The Margaret Mann Citation will not be presented in 2021. Please visit the Core Awards & Scholarships page for information on the Core awards that will be presented for 2020-2021.
Purpose
The Margaret Mann Citation is awarded by the ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section for outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification either through publication of significant professional literature, participation in professional cataloging associations, or valuable contributions to practice in individual libraries.
Criteria
The Margaret Mann Citation Committee bases its selection on nominations made by members of the profession or friends of the profession—anyone with a worthy candidate is urged to nominate that person.
Achievements to be considered include:
- Notable publications, such as an article, pamphlet, or book;
- Outstanding contribution to the activities of professional cataloging associations;
- Outstanding contribution to the technical improvement of cataloging and classification and/or the introduction of a new technique of recognized importance;
- Outstanding contribution in the area of teaching cataloging and classification.
Except in unusual circumstances, the achievement shall have culminated within the last five years.
Nationality and professional association membership are not among the criteria. Current employees of OCLC are not eligible for the award.
Submission
The nomination shall include the formal statement of nomination with some rationale and a resume or narrative summary of the nominee's career and achievements. Nominations of those nominated in a given year but who are not selected for the citation that year will be forwarded to the following year's committee for automatic reconsideration. Further consideration beyond this requires renomination.
Endorsements or "seconds" are welcomed inasmuch as they provide substantive information on the achievements of the candidate, but the number of additional letters is not the sole determining factor in the selection.
Award
The winner receives a citation and OCLC donates a $2,000 scholarship to the U.S. or Canadian library school of the winner's choice.
Presentation
The award is presented during the American Library Association Annual Conference each year at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony and Membership Meeting.
Award Jury
The Margaret Mann Citation will not be presented in 2021. Please visit the Core Awards & Scholarships page for information on the Core awards that will be presented for 2020-2021.
Award Recipients
Year | Recipient(s) | Year | Recipient(s) | Year | Recipient(s) | ||
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2020 | Julie Moore | 1992 | Elaine Svenonius | 1965 | Laura Catherine Colvin | ||
2019 | Terry Reese, Jr. | 1991 | Margaret F. Maxwell | 1964 | Catherine MacQuarrie | ||
2018 | Bruce Chr. Johnson | 1990 | Ronald Hagler | 1963 | Arthur Hugh Chaplin | ||
2017 | Hope A. Olson | 1989 | Lois Mai Chan | 1962 | Willis E. Wright | ||
2016 | Paige Andrew | 1988 | Ben R. Tucker | 1961 | John William Cronin | ||
2015 | Magda El-Sherbini | 1987 | Dorothy Glasby | 1960 | M. Ruth MacDonald | ||
2014 | Sara Shatford Layne | 1986 | Jean Weihs | 1959 | Andrew D. Osborn | ||
2013 | Judith A. Kuhagen | 1985 | Lucia Rather | 1958 | Esther J. Piercy | ||
2012 | Jane Greenberg | 1984 | Dorothy Anderson | 1957 | Daniel Judson Haykin | ||
2011 | Edward Swanson | 1983 | Frances Hinton | 1956 | Susan Grey Akers | ||
2010 | Olivia M. A. Madison | 1982 | Elizabeth Baughman | 1955 | Seymour Lubetzky | ||
2009 | Francis L. Miksa | 1981 | Sanford Berman | 1954 | Pauline A. Seely | ||
2008 | Martha Yee | 1980 | Peter Lewis | 1953 | Maurice F. Tauber | ||
2007 | Robert Wolven | 1979 | Michael Gorman and Paul Winkler | 1952 | Marie Louise Prevost | ||
2006 | Judith Hopkins | 1978 | Derek William Austin | 1951 | Lucile M. Morsch | ||
2005 | Dorothy McGarry | 1977 | Phyllis Allen Richmond | ||||
2004 | Barbara Tillett | 1976 | Eva Verona | ||||
2003 | Thomas J. Delsey | 1975 | Margaret Webster Ayrault | ||||
2002 | Jean Hirons | 1974 | Frederick Kilgour | ||||
2001 | Brian E. C. Schottlaender | 1973 | Doralyn J. Hickey | ||||
2000 | Patricia M. Thomas | 1972 | Edmund L. Applebaum | ||||
1999 | Nancy B. Olson | 1971 | Henriette D. Avram | ||||
1998 | John D. Byrum |
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S. R. Ranganathan | ||||
1997 | Sheila S. Intner | 1969 | Katharine L. Ball | ||||
1996 | Arlene G. Taylor | 1968 | Paul S. Dunkin | ||||
1995 | Arnold Wajenberg | 1967 | C. Sumner Spalding | ||||
1994 | Carol Ann Mandel | 1966 | F. Bernice Field | ||||
1993 | Janet Swan Hill |