Miller, a librarian of District of Columbia Public Library System, is the new Librarian of the Year. The award was announced October 3rd, as part of the events at LIBER 2012, International Book Fair in Barcelona.

America Reads Spanish, a program jointly sponsored by the Federation of Publishing Guilds of Spain and the Institute of Foreign Trade, whose goal is to promote reading and the use of Spanish in the United States, awarded its fifth librarian of the year prize to Elissa Miller, librarian of the District of Columbia Public Library System, at LIBER 2012.

The ARS Prize for Librarian of the Year is conferred upon an American librarian, who during the current year has done the most to fulfill the goals of promoting books and reading in Spanish sought by the American Reads Spanish program. The objective of the ARS Prize for the Librarian of the Year is to reward the work of the person in question with a Prize that recognizes his or her efforts on behalf of the diffusion of Spanish in the United States by means of reading.

The V ARS Prize for Librarian of the Year has a cash stipend of $1,600, which is to be used for the purchase of materials in Spanish at the LIBER trade fair.

The selection of the winning librarian is based on a series of open criteria, but in any event all are geared to the promotion of Spanish in the USA: the efforts of the person to encourage reading in Spanish, the importance of those efforts in spreading and fomenting reading in Spanish, a notable increase in the Spanish holdings of the library administered by the person, and actions performed by the same to disseminate our language in the United States.