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==Awards==
{{Main|List of ALA awards}}
[[File:2014 Pura Belpré Award Committee with Dr. Henrietta M. Smith.jpg|thumb|ALA Youth Media Awards in January 2014; [[Pura Belpré]] Committee with [[Henrietta M. Smith]]]]
The American Library Association confers many professional recognition awards.<ref>[https://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/browse/prec?showfilter=no American Library Association Professional Recognition Awards.] American Library Association.</ref> Association-wide awards include [[American Library Association Honorary Membership]],<ref>[https://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/honorary-membership Honorary Membership] American Library Association.</ref> the [[Joseph W. Lippincott Award]], the [[ALA Medal of Excellence]]<ref name="Albanese2019">{{cite web | last=Albanese | first=Andrew | title=ALA Votes to Strip Melvil Dewey's Name From Its Top Honor | website=Publishers Weekly | date=2019-06-24 | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/80557-ala-votes-to-strip-melvil-dewey-s-name-from-its-top-honor.html | access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref> and [[American Library Association Equality Award]].

The ALA annually confers numerous book and media awards, many through its children's and young adult divisions.

The Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC) administers: 
*[[Caldecott Medal]]
*[[Newbery Medal]]
*[[Mildred L. Batchelder Award|Batchelder Award]]
*[[Belpré Medal|Belpré Award]]s
*[[Geisel Award]]
*[[Sibert Medal]]<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/ | title =Awards and Grants | publisher =ALA | access-date =2010-09-01| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100902160329/http://ala.org/ala/awardsgrants/index.cfm| archive-date= 2 September 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>

The Odyssey Award for best audiobook (joint with YALSA), and the (U.S.) [[Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video|Carnegie Medal]] and for best video. There are also two ALSC lifetime recognitions, the [[Children's Literature Legacy Award]] and the [[May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture|Arbuthnot Lecture]].

The [[Coretta Scott King Award]] honorees are awarded by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table.<ref>McCollough Carole J., Adelaide Poniatowski Phelps and Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table. Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee. 2019. ''The Coretta Scott King Awards : 50th Anniversary'' Sixth ed. Chicago: ALA Editions.</ref>

The [[young-adult literature|young-adult]] division, YALSA, administers the [[Margaret Edwards Award]] for significant and lasting contribution to YA literature, a lifetime recognition of one author annually, and annual awards that recognize particular works: the [[Michael L. Printz Award]] for a YA book judged on literary merit alone, the [[William C. Morris Award]] for an author's first YA book, the new "YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults," and the "[[Alex Award]]" list of ten adult books having special appeal for teens. Jointly with the children's division ALSC there is the [[Odyssey Award]] for excellence in [[audiobook]] production.<ref name=Odyssey>{{cite web | url = http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/odysseyaward | title = Welcome to the Odyssey Award home page! | publisher = [[Association for Library Service to Children]] (ALSC). American Library Association (ALA) | access-date=2012-04-19 }}</ref>

<!-- The new YA nonfiction doesn't have an article so here is some info with refs. The losing finalists aren't yet called YAENYA Honor Books. Let's hope they get a real name soon. -->The award for YA nonfiction was inaugurated in 2012, defined by ages 12 to 18 and publication year November 2010 to October 2011. The first winner was ''The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery'' by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press, November 2010)<!-- source for date Nov 9 is Goodreads.com --> and four other finalists were named.<ref name=YALSAnonfiction2012>{{cite web |url=http://www.ala.org/news/pr?id=9124 |title='The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery' wins 2012 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults" |website=American Library Association |access-date=February 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421111109/http://www.ala.org/news/pr?id=9124 |archive-date=April 21, 2012}}</ref><ref name=YALSAnonfiction>{{cite web |url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction |title=YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults |website=Young Adult Library Services Association |date=February 4, 2008 |access-date=February 27, 2022}}</ref>

The [[Reference and User Services Association awards]] include annual lists of [[ALA Notable Books|"Notable"]] and "Best" books and other media.<ref>Van Fleet, Connie, and Danny P. Wallace. 2002. “A Year Inside Notable Books.” ''Reference & User Services Quarterly'' 41 (4): 340</ref>
The Reference and User Services Association awards also include the [[Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction]], [[Dartmouth Medal]], [[Sophie Brody Award]] and Schneider Book Awards.

The Library History Round Table awards the [[Justin Winsor Prize (library)|Justin Winsor Prize]] for the best library history essay.

The Rainbow RoundTable annually honors authors with the [[Stonewall Book Award]].

The annual awards roster also includes the [[John Cotton Dana Award]] for excellence in library public relations, and the "I Love My Librarian" award in concert with the philanthropic foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York and the New York Public Library.

In 2000, the Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS) launched the [[Jean E. Coleman Library Outreach Lecture]] in tribute to the work of the first OLOS director, Jean E. Coleman. [[Barbara J. Ford]] gave the inaugural lecture, "Libraries, Literacy, Outreach and the Digital Divide."

Since 2006, the ALA has selected a class of Emerging Leaders, typically comprising about 100 librarians and library school students. This minor distinction is a form of organizational outreach to new librarians. The Emerging Leaders are allocated to project groups tasked with developing solutions to specified problems within ALA divisions. The class meets at the ALA Midwinter and Annual Meetings, commonly January and June. Project teams may present posters of their completed projects at the Annual.<ref>Emerging Leaders Program Info: http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/leadership/emergingleaders</ref>