The Chapter One Award is one of two awards presented by the Friends of Mississippi Libraries. Local chapters affiliated with the state group may be nominated for the Chapter One Award. Nominations must be made electronically to the Friends of Mississippi Libraries, Inc.
Winners:
- 2025 – Friends of Lee County Library
- 2024 – Friends of Pass Christian Library (Harrison County Library System)
- 2023 – Friends of the Winona-Montgomery County Library, Mid-Mississippi Regional Library System
- 2022 -Friends of the Ridgeland Library, Madison County Library System
- 2021 – Friends of the Starkville Public Library, Starkville-Oktibbeha County Public Library System
- 2020 – Friends of the Choctaw County Library, Choctaw County Library System
- 2019 – Friends of the Stone County Libraries, Pine Forest Regional Library System
- 2018 – Friends of the Dorothy J. Lowe Memorial Library, Tombigbee Regional Library System
- 2017 – Friends of the Harriette Person Memorial Library, Harriette Person Memorial Library
- 2016 – Friends of the Lake Public Library, Central MS Regional Library System
- 2015 – Friends of the Quisenberry Library, Jackson/Hinds Library System
- 2014 – Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System
- 2013 – Friends of the Waynesboro-Wayne County Library
- 2012 – Mike Johnson, President, Friends of the Walnut Grove Public Library
- 2011 – Friends of the Bolivar County Library, Bolivar County Library System
- 2010 – Beverly Rhodes, Friends of the Forest Public Library, Central Mississippi Regional Library System
- 2009 – Friends of the J. Elliott McMullan Public Library, Kemper-Newton Regional Library
- 2008 – Friends of the Southaven Public Library, First Regional Library
- 2007 – Friends of the Floyd J. Robinson Memorial Library, Central Mississippi Regional Library System – Honorable Mention: Friends of the Florence Public Library, Central Mississippi Regional Library System
- 2003 – Library Foundation of Hancock County
- 2002 – Friends of Clinton Public Library
- 2000 – Gloria Mitchell, Friends of Carnegie Library Clarksdale
- 1999 – Cecil Trawick, Friends of Walthall County Library