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<b>Congratulations: 2025 Suffolk Library Marketing Award Winners!</b></div>
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The <u><a style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAbc8d086c-54fe-0fe2-23b1-2a56dd0c2543" href="https://scla.net/rasd/librarymarketing/index.php/suffolk-library-marketing-award-slma/">2025 Suffolk Library Marketing Awards (SLMA)</a></u> were
announced at the Suffolk County Library Association Annual Dinner last night.</div>
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Congratulations to the winners!</div>
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Here are the results:</div>
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<b>First Place<br>
Patchogue-Medford Library</b><br>
Campaign: “Knead to Read: A Pizza Reading Program for Adult Patrons”<br>
Danielle Paisley, Director<br>
Submitted by Hanna Auer, Brian Vann, and Meghan Roe-Mesenbourg.</div>
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<b>Second Place<br>
Mattituck-Laurel Library</b><br>
Campaign: “Happy 250th, Jane! A Year of Celebration at the Library”<br>
Shauna Scholl, Executive Director<br>
Submitted by Sharon Twickler and the Jane Austen programming committee members Sara Colichio, Martha Terry, and Jenna Geiser.</div>
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<b>2025 Judges</b></div>
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Many thanks to our 2025 SLMA judges for their time, effort, and expertise in assessing the competition entries this year:</div>
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<b>Sharron McDevitt<br>
</b>Community Engagement Supervisor, Half Hollow Hills Community Library</div>
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<b>Kathryn Heaviside<br>
</b>Community Services Librarian, Northport-East Northport Public Library </div>
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<b>Christopher Collora</b><br>
Public Relations Manager, EGC Group, Melville, NY</div>
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<b>SLMA Roundtable</b></div>
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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.</div>
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See you next year for the 2026 SLMA competition!</div>
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Best regards,</div>
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Jim Garvey, Chair<br>
Anastasia Bazilevskaya, Co-Chair</div>
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SCLA RASD Library Marketing Committee<br>
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