Reference and User Services Association awards

• Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award to an individual who has made a distinguished contribution to reference librarianship. Jennifer C. Boettcher.
• John Sessions Memorial Award recognizes a library or library system which has made a significant effort to work with the labor community. Princeton University Industrial Relations Library.
• RUSA Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Library Services. Rebecca Clarke.
• Gail Schlachter Memorial Research Grant. Christina Plakas.
• Exceptional Service Award to patients, home bound, people in group homes, inmates. Willetta M. Grady.[5]

• Excellence in Business Librarianship. Hal P. Kirkwood.

• Louis Shores Award recognizes an individual reviewer, group, editor, review medium, or organization for excellence in book reviewing and other media for libraries. Diana Tixier Herald.

• ETS Achievement Award. Shannon Jones.

• History Research and Innovation Award. Whitney Thompson.

• Virginia Boucher Distinguished ILL (Interlibrary Loan) Librarian Award. Jalesia Horton.

The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is administered by the American Library Association. The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) and Booklist cosponsor the awards. Selection is by three former members of the RUSA CODES Notable Books Council and editors from Booklist.

• Fiction. Julie Otsuka. The Swimmers. (Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC).
• Non-Fiction. Ed Yong. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. (Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC)

• Bhanoo, Sindya. Seeking Fortune Elsewhere. (Catapult).
• Brooks, Geraldine. Horse. (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC).
• Diaz, Hernan. Trust. (Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC).
• Fofana, Sidik. Stories From The Tenants Downstairs. (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.).
• Gunty, Tess, The Rabbit Hutch. (Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC).
• Kochai, Jamil Jan. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak: And Other Stories. (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC).
• Kolluri, Talia Lakshmi. What We Fed to the Manticore.(Tin House).
• Osunde, Eloghosa. Vagabonds. (Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC).
• Otsuka, Julie. The Swimmers. (Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC).
• Schaitkin, Alexis. Elsewhere. (Celadon books, a division of Macmillan Publishers).
• Serpell, Namwali. The Furrows. (Hogarth, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC).

• Calhoun, Ada. Also A Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, And Me. (Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic)
• Carney, Scott and Jason Miklian. The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, An Unspeakable War and Liberation. (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers).
• Cooke, Lucy, Bitch: On the Female of The Species. (Basic books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group).
• Freedland, Jonathan. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World. (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers).
• Goetsch, Diana. This Body I Wore: A Memoir. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
• Jamail, Dahr and Stan Rushworth. We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth (The New Press).
• Jones, Chloe Cooper. Easy Beauty (Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.)
• Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human. (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.) .
• Samuels, Robert and Toluse Olorunnipa. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life And The Struggle For Racial Justice. (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC).
• Villarosa, Linda. Under The Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and the Health of Our Nation. (Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC).
• Yong, Ed. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. (Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC).

• Chen, Chen. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. (BOA Editions, Ltd.).
• Jones, Saeed. Alive At the End Of the World. (Coffee House Press).
• Shire, Warson. Bless the Daughter Raised by A Voice in Her Head (Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC).
• Xie, Jenny. The Rupture Tense. (Graywolf Press).[6]

The World Atlas of Trees and Forests: Exploring Earth’s Forest Ecosystems. by Herman Shugart, Peter White, Sassan Saatchi, and Jérôme Chave, (Princeton University Press).[7]

The Sophie Brody Award is an annual award of the Reference and User Services Association RUSA. It is given for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature, for works published the previous year, in the U.S.

The award is named after Sophie Brody and was established by her husband, Arthur Brody, and the Brodart Foundation. In 2023 the award went to Michael Frank. One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World. Art by Maira Kalman.(Avid Reader Press, a division of Simon & Schuster).[8]

• 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List. James Mustich. Workman Publishing Co.
• American Revolution: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Spencer C. Tucker (ed). ABC-CLIO.
• Americans at War: Eyewitness Accounts from the American Revolution to the 21st Century. James R. Arnold (ed). ABC-CLIO.
• Black Power Encyclopedia: From ‘Black is Beautiful’ to Urban Uprisings. Akinyele Umoja, Karin L. Stanford, and Jasmin A. Young (ed). Greenwood.
• The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films. Salvador Jimenez Murguia and Alex Pinar (eds). Rowman & Littlefield.
• The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films. Salvador Jimenez Murguia (ed). Rowman & Littlefield.
• The Kurds: An Encyclopedia of Life, Culture, and Society. Sebastian Maisel (ed). ABC-CLIO.
• The Mythology Book. DK.
• Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants. Maarten J.M. Christenhusz, Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase. Kew Publishing and The University of Chicago Press.[9]

