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.
Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, 2013-Joseph W. Lippincott AwardWinston Tabb, 2007 - Joseph W. Lippincott AwardPeggy Sullivan, 1991 - Joseph W. Lippincott AwardVerner W. Clapp, 1960 - Joseph W. Lippincott AwardEssae Martha Culver, 1959 - Joseph W. Lippincott AwardH. W. Wilson, 1950 -Joseph W. Lippincott AwardCarl H. Milam, 1948 - Joseph W. Lippincott AwardHerbert Putnam, 1939 - Joseph W. Lippincott AwardMary Utopia Rothrock, 1938 - Joseph W. Lippincott Award
Director, Library Services Branch, U.S. Office of Education, Deputy Librarian of Congress, executive director of the Association of Research Libraries.
Director, libraries at the University of California, Los Angeles, President, American Library Association, President, Association of College and Research Libraries.
State Librarian Idaho State Library,[30] Senior Program Officer, Office of Libraries and Learning Resources, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.[31][32]
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.[35]
First Director of American Library Association Washington Office. Library of Congress. Chief Librarian, Office of War Information, World War II.[40][41]
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.[42]
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