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Media Virtual Presence Award

Honoring school librarians who show excellence in their digital presence.

The Media/Virtual Presence (MVP) Award is given to those school librarians who show excellence in their virtual presence through several different avenues, including but not limited to professional websites, school library websites, blogs, and social media.  Winners of this award will be selected by the Texas Association of School Librarians (TASL) MVP Award Committee.  The Committee will consider each applicant’s media/virtual presence as a total package with particular emphasis on evidence of student learning products and classroom-library collaboration.  Applicants should therefore present the total of their online presence in a single application.

Nominate

Nominations for the 26-27 year are now open! Click here for the nominations form. Nominations are due December 5, 2026.

Past Winners

Criteria – MVP Rubric.

The Web-based social media used pertains to K-12 libraries and includes relevant and currently updated information on library-related information that impacts school libraries and school communities.  Posts and media celebrate diversity and inclusion.
Updated and current, Web media must have consistent and regular postings during the preceding and current years.  Librarian uses several types of social media to communicate about the library program and profession (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, Flipgrid, and others)
Posts and/or entries related to multiple topics, include images and links, and engender shares/retweets/likes/faves/comments that indicate interaction with others.  The social media postings include examples of the areas of the AASL domains, including how librarians help stakeholders think, create, share, and grow. Stakeholder learning and classroom-library collaboration are evidenced in the postings/entries. Stakeholders include: professional learning network, librarians, teachers, campus faculty and staff, students, administration, and/or community members.
Graphics and videos are pleasing in appearance and the effort put into the appearance is obvious. Web media is accessible through the use of alt text and/or closed captioning. Images, tags, or hashtags are placed to help users find information readily. The writing is fluent, easy to read, free of typographical errors, and grammatically correct. (Or the writing follows the conventions of the tool such as comprehensible abbreviations on a particular social media platform.)  Copyright information/links are used where appropriate and all links are active.

Each year there will be an award for best MVP (Media/Virtual Presence) as well as two honorary awards for excellence.

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