Donald G. Davis Article Award

Previous Winners

2022 Dr. Alex H. Poole

"Tearing the Shroud of Invisibility': Communities of Protest Information Practices and the Fight for LGBTQ Rights in US Librarianship.

Library Quarterly, vol. 90, no. 4 (2020), pp. 530-562.

2020 Dr. Laura E. Helton

"On Decimals, Catalogs, and Racial Imaginaries of Reading." PMLA 134, no. 1 (2019): 99-120.

Published in Information & Culture 1877-1925,”

2018 Dr. Jennifer Burek Pierce

"The Reign of Children: The Role of Games and Toys in American Public Libraries"

Published in Information & Culture 1877-1925,”

2016 Steven Witt

"Agents of Change: The Rise of International Librarianship and the Age of Globalization"

Library Trends vol. 62, no. 3 (2014) pp. 504-518



2014 Debra Gold Hansen

"Depoliticizing the California State Library: The Political and Professional Transformation of

James Gillis, 1899-1917"

Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 1 (2013), 68-90



2012 Bernadette Lear, Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg

"Yankee librarian in the Diamond City: Hannah Packard James, the Osterhout Free Library of

Wilkes-Barre, and the public library movement in Pennsylvania"

Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 78, 124-162



2010 Kate McDowell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Surveying the Field: The Research Model of Women in Librarianship"

The Library Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 3, (2009): 279-300



2006 Not Awarded



2004 Virgil Blake, Queens College, City University of New York

"James Forging the Anglo-American Cataloging Alliance: Descriptive Cataloging, 1830-1908"

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3/4, 2003



2002 Carl Ostrowski, Middle Tennessee State University

"James Alfred Pearce and the Question of a National Library in Antebellum America"

Libraries & Culture, Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring 2000



2000 Louise Robbins, University of Wisconsin at Madison

"Fighting McCarthyism Through Film: A Library Censorship Case Becomes a Storm Center"

Journal of Library and Information Science Education 39 (Fall 1998): 291-311



The Donald G. Davis Article Award was awarded for the first time in 2000.