Each year, the employees of the library have the opportunity to recognize the excellence of their coworkers by nominating them for a staff award.
The three award categories are:

• Robert E. Kennedy Staff Award for Individual Excellence
• Good Humor Award
• Outstanding Achievement by a Team Award

Robert E. Kennedy Staff Award for Individual Excellence

The Robert E. Kennedy Staff Award for Individual Excellence is presented to a staff person who has made outstanding contributions toward fulfilling the Library’s institutional purpose or toward achieving a strategic goal. Award recipients have been nominated and selected by their peers for demonstrating their support or service provided to Kennedy Library goes beyond their assigned duties. Their meritorious service inspires others to provide the same level of service of a willingness to go the “extra mile” in service to patrons, faculty, students or co-workers.

Awardees have collaborated positively and effectively with others; contributed innovative or creative ideas that have improved the efficiency, productivity, or quality of work in the library; maintain excellent relations with others; and maintain a consistent record of outstanding performance.

Good Humor Award

Robert E. Kennedy Library recognizes staff members, who, with their unshakable good humor, consistently and reliably lighten the mood, defuse conflicts, and make the library a more fun place to work.

Award recipients make us laugh, but more than that they use humor to get through challenging situations or to make others feel more comfortable; provide a morale boost, a big smile, a helping hand, an optimistic outlook; they can laugh at themselves, and they create a positive environment.

Outstanding Achievement by a Team Award

Robert E. Kennedy Library recognizes team efforts in fulfilling the library’s mission or in achieving its strategic goals. The award is presented to a group that has meritoriously completed a special project, resolved a workflow problem, or responded to a particular library need in the last year.

Team award recipients have demonstrated a willingness and ability to collaborate with their team members and with others to solve a problem, complete a project, and develop a work plan; the team has demonstrated creativity and innovation in the achievement of results and have shown exemplary performance.