The ALA Medal of Excellence is an annual award bestowed by the

American Library Association The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world. History 19th century ...

for recent creative leadership of high order, particularly in the fields of library management, library training, cataloging and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship.ALA Medal of Excellence.
American Library Association. It was first awarded in 1953 to Ralph R. Shaw, Director of the

National Agriculture Library The United States National Agricultural Library (NAL) is one of the world's largest agricultural research libraries, and serves as a national library of the United States and as the library of the United States Department of Agriculture. Locate ...

. The award name was changed in 2020 from the Melvil Dewey Medal to the ALA Medal of Excellence. Loida Garcia-Febo Dominican Republic 2016

List of recipients

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