Nominations for 2026 are now closed. Nominations for 2027 will open on June 1, 2027.
We’re thrilled to share that nominations for the Fourth Annual I Partner with My Public Library Awards have come in from Alberta, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and the Republic of the Philippines.
Thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination! Our team of volunteer reviewers will now be reading all the nominations. We’ll announce this year’s Awardees on October 1, 2026.
Please save the date of Thursday, November 19, at 2 pm Eastern / 11 am Pacific. We plan to hold the virtual Awards Ceremony then. You can sign up for the Awards Ceremony now. Additional information will be shared in the coming months.
We want to thank everyone for participating! While you wait to hear who wins in 2026, check out who won in 2025, 2024, and 2023. Also check out the “Stories of Partnerships” webpage. Over the last three years, we have received so many amazing nominations, but we’re only able to award 10 partners a year. This Stories of Partnerships webpage serves to showcase many of the other stories we’ve received over the years.
Our ultimate goal in this endeavor is to celebrate and raise awareness about the tremendous power of community partnerships involving public libraries.
These annual awards were started in 2023 after a three-year national (U.S.) study determined that the most impactful public library initiatives require strong community partnerships with a wide range of collaborators. We’re thrilled to shine a light on library partnerships through this endeavor.
The goal of these annual awards is two-fold: (1) to celebrate the amazing work that is only possible when public libraries collaborate with community partners, and (2) to highlight opportunities for both public libraries and potential community partners to start and extend collaborations.
You can also learn more about this effort in this article published on OCLC/WebJunction.
Intergenerational connections thanks to partnership between Elmwood: An Inspira Health Group Senior Care Facility and Hubbard Public Library, a 2024 Honorable Mention.
Why does Let’s Move in Libraries sponsor this award?
Since 2016, the non-profit organization Let’s Move in Libraries has been a national and international voice advocating for strengthened partnerships between public libraries and others that want our communities to be healthier places for all. Through this work, we have seen that public libraries can do a lot to promote health, but this health promotion work is almost always made possible by community partners and community collaborators. Recognizing a gap around this topic, in 2023 Let’s Move in Libraries launched the annual I Partner with My Public Library Award to begin the process of creating a platform to celebrate and acknowledge the crucial work of community collaborators to the work of public librarianship. This award is open to all partners, not only those focused on health promotion.