YAACS Award

The Young Adult and Children’s Services Sections established the YAACS Award in 2012 to recognize exceptional service in the area of children’s or teen librarianship in British Columbia. The Young Adult and Children’s Services Award invites nominations of librarians, library technicians, teacher-librarians and others who have, as individuals or teams, demonstrated exceptional dedication in such areas as:

• Commitment to quality service to children, teens, caregivers and supporting organizations
• Collaboration and partnerships with their community
• Promotion of family literacy
• Innovation and creativity applied to the benefit of young people

Completed nominations may be sent to the YAACS Award Committee at YAACSaward@gmail.com. Individual nominees or institutions (in the case of a team nomination) are required to be  BCLA members.

Nominations for 2021 are CLOSED. The winner will be announced at the 2021 Virtual BCLA Conference.

2021 YAACS Award Committee
Katherine Parker
Ashley Machum
Ginny Dunnill
Vruti Patel
Karen Sharkey

Past Winners
2020 Youth Services Team at the West Vancouver Memorial Library
2019 Lindsey Krabbenhoft
2018 Tess Prendergast
2017 Colleen Nelson
2016 Heather Gloster
2015 Jess Dafoe
2014 Judi Saltman
2013 Ellen Heaney and Amy Dawley
2012 Sharon Freeman and Allison Taylor-McBryde