The award honors organizations that have implemented creative, results-oriented marketing projects or campaigns that promote the library and information services industry.
First place goes to The University of British Columbia – Canada, for the “2018 UBC Library Digital Colouring Books Campaign” project.
2nd Place – Vantaa City Library in Finland wins second place with their innovative App promotion and marketing strategy Taskukirjasto (translated as Pocket Library). The App received 71,208 times with 10,000 sessions per month. Vantaa City Library targeted subway users via digital wall promotions
A record number of applications were received this round: 116 submissions from 30 countries! These included 43 submissions from China, 23 from Russia, 3 from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Sweden and Zimbabwe, 2 from Columbia, Ecuador, India, Kazakhstan, Korea, and The Philippines and 1 from Bahrain, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Finland, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Uganda, US, and Zambia.
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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A record number of applications were received this round: 116 submissions from 30 countries! These included 43 submissions from China, 23 from Russia, 3 from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Sweden and Zimbabwe, 2 from Columbia, Ecuador, India, Kazakhstan, Korea, and The Philippines and 1 from Bahrain, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Finland, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Uganda, US, and Zambia.
