[SCLA] Congratulations: 2025 Suffolk Library Marketing Award (SLMA) Winners

[James Garvey]

Congratulations: 2025 Suffolk Library Marketing Award Winners!
The 2025 Suffolk Library Marketing Awards (SLMA)<https://scla.net/rasd/librarymarketing/index.php/suffolk-library-marketing-award-slma/> were announced at the Suffolk County Library Association Annual Dinner last night.
Congratulations to the winners!
Here are the results:
First Place
Patchogue-Medford Library
Campaign: “Knead to Read: A Pizza Reading Program for Adult Patrons”
Danielle Paisley, Director
Submitted by Hanna Auer, Brian Vann, and Meghan Roe-Mesenbourg.
Second Place
Mattituck-Laurel Library
Campaign: “Happy 250th, Jane! A Year of Celebration at the Library”
Shauna Scholl, Executive Director
Submitted by Sharon Twickler and the Jane Austen programming committee members Sara Colichio, Martha Terry, and Jenna Geiser.

2025 Judges
Many thanks to our 2025 SLMA judges for their time, effort, and expertise in assessing the competition entries this year:
Sharron McDevitt
Community Engagement Supervisor, Half Hollow Hills Community Library
Kathryn Heaviside
Community Services Librarian, Northport-East Northport Public Library
Christopher Collora
Public Relations Manager, EGC Group, Melville, NY

SLMA Roundtable
In the coming months, we’ll be scheduling a roundtable presentation and discussion with our winners so you can get the details on their marketing campaigns, strategies, tactics, and metrics. Watch your SCLA emails for the invitation.

See you next year for the 2026 SLMA competition!

Best regards,
Jim Garvey, Chair
Anastasia Bazilevskaya, Co-Chair
SCLA RASD Library Marketing Committee
https://scla.net/rasd/librarymarketing/








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Adult and Teen Services Librarian
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James.Garvey at nenpl.org

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