Honorary Membership

About the Honorary Membership
Honorary membership may be conferred on a living citizen of any country whose contribution to librarianship or a closely related field is so outstanding that it is of lasting importance to the advancement of the whole field of library service. It is intended to reflect honor upon the ALA as well as upon the individual.
Name | Title | Year |
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Dolly Parton | Dolly Parton | 2023 - Winner |
Maureen Sullivan | Maureen Sullivan | 2022 - Recipient |
Jim Neal | Jim Neal | 2022 - Winner |
Robert Wedgeworth | Robert Wedgeworth | 2021 - Winner |
Robert Wedgeworth | 2020 - Recipient | |
Carla Hayden | Carla Hayden | 2018 - Recipient |
Ann K. Symons | Ann K. Symons | 2017 - Recipient |
Patricia Glass Schuman | Patricia Glass Schuman | 2014 - Recipient |
No Awards Given | 2013 - No Awards Given | |
No Awards Given | 2013 - No Awards Given | |
Jack Reed | U. S. Senator, (D, RI) | 2012 - Recipient |
Betty J. Turock | Professor & Dean Emeritus, Rutgers University | 2012 - Recipient |
Yohannes Gebregeorgis | 2011 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 2010 - No Awards Given | |
Judith F. Krug | Judith F. Krug | 2009 - Recipient |
Pat Mora | 2008 - Recipient | |
Effie Lee Morris | 2008 - Recipient | |
Peggy Sullivan | 2008 - Recipient | |
David Cohen | 2007 - Recipient | |
Barbara Gittings | 2007 - Recipient | |
Alice L. Hagemeyer | 2007 - Recipient | |
Anita R. Schiller | 2007 - Recipient | |
Alphonse F. Trezza | 2007 - Recipient | |
Robert D. Stueart | 2006 - Recipient | |
Lotsee F. Patterson | 2005 - Recipient | |
Nettie B. Taylor | 2005 - Recipient | |
Sanford Berman | 2004 - Recipient | |
Norman Horrocks | Library Educator and Publisher | 2004 - Recipient |
Samuel F. Morrison | Public Librarian | 2003 - Recipient |
Lucille Cole Thomas | 2003 - Recipient | |
E.J. Josey | 2002 - Recipient | |
Seymour Lubetzky | 2002 - Recipient | |
Arnulfo D. Trejo | 2001 - Recipient | |
Jeanne Hurley Simon | 2000 - Recipient | |
Vartan Gregorian | 2000 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1999 - No Awards Given | |
Wendell Ford | 1998 - Recipient | |
K. Wayne Smith | 1998 - Recipient | |
Bill Gates | 1998 - Recipient | |
Melinda Gates | 1998 - Recipient | |
Sidney R. Yates | 1998 - Recipient | |
Henriette Avram | 1997 - Recipient | |
Oprah Winfrey | 1997 - Recipient | |
Pat Williams | 1996 - Recipient | |
Eileen Cooke | 1996 - Recipient | |
Paul Simon | 1996 - Recipient | |
Mark Hatfield | 1996 - Recipient | |
Nancy Kassebaum | 1996 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1995 - No Awards Given | |
Jimmy Carter | 1994 - Recipient | |
Virginia H. Mathews | 1994 - Recipient | |
Robert Gordon Vosper | 1993 - Recipient | |
Joseph Becker | 1992 - Recipient | |
Miriam L. Hornback | 1991 - Recipient | |
Robert W. Frase | 1991 - Recipient | |
Barbara Bush | 1990 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1989 - No Awards Given | |
Ralph E. Ellsworth | 1988 - Recipient | |
Elizabeth W. Stone | 1988 - Recipient | |
Spencer G. Shaw | 1988 - Recipient | |
Eric Moon | 1987 - Recipient | |
Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr. | 1987 - Recipient | |
Major Owens | 1987 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1986 - No Awards Given | |
Virginia G. Young | 1985 - Recipient | |
Lester E. Asheim | 1984 - Recipient | |
William Ford | 1984 - Recipient | |
Jack Dalton | 1983 - Recipient | |
Clara Stanton Jones | 1983 - Recipient | |
Claiborne Pell | 1983 - Recipient | |
Johnny Carson | 1983 - Recipient | |
Carl A. Elliott | 1982 - Recipient | |
Frederick G. Kilgour | 1982 - Recipient | |
George Aiken | 1982 - Recipient | |
Virginia Haviland | 1982 - Recipient | |
John Brademas | 1981 - Recipient | |
Jacob Javits | 1981 - Recipient | |
Lawrence Clark Powell | 1981 - Recipient | |
Bessie B. Moore | 1980 - Recipient | |
Lowell A. Martin | 1979 - Recipient | |
Frances Neel Cheney | 1978 - Recipient | |
Fred C. Cole | 1978 - Recipient | |
William S. Dix | University Librarian, former ALA President | 1978 - Recipient |
No awards given | 1977 - No Awards Given | |
Virginia Lacy Jones | Library Educator | 1976 - Recipient |
Edmon Low | University Librarian | 1976 - Recipient |
Herman Liebaers | 1976 - Recipient | |
Allie Beth Martin | Public Librarian, former ALA President | 1976 - Recipient |
Daniel Melcher | Publisher | 1976 - Recipient |
Mary U. Rothrock | Public Librarian, former ALA President | 1976 - Recipient |
Jesse H. Shera | Library Educator | 1976 - Recipient |
Mary V. Gaver | Library Educator, former ALA President | 1976 - Recipient |
Robert B. Downs | University Librarian, former ALA President | 1976 - Recipient |
Carl Perkins | U.S. Congressman | 1975 - Recipient |
William O. Douglas | 1975 - Recipient | |
Augusta Baker | Children's Librarian | 1975 - Recipient |
Alex P. Allain | Intellectual Freedom Advocate | 1975 - Recipient |
No awards given | 1974 - No Awards Given | |
Germaine Krettek | 1973 - Recipient | |
David H. Clift | 1972 - Recipient | |
Luther H. Evans | Librarian of Congress | 1972 - Recipient |
Charlemae Rollins | 1972 - Recipient | |
Frank Francis | 1971 - Recipient | |
Ralph R. Shaw | 1971 - Recipient | |
Elizabeth Homer Morton | 1970 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1969 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1968 - No Awards Given | |
Verner Warren Clapp | 1967 - Recipient | |
John E. Fogarty | 1966 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1965 - No Awards Given | |
Joseph Lewis Wheeler | 1964 - Recipient | |
Edwin C. Austin | 1963 - Recipient | |
Keyes DeWitt Metcalf | 1963 - Recipient | |
