Joseph W. Lippincott Award
The Joseph W. Lippincott Award was established in 1938 by the American Library Association.
It is presented annually to a librarian for distinguished service to the profession of librarianship, such service to include outstanding participation in the activities of the professional library association, notable published professional writing, or other significant activity on behalf of the profession and its aims.
It is named for its founder, the publisher Joseph Wharton Lippincott of J. B. Lippincott & Co. His son, Joseph Wharton Lippincott Jr., also a publisher, and a chair of National Library Week regularly attended the annual conference of the American Library Association to present the award.
| Joseph W. Lippincott Award | Date | Major accomplishments |
|---|---|---|
| Julius C. Jefferson Jr. | 2023 | Section Head, Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade at the Library of Congress, President, American Library Association, President, Freedom to Read Foundation. |
| Kenneth Yamashita | 2022 | President, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, Joint Council of Librarians of Color. |
| Robert Randolph Newlen | 2021 | Deputy Librarian of Congress, American Library Association Endowment Trustee. |
| Mary Ghikas | 2020 | Executive Director, American Library Association. |
| Kathleen de la Peña McCook | 2019 | Professor of librarianship, University of South Florida, Beta Phi Mu Award, President, Association for Library and Information Science Education. |
| Sally Gardner Reed | 2018 | Executive Director, FOLUSA, (Friends of Libraries USA), integration of FOLUSA into American Library Association as United for Libraries. |
| Barbara Stripling | 2017 | President, American Library Association, President, Freedom to Read Foundation, professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies. |
| Maureen Sullivan | 2016 | President, American Library Association, President Association of College and Research Libraries, President Library Leadership and Management Association. |
| James G. Neal | 2015 | Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, President, American Library Association. |
| Maurice J. Freedman | 2014 | President, American Library Association, Director, Westchester Library System, NY. |
| Carla Hayden | 2013 | Librarian of Congress, President, American Library Association, executive director, Enoch Pratt Free Library. |
| Carla J. Stoffle | 2012 | Dean of the University of Arizona Libraries, ALA Medal of Excellence. |
| Camila Alire | 2011 | President, American Library Association, President, REFORMA. |
| Thomas C. Phelps | 2010 | Director of the Division of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Director Salt Lake City Public Library, Central Library. |
| Beverly P. Lynch | 2009 | Dean, University of California Los Angeles UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, President, American Library Association, Beta Phi Mu Award. |
| Duane Webster | 2008 | Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries, founder of Library Copyright Alliance. |
| Winston Tabb | 2007 | Dean of University Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins University, Associate Librarian of Congress. |
| Betty J. Turock | 2006 | President, American Library Association, Dean and professor, Rutgers School of Communication and Information |
| Donald J. Sager | 2005 | President, Public Library Association, Director of the Milwaukee Public Library. |
| Clifford A. Lynch | 2004 | Director, Coalition for Networked Information, President and recipient of Award of Merit, American Society for Information Science and Technology. |
| Susan Kent | 2003 | Director of Los Angeles Public Library, President, Public Library Association. |
| Ann K. Symons | 2002 | President and Treasurer, American Library Association. |
| Patricia G. Schuman | 2001 | President and Treasurer, American Library Association, Founder, Neal-Schuman Publishers |
| John Y. Cole | 2000 | Founding director of the Center for the Book, Library of Congress, first official historian of the Library of Congress. |
| Peggy Barber | 1999 | Director of Communications, founder of ALA Graphics, American Library Association. |
| Judith Krug | 1998 | Director, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Lirary Association, Director, Freedom to Read Foundation. |
| Richard M. Dougherty | 1997 | Director, Libraries University of California, Berkeley and University of Michigan, President, American Library Association. |
| F. William Summers | 1996 | Dean, Florida State University School of Information, President, American Library Association. |
| Norman Horrocks | 1995 | Director, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Officer of the Order of Canada. |
| Frank Kurt Cylke | 1994 | Director, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the Library of Congress. |
| John G. Lorenz | 1993 | Director, Library Services Branch, U.S. Office of Education, Deputy Librarian of Congress, executive director of the Association of Research Libraries. |
| John N. Berry | 1992 | Editor of Library Journal for over fifty years. |
| Peggy Sullivan | 1991 | President and executive director, American Library Association, author of Carl H. Milam and the American Library Association. |
| Alphonse F. Trezza | 1990 | Executive Director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Director of the Illinois State Library. |
| Robert Wedgeworth | 1989 | President, International Federation of Library Associations, University Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Founding President of ProLiteracy Worldwide, executive director of the American Library Association. |
| Henriette D. Avram | 1988 | Developed the MARC format (Machine Readable Cataloging), Associate Librarian for Collections Services, Library of Congress. |
| Edward G. Holley | 1987 | Dean UNC School of Information and Library Science, President, American Library Association, Beta Phi Mu Award. |
| Elizabeth W. Stone | 1986 | Director, Catholic University School of Library and Information Science, President of the American Library Association, Beta Phi Mu Award. |
| Robert G. Vosper | 1985 | Director, libraries at the University of California, Los Angeles, President, American Library Association, President, Association of College and Research Libraries. |
| Nettie Barcroft Taylor | 1984 | Director, Maryland State Library, Command Librarian for the U.S. Army in Heidelberg, Germany, Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. |
