Joseph W. Lippincott Award

|Joseph W. Lippincott Award

!Date

!Major accomplishments

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|Clara Bohrer

|2025

|President, Public Library Association; Every Child Ready to Read-leadership. [https://www.ala.org/news/2025/03/clara-bohrer-recipient-2025-joseph-w-lippincott-award?fbclid=IwY2xjawJZTfVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZ2WnZpDIVb10u4QCl8AovVuOQRot-iixaKw0YGDV_N0dQQLXkV4oxrgxw_aem_z8UAcPw9oTvNLGkFLyGGlw Clara Bohrer is the recipient of the 2025 Joseph W. Lippincott Award] American Library Association, March 28, 2025.

|2024

|Augusta Baker Endowed Chair, University of South Carolina, American Library Association Equality Award.[https://www.ala.org/news/2024/05/nicole-cooke-wins-joseph-w-lippincott-award Nicole A. Cooke wins the Joseph W. Lippincott Award] American Library Association, May 7, 2024.

| 2023

|Section Head, Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade at the Library of Congress, President, American Library Association, President, Freedom to Read Foundation.

|2022

|President, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, Joint Council of Librarians of Color.[https://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/kenneth-yamashita Kenneth Yamashita].American Library Association, April 14, 2022.

|2021

|Deputy Librarian of Congress, American Library Association Endowment Trustee.[https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2021/04/robert-randolph-newlen-wins-lippincott-award Robert Randolph Newlen], April 20, 2021.

|2020

|Executive Director, American Library Association.[https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/06/mary-w-ghikas-wins-prestigious-joseph-w-lippincott-award Mary W. Ghikas wins prestigious Joseph W. Lippincott Award]. American Library Association.[https://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/A%20Tribute%20Resolution%20Honoring%20Mary%20Ghikas.pdf A Tribute Resolution Honoring Mary Ghikas] American Library Association, June 27, 2020.

|2019

|Professor of librarianship, University of South Florida, Beta Phi Mu Award, President, Association for Library and Information Science Education.

|2018

|Executive Director, FOLUSA, (Friends of Libraries USA), integration of FOLUSA into American Library Association as United for Libraries.[https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/04/sally-gardner-reed-receives-2018-joseph-w-lippincott-award Sally Gardner Reed Receives the 2018 Joseph W. Lippincott Award.] American Library Association. April 4, 2018.

|2017

|President, American Library Association, President, Freedom to Read Foundation, professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies.

|2016

|President, American Library Association, President Association of College and Research Libraries, President Library Leadership and Management Association.

|2015

|Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, President, American Library Association.

|2014

|President, American Library Association, Director, Westchester Library System, NY.

|2013

|Librarian of Congress, President, American Library Association, executive director, Enoch Pratt Free Library.

|2012

|Dean of the University of Arizona Libraries, ALA Medal of Excellence.“2018 ALA Award Winners.” 2018. American Libraries 49 (9/10/2018): 40–49.

|2011

|President, American Library Association, President, REFORMA.

|2010

|Director of the Division of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Director Salt Lake City Public Library, Central Library.[https://www.ala.org/news/news/pressreleases2010/march2010/lippincott_gov Thomas C. Phelps receives 2010 Lippincott Award] American Library Association, March 16, 2010.

|2009

|Dean, University of California Los Angeles UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, President, American Library Association, Beta Phi Mu Award.

|2008

|Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries, founder of Library Copyright Alliance.Pritchard, Sarah M. "Shaping the course of a profession festschrift in honor of Duane E. Webster." Portal: Libraries and the Academy. 2009;9(3):301-303.

|2007

|Dean of University Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins University, Associate Librarian of Congress.

|2006

|President, American Library Association, Dean and professor, Rutgers School of Communication and Information

|2005

|President, Public Library Association, Director of the Milwaukee Public Library.

|2004

|Director, Coalition for Networked Information, President and recipient of Award of Merit, American Society for Information Science and Technology.

|2003

|Director of Los Angeles Public Library, President, Public Library Association.Berry, John N. 2002. “Librarian of the Year 2002: Susan Kent, Los Angeles Public Library.” Library Journal 127 (1): 42–44.

|2002

|President and Treasurer, American Library Association.

|2001

|President and Treasurer, American Library Association, Founder, Neal-Schuman Publishers

|2000

|Founding director of the Center for the Book, Library of Congress, first official historian of the Library of Congress.

|1999

|Director of Communications, founder of ALA Graphics, American Library Association.Barber, Peggy. 2003. “Mickey Mouse, Miss Piggy and the Birth of ALA Graphics.” American Libraries 34 (5): 60–63.