John Miller Chancellor | 1962 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1961 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1960 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1959 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1958 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1957 - No Awards Given | |
Lister Hill | 1956 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1955 - No Awards Given | |
Carleton B. Joeckel | 1954 - Recipient | |
Linda A. Eastman | 1954 - Recipient | |
Carl Hastings Milam | 1954 - Recipient | |
Charles Harvey Brown | 1954 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1953 - No Awards Given | |
Harry Miller Lydenberg | 1952 - Recipient | |
William Warner Bishop | 1951 - Recipient | |
Helen E. Haines | 1951 - Recipient | |
Robert MacDonald Lester | 1951 - Recipient | |
Louis Round Wilson | 1951 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1950 - No Awards Given | |
David H. Stevens | 1949 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1948 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1947 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1946 - No Awards Given | |
Frederick G. Melcher | 1945 - Recipient | |
Halsey William Wilson | 1945 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1944 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1943 - No Awards Given | |
Frederick P. Keppel | 1942 - Recipient | |
Theodore S. Chapman | 1942 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1941 - No Awards Given | |
Herbert Putnam | 1940 - Recipient | |
Frank Pierce Hill | 1940 - Recipient | |
John H. Finley | 1939 - Recipient | |
Ross A. Collins | 1938 - Recipient | |
No awards given | 1937 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1936 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1935 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1934 - No Awards Given | |
William L. Clements | 1933 - Recipient | |
Wiberforce Eames | 1933 - Recipient | |
Charles Evans | 1933 - Recipient | |
Daniel Berkeley Updike | Printer | 1933 - Recipient |
Richard Rogers Bowker | Publisher | 1933 - Recipient |
No awards given | 1932 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1931 - No Awards Given | |
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge | Benefactor | 1930 - Recipient |
Herbert Clark Hoover | U.S. President | 1929 - Recipient |
No awards given | 1928 - No Awards Given | |
Charles Alexander Nelson | Academic Librarian | 1927 - Recipient |
No awards given | 1926 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1925 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1924 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1923 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1922 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1921 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1920 - No Awards Given | |
Frank A. Vanderlip | Chairman, Library War Council | 1919 - Recipient |
No awards given | 1918 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1918 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1917 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1916 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1915 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1914 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1913 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1912 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1911 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1910 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1909 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1908 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1907 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1906 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1905 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1904 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1904 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1903 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1902 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1901 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1900 - No Awards Given | |
Andrew Carnegie | Benefactor | 1899 - Recipient |
Bishop John H. Vincent | Founder, Chautauqua Institution | 1898 - Recipient |
No awards given | 1897 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1896 - No Awards Given | |
Anson Judd Upson | 1895 - Recipient | |
Charles W. Jencks | 1895 - Recipient | |
Ezekiel A. Harris | 1895 - Recipient | |
Edward Everett Hale | 1895 - Recipient | |
Reuben Aldridge Guild | University Librarian | 1895 - Recipient |
Edwin H. Grant | 1895 - Recipient | |
Daniel Coit Gilman | University President | 1895 - Recipient |
Willard Fiske | 1895 - Recipient | |
S. Hastings Grant | University Librarian | 1895 - Recipient |
No awards given | 1894 - No Awards Given | |
Henry Barnard | U.S. Commissioner of Education | 1893 - Recipient |
No awards given | 1892 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1891 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1890 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1889 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1888 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1887 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1886 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1885 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1884 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1883 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1882 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1881 - No Awards Given | |
No awards given | 1880 - No Awards Given | |
Frederick O Prince | Library Trustee | 1879 - Recipient |
Charles William Eliot | University President | 1879 - Recipient |