Your library may be eligible to apply for Library Journal‘s annual award for the Best Small Library in America, which honors the U.S. public library that demonstrates outstanding service to communities of 25,000 or less (see their guidelines for details on this criterion.)

Use November to apply for these grants & awards; ten of the eleven grants listed have a deadline date of December 1st.

Library Journal has announced the winner of the Best Small Library in America 2014 award — it's the Pine River Library in Bayfield (CO), which has a service population of 8,749.

Now is a time to apply for any of these grants & awards, before the busy-ness of the end-of-the-year holiday season approaches.

These opportunities are arranged in chronological order by the date of the application deadline.

Library Journal / Demco Paralibrarian of the Year
Deadline: January 12, 2013
Award: $1500 cash
Details and application form
Criteria:

State Superintendent Tony Evers is inviting applications for his annual Standing Up for Rural Schools, Libraries, and Communities Awards.

Deadline date: December 7, 2012