 Haviland judged the New York Herald Tribune Children's Spring Book Festival Awards from 1955 to 1957, as well as the International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Book World Children's Spring Book Festival Awards, and the National Book Awards (1969).She was instrumental in beginning the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award.In 1962 Haviland was invited to found the Center for Children's Literature at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.