Oklahoma Library Association

The Oklahoma Library Association works to strengthen the quality of libraries, library services and librarianship in Oklahoma. Members of OLA work in public, school, academic and special libraries of all sizes. Members include professional, paraprofessional and clerical library staff, library trustees, Friends, students, volunteers, vendors of library products and services and many others.

Sequoyah Book Awards

With the Sequoyah Book Awards, Oklahoma honors the Native American leader Sequoyah, for his unique achievement in creating the Cherokee syllabary. Sequoyah chose eighty-five symbols to represent all spoken sounds of the Cherokee language. In so doing, he created a way to preserve his people's language and culture.

Vote reporting forms for the 2010 Sequoyah Book Awards are now available!

2011 Masterlists are now online.  Check them out!!!

OLA Endowment Fund

The Endowment Fund supports the Oklahoma Library Association’s mission “to strengthen the quality of libraries, library services and librarianship in Oklahoma” by establishing a permanent source of funds for education, leadership, scholarships, outreach and administration of the Association. This Endowment is a fund in which the invested principal remains intact in perpetuity and only the income may be spent for the purpose designated by the donor or the organization.

The Oklahoma Library Association’s Endowment account is managed by the Communities Foundation of Oklahoma (CFOK), a nonprofit, philanthropic organization. CFOK specializes in sound, income generating management of funds.

To make a tax deductible gift to the Oklahoma Library Association’s Endowment Fund, send a check to the Oklahoma Library Association, c/o Kay Boies, Executive Director, 300 Hardy Drive, Edmond, OK 73013; or donate online at oklibs.org/store. You may also contact Kay Boies at 405.525.5100 or kboies@sbcglobal.net

EXCITING NEWS!  The Endowment Committee is sponsoring this year's All Conference Event at the OLA Annual Conference in Oklahoma City on the evening of April 20, 2010.  "Stacked: Fashion Off the Shelf" will be the fashion event of the year for Oklahoma librarians, with designer clothing (designed by you!), runway models, a silent auction and more.  All proceeds go to the OLA Endowment Fund and the Information Matrix Summer Camp.  For more information, download the flyer (pdf).