The 2025 Libraries Connected Awards are opening for nominations!

The Libraries Connected Awards celebrate the achievements of people working in public libraries, acknowledging excellence, and showcasing good practice. Linked to the Universal Library Offers and Promises, the awards are judged by those leading these areas of work nationally.

The awards are a reminder of the importance of libraries and the people who work in them, celebrating the variety of support they deliver on a daily basis. The awards offer the opportunity to uncover new library champions, encourage the leaders of the future, and give library staff the recognition they deserve.

Awards are made in six categories:

• Culture and Creativity
• Health and Wellbeing
• Information and Digital
• Reading
• Children Promise 
• Vision and Print Impaired People’s Promise

Submit your nominations here!

Follow this link to read about the winners from 2024. 

You can watch a short video showcasing some of our past winners here.

Top Tips for writing a nomination.

1. Read the award criteria and think about how your nominee meets each one.
    
2. Look at the example nomination form so you know what information you’ll need.
    
3. Read the example statements to get an idea of what we are looking for.
    
4. Write your nomination statements in Word so you can take your time and save your progress, you can then cut and paste them into the online form once they are ready to submit.
    
5. Remember to tell us about the contribution the individuals have made - Libraries Connected Awards are given to individuals or teams, not projects!
    

If you work in a library, please help us promote the awards to your colleagues using the poster, email banner, and web graphic below.