Herbert Putnam Honor Fund Award

About the Herbert Putnam Honor Fund Award This grant-in-aid, presented to an American librarian of outstanding ability, is for travel, writing, or other use that might improve his or her service to the library profesion or society.

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1988 Winner(s)

Charles Seavey

Assistant Professor, University of Arizona library school

The monies will be used to do research in the Library of Congress archives. Seavey intends to write a journal article about Philip Lee Phillips, LC's first map librarian.