|1998

|Director, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, Director, Freedom to Read Foundation.

|1997

|Director, Libraries University of California, Berkeley and University of Michigan, President, American Library Association.

|1996

|Dean, Florida State University School of Information, President, American Library Association.

|1995

|Director, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Officer of the Order of Canada.Berry, John N. 2010. “Knowing Norman Horrocks.” Library Journal, November.

|1994

|Director, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the Library of Congress.Cylke, Frank Kurt, Judith M. Dixon, and Michael M. Moodie. 2000. “The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.” Alexandria 12 (2): 81–98.

|1993

|Director, Library Services Branch, U.S. Office of Education, Deputy Librarian of Congress, executive director of the Association of Research Libraries.

|1992

|Editor of Library Journal for over fifty years.Hill, Nate, Nora Rawlinson, Erin Shea, Inga Boudreau, Francine Fialkoff, Renee Grassi, Fred Ciporen, et al. 2020. “Remembering John N. Berry III.” Library Journal 145 (12): 42–49.

|1991

|President and executive director, American Library Association, author of Carl H. Milam and the American Library Association. Sullivan, Peggy.Carl H. Milam and the American Library Association(H. W. Wilson, 1976).

|1990

|Executive Director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Director of the Illinois State Library.Sullivan, Peggy. 2009. “A Tribute to Al Trezza.” American Libraries 40 (3): 36–37.

|1989

|President, International Federation of Library Associations,Wedgeworth, Robert. 1991. “An IFLA Conference View of the Soviet Coup.” Wilson Library Bulletin 66 (December): 49–53. University Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Founding President of ProLiteracy Worldwide, executive director of the American Library Association.

|1988

|Developed the MARC format (Machine Readable Cataloging), Associate Librarian for Collections Services, Library of Congress.Pattie, Ling-yuh W. 1998. “Henriette Davidson Avram, the Great Legacy.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 25 (2–3): 67–81

|1987

|Dean UNC School of Information and Library Science, President, American Library Association, Beta Phi Mu Award.Delmus Eugene Williams. 1994. For the Good of the Order: Essays in Honor of Edward G. Holley. Greenwich Conn: Jai Press.

|1986

|Director, Catholic University School of Library and Information Science, President of the American Library Association, Beta Phi Mu Award.Varlejs, Jana, Blanche Woolls, and Brooke Sheldon. 2003. “In Appreciation of Betty Stone, Continuing Education Advocate.” Journal of Education for Library & Information Science. 44 (1): 69–71.

|1985

|Director, libraries at the University of California, Los Angeles, President, American Library Association, President, Association of College and Research Libraries.

|1984

|Director, Maryland State Library, Command Librarian for the U.S. Army in Heidelberg, Germany, Maryland Women's Hall of Fame.Taylor, Nettie B. 1968. “There’s No Heavier Burden than a Great Potential.” Wilson Library Bulletin 42 (April): 823–26.

|1983

|Dean, School of Library Science, University of Michigan, chair, Committee on Accreditation.White, Herbert S. “Accreditation and the Pursuit of Excellence.” Journal of Education for LibrarianshipV. 23, no. 4, 1983, pp. 253–63. Beta Phi Mu Award.

|1982

|Director, Free Library of Philadelphia , President, American Library Association.

|1981

|Editor-in-Chief, Library Journal, President, American Library Association.{{cite book|last=Kister|first=Kenneth F.|title=Eric Moon: the life and library times|year=2002|publisher=McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub|isbn=0786412534|page=3}}

|1980

|President, American Library Association, President Black Caucus of the American Library Association.Renate Chancellor, E. J. Josey: Transformational leader of the modern library profession. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020Abdullahi, Ismael. 1992. E.J. Josey: An Activist Librarian. Metuchen N.J: Scarecrow Press.

|1979

|Director Adult Education Survey at American Library Association,Lyman, Helen H. (1954) Adult Education Activities in Public Libraries; a Report of the ALA Survey of Adult Education Activities in Public Libraries and State Library Extension Agencies of the United States. Chicago: American Library Association.Lyman, Helen H. (1976). Reading and the Adult New Reader. Chicago: American Library Association.Lyman, Helen H. (1977). Literacy and the Nation's Libraries. Chicago: American Library Association, faculty member, University of Wisconsin–Madison iSchool.

|1978

|State Librarian Idaho State Library,[https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/henry-drennan-obituary?id=29062244 Henry Drennan Obituary] Aug. 26, 2003 Senior Program Officer, Office of Libraries and Learning Resources, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.Drennan, Henry T, Richard L Darling and United States Office of Education (1966). Library Manpower: Occupational Characteristics of Public and School Librarians. Washington D.C: U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare, Office of Education, Library Services Branch.Drennan, Henry T. 1975, ‘Library Legislation Discovered’, Library Trends, 24, no. 1, pp. 115–135.

