Collection Development
Review, weed, replenish. Library staff can investigate titles on these award lists to help build collections that meet the adult information needs of their communities.
Book awards
International Dublin Literary Award
Presented annually for a novel written in, or translated into, English. Nominations are submitted by libraries in major cities throughout the world.
The Booker Prize
Honors the best work of fiction of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
National Book Awards
Best fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people's literature published in the United States each year.
Nobel Prizes in Literature
Awarded annually to an author from any country who has “produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction.”
Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
Pulitzer Prize in History
Distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States.
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Distinguished and appropriately documented book of nonfiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.
