anything published.
“Using primary sources in the high-school classroom” will be an important endeavor when the collections is processed. It is being added into our system presently.
We have manuscripts on (Vietnam War, World Ware I, etc.
Please inform me if you think this is something you might be interested in me pursuring.
Judy Kirkpatrick, Curator
Kirkpatrick-Lampton Special Collections
P.O.l Box 14978
tele: 601-364-5716
email: judy@jacksonacademy.org
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