|1977

|Dean, Atlanta University School of Library Sciences,Josey, Elonnie J. (ed.). The Black Librarian in America. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 19–42. President, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Beta Phi Mu Award.

|1976

|Director, International Relations and Director. Office for Library Education, American Library Association. Professor, University of Chicago Graduate Library School and UNC School of Information and Library Science, Beta Phi Mu Award.Joel M. Lee, and Beth A. Hamilton. 1979. As Much to Learn as to Teach: Essays in Honor of Lester Asheim. Hamden, Conn: Linnet Books.

|1975

|Professor, University of Chicago Graduate Library School, editor of the Library Quarterly, President, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Beta Phi Mu Award

|1974

|Chaired Z39 Committee, precursor to National Information Standards Organization, Librarian who established a working reference library for the first United Nations Conference. Director, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries and professor of Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Du Mont, Rosemary Ruhig. 1982. “Jerrold Orne: A Biographical Sketch.” Journal of Academic Librarianship 8 (March): 20–25.

|1973

|President, Association for Library and Information Science Education, library historian,Shera, Jesse H., Foundations of the public library: the origins of the public library movement in New England, 1629–1855. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952, 1949Beta Phi Mu Award.Rawski, C. H. (1973). Toward a theory of librarianship: Papers in honor of Jesse Hauk Shera. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press.

|1972

|President, Association of College and Research Libraries, Director of libraries at Louisiana State University, and Emory University, author of The Administration of the College Library.Farber, Evan Ira and Ruth Walling. 1974. The Academic Library: Essays in Honor of Guy R. Lyle. Metuchen N.J: Scarecrow Press.

|1971

| Librarian at Princeton University, President, American Library Association, primary author of [https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/freedomreadstatement The Freedom to Read] statement.Robbins, Louise S. (1996). "Champions of a cause: American librarians and the Library Bill of Rights in the 1950s". Library Trends. 45 (1): 28–48.

|1970

|First Director of American Library Association Washington Office. Library of Congress. Chief Librarian, Office of War Information, World War II.Molumby, Lawrence, E. "[https://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/PPA/ALA%20WO%20Chronology%20First%2050%20Years.pdf ALA Washington Office: A Chronology of its First Fifty Years]." American Library Association, Washington Office, May 1966.Howard, Paul. 1947. “National Relations Program.” ALA Bulletin 41 (February): 43–44.

|1969

|Director of the American Library Association, Washington Office (1957-1972), secured the actual funding for rural library service which was authorized under the Library Services Act.Allerton Park Institute on the Impact of the Library Services Act. Strout, Donald E. University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Graduate School of Library Science and United States. Office of Education Library Services Branch. 1962. The Impact of the Library Services Act: Progress and Potential: Papers Presented at an Institute Conducted Jointly by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science and the Library Services Branch U.S. Office of Education. Champaign Ill.

|1968

| Chief Library Consultant for the Public Libraries of Georgia, President, Southeastern Library Association,Tennessee Library Association[https://www.georgiawomen.org/nix-lucile Lucile Nix: Librarian, Consultant] Georgia Women of Achievement.

|1967

|Head librarian, Oklahoma State University 1940–1967 named in his honor: Edmon Low Library, President, Association of College and Research Libraries.

|1966

|Director, Harvard Library,Williams Edwin E. 1969. The Metcalf Administration 1937-1955. Cambridge Mass: Harvard University. President, American Library Association, author.Metcalf Keyes D., (1965). Planning Academic and Research Library Buildings. New York NY: McGraw-Hill.

|1965

|Superintendent of the Department of Work with Children, New York Public Library, author, lecturer and consultant on children's literature.Sayers, Frances Clarke, and Marjeanne Jensen Blinn. Summoned by Books: Essays and Speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers. New York: Viking Press, 1965.

|1964

|University Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, President, American Library Association, President, Illinois Library Association, author.Downs Robert B and Jerrold Orne. 1971. Research Librarianship: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Downs New York: R.R. Bowker.

|1963

|Professor, University of Chicago Graduate Library School and School of Library Service at Columbia University, AASL Standards for School Library Programs, Beta Phi Mu Award.Kester, Diane D., and Plummer Alston Jones. 2004. “Frances Henne and the Development of School Library Standards.” Library Trends 52 (4): 952–62.

