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Trustee Success Story Awards

2008 Trustee Success Story Awards
The MHLS Trustee Success Story Recognition Awards annually highlight efforts by library trustees that resulted in positive outcomes for their library. The award consists of $200 to the trustee's library and a certificate of recognition for the trustee. (One in each county served by the Mid-Hudson Library System, five (5) in all.)

Criteria
Entries will be judged on:

Which of the trustee roles is exemplified by this trustee:
- To regularly plan and evaluate the library’s service program.
- To adopt policies and rules regarding library use.
- To secure adequate funding for the library’s service program.
- Stewardship and accountability in the use of that funding.
- Maintain a facility that meets the library's and community's needs;
- To promote the library in the local community and in society in general.
- To select and hire a qualified library manager or library director.
What the result was for the library
How easily this can be replicated

Applications should be in the form of a letter, two pages maximum, to the Trustee Services Committee c/o Peggy Winn at MHLS (through the MHLS delivery or to 103 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601) stating:
· Name of the person being recognized
· Name and address of library, name of county, and director's name
· Description of successful effort
· Back-up documentation, if available, should also be submitted (i.e. news releases, published articles, pictures).

Deadline: June 30, 2008 (winners will be notified in early September). Awards will be presented at the 2008 MHLS Annual Meeting, being held Friday, October 3rd at the Culinary Institute of America.