The Justin Winsor Prize is awarded by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association

American Library Association

The American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....

 for the best library history essay. The award was established in 1978 and named for the American Library Association's first president, Justin Winsor

Justin Winsor

Justin Winsor was a prominent American writer, librarian, and historian.-Background and education:Winsor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Nathaniel Winsor III and Ann Thomas Howland Winsor...

. Winsor (1831–1896) was a prominent writer, historian, and the long-time Librarian at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

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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
  Wayne A. Wiegand
  Wayne A. Wiegand is an American library historian, author, and academic.Wiegand recently retired as F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies and Professor of American Studies at Florida State University...
  
  , British Propaganda in American Libraries, 1914-1917
• 1983 Robert S. Martin
  Robert S. Martin
  Robert S. Martin, Ph.D. is an American librarian, archivist, administrator, and educator. He is the former director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services , and is currently a member of the National Council on the Humanities and of the U.S...
  
  , 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
  Archibald MacLeish
  Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...
  
  , 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
  Wayne A. Wiegand
  Wayne A. Wiegand is an American library historian, author, and academic.Wiegand recently retired as F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies and Professor of American Studies at Florida State University...
  
  , The Amherst Method: The Origins of the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme
• 1997 Cheryl Knott Malone, Houston's Colored Carnegie Library
  Carnegie Library
  Carnegie Library, Carnegie Public Library, Carnegie Free Library, Carnegie Free Public Library, Andrew Carnegie Library, Andrew Carnegie Free Library or Carnegie Library Building may refer to any of the following Carnegie libraries:- California :*Carnegie Library , listed on the National Register...
  
  , 1907-1922http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~landc/fulltext/LandC_34_2_Malone.pdf
• 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
• 2006 Not awarded
• 2007 Dr. Jean L. Preer Promoting Citizenship: Librarians Help Get Out the Vote in the 1952 Presidential Election
• 2008 Jeremy Dibbell A Library of the Most Celebrated & Approved Authors: The First Purchase Collection of Union College
• 2009 Richard LeComte Writers Blocked: The Debate Over Public Lending Right in the United States During the 1980s
• 2010 Dr. Pamela R. Bleisch Spoilsmen and Daughters of the Republic: Political Interference in the Texas State Library during the tenure of Elizabeth Howard West, 1911-1925
• 2011 Cody White Rising from the Ashes: Lessons Learned from the Impact of Proposition 13 on Public Libraries in California

See also

The American Historical Association

American Historical Association

The American Historical Association is the oldest and largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States. Founded in 1884, the association promotes historical studies, the teaching of history, and the preservation of and access to historical materials...

's Justin Winsor Prize

Justin Winsor Prize (history)

The Justin Winsor Prize was awarded by the American Historical Association to encourage new authors to pursue the study of history in the Western Hemisphere at a time when the study of European history predominated...

, awarded between 1896 and 1938

External links

• Justin Winsor Prize Winners American Library Association