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The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) is an organization that aims to "educate, empower, and inspire its members to advance the evolution of the profession and better serve users in a continuously changing information society."[1] It is a division of the American Library Association.[2]

RUSA honors books and media with major annual awards.[3] Awards are selected by RUSA's Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) Committees.

RUSA also recognizes outstanding professional contributions in reference librarianship and its many specialties with annual achievement awards.

Book Awards include "Notable Books for Adults," selected by the RUSA Notable Books Council since 1944.[4][5]

RUSA Achievement Awards

2023 Awards

Division level

  • Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award to an individual who has made a distinguished contribution to reference librarianship. Jennifer C. Boettcher, Business Librarian at Georgetown University.
  • 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, Manager, Adult Services at St. Louis County Library.
  • Gail Schlachter Memorial Research Grant. Christina Plakas, PhD student of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina – Columbia.
  • Exceptional Service Award to patients, home bound, people in group homes, inmates. Willetta M. Grady, Librarian/Library Media Specialist, Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville TN.
  • Federal Achievement Award. Michelle A. Ortiz, Supervisory Librarian, Vicenza and Del Din Library, USAG Italy, ARMY-IMCOM.
  • Federal Rising Stars Award. Mariah Antoinette Lovick, Thomas Lee Hall Library.
  • Francis Joseph Campbell Award. No award.
  • Keystone Library Automation System (KLAS) & National Organization on Disability (NOD) Award. No award.
  • Stephen T. Riedner Grant for Life Enhancing Library Programs for People Living with Dementia. East Chicago Public Library, IN and Roddenbery Memorial Library in Cairo, Georgia.[6]

Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS)

  • Excellence in Business Librarianship. Hal P. Kirkwood, Bodeian Business Librarian, University of Oxford.

Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES)

  • 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, Genreflecting series and Fluent in Fantasy and Strictly Science Fiction.

Emerging Technologies Section (ETS)

  • ETS Achievement Award. Shannon Jones, Director of Libraries, Medical University of South Carolina & Director, Region 2, Network of the National Library of Medicine.

History Section (HS)

  • History Research and Innovation Award. Whitney Thompson, Graduate Library Assistant, Edgewood College.
  • HS Genealogy/History Achievement Award. Michelle Enke, Manager of Genealogy / Special Collections, Wichita Public Library.

Reference Services Section (RSS)

Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS)

  • Virginia Boucher Distinguished ILL (Interlibrary Loan) Librarian Award. Jalesia Horton, Director of Access and Resource Sharing Services, Southern Methodist University.

RUSA Book and Media Awards

Awards given by the RUSA Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) Committees.

2023 Awards

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York 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.

Dartmouth Medal

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]

Notable Books Fiction

  • 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)

Notable Books Non-Fiction

  • 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)

Notable Books Poetry

  • 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).[8]

Sophie Brody Medal

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.

  • 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).[9]

The Reading List

The Reading List-A RUSA CODES committee that compiles an annual list of the best genre books for the adult reader.[10]

  • Adrenaline:
    • Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC)
  • Fantasy:
    • Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (A Tor Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates)
  • Historical fiction
    • By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register by Piper Huguley (William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
  • Horror
    • Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (A Nightfire Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates)
  • Mystery
    • Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (Berkley Prime Crime, published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC)
  • Relationship fiction
    • The Guncle: A Novel by Steven Rowley (G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC)
  • Romance
    • One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (St. Martin's Griffin, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group)
  • Science fiction
    • A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (A Tordotcom Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates).[11]

The Listen List

The Listen List Council of the Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) includes fiction and nonfiction and features voices that enthrall, delight, and inspire.

