Divisional committees select the recipients of major awards.
The recipients write their acceptance speeches. And divisional staff in Chicago collect the speeches and prepare them for publication. Like other readers, we are at the receiving end of a chain of professional accomplishments of writers, illustrators, publishers, editors, and selectors. Reading the summer issue is akin to visiting a library collection. Details of the processes differ, but choosing recipients of awards, manuscript selection and editing, book reviewing, and collection development all share the objective of picking winners.