MISSISSIPPI LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

 

The Mississippi Library Association Honors

2019 Award Winners

 

Tiffany Quay Tyson 

With the

Mississippi Author’s Award for Fiction

For

The Past is Never


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Tena Clark

With the

Mississippi Author’s Award for Non-Fiction

For

Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

 


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Linda Williams Jackson 

With the

Mississippi Author’s Award for Special Literature

For

Midnight without a Moon



 

Library Champion Award

Joanne Anderson

Trustee, Jackson-George Regional Library System

 

Mary Julia Anderson Award

Janessa Ullendorf

USM Gulf Coast

 

Outstanding Achievement Award

Mac Buntin

Mississippi Library Commission

 

Peggy May Award

Mary Ann Peoples

Vicksburg Junior High School

 

Best Newsletter Submitted by a Library Group

Gunter Library

Gulf Coast Research Laboratory

 

Best Effort by an Individual Library to Publicize Library Services Around a Single Theme or Event

Ocean Springs Municipal Library

Jackson-George Regional Library System

The Smithsonian Waterways Exhibit

 

Best Coordinated Effort by a Group of Libraries to Publicize Library Services

Around a Single Theme or Event

First Regional Library System

Summer Reading Challenge

 

Best Year-Round Effort by an Individual Library to Publicize Library Services in General

The Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County

 

Best Year-Round Coordinated Effort by a Group of Libraries to Publicize Library Services in General

First Regional Library System

 

Ruby Assaf Presidential Award

Larry Cockrum

Friends of the Ripley Public Library

Northeast Regional Library

 

 Chapter One Award

Friends of the Stone County Libraries

Pine Forest Regional Library System

 

Carroon Apple Award

Jennifer Baker

Jackson Public School System

 

MLA Past Presidents Award

Ashley Dees

University of Mississippi

 

     

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