The following people received awards at the Idaho Library Association Awards Banquet on Thursday, October 2, 2008:

2008 ILA Scholarship was presented to Laura Abbott from Nampa Public Library

2008 Gardner Hanks Scholarship was presented to Sarah Jackson from Idaho Falls Public Library

2008 Idaho Book of the Year Award for the 2007 publication year was:
At Nature's Edge / Henry Whiting II.  Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2007.
Honorable mention was:
Five Skies : a novel / Ron Caroson.  New York : Viking, 2007.

2008 Friend of the Year Award was announced as the Weippe Public Library Friends of the Library Association

2008 Trustee of the Year Award was presented to Dr. Jim Tullis from Portneuf District Library

2008 Librarian of the Year Award was presented to Karen Tate Pettinger from Portneuf District Library