• Defining Documents in American History: Immigration and Immigrant Communities (1790-2016). James S. Pula (ed). Salem Press.
• A Dictionary for the Modern Percussionist Drummer. James A. Strain. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Encyclopedia of African Colonial Conflicts. Timothy J. Stapleton (ed). ABC-CLIO.
• Encyclopedia of Black Comics. Sheena C. Howard. Fulcrum Publishing.
• End of Days: An Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse in World Religions. Wendell G. Johnson (ed). ABC-CLIO.
• The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Paul R. Bartrop and Michael Dickerman (eds). ABC-CLIO.
• Horses of the World. Elise Rousseau. Princeton University Press.
• The Last Superpower Summits: Reagan, Gorbachev, and Bush at the End of the Cold War. Sventlana Savranskya and Thomas Blanton. Central University Press.
• Musicals in Film: A Guide to the Genre. Thomas S. Hischak. Greenwood.
• War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict. Jeffrey M. Shaw and Timothy J. Demy (eds). Greenwood (ABC-CLIO).
• Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Peg A. Lamphier and Rosanne Welch. ABC-CLIO.

• The 21st-Century Voter: Who Votes, How They Vote, and Why They Vote. Guido H. Stempel III and Thomas K. Hargrove, editors. ABC-CLIO.
• “Gun Politics in America: Historical and Modern Documents in Context.” Harry L. Wilson. ABC-CLIO.
• “Youth Cultures in America.” Simon J. Bronner and Cindy Dell Clark, editors. Greenwood.
• “Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present.” Patrick J. Hayes, editor. ABC-CLIO.
• “American Governance.” Stephen Schechter, Thomas S. Vontz, Thomas A. Birkland, Mark A. Graber, John J. Patrick, editors. Macmillan Reference USA.
• “Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967.” Mitzi M. Brunsdale. McFarland & Company, Inc.
• “Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe.” Jose Blanco F., Mary D. Doering, Patricia Hunt-Hurst, and Heather Vaughan Lee, editors. ABC-CLIO.
• “The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation.” Bryan A. Garner. The University of Chicago Press.
• “Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction.” Alan Burton. Rowman & Littlefield.
• “Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography.” Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates Jr., editors. Oxford University Press.
• “Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society.” Toyin Falola and Daniel Jean-Jacques, editors. ABC-CLIO.

• Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955: Jim Crow Era Authors and Their Characters by Bernard A. Drew. McFarland & Company, Inc.
• Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters: 956 Confederate and Union Naval and Military Personnel, Contractors, Politicians, Officials,
• Steamboat Pilots and Others by Myron J. Smith Jr. McFarland & Company, Inc.
• The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature Dino Franco Felluga, editor. Wiley Blackwell.
• Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection by Paul R. Bartrop and Steven Leonard Jacobs, editors. ABC-CLIO.
• The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary by David and Ben Crystal. Oxford University Press.
• The Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
• The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives Scott C. Martin, editor. SAGE.
• Weird Sports and Wacky Games Around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbin by Victoria Williams. ABC-CLIO.
• Women’s Rights in the United States: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Issues, Events, and People Tiffany K. Wayne, editor. ABC-CLIO.
• Worldmark Global Business and Economy Issues Thomas Riggs, editor. Gale.

• American Indians at Risk, Jeffrey Ian Ross, editor. Greenwood
• Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century, by Monique W. Morris. The New Press.
• Bumblebees of North America, by Paul Williams, Robin Thorp, Leif Richardson & Shelia Colla. Princeton University Press.
• Consumer Healthcare, Brigham Narins, editor. Gale Cengage Learning.
• Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon. Barbara Cassin, editor. Translation edited by Emily Apter, Jaques Lezra, and Michael Wood. Princeton University Press
• The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Jay S. Albanese, editor. Wiley Blackwell.
• The Encyclopedia of Deception. Timothy R. Levine, editor. SAGE Publishing.
• The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. Salvatore Attardo, editor. SAGE Publishing.
• The Encyclopedia of the Wars of The Early American Republic, 1783-1812. Spencer C Tucker, editor. ABC-CLIO.
• Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God. Coeli Fitzpatrick and Adam Hani Walker, editors. ABC-CLIO.

