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.