Justin Winsor Prize Winners
Award established Fall 1978
1979
Dennis Thomison, "The Private Wars of Chicago's Big Bill Thompson"
Journal of Library History V.15 (Summer 1980) pp. 261-280
1980
Not awarded
1981
Mary Niles Maack, "Women Librarians in France: The First Generation"
Journal of Library History V.18 (Fall 1983) pp. 407-449
1982
Pamela Spence Richards, "Aryan Librarianship: Academic and Research Libraries Under Hitler"
Journal of Library History V.19 (Spring 1984) pp. 231-258
Wayne A. Wiegand, "British Propaganda in American Libraries, 1914-1917"
Journal of Library History V.18 (Summer 1983) pp. 237-254
1983
Robert S. Martin, "Maurice F. Tauber's Louis Round Wilson: An Analysis of a Collaboration"
Journal of Library History V.19 (Summer 1984) pp. 373-389
1984
Larry Yeatman, "Literary Culture and the Role of Libraries in Democratic America: Baltimore, 1815-1940"
Journal of Library History V.20 (Fall 1985) pp. 345-367
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"
Journal of Library History V.22 (Fall 1987) pp. 377-396
1987
Rosalee McReynolds, "American Nervousness and Turn of the Century Librarians"
The Spring, 1990 issue of Libraries & Culture (V.25, pp. 194-217) carries an article by Ms. Reynolds with a slightly different title: "The Sexual Politics of Illness in Turn of the Century Libraries." Although not stated, it seems likely that this article was developed from the winning 1987 essay.
1988
Brother Thomas O'Connor, "Library Service to the American Committee to Negotiate Peace and to the Preparatory Inquiry, 1917-1919"
Libraries & Culture V.24 (Spring 1989) pp. 144-157
1989
Frederick J. Stielow, "Librarians, Warriors, and Rapprochement: Carl Milam, Archibald MacLeish, and World War II"
Libraries & Culture V.25 (Fall 1990) pp. 513-533
1990
John Richardson "Teaching General Reference Work: The Essential Paradigm, 1890-1900"
Library Quarterly V.62 (January 1992) pp. 55-89
1991
Margaret Stieg, "Post-War Purge of the German Public Libraries, Democracy, and the American Reaction"
Libraries & Culture V.28 (Spring 1993) pp. 143-164
1992
Joanne E. Passat, "Men in a Feminized Profession: The Male Librarian, 1887-1921"
Libraries & Culture V.28 (Fall 1993) pp. 385-402
1993
Not awarded
1994
Not awarded
1995
Not awarded
1996
Wayne A. Wiegand, "The Amherst Method: The Origins of the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme"
Libraries & Culture V.33 (Spring 1998) pp. 175-94
1997
Cheryl Knott Malone, "Houston's Colored Carnegie Library, 1907-1922"
The Spring, 1999 issue of Libraries & Culture (V.34, pp. 95-112) carries an article by Cheryl Knott Malone entitled, "Autonomy & Accommodations: Houston's Colored Carnegie Library, 1907-1922." This is the same article.
1998
Not awarded
1999
Christine Pawley, "Advocate for Access: Lutie Stearns and the Traveling Libraries of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission, 1895-1914"
Libraries & Culture V.35 No. 3 (Summer 2000)
2000
Not awarded
2001
Not awarded
2002
Marek Sroka, "The Destruction of Jewish Libraries and Archives in Crakow (Krakow) During World War II"
Libraries & Culture V.38 No. 2 (Spring 2003)
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"