Sponsored by the Mississippi Library Association
The Mary Julia Anderson Award recognizes a paraprofessional member of MLA for contributions in one or more of the following areas:
- Planning and promoting library programming or services;
- Increasing public knowledge and understanding of library and professional resources, needs, and uses;
- Promoting the development and recognition of the paraprofessional as an important and vital member of the library workforce;
- Encouraging discussion, activities and programs which support the Mississippi Library Association and its members;
- Acting as a stimulus to make Mississippi Library Association more responsive to paraprofessional concerns; and
- Supporting and maintaining a cooperative relationship among paraprofessionals and other library staff.
Winners:
- 2025 – Alison Smith, Prentiss Public Library
- 2024 – Paula Thornton, Central Mississippi Regional Library System
- 2023 – Paula Bass, MLA Administrator
- 2022 – Linda Willis
- 2021 –
- 2020 – Lisa Ramage, Mid-Mississippi Regional Library System
- 2019 – Janessa Ullendorf, University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast
- 2018 – Selena Swink, Central Mississippi Regional Library System
- 2017 – Stephanie Brown, First Regional Library System
- 2016 – Susan Agnelly, Jackson-George Regional Library System
- 2015 – Martha Lawson, Rosedale & Gunnison Public Libraries, Bolivar County Library System
- 2014 – No award given.
- 2013 – Mona Swayze, South Mississippi Regional Library
- 2012 – Nettie Moore, M. R. Davis Public Library, Southaven First Regional Library System
- 2011 – Linda Kern, Assistant Director, Bolivar County Library System
- 2010 – Tamara Jones, Central Mississippi Regional Library System
- 2009 – Lorietha Myers, Development Bureau Administrative Assistant, Mississippi Library Commission
- 2008 – Linda McKay
- 2007 – David Brown
- 2006 – Mary Julia Anderson