2008 The Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF), a division of the American Library Association, named The Friends of the Mansfield Public Library winners of the Best Friends Award in the category of Program Publicity for Mansfield Reads 2008: Friday Night Lights. These awards are given annually to recognize outstanding publicity and marketing materials created by Friends groups.

2005  The Friends of the Mansfield Public Library were given the Best Friends Award by FOLUSA, the national Friends of Libraries group, for Outstanding Publicity Materials for a Special Project in the large public library category in recognition of the 2005 Mansfield Reads! program featuring Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler's "Had a Good Time, Stories from American Postcards".

2004  The 2004 Mansfield Reads! program featuring "The Good Old Boys" by Texas legend Elmer Kelton was the winner of the Library Project of the Year Award from the North Texas Regional Library System.

Congratulations to the Mansfield Public Library for winning another "Excellence in Libraries" Award from the Texas Municipal Library Directors Association!