The North Carolina Library Association gives three awards. This is a list of past award winners.

See the awards and scholarships page for more details about the awards.

• NCLA Distinguished Service Awards
  • 2015: Pauletta Bracy and Gerald Holmes
  • 2013: Carol Walters
     
• Honorary memberships
  • 2013: Harriet Smith
     
• Life memberships
  • 2015: Nancy Fogerty
  • 2013: Ron Jones
     
• Ray Moore Award
  • 2015: Joanna Bolick and Plummer Alston Jones, Jr.
  • 2013: Winona Ramsaur

There are four biennial scholarships to support library scholarship:

• The Appalachian Scholarship for future library media specialists.
• 2021: Monet Hardison
• 2019: Alison Norris
• 2017: Ruth Richards
• 2015: Megan Northcote
• 2013: Melanie Sherrill
• 2011: Paula Farmer
• The McLendon Scholarship for original or continued study in library science.
• 2015: Shelby Fields
• 2013: Stefanie Keller
• 2011: Timothy Cook
• The NCLA Memorial Scholarship.
• 2021: Emily Law
• 2019: Patricia Lyons
• 2017: Rebecca Lopez
• 2015: Lynette Kendrick
• 2013: Julianne Moore
• 2011: Angela Duncan and Katherine Whetzel
• The Query-Long Scholarship for work with children or young adults.
• 2021: Caroline Flory
• 2019: Adrian Zeck
• 2017: Violetta Nikitina
• 2015: Kapil Vasudev
• 2013: Lisa Hartzell
• 2011: Cathryn Hughes

Sections may also give awards.  These include:

• Marilyn Miller Award for Professional Commitment, Women's Issues in Librarianship Roundtable
  • 2011: Dale Cousins
• College & University Section Student Scholarships Awards
  • 2011: Erin Carrillo, UNC - Chapel Hill; and Tamara Rhodes, NC Central University
• The William H. Roberts Public Library Distinguished Service Award, Public Library Section
  
• 2011: Phillip Whitford, Braswell Memorial Library
• Meralyn G Meadows Scholarship, NC Library Paraprofessional Association
  
• 2011: Jonda Sanders
• Round Table for Ethnic Minority Concerns Roadbuilder Award
  
• 2011: Annie H. Coleman, Academic Librarianship
• 2011: Agnes Ho, Public Librarianship