The LibraryAware Community Award emphasizes the library’s engagement with the community and will recognize a library or library system that has demonstrated its ability to make its community “aware” of what the library can do for it—and has delivered on that promise. The award will be given by Library Journal, the oldest and most respected U.S. library publication, and funded by LibraryAware, a product of EBSCO Publishing’s NoveList Division.

The LibraryAware Award will go to a library whose community is aware of and recognizes the library’s role:

• In areas that are documented priorities in the community served by the library, such as digital access, adoption, and/or literacy; economic and workforce development; education; health care; public safety and emergency services; civic engagement.
• As a place of transformation and change
• As an organization whose activities ensure outcomes that are essential to the vitality of the community.

Complete information can be found here. Nominations are due February 1, 2013.