Beta Phi Mu Award

Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness, first recipient of the Beta Phi Mu Award in 1954, was dean of the University of Michigan Library Science Department from 1940 to 1964.

The Beta Phi Mu Award is an annual prize recognizing an individual for distinguished service to education for librarianship. First bestowed in 1954, Award recipients include various prominent leaders in the field of librarianship.[1] The Award is sponsored by the international honor society Beta Phi Mu (ΒΦΜ or βφμ), founded in 1948 to promote scholastic achievement among library and information science students.

The printer's mark of Aldus Manutius, the dolphin and anchor seen here on a 1558 title page, serves as the insignia of Beta Phi Mu.
Ching-chih Chen-Beta Phi Mu Award-2008
Charles C. Williamson- Beta Phi Mu Award- 1964
Gretchen Knief Schenk - Beta Phi Mu Award-1955
Beta Phi Mu Award Date University
Danielle Maurici-Pollock 2024 Simmons University School of Library and Information Science
Emily Knox[2] 2023 University of Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
No Award 2022
Marcia Rapchak[3] 2021 University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information
John M. Budd[4] 2020 School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri
Mirah J. Dow. 2019. School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University.
Clara Chu 2018 Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign[5]
Em Claire Knowles 2017 School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College
Annabel K. Stephens 2016 School of Library and Information Science, University of Southern Mississippi
Beverly P. Lynch 2015 Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Beth M. Paskoff 2014 School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University
Elizabeth Aversa 2013 School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama
Mary Wagner 2012 Library and Information Science, St. Catherine University (St. Paul, MN)
Leslie S.J. Farmer 2011 California State University Long Beach
Ken Haycock 2010 San Jose State University
C. James Schmidt 2009 San Jose State University[6]
Ching-chih Chen 2008 Simmons College, Boston [7]
Barbara Immroth 2007 University of Texas at Austin School of Information[8]
Lois Mai Chan 2006 University of Kentucky, School of Library and Information Science[9]
Lynn Akin 2005 School of Library and Information Studies.Texas Woman's University
Linda C. Smith[10] 2004 University of Illinois School of Information Sciences
Kathleen de la Peña McCook 2003 School of Library and Information Science, University of South Florida
Leigh Stewart Estabrook 2002 University of Illinois School of Information Sciences[11]
Lotsee Patterson 2001 University of Oklahoma[12]
Shirley Fitzgibbons 2000 Indiana University
Donald William Krummel 1999 University of Illinois School of Information Sciences[13]
Elizabeth W. Stone 1998 Department of Library and Information Science Catholic University
Charles Bunge 1997 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert N. Broadus 1996 Northern Illinois University
Elizabeth Futas 1995. University of Rhode Island
Jane B. Robbins 1994 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kathryn Luther Henderson 1993 University of Illinois School of Information Sciences
Guy Garrison 1992 Drexel University
Edward G. Holley[14] 1991 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Robert D. Stueart 1990 Simmons College, Boston
Charles D. Patterson 1989 Louisiana State University[15]
Samuel Rothstein 1988 University of British Columbia
Sarah K. Vann[16] 1987 University of Hawaii
Agnes Lytton Reagan 1986 American Library Association Accreditation Officer
Robert M. Hayes 1985 University of California Los Angeles
Jane Anne Hannigan 1984 Columbia University, Rutgers University
J. Periam Danton 1983 University of California, Berkeley
David K. Berninghausen 1982 University of Minnesota
Haynes McMullen 1981 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Virginia Lacy Jones 1980 Atlanta University
Conrad Rawski 1979 Case Western Reserve University
Frances E. Henne 1978 Columbia University
Russell E. Bidlack [17] 1977 University of Michigan
Carolyn Whitenack 1976 Purdue University
Kenneth R. Shaffer 1975 Simmons College
Martha Boaz 1974 University of Southern California
Lester Asheim[18] 1973 University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Margaret E. Monroe 1972 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Leon Carnovsky 1971 University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Raynard C. Swank 1970 University of California Berkeley
Ethel M. Fair [19] 1969 Douglass College Library School- Rutgers
Sarah R. Reed [20] 1968 School of Library Science, Emporia State University
Louis Shores 1967 Florida State University
James J. Kortendick[21][22] 1966 Department of Library and Information Science. Catholic University of America
Jesse H. Shera 1965 University of Chicago Graduate Library School, Case Western Reserve University
Charles C. Williamson[23] 1964 Columbia University
Ernest J. Reece [24] 1963 Columbia University
Florrinell F. Morton 1962 Louisiana State University
Robert L. Gitler [25] 1961 Columbia University
Louis Round Wilson 1960 University of Chicago Graduate Library School, University of North Carolina
Anita Miller Hostetter 1959 Chief, Office of Education for Librarianship and secretary, Board of Education, American Library Association
Florence Van Hoesen [26] 1958 Syracuse University
Lucy M. Crissey 1957 Columbia University. Contributor to education for librarianship section of The Public Library Inquiry.[27]
Margaret I Rufsvold[28] 1956 Indiana University.
Gretchen Knief Schenk 1955 Defender of Grapes of Wrath,[29][30] advocate of library desegregation.[31]
Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness[32] 1954 University of Michigan
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