Award of Merit - Association for Information Science and Technology

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The Award of Merit is bestowed by the Association for Information Science and Technology. [1] It is an annual prize to an individual for a lifetime of achievement that recognizes sustained contributions to and/or achievements in the field of information science and/or the professions in which it is practiced. The Award of Merit was first given in 1964 to Hans Peter Luhn.

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NameDateMajor accomplishments
Andrew Dillon2023Understanding Users: Designing Experience through Layers of Meaning. [2]
Harry Bruce2022Dean, University of Washington Information School
Steve Sawyer2021Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology .
Diane H. Sonnenwald2020Theory Development in the Information Sciences. [3]
Christine Borgman2019Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World [4]
Toni Carbo2018Executive Director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS)
Thomas D. Wilson 2017"Fifty Years of Information Behaviour Research." [5]
Peter Ingwersen2016The Turn - Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. [6]
Michael E.D. Koenig2015Knowledge Management (Km) Processes in Organizations: Theoretical Foundations and Practice. [7]
Marjorie M.K. Hlava2014President, Access Innovations. [8]
Carol C. Kuhlthau2013Guided Inquiry : Learning in the 21st Century. [9]
Michael Buckland 2012Information and Society. [10]
Gary Marchionini 2011Information Concepts: From Books to Cyberspace Identities. [11]
Linda C. Smith 2010Library and Information Science, Interdisciplinary Perspectives: A Festschrift in Honor of Linda C. Smith. [12]
Carol Tenopir2009Communication Patterns of Engineers. [13]
Clifford Lynch 2008Director of the Coalition for Networked Information.
Donald H. Kraft2007Operations Research for Libraries and Information Agencies; [14] editor Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology for 24 years.
Blaise Cronin 2006Dean of the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University.
Marcia Bates 2005 Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences [15]
Howard D. White 2004“Combining Bibliometrics Information Retrieval and Relevance Theory." [16]
Nicholas J. Belkin 2003Interaction in Information Systems: A Review of Research from Document Retrieval to Knowledge-Based Systems. [17]
Karen Spärck Jones 2002"A Statistical Interpretation of Term Specificity and Its Application in Retrieval." [18]
Patrick G. Wilson2001Two Kinds of Power; an Essay on Bibliographical Control. [19]
Donald R. Swanson 2000 Swanson Linking; Dean of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School.
José-Marie Griffiths1999V.P., board directors, King Research, Inc.
Henry Small1998 Institute for Scientific Information; Bibliometrics of Basic Research. [20] "Macrolevel changes in the structure of co-citation clusters." [21]
Dagobert Soergel1997Best Information Science Book of the Year-1987-Organizing Information: Principles of Data Base and Retrieval Systems. [22]
Jean Tague-Sutcliffe1996Measuring Information: An Information Services Perspective. [23]
Tefko Saracevic 1995“A Study of Information Seeking and Retrieving. III. Searchers Searches and Overlap.” [24] Editor-in Chief Information Processing & Management (1985-2008).
Harold Borko1994"Artificial intelligence and expert systems research and their possible impact on information." [25] American Society for Information Science, president 1966.
Robert M. Hayes 1993Handbook of Data Processing for Libraries. [26]
Robert Saxton Taylor 1992The Making of a Library; the Academic Library in Transition. [27] “Value-Added Processes in the Information Life Cycle.” [28]
Roger K. Summit 1991Founder of Dialog Information Services, "father of modern online searching."
Pauline Atherton Cochrane 1990Papers in Honor of Pauline Atherton Cochrane. [29] One of the most highly cited authors in the field of library and information sciences. [30]
Gerard Salton 1989Dynamic Information and Library Processing. [31] ACM Fellow. [32]
F. Wilfrid Lancaster 1988Toward Paperless Information Systems.; [33] Most cited in 1970s- 1990s. [34]
Donald W. King1987President of ASIS; Key Papers in the Economics of Information. [35]
Bernard M. Fry1986Founding editor, Government Publications Review;Festschrift; [36] Government Publications: Their Role in the National Program for Library and Information Services. [37]
Robert L. Chartrand1985"Computer Technology and the Congress." [38]
Joseph Becker and Martha E. Williams1984Becker, “Communications Networks for Libraries.” [39] and Williams,“Education and Training for Online Use of Data Bases.” [40]
Dale B.Baker1983Director of Chemical Abstracts. [41]
Andrew A. Aines1982Director of COSATI [42]
Herbert S. White 1981Festschrift in Honour of Herbert S. White [43]
Claire Kelly Schultz 1980President of the American Documentation Institute, 1962."Claire Kelly Schultz (1924-2015)." [44]
Frederick Kilgour 1979President of OCLC; Legion of Merit for intelligence work during World War II, “History of Library Computerization.” [45] ,American Library Association Honorary Membership.
Calvin Mooers 1978Coined the term "information retrieval." "A Pioneer Of Information Retrieval." [46]
Allen Kent1977Best Information Science Book of the Year- 1979-The Structure and Governance of Library Networks.; [47] Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. [48]
Laurence Heilprin1976"Laurence B. Heilprin, 1906-1993. [49]
Eugene Garfield 1975Founder of bibliometrics and scientometrics and Science Citation Index; A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield. [50]
Manfred Kochen1974Founding Editor of Human Systems Management. [51]
Jesse Shera 1973Documentation and the organization of knowledge; American Library Association Honorary Membership [52] Papers in honor of Jesse Hauk Shera. [53]
Phyllis Richmond 1972‘‘Hierarchical Definition;’’ [54] "The Art and Science of Classification: Phyllis Allen Richmond, 1921–1997." [55]
Jerrold Orne1971Chaired Z39 Committee, precursor to National Information Standards Organization, Director University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries and professor of Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [56] [57]
Cyril W. Cleverdon 1970 Cranfield Experiments; "Cyril W. Cleverdon." [58]
No Award1969
Carlos Cuadra 1968Best Information Science Book Award-1969- for Annual Review of Information Science and Technology; “Role of the Private Sector in the Development and Improvement of Library and Information Services." [59]
Robert Fairthorne1967"Robert Fairthorne and the Scope of Information Science." [60] “Robert A. Fairthorne, a Biographical Sketch.” [61]
Mortimer Taube 1966“Theoretical Principles of Information Organization in Librarianship.” [62] "On the Shoulder of Giants." [63]
Charles P. Bourne1965“Cost Analysis and Simulation Procedures for the Evaluation of Large Information Systems.” [64]
Hans Peter Luhn 1964 Luhn algorithm; H.P. Luhn: Pioneer of Information Science. [65]

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