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RCLS Board of Trustees: Annual Awards

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Annual Awards

2025 Annual Awards - Submissions now being accepted

The Ramapo Catskill Library System will be presenting four special awards at their 66th Annual Meeting on September 12, 2025. 

  • Member Library Adult Program of the Year Award 
  • Member Library Young Adult Program of the Year Award
  • Randall Enos Member Library Children’s Program of the Year Award
  • Anthony J. Knipp Library Trustee Award

Nominations for any of the four RCLS Annual Awards must be submitted to the RCLS Awards Committee via email to Anita Baumann, abaumann@rcls.org.  Submissions must be received no later than 4 p.m. Friday, June 6, 2025.  Detailed guidelines and application forms for each individual award may be found below as a downloadable PDF.

Awardees

2024 Awardees

 

Member Library Adult Program of the Year Award 

All Abilities Crafts (Thrall Public Library District of Middletown and Wallkill)

 

Member Library Adult Program of the Year Award - Honorable Mention

The Gourmet Series (Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library)

 

Member Library Young Adult Program of the Year Award

Check It Out Teen Book Box (Florida Public Library)

 

Randall Enos Member Library Children’s Program of the Year Award

Year of the Arts (Monroe Free Library)

 

Anthony J. Knipp Library Trustee Award 

Arlette Mooney (Valley Cottage Public Library)

2023 Awardees

 

Member Library Adult Program of the Year Award 

Writing from Life - for Seniors (Pearl River Public Library)

 

Member Library Young Adult Program of the Year Award

Teen Community Discussion & Film: The Hate U Give (Finkelstein Memorial Library)

 

Randall Enos Member Library Children’s Program of the Year Award

 Base Ball at the Orange County Driving Park: Celebrating the History of Baseball and

Harness Racing in Goshen, NY  (Goshen Public Library & Historical Society)

 

Anthony J. Knipp Library Trustee Award 

Carl S. Berkowitz - Thrall Public Library District of Middletown and Wallkill

Gwendolyn Baldo - Roscoe Free Library

 

2022 Awardees

Member Library Adult Program of the Year Award: Helping Our Community Through Repairs and Upcycling (Florida Public Library)

Randall Enos Member Library Children’s Program of the Year Award: One Book, One Community: WISHTREE (Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library)

Anthony J. Knipp Library Trustee Award: E. Michael Growney, Esq. (Nyack Library)