Justin Winsor Prize (library)

Award winners

• 1979 Dennis Thomison, The Private Wars of Chicago's Big Bill Thompson
• 1980 Not awarded
• 1981 Mary Niles Maack, Women Librarians in France: The First Generation
• 1982 Pamela Spence Richards, Aryan Librarianship: Academic and Research Libraries Under Hitler & Wayne A. Wiegand, British Propaganda in American Libraries, 1914-1917
• 1983 Robert S. Martin, Maurice F. Tauber's Louis Round Wilson: An Analysis of a Collaboration
• 1984 Larry Yeatman, Literary Culture and the Role of Libraries in Democratic America: Baltimore, 1815-1940
• 1985 Not awarded
• 1986 Ronald Blazek, Adult Education and Economic Opportunity in the Gilded Age: The Library, the Chautauqua, and the Railroads in DeFuniak Springs, Florida
• 1987 Rosalee McReynolds, American Nervousness and Turn of the Century Librarians
• 1988 Brother Thomas O'Connor, Library Service to the American Committee to Negotiate Peace and to the Preparatory Inquiry, 1917-1919
• 1989 Frederick J. Stielow, Librarians, Warriors, and Rapprochement: Carl Milam, Archibald MacLeish, and World War II
• 1990 John Richardson, Teaching General Reference Work: The Essential Paradigm, 1890-1900
• 1991 Margaret Stieg, Post-War Purge of the German Public Libraries, Democracy, and the American Reaction
• 1992 Joanne E. Passet, Men in a Feminized Profession: The Male Librarian, 1887-1921
• 1993 Not awarded
• 1994 Not awarded
• 1995 Not awarded
• 1996 Wayne A. Wiegand, The Amherst Method: The Origins of the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme
• 1997 Cheryl Knott Malone, Houston's Colored Carnegie Library, 1907-1922
• 1998 Not awarded
• 1999 Christine Pawley, Advocate for Access: Lutie Stearns and the Traveling Libraries of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission, 1895-1914
• 2000 Not awarded
• 2001 Not awarded
• 2002 Marek Sroka The Destruction of Jewish Libraries and Archives in Crakow During World War II
• 2003 Not awarded
• 2004 Joyce M. Latham Clergy of the Mind: William S. Learned, the Carnegie Corporation, and the American Library Association
• 2005 Donald C. Boyd The Book Women of Kentucky: The WPA Pack Horse Library Project, 1935-1943
• 2006 Not awarded
• 2007 Dr. Jean L. Preer Promoting Citizenship: Librarians Help Get Out the Vote in the 1952 Presidential Election
• 2008 Jeremy Dibbell A Library of the Most Celebrated & Approved Authors: The First Purchase Collection of Union College
• 2009 Richard LeComte Writers Blocked: The Debate Over Public Lending Right in the United States During the 1980s
• 2010 Dr. Pamela R. Bleisch Spoilsmen and Daughters of the Republic: Political Interference in the Texas State Library during the tenure of Elizabeth Howard West, 1911-1925
• 2011 Cody White Rising from the Ashes: Lessons Learned from the Impact of Proposition 13 on Public Libraries in California
• 2012 Ashley Maynor All the World’s Memory: Implications for the Internet as Archive and Portal for Our Cultural Heritage
• 2013 Nicola Wilson Boots Book-Lovers' library, the Novel, and James Hanley's The Furys
• 2014 Kate Stewart The Man in the Rice Paddies Had Something to READ: Military Libraries and Intellectual Freedom in the Vietnam War
• 2015 Sharon McQueen The Feminization of Ferdinand: Perceptions of Gender Nonconformity in a Classic Children’s Picture Book
• 2016 Steven A. Knowlton Since I was a citizen, I had the right to attend the library: the key role of the public library in the civil rights movement in Memphis
• 2017 Alexander Ames The 'Spirit of The Fatherland': German-American Culture And Community in the Library and Archive of the German Society of Pennsylvania, 1817-2017