The Excellence Award for Music Libraries was launched in April 2009. The aim of the Award is to highlight and celebrate activity in music libraries showing sustained good work and good practice which has the potential to be adopted and adapted by others. The Award will be presented every two years and is open to all music libraries no matter what their sector, size or type. Applications will be judged by a panel of experts from the music industry chaired by Professor John Tyrrell.

The 2010 awards were made at the Annual Study Weekend in Nottingham.