Distinguished Service – School Administrators Award

Nominate an administrator

To nominate your administrator, review the eligibility and criteria, and complete the online application form by December 5, 2025.

Eligibility

• State, county or district school superintendents, building principals, and assistant principals currently in administrative office, directly responsible for a school or group of schools at any level, who is not working in a library services department are eligible for nomination.
• District administrators responsible for broad instructional leadership such as assistant superintendents, directors of curriculum and instruction and directors of elementary and/or secondary education are also eligible provided they are not working in a library services department.
• Nominations must be made by a personal member of TASL.
• Previous TASL Distinguished Library Service Award for School Administrators recipients should not be nominated again.

Criteria

Each nominee will be judged on the following 9 criteria with a score of 0-5 assigned to each item.  Please respond to the statements below.  The nominee with the highest overall score will be selected as the award recipient. Nominators will also have the opportunity to provide links to shared documents, files, and/or folders. 

1. Describe how the nominee has been instrumental in staffing the library proportionate to student population throughout the entire instructional day for professional and clerical staffing needs.
2. Describe how the nominee has been instrumental in funding the local library budget, promoting bond issues, or seeking special funding to support the library.
3. Describe how the nominee establishes a campus or district culture that sets high expectations, promotes learning, and creates an understanding of the library as an integral part of the learning process.
4. Describe how the nominee promotes varied reading projects and reading at both professional and student levels.
5. Describe the activities of the nominee that facilitated the long range planning for facility improvement of the library and the use and integration of technology, telecommunications, social media, and information systems.
6. Describe how the nominee supports library policies, innovation in library programming, and/or professional collaboration.
7. Describe how the nominee supports participation in institutes, workshops, seminars, conferences, in-service training, continuing education, interactive distance learning, video conferencing, and state and national library-related conferences.
8. Describe how the nominee advocates for the integration of technology, as well as participation in state and national technology initiatives in the library, school, or district.
9. Describe how the nominee assisted in the development and implementation of a comprehensive program of parent and community relations that relate to the library.