The ALA Council has approved a new award, The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity, to be awarded annually to a librarian who “has faced adversity with integrity and dignity intact.”
It will be interesting to see how this will be awarded during the upcoming years, given the wonderful tongue-in-cheek attitude of the award’s namesake. Mr. Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) sums it up nicely:
“This seems like a better way to channel money to librarians than my previous strategy, which was incurring exorbitant late fees.”
