The Alibris Collection Award is an annual grant of up to $3000 worth of books to an academic, public, special, or K-12 library supporting specific collection development projects that advance the mission, priority areas, and goals of the selected library.

The purpose of the Award is to help provide materials for libraries with replacement projects, retrospective collection development projects, or routine collection building needs.

Procedures and deadline for award applications
Each applying library must:

• Create an online Wishlist of desired titles.  All such Wishlist entries will remain on the Alibris Web site until and after the Award is granted, and are therefore eligible for specific book contributions from patrons, constituents, and the general book-buying public. For more information about sharing Wishlists, click here.
• Send your Wishlist to libraries@alibris.com, along with a brief statement of interest concerning the desired collection and needs of your particular library, and indicate your interest in having it considered for the Alibris Collection Award.
  

Award applications for the 2009 award should be submitted via e-mail to libraries@alibris.com, and must be received by December 1, 2008, so that the winning library can be selected and the award announced at the ALA Midwinter 2009 Meeting.

Winners
We thank everyone who submitted an entry and invite you to apply again next year. For more details, read the press release.

2008 winners
International Community School (Georgia): K-6 public school is the home to the highest percentage of refugees in the southeastern United States and serves a low-income population with limited resources to buy books
Katrina Research Center Repository at the University of Southern Mississippi (Mississippi): plans to build a collection of books and multimedia materials that are related to the effects of, and the recovery from, Hurricane Katrina and other coastal disasters

2007 winners
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago (Illinois): books benefiting sexual assault survivors
Granby Public Library (Colorado): replacement project for lost and damaged books
Bahia Street (Brazil): English-as-second-language books for impoverished Brazilian girls

2006 winners
Flower Mound Public Library (Texas): beginning reading books, matching reluctant readers with "pet partners"
Golden Gate School (Alaska): anti-bullying books and multi-cultural biographies

2005 winners
Cincinnati Children's Hospital (Ohio): books about development disabilities for patient library
Baxter County Public Library (Arkansas): books about Japanese-American internment camps during World War II

2004 winners
Andrews Elementary School (Texas): Spanish-language children's books
Southwest Missouri State University (Missouri): theatrical monologues

Administration of the award
The Award is to be administered by the Alibris Collection Award Review Committee, appointed by Alibris at ALA Annual, and includes both librarians and booksellers. If you would like to volunteer to serve on the Review Committee, please contact us.

Alibris for Libraries is the leading library supplier of used, new and hard-to-find books, movies and music.
Alibris has millions of out-of-print, older in-print, and otherwise unavailable titles in stock. We offer flexible payment options, consolidated shipping, and custom tools for managing replacement and collection development projects.

For more information
E-mail - libraries@alibris.com
Toll Free phone - 1.877.ALIBRIS (1.877.254.2747)