The Standards, revised in 2014, aspire to provide benchmarks to address the needs for the services and resources of modern vision science libraries (academic, medical or hospital, pharmaceutical, and so on) which share a core mission, are varied by type, and are located throughout the world. In 2016, AVSL was awarded the Medical Library Association’s Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences for the 2014 revision of the Standards.