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The Reference and User Services Association is recognizing longtime Athens resident Paula Laurita with its Federal Achievement Award in 2024.

The RUSA Book & Media Awards Ceremony on January 20 announced the year’s best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, audiobook narration, and reference materials and the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION AND NONFICTION. The winners are two non-genre works. 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

Novelist Amanda Peters has won the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Berry Pickers. Peters's debut novel was one of three books shortlisted for the prize. Fellow Canadians Christina Wong and Daniel Innes were also on the shortlist for their book Denison Avenue. The Berry Pickers, which tells the story of

Amanda Peters and Roxanna Asgarian were selected as the winners of the 2024 Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.[/lead]

ALA announced the six books shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction November 14.

(1) WORLDS OF IF REVIVAL. The title that won three straight Hugos in the Sixties under the editorship of Frederik Pohl, Worlds of If, then folded in 1974, is making a comeback here. The classic science fiction magazine Worlds of IF will live again starting February 2024. The magazine will be relaunched with Justin Sloane of Starship

Judith Anne Garretson Folse, Adriana Gonzalez, Michael Hevel and Romona West were named as fellows of the 2023 Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program.

At the 2023 LibLearnX conference, presenters shared different approaches and a refreshed outlook for dealing with the swell of book bans across the country.

In announcing the awards, the awards committee called Otsuka a master of narrative voice and praised Yong for standing out even during a recent golden age of nature writing.

Booklist Online Book Review: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction: 2023. First published January 30, 2023 (Booklist Online).