• American Civil War: Definitive Encyclopedia and Document collection. Spencer C Tucker, Editor; ABC-CLIO
• Literature of Propaganda, Thomas Riggs, editor. St. James Press/Gale Cengage
• Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture. Jacqueline Edmondson, Editor. Greenwood.
• Encyclopedia of U.S. Presidency: A Historical Reference. Nancy Beck Young, editor. Facts on File
• History of Jewish-Muslim Relations from Origins to Present Day. Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora, editors. Princeton University Press
• Frogs of United States and Canada, C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. author. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Encyclopedia of Mind, Harold Pashler, editor. SAGE Reference.
• Almanac of American Military History. Spencer C Tucker, editor. ABC-CLIO.
• Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions. Patrick Taylor and Frederick I. Case, editors. University of Illinois Press.
• Special acknowledgement to ProQuest, for continuing publication of Statistical Abstracts of the United States

• Biotechnology: In Context, edited by Brenda Wilmoth Lerner & K. Lee Lerner, Gale Cengage
• Dictionary of African Biography, edited by Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates Jr., Oxford University Press
• Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition, edited by Andrew T. Carswell, SAGE Publications
• Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology, edited by Daniel J. Christie, Wiley-Blackwell
• Encyclopedia of Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Guide, edited by Charles R. Figley, SAGE Publications
• Enslaved Women In America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Deleso A. Alford, Greenwood
• Japanese Philosophy: A Source Book, edited by James W. Heisig, et al., University of Hawaii Press
• Literature of War, edited by Thomas Riggs, St. James Press/Gale Cengage
• Presidents and Black America: A Documentary History, by Stephen A. Jones and Eric Freedman, Sage/CQ Press
• Typography Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to Language, History, and Practice of Typography, edited by Allan Haley et al., Rockport Publishers
• Women in American Politics: History and Milestones, by Doris Weatherford, Sage/CQ Press

• Encyclopedia of Political Science, George T Kurian editor-in-chief. CQ Press, 9781933116440
• Civil War Naval Encyclopedia, edited by Spencer Tucker. ABC-CLIO, 9781598843385
• Competing Voices from Russian Revolution: Fighting Words, edited by Michael Hickey. Greenwood, 9780313385230
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Books of Bible, edited by Michael D. Coogan. Oxford University Press, 9780195377378
• Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites, by Donald B. Kraybill. Johns Hopkins University Press, 9780801896576
• Polish American Encyclopedia, edited by James S. Pula. McFarland & Company, Inc., 9780786433087
• Green’s Dictionary of Slang, by Jonathon Green. Oxford University Press, 9780550104403
• Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine, edited by Lyle J. Micheli. SAGE Publications, 9781412961158
• Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, Michael Ryan, general editor. Wiley-Blackwell, 9781405183123
• Homer Encyclopedia, edited by Margalit Finkelberg. Wiley-Blackwell, 9781405177689
• Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, edited by Joan D. Marter. Oxford University Press, 9780195335798

• Oxford Companion to the Book. Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H.R. Woudhuysen, eds. 2 vols. Oxford, 2010. 9780198606536
• Encyclopedia of Identity. Ronald L. Jackson II, ed. 2 vols. Sage, 2010. 9781412951531
• Encyclopedia of Geography. Barney Warf, ed. 6 vols. Sage, 2010. 9781412956970
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Michael Gagarin, ed. 7 vols. Oxford, 2010. 9780195170726
• Encyclopedia of Religion in America. Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams, eds. 4 vols. CQ Press, 2010. 9780872895805
• Off Broadway Musicals, 1910 – 2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More Than 1,800 Shows. Dan Dietz, ed. 1 vol. McFarland. 2010. 9780786433995
• Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. Joanne B. Eicher, ed. 10 vols. Oxford, 2010. 9780195377330 Berg Fashion Library. Oxford, 2010.
• Chronology of Evolution-Creationism Controversy. Randy Moore, ed., et al. 1 vol. Greenwood. 2009. 9780313362873
• Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace. Nigel Young, ed. 4. vols. Oxford. 2010. 9780195334685
• 21st Century Economics A Reference Handbook. Rhona C. Free, ed. 2 vols. Sage. 2010. 9781412961424
• Encyclopedia of Political Theory. Mark Bevir, ed. 3 vols. Sage. 2010. 9781412958653
• Encyclopedia of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. John M. Levine and Michael A. Hogg, eds. 2 vols. Sage. 2010. 9781412942089

• Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia Greenwood Press, Francis P. McManamon
• Encyclopedia of African American History: 1896 to Present Oxford University Press, Paul Finkelman
• Encyclopedia of Modern China Charles Scribner’s Sons, David Pong
• Encyclopedia of Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars ABC-CLIO, Spencer Tucker
• Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy Gale Cengage, J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman
• Encyclopedia of Human Rights Oxford, David Forsythe
• Social Explorer, an online reference resource location
• Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts McFarland & Company Publishers, Thomas S. Hischak
• American Countercultures Sharp, Gina Misiroglu
• Encyclopedia of Gender and Society Sage, Jodi O’Brien
• Encyclopedia of Marine Science Facts on File, Nichols C. Reid and Robert G. Williams

Dartmouth Medal: Greenwood Publishing, Pop Culture Universe. Honorable mention: Gershon David Hundert, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.

