The American Library Association is a professional society for librarians and some other information service providers. Its awards program includes "Books, Print & Media Awards"; professional recognition within the library sciences; and scholarships, fellowships and grants. Some of the former are annual book awards with great public visibility.
Recognizes a person or a group of people producing a freely available online historical collection, or an online tool tailored for the purpose of finding historical materials, or an online teaching aid stimulating creative historical scholarship.
2005 –> 2009
Media
RUSA
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ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for Best Book in Library Literature
To recognize those who improve management principles and practice, understanding and application of new techniques, or further the education of librarians or other information specialists.
2009 –
Professional
ALA
Libraries and librarianship
Outstanding Academic Titles
The best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice.
Book
ACRL
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Jan
Alex Awards
Given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
Honors an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children's literature, of any country, for contribution to the field of children's literature.
To select, annotate, and present for publication an annual list of notable audio recordings significant to young adults from those released in the past two years.
1999 –
Media
YALSA
Recommended lists
Aurianne Award
"Recognizes outstanding books on animal life which may develop a humane attitude in children. Given for the best fiction or non-fiction book written for children between the ages of 8-14 years."
1958 –> 1966
Book
ALSC
Youth Media Awards
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Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
Presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Grants and fellowships
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Professional recognition awards
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James Madison Award — administered by the Office for Government Relations, from 1989 annually honoring "individuals or groups who have championed, protected and promoted public access to government information and the public's right to know at the national level"