|1962

|Executive Director, American Library Association, President of the Connecticut Library Association, U.S. Army, Office of Strategic Services during World War II.Special issue honoring David H. Clift (1972), “Two Decisive Decades, 1952 to 1972.” American Libraries 3 (July).

|1961

|Director, Enoch Pratt Free Library, author Wheeler Joseph L and Herbert Goldhor. 1962. Practical Administration of Public Libraries. New York NY: Harper & Row. Library War Service during World War I.

|1960

|Library of Congress- many positions including Acting Librarian of Congress,Verner Warren Clapp, 1901–1972: a memorial tribute. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. 1973. author,The Future of the Research Library, University of Illinois Press (1964) founder of the United Nations Library,Clapp, Verner Warren. 1962. “United Nations Library 1945-1961.” Libri: International Journal of Libraries & Information Services 12 (2): 111–21. President of the Council on Library Resources.

|1959

|First state librarian of Louisiana, President, American Library Association, President, Louisiana Library Association.Jumonville, Florence M. Essae M. Culver and the Genesis of Louisiana Parish Libraries Louisiana State University Press, 2019.

|1958

| Director, Berkeley Public Library, Captain in World War I-Silver Star, President, California Library Association and Michigan Library Association, Professor, University of Chicago Graduate Library School, author.Joeckel Carleton B. 1935. The Government of the American Public Library, Chicago Ill: University of Chicago Press.Joeckel, Carleton B., and Amy Winslow. A National Plan for Public Library Service: With a Chapter by Lowell Martin. 1951

Joeckel, Carleton B. The Government of the American Public Library. Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1939.Joeckel, C.B. Chairman of the ALA Post-War Planning Committee (1943).Post-War Standards for Public Libraries. Chicago: American Library Association.

|1957

|Head librarian for Mount Holyoke College, President, American Library Association.

|1956

|Director, Detroit Public Library, President, Michigan Library Association, President, American Library Association, defender of intellectual freedom.Robbins, Louise S. “Segregating Propaganda in American Libraries: Ralph Ulveling Confronts the Intellectual Freedom Committee.” The Library Quarterly (Chicago) 63.2 (1993): 143–165.

|1955

|Director, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Director, Free Library of Philadelphia, President, American Library Association.

|1953

|Chair, American Library Association. Committee on Relations with Local Groups, Head, Business Branch Newark Public Library, Editor, Special Libraries Association journal, Special Libraries. Manley, Marian C. 1945. “A.L.A's Growth and the Grass Roots.” ALA Bulletin 3–12.Manley, Marian C. (1946). Library Service to Business Its Place in the Small City. Chicago: American Library Association.

|1952

|Director, Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, President, American Library Association.

|1951

|Author of Living with Books,Haines, Helen E. Living with books; the art of book selection. New York: Columbia University Press editor,{{cite journal|jstor=25540227 | volume=5 | pages=146–164|title=Helen E. Haines, 1872-1961: An Annotated Bibliography|first1=Mary|last1=Robinson Sive|journal=The Journal of Library History| year=1970 | issue=2 }} lecturer.Crawford, Holly. Freedom Through Books: Helen Haines and Her Role in the Library Press, Library Education, and the Intellectual Freedom Movement. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.

|1950

|Publisher, founder of the H. W. Wilson Company, creator of the Readers' Guide, the Cumulative Book Index, and the Book Review Digest.

|1949

|Director, New York Public Library, President, American Library Association, author.Lydenberg Harry Miller. 1923. History of the New York Public Library : Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations. New York: New York Public Library.Dain, P (1977). "Harry M. Lydenberg and American library resources: a study in modern library leadership". Library Quarterly. 47 (4): 451–469.

|1948

|Executive Director of the American Library Association, Library War Service in World War I, Director of the United Nations Library.Sullivan, P. 1976. Carl H. Milam and the American Library Association. New York: H.W. Wilson

|1943-1947

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|1939

|Librarian of Congress, Librarian, Boston Public Library, President, American Library Association.Rosenberg, Jane Aiken.(1993) The Nation's Great Library: Herbert Putnam and the Library of Congress, 1899–1939. (University of Illinois Press, 1993).

|1938

|Supervisor, Tennessee Valley Authority libraries, President, Tennessee Library Association and Southeastern Library Association, President, American Library Association.Mallory, Mary. “The Rare Vision of Mary Utopia Rothrock: Organizing Regional Library Services in the Tennessee Valley.” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 65, no. 1 (1995): 62–88.

|1938

| Readers' advisor, New York Public Library, suffragist, author.Danton, Emily Miller (1953). Pioneering Leaders in Librarianship. First Series. Chicago: American Library Association.