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For Immediate Release: 2023 PR Xchange Award Winners Announced
May 31, 2023- The PR Xchange Committee is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s PR Xchange Awards Competition. This year, we have awarded 27 print winners and 34 electronic winners. Congratulations to those libraries! The PR Xchange Committee is charged with coordinating the annual awards competition, under the direction of the Awards and Scholarships Subcommittee of Core, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
Over 215 entries in print and electronic formats were submitted from over 100 institutions, including public, academic, school, state, and special libraries. Entries were evaluated by a jury of 15 virtual judges. Submissions were assessed based on the quality of content, format, design, creativity, and originality. The jury, which included a group of talented marketing professionals, graphic designers, librarians, and visual artists were very impressed by the innovative work submitted by these libraries. Winning entries will be on display at the PR Xchange Event from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 25, 2023 in room W194b, McCormick Place, ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL.
A complete listing of this year’s winners is available at
https://bit.ly/2023-PR-Xchange-winners
Attending ALA Annual this year? Come visit the PR Xchange Event @ ALA Annual
The PR Xchange Event @ ALA Annual will be held on Sunday June 25, 2023 from 11am-1pm in room W194b (main floor of McCormick Place). The event will not be held in the Special Events Area this year. The PR Xchange Event offers attendees the opportunity to view and take-home sample promotional materials from libraries across North America.
All libraries are invited to mail-in their promotional materials (30-50 copies) to be shared with colleagues at the PR Xchange Event, regardless if you won an award year. Approximately 1,000 ALA Annual Conference attendees visit the PR Xchange event each year.
Mailing labels ——> https://bit.ly/2023-PRX-mailing-labels
The PR Xchange Awards ceremony will take place after the PR Xchange Event (in the same space), from 1:00pm-1:45pm where this year’s chairprson will distribute award certificates to the winners.
This year we have invited the following to participate at the PR Xchange Event:
* 2023 PR Xchange Award Winners
* 2023 John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award Winners will display their winning work
* Kathy Dempsey, editor of Marketing Library Services (MLS) newsletter, and author of The Accidental Library Marketer (InfoToday).
* Cordelia Anderson, author of the 2020 book, Library Marketing and Communications: Strategies to Increase Relevance and Results (ALA editions)
* Representatives of the PR Xchange Committee will be on-hand to answer questions
For more information, contact:
Jenny Levine, Director of Advocacy, Connections, and Engagement
Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures
A division of the American Library Association
jlevine@ala.org
For more information about the PR Xchange Committee, please contact :
Mark Aaron Polger, chair
2023 PR Xchange Awards Competition
Awards and Scholarships Sub-committee
Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures
A division of the American Library Association
questions@prxchange-awards.org
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Mark Aaron Polger, MLIS, PhD 