| Russell Bidlack | 1983 | Dean, School of Library Science, University of Michigan, chair, Committee on Accreditation. Beta Phi Mu Award. |
| Keith Doms | 1982 | Director, Free Library of Philadelphia , President, American Library Association. |
| Eric Moon | 1981 | Editor-in-Chief, Library Journal, President, American Library Association. |
| E.J. Josey | 1980 | President, American Library Association, President Black Caucus of the American Library Association. |
| Helen H. Lyman | 1979 | Director Adult Education Survey at American Library Association, faculty member, University of Wisconsin–Madison iSchool. |
| Henry T. Drennan | 1978 | State Librarian Idaho State Library, Senior Program Officer, Office of Libraries and Learning Resources, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. |
| Virginia Lacy Jones | 1977 | Dean, Atlanta University School of Library Sciences, President, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Beta Phi Mu Award. |
| Lester Asheim | 1976 | Director, International Relations and Director. Office for Library Education, American Library Association. Professor, University of Chicago Graduate Library School and UNC School of Information and Library Science, Beta Phi Mu Award. |
| Leon Carnovsky | 1975 | Professor, University of Chicago Graduate Library School, editor of the Library Quarterly, President, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Beta Phi Mu Award |
| Jerrold Orne | 1974 | Chaired Z39 Committee, precursor to National Information Standards Organization, Librarian who established a working reference library for the first United Nations Conference. Director, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries and professor of Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| Jesse H. Shera | 1973 | President, Association for Library and Information Science Education, library historian,Beta Phi Mu Award. |
| Guy R. Lyle | 1972 | President, Association of College and Research Libraries, Director of libraries at Louisiana State University, and Emory University, author of The Administration of the College Library. |
| William S. Dix | 1971 | Librarian at Princeton University, President, American Library Association, primary author of The Freedom to Read statement. |
| Paul Howard | 1970 | First Director of American Library Association Washington Office. Library of Congress. Chief Librarian, Office of War Information, World War II. |
| Germaine Krettek | 1969 | Director of the American Library Association, Washington Office (1957-1972), secured the actual funding for rural library service which was authorized under the Library Services Act. |
| Lucile Nix | 1968 | Chief Library Consultant for the Public Libraries of Georgia, President, Southeastern Library Association,Tennessee Library Association |
| Edmon Low | 1967 | Head librarian, Oklahoma State University 1940–1967 named in his honor: Edmon Low Library, President, Association of College and Research Libraries. |
| Keyes DeWitt Metcalf | 1966 | Director, Harvard Library, President, American Library Association, author. |
| Frances Clarke Sayers | 1965 | Superintendent of the Department of Work with Children, New York Public Library, author, lecturer and consultant on children's literature. |
| Robert Bingham Downs | 1964 | University Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, President, American Library Association, President, Illinois Library Association, author. |
| Frances E. Henne | 1963 | Professor, University of Chicago Graduate Library School and School of Library Service at Columbia University, AASL Standards for School Library Programs, Beta Phi Mu Award. |
| David Horace Clift | 1962 | Executive Director, American Library Association, President of the Connecticut Library Association, U.S. Army, Office of Strategic Services during World War II. |
| Joseph L. Wheeler | 1961 | Director, Enoch Pratt Free Library, author Library War Service during World War I. |
| Verner W. Clapp | 1960 | Library of Congress- many positions including Acting Librarian of Congress, author, founder of the United Nations Library, President of the Council on Library Resources. |
| Essae Martha Culver | 1959 | First state librarian of Louisiana, President, American Library Association, President, Louisiana Library Association. |
| Carleton B. Joeckel | 1958 | Director, Berkeley Public Library, Captain in World War I-Silver Star, President, California Library Association and Michigan Library Association, Professor, University of Chicago Graduate Library School, author. |
| Flora Belle Ludington | 1957 | Head librarian for Mount Holyoke College, President, American Library Association. |
| Ralph A. Ulveling | 1956 | Director, Detroit Public Library, President, Michigan Library Association, President, American Library Association, defender of intellectual freedom. |
| Emerson Greenaway | 1955 | Director, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Director, Free Library of Philadelphia, President, American Library Association. |
| Marian C. Manley | 1953 | Chair, American Library Association. Committee on Relations with Local Groups, Head, Business Branch Newark Public Library, Editor, Special Libraries Association journal, Special Libraries. |
| Carl Vitz | 1952 | Director, Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, President, American Library Association. |
| Helen E. Haines | 1951 | Author of Living with Books, editor, lecturer. |
| H.W. Wilson | 1950 | Publisher, founder of the H. W. Wilson Company, creator of the Readers' Guide, the Cumulative Book Index, and the Book Review Digest. |
| Harry Miller Lydenberg | 1949 | Director, New York Public Library, President, American Library Association, author. |
| Carl H. Milam | 1948 | Executive Director of the American Library Association, Library War Service in World War I, Director of the United Nations Library. |
| No award given | 1943-1947 | |
| Herbert Putnam | 1939 | Librarian of Congress, Librarian, Boston Public Library, President, American Library Association. |
| Mary U. Rothrock | 1938 | Supervisor, Tennessee Valley Authority libraries, President, Tennessee Library Association and Southeastern Library Association, President, American Library Association. |
| Jennie M. Flexner | 1938 | Readers' advisor, New York Public Library, suffragist, author. |
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