Previous Winners
2022 Dr. Alex H. Poole
"Tearing the Shroud of Invisibility': Communities of Protest Information Practices and the Fight for LGBTQ Rights in US Librarianship.
Library Quarterly, vol. 90, no. 4 (2020), pp. 530-562.
2020 Dr. Laura E. Helton
"On Decimals, Catalogs, and Racial Imaginaries of Reading." PMLA 134, no. 1 (2019): 99-120.
Published in Information & Culture 1877-1925,”
2018 Dr. Jennifer Burek Pierce
"The Reign of Children: The Role of Games and Toys in American Public Libraries"
Published in Information & Culture 1877-1925,”
2016 Steven Witt
"Agents of Change: The Rise of International Librarianship and the Age of Globalization"
Library Trends vol. 62, no. 3 (2014) pp. 504-518
2014 Debra Gold Hansen
"Depoliticizing the California State Library: The Political and Professional Transformation of
James Gillis, 1899-1917"
Information & Culture: A Journal of History v. 48, no. 1 (2013), 68-90
2012 Bernadette Lear, Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg
"Yankee librarian in the Diamond City: Hannah Packard James, the Osterhout Free Library of
Wilkes-Barre, and the public library movement in Pennsylvania"
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 78, 124-162
2010 Kate McDowell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Surveying the Field: The Research Model of Women in Librarianship"
The Library Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 3, (2009): 279-300
2006 Not Awarded
2004 Virgil Blake, Queens College, City University of New York
"James Forging the Anglo-American Cataloging Alliance: Descriptive Cataloging, 1830-1908"
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3/4, 2003
2002 Carl Ostrowski, Middle Tennessee State University
"James Alfred Pearce and the Question of a National Library in Antebellum America"
Libraries & Culture, Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring 2000
2000 Louise Robbins, University of Wisconsin at Madison
"Fighting McCarthyism Through Film: A Library Censorship Case Becomes a Storm Center"
Journal of Library and Information Science Education 39 (Fall 1998): 291-311
The Donald G. Davis Article Award was awarded for the first time in 2000.