Justin Winsor Prize (library)

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The Justin Winsor Prize is awarded by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association for the best library history essay. The award was established in 1978 and named for the American Library Associations's first president, Justin Winsor. Winsor (1831-1896) was a prominent writer, historian, and the long-time Librarian at Harvard University.

[edit] Award winners

1979 Dennis Thomison, The Private Wars of Chicago's Big Bill Thompson
1980 Not awarded
1981 Mary Niles Maack, Women Librarians in France: The First Generation
1982 Pamela Spence Richards, Aryan Librarianship: Academic and Research Libraries Under Hitler & Wayne A. Wiegand, British Propaganda in American Libraries, 1914-1917
1983 Robert S. Martin, Maurice F. Tauber's Louis Round Wilson: An Analysis of a Collaboration
1984 Larry Yeatman, Literary Culture and the Role of Libraries in Democratic America: Baltimore, 1815-1940
1985 Not awarded
1986 Ronald Blazek, Adult Education and Economic Opportunity in the Gilded Age: The Library, the Chautauqua, and the Railroads in DeFuniak Springs, Florida
1987 Rosalee McReynolds, American Nervousness and Turn of the Century Librarians
1988 Brother Thomas O'Connor, Library Service to the American Committee to Negotiate Peace and to the Preparatory Inquiry, 1917-1919
1989 Frederick J. Stielow, Librarians, Warriors, and Rapprochement: Carl Milam, Archibald MacLeish, and World War II
1990 John Richardson, Teaching General Reference Work: The Essential Paradigm, 1890-1900
1991 Margaret Stieg, Post-War Purge of the German Public Libraries, Democracy, and the American Reaction
1992 Joanne E. Passet, Men in a Feminized Profession: The Male Librarian, 1887-1921
1993 Not awarded
1994 Not awarded
1995 Not awarded
1996 Wayne A. Wiegand, The Amherst Method: The Origins of the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme
1997 Cheryl Knott Malone, Houston's Colored Carnegie Library, 1907-1922
1998 Not awarded
1999 Christine Pawley, Advocate for Access: Lutie Stearns and the Traveling Libraries of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission, 1895-1914
2000 Not awarded
2001 Not awarded
2002 Marek Sroka The Destruction of Jewish Libraries and Archives in Crakow (Krakow) During World War II
2003 Not awarded
2004 Joyce M. Latham Clergy of the Mind: William S. Learned, the Carnegie Corporation, and the American Library Association
2005 Donald C. Boyd The Book Women of Kentucky: The WPA Pack Horse Library Project, 1935-1943