Drive innovation. Share impact.

Showcase your library’s story of creativity, collaboration, and community impact.

What Are The Clarivate Library Awards?

The Clarivate Library Awards recognize libraries that are making an impact by transforming services, communities, research and access to knowledge through innovation.

We invite libraries from across Clarivate’s global user-group communities to submit projects or initiatives launched or significantly advanced within the past 24 months that demonstrate creativity, measurable outcomes, and positive impact.

Celebrate Your Success

Recognition

Winners and finalists from each category will be celebrated on stage at the 2026 User Group Conferences.

Awards

Each of the 3 finalist libraries in every category will receive two all-expenses-paid passes to attend one of Clarivate’s international user group conferences in 2026 – ELUNA, IGeLU, or IUG.

Industry Showcase

Finalists featured across Clarivate channels, websites, industry press, case studies and User Group Conferences. Winner and Finalists provided with a Clarivate digital banner for display on their website.

Who Should Apply

Academic, National, Public, and Consortia libraries that are members of ELUNA, IGeLU or IUG

Projects / initiatives launched or significantly developed within the past 24 months.

Note: Submissions do not need to involve Clarivate products.

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What We’re Looking For

Innovation & creativity - Unique ideas and approaches
Impact & outcomes - Real results for staff, users and communities
Sustainability & scalability - Long-term potential to grow and scale the initiative over time
Inclusion & accessibility - The success that you have made in reaching diverse audiences
Alignment - Supporting your library’s mission or goals
Every submission will be carefully reviewed by an independent panel of judges representing diverse areas of the global library community.
Projects are assessed using a balanced scoring framework that considers both innovation and real-world impact.

Criteria

Weight

Innovation & originality Unique ideas, creativity, and new approaches

20%

Impact & outcomes Strength of evidence, measurable results

20%

Scope & scale Reach and replicability potential

10%

Sustainability & future planning Long-term vision and viability

10%

Alignment to mission/strategy Fit with library or institutional goals

10%

Inclusion & community engagement Diversity, accessibility, and social reach

10%

Role of technology How technology supported innovation

Clarity & quality of submission Organization, completeness, and clarity

15%

Judging Panel

An independent panel of judges will review and score all submissions using a transparent evaluation rubric.

Each judge brings deep experience from across the global library community, ensuring a fair, balanced, and informed review process.

Our current panel of judges includes:

Beau Case

Dean of University Libraries, University of Central Florida

Catherine Lau

Deputy CEO, The National Library and Archives Board (Singapore)

Dave Allen

Chair, IGeLU

Eleanor Crumblehulme

Chair, IUG

Jason Griffith

Chair, ELUNA

Lynda James-Gilboe

Library Advocate and CEO, AdaptLeadSucceed

Marshall Breeding

Editor-in-Chief, LibraryTechnology.org

Randy Riley

State Librarian (Michigan)

Sam Helmick

President, American Library Association (ALA)

Together, the current panel of judges represents a diverse perspective across academic, public, and national libraries, ensuring that innovation and impact are recognized in every form.

Submit Your Entry

FAQ Sheet