LJ Library Marketer of the Year Nominations 2023

Library Journal will honor one library staffer or a library team with its annual Marketer of the Year award in its October 2023 issue. The award, sponsored by Library Ideas, comes with a $2,000 cash prize. The award recognizes the importance of innovative approaches to marketing of library services, the role of marketing in building library engagement, and the value of quality marketing collateral to help build a vibrant sense of the library and define its relevance in the community. The award places a special emphasis on an individual (or team) working for a library who has instituted or reinvigorated a marketing strategy in the past two years that has:

had measurable impact on some aspect of the library’s use,
created a new understanding of the community served via market research,
improved the prominence of the library in community, and/or driven the marketing around a successful funding initiative that enables the library to reach new audiences or secures deeper sustainability.

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NOMINEE INFORMATION:

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NOMINATION NARRATIVE:

In 1,000 words or less or a list of bulleted narrative points, please clearly enumerate how the nominee’s accomplishments fit the award criteria.

If an external marketing firm was employed for some aspect of the project, please detail role, budget, and level of participation.

Please provide statistics detailing the measurable impact of the initiative.

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