Cranston, RI – The Cranston Public Library has received a Core PR Xchange Award from the American Library Association (ALA) for its 2025 Youth Summer Reading Brochure. This is the library’s third PR XChange award, having won two in 2024.
The annual Core PR Xchange Awards Competition recognizes the best public relations materials produced by libraries in the past year. Entries are evaluated on content, originality, creativity, and design. They are judged by a panel of marketing professionals, graphic designers, librarians, and visual artists.
The Core PR Xchange Committee, judging the competition, received more than 230 entries for print and electronic designs from more than 100 institutions, including public, academic, school, state, and special libraries, and awarded 28 print and 26 electronic winners. The Youth Summer Reading Brochure won in the Reading Programs, print category.
Sarah Bouvier, CPL Library Communications Manager, designed the Youth Summer Reading Brochure.