Louise S. Robbins

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Louise S. Robbins is an American academic and is currently the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies.

Robbins has won awards for her articles and books dealing with the history of librarians and intellectual freedom in the United States. Her best known work is The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), winner of the Eliza Atkins Gleason Award and the Willa Literary Award for a nonfiction book from Women Writing the West

Former Mayor of Ada, Oklahoma and first woman elected to their city council.

Robbins was named Wisconsin Librarian of the Year in 2001.

Named one of Oklahoma's 100 Library Legends on the occasion of the Oklahoma Library Association Centennial, 2007.

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• Oklahoma Library Association Awards
• University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies.
• Wisconsin Library Association Awards