• Books and Beyond: Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Reading. Kenneth Womack, ed. 4 vols. Greenwood, 2008. 9780313337383.
• Encyclopedia of Taoism. Fabrizio Pregadio, ed. 2 vols. Routledge, 2008. 9780700712007.
• Encyclopedia of First Amendment. John R. Vile, David L. Hudson Jr. and David Schultz, eds. 2 vols. CQ Press, 2009. 9780872893115.
• Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. 3 vols. Greenwood, 2008. 9780313334412.
• Encyclopedia of Education Law. Charles J. Russo, ed. 2 vols. Sage, 2008. 9781412940795.
• Climate Change: In Context. Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner, eds. 2 vols. Gale Cengage, 2008. 9781414436142.
• Gale Encyclopedia of Diets: A Guide to Health and Nutrition. Jacqueline L. Longe, ed. Gale Cengage, 2008. 9781414429915.
• New Encyclopedia of Orchids: 1500 Species in Cultivation. Isobyl la Croix. Timber Press, 2008. 9780881928761.
• Encyclopedia of Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social and Military History. Spencer C. Tucker, ed. 4 vols. ABC-CLIO, 2008. 9781851098415.
• African American National Biography. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham, eds. 8 vols. Oxford University Press, 2008. 9780195160192.
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Bonnie G. Smith, ed. 4 vols. Oxford University Press, 2008. 9780195148909.

• APA dictionary of psychology. ed. by Gary R. VandenBos. American Psychological Association, 2007. 1591473802.
• Encyclopaedia Judaica. ed. by Staff, Macmillan Reference U. S. A. 22 vols. Rev. ed. Gale, 2006. 0028659287.
• Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. ed. by George Ritzer. 11 vols. Blackwell, 2007. 1405124334.
• Encyclopedia of Body Adornment. by Margo Demello. Greenwood, 2007. 313336954.
• Encyclopedia of Race & Racism. ed. by John Hartwell Moore. 4 vols. Gale, 2008. 9780028660202.
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History. ed by John B. Hattendorf. 4 vols. Oxford, 2007. 9780195130751.
• Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. ed. by Barry Keith Grant. 4 vols. Gale, 2006. 0028657912.
• Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre. ed. by Samuel L. Leiter. 2 vols. Greenwood, 2007. 03133529x.
• Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction. ed. by Jeff Prucher. Oxford, 2007. 0195305671.
• Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History. by James Ciment. 4 vols. ME Sharpe, 2007. 079568067x.
• Oxford companion to world exploration. ed. by David Buisseret. 2 vols. Oxford, 2007. 019514922X.

• Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History. ed. James Ciment. M. E. Sharpe, 2005. 0765680653.
• Crusades: An Encyclopedia. 4 vols. ed. Alan V. Murray. ABC-Clio, 2006. 1576078620. $385
• Encyclopedia of Swearing: Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in English-Speaking World. Geoffrey Hughes. M. E. Sharpe, 2006. 0765612311.
• Encyclopedia of American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History. eds. Gregory Fremont-Barnes and Richard Ryerson. ABC-Clio, 2006. 1851094083.
• Encyclopedia of Developing World. 3 vols. ed. Thomas M. Leonard. Routledge, 2005. 1579583881.
• Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working Class History. 3 vols. ed. Eric Arnesen. Routledge, 2006. 0415968267.
• Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450. 3 vols. ed. Thomas Benjamin. Macmillan, 2007. 0028658434.
• Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. 3 vols. ed. Rosemary Skinner Keller. Indiana, 2006.
• Historical Statistics of United States: Earliest Times to Present. 5 vols. eds. Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, et al. Cambridge, 2006. 0521817919.
• Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity. Stephen A. Marshall. Firefly, 2006. 1552979008.
• Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. 5 vols. ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford, 2006. 0195169212.
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. 4 vols. ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford, 2006. 01951146561.
• Qu'ran: An Encyclopedia. ed. Oliver Leaman. Routledge, 2005. 0415326397.
• Right, Wrong, and Risky: A Dictionary of Today's American English Usage. Norton, 2005. 0393061191.