For immediate release | May 16, 2025
Carnegie Whitney Grant 2025 award winners
The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants for the preparation, either in print and/or electronically, of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliographies, indexes and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types of libraries in the United States.
The American Library Association Publishing Committee is proud to announce the 2025 Carnegie-Whitney Award winners, whose proposed projects promote reading or the use of library resources.
- Shannon Crooks, Syracuse University, Meeting Them Where They Are: A Toolkit for Addressing Social Service Needs in Libraries
- Cynthia Dudenhoffer, The Curators of the University of Missouri, Playing for Progress: A Digital Library of Board Games for Empathy Building and Social Justice
- Ashley Hosbach Wallman, University of Virginia, Vaccine Confidence and Public Health Literacy
- Rae-Anne Montague, Chicago State University, Librarians as Culturally Responsive Leaders
- Courtney Walker, Adapted Book Library Collections: A Guide to Building Accessible Resources for Patrons with Disabilities
- Alessia Zanin-Yost, Slippery Rock University, Expanding Access to Wellness
View the list of past award winners.
Applications for the next cycle must be received by November 7, 2025. Recipients will be notified by the end of February 2026.
More information and guidelines are available on the ALA website or by contacting mbolduc@ala.org.
