Jackie Pierson, School System's Program Manager for Library Media Services, Receives State Award

Jackie Pierson

Jackie Pierson has been awarded the Frances Bryant Bradburn Distinguished Service Award by the N.C. School Library Media Association.

This award is given to individuals for their “noteworthy contributions to school library programming,” for their lifetime advocacy for school library/media coordinators and programs, and for their continuing contributions to the N.C. School Library Media Association (NCSLMA).

Pierson has worked as a school librarian in both South Carolina and North Carolina and has been the District Level Program Manager for Library Media Services for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools since January, 2001.

She has served on various state committees, including the revision committees of the evaluation instrument for school library media coordinators and the 2010 Information and Technology Essential Standards. Pierson has served as an adjunct instructor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s School of Library Studies, teaching the Media Supervision Course.

She has also been a part of a national scholarship committee sponsored by American Library Association designed to attract minority candidates into the library profession. Through the state school library professional association, she coordinates the state K-12 Book Award Programs and the Battle of the Books programs. She serves on the conference planning committee and will serving as a “floating mentor” this year to new school librarians across the state as part of NCSLMA’s Emerging Leaders grant program. 

Pierson received the award at the association’s state conference, held in Winston-Salem on Oct. 4. Frances Bradburn was a Director of Media and Technology at the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and is considered a role model for 21st-century school librarians.