Beta Phi Mu Award

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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. Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness.jpg
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.

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The printer's mark of 100px, the dolphin and anchor seen here on a 1558 title page, serves as the insignia of Beta Phi Mu.
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Ching-chih Chen-Beta Phi Mu Award-2008
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Charles C. Williamson- Beta Phi Mu Award- 1964
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Gretchen Knief Schenk - Beta Phi Mu Award-1955
Beta Phi Mu AwardDateUniversity
Emily Knox [2] 2023 University of Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
No Award2022
Marcia Rapchak [3] 2021 University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information
John M. Budd [4] 2020School 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 Knowles2017School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College
Annabel K. Stephens2016School of Library and Information Science, University of Southern Mississippi
Beverly P. Lynch 2015 Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Beth M. Paskoff2014School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University
Elizabeth Aversa2013School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama
Mary Wagner2012Library and Information Science, St. Catherine University (St. Paul, MN)
Leslie S.J. Farmer2011 California State University Long Beach
Ken Haycock2010 San Jose State University
C. James Schmidt2009San Jose State University [6]
Ching-chih Chen 2008Simmons College, Boston [7]
Barbara Immroth2007 University of Texas at Austin School of Information [8]
Lois Mai Chan 2006University of Kentucky, School of Library and Information Science [9]
Lynn Akin2005School 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 2003School of Library and Information Science, University of South Florida
Leigh Stewart Estabrook2002University of Illinois School of Information Sciences [11]
Lotsee Patterson 2001 University of Oklahoma [12]
Shirley Fitzgibbons2000 Indiana University
D.W. Krummel1999University of Illinois School of Information Sciences [13]
Elizabeth W. Stone 1998Department of Library and Information Science Catholic University
Charles Bunge1997University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert N. Broadus1996Northern Illinois University
Elizabeth Futas 1995.University of Rhode Island
Jane B. Robbins1994University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kathryn Luther Henderson1993University of Illinois School of Information Sciences
Guy Garrison1992Drexel University
Edward G. Holley [14] 1991University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Robert D. Stueart1990Simmons College, Boston
Charles D. Patterson1989Louisiana State University [15]
Samuel Rothstein1988University of British Columbia
Sarah K. Vann [16] 1987University of Hawaii
Agnes Lytton Reagan1986American Library Association Accreditation Officer
Robert M. Hayes 1985University of California Los Angeles
Jane Anne Hannigan1984Columbia University, Rutgers University
J. Periam Danton1983University of California, Berkeley
David K. Berninghausen1982University of Minnesota
Haynes McMullen1981University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Virginia Lacy Jones 1980Atlanta University
Conrad Rawski1979Case Western Reserve University
Frances E. Henne 1978Columbia University
Russell E. Bidlack [17] 1977University of Michigan
Carolyn Whitenack1976Purdue University
Kenneth R. Shaffer1975Simmons College
Martha Boaz 1974University of Southern California
Lester Asheim [18] 1973 University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Margaret E. Monroe1972University of Wisconsin-Madison
Leon Carnovsky 1971 University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Raynard C. Swank1970University of California Berkeley
Ethel M. Fair [19] 1969Douglass College Library School- Rutgers
Sarah R. Reed [20] 1968School of Library Science, Emporia State University
Louis Shores 1967 Florida State University
James J. Kortendick [21] [22] 1966Department 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] 1964Columbia University
Ernest J. Reece [24] 1963Columbia University
Florrinell F. Morton 1962Louisiana State University
Robert L. Gitler [25] 1961Columbia University
Louis Round Wilson 1960 University of Chicago Graduate Library School, University of North Carolina
Anita Miller Hostetter1959Chief, Office of Education for Librarianship and secretary, Board of Education, American Library Association
Florence Van Hoesen [26] 1958Syracuse University
Lucy M. Crissey1957Columbia University. Contributor to education for librarianship section of The Public Library Inquiry. [27]
Margaret I Rufsvold [28] 1956Indiana University.
Gretchen Knief Schenk 1955Defender of Grapes of Wrath, [29] [30] advocate of library desegregation. [31]
Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness [32] 1954University of Michigan

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