  • The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories by Jess Walter. Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini and Julia Whelan. HarperAudio.
  • The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra. Narrated by Soneela Nankani. Blackstone Publishing.
  • Book Lovers by Emily Henry. Narrated by Julia Whelan. Books on Tape.
  • The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn. Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld. HarperAudio.
  • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. Narrated by Ed Yong. Books on Tape.
  • Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley. Narrated by Clare Corbett. Books on Tape.
  • A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin. Narrated by Eleanor Tomlinson. Books on Tape.
  • The Patron Saint of Second Chances by Christine Simon. Narrated by Tim Francis. Simon & Schuster Audio.
  • Playing with Myself by Randy Rainbow. Narrated by Randy Rainbow. Macmillan Audio.
  • River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard. Narrated by Paul Michael. Books on Tape.
  • Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana. Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nile Bullock, Sidik Fofana, Dominic Hoffman, DePre Owens, André Santana, Bahni Turpin, and Jade Wheeler. Simon & Schuster Audio.
  • Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Narrated by Lauren J. Daggett. Books on Tape.
  • Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett. Narrated by Mark Bramhall and Kirby Heyborne. Books on Tape.[12]

Outstanding Reference Sources Awards

2023 Awards

  • Free Speech and Censorship: a Documentary and Reference Guide. Cari Lee Skogberg Eastman. Greenwood An Imprint of ABC-Clio, LLC.
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Foreign Relations.* Mark Atwood Lawrence (Editor in Chief), Michael R. Anderson (Associate Editor). Oxford University Press.
  • Chocolate: a cultural encyclopedia. Ross F. Collins. ABC-Clio An Imprint of ABC-Clio, LLC.
  • Exercise and Physical Activity: From Health Benefits to Fitness Crazes. R.K. Devlin (Editor). Greenwood An Imprint of ABC-Clio, LLC.
  • Handbook of Dynamics and Probability. Peter Müller. Springer.
  • Nitrate Handbook: Environmental, Agricultural, and Health Effects. Christos Tsadilas (Editor). CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
  • Annelida. Greg Rouse, Fredrik Pleijel, and Ekin Tilic. Oxford University Press.
  • Insectpedia: A Brief Compendium of Insect Lore. Eric R. Eaton. Princeton University Press.
  • Bob Dylan: A Descriptive, Critical Discography and Filmography, 1961-2022, 3rd edition. John Nogowski. McFarland & Company.
  • Vaccination: Examining the Facts. Lisa Rosner. ABC-Clio An Imprint of ABC-Clio, LLC.

2023 BRASS Best of the Best Business Web Resources Awards

The 2023 Awards recognize four web-based resources that are highly relevant to information professionals involved in providing business reference services. Selected by members of the 2022/23 BRASS Education Committee.[13]

  • The Business Model Canvas. Strategyzer.com
  • Ethics Unwrapped. McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Harvard's Atlas of Economic Complexity. The Growth Lab at Harvard University.
  • Tax Notes' Tax History Project. Tax Analysts.

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Reference and User Services Association.
  2. ↑ Hansen, Andrew M. "RASD: Serving Those Who Serve the Public." RQ 34, no. 3 (Spring 1995): 314.
  3. ↑ Reference and User Services Association. Book & Media Awards
  4. ↑ Reference and User Services Association. Notable Books for Adults.
  5. ↑ Van Fleet, Connie, and Danny P. Wallace. 2002. "A Year Inside Notable Books." Reference & User Services Quarterly 41 (4): 340.
  6. ↑ Reference and User Services Association. Division Level Awards.
  7. ↑ Reference and User Services Association, The Dartmouth Medal, 2023.
  8. ↑ Reference and User Services Association, Notable Books. The Lists, 2023.
  9. ↑ Reference and User Services Association, Sophie Brody Medal, 2023.
  10. ↑ CODES: The Reading List. Reference and Adult Services Association.
  11. ↑ 2023 Reading List Announced: Year's Best in Genre Fiction for Adult Readers. RUSAupdate, January 29, 2023.
  12. ↑ Listen List Revealed. RUSA Update. January 29, 2023.
  13. ↑ Moore, Ninah. Business Reference Experts Select Annual List of BRASS Best of the Best Business Web Resources for 2023 September 29, 2023.

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