Imaginary Books Wins Leab Award

The exhibition catalog was announced last week as the winner of the 2026 Leab Award for Excellence in Description in a Print Catalog. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announced on August 13th the recipients of the 2026 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalog Awards.

[NB – Possibly the first award ever given for excellence in the description of things that don’t actually exist.]