Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award

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Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award is presented by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association every third year to recognize the best book written in English in the field of library history, including the history of libraries, librarianship, and book culture.

The award is named after Eliza Atkins Gleason, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago.

Recipients[]

Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award Book Award Recipients[1]
Year Author Title Publisher
2004[2] Louise Robbins The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library University of Massachusetts Press
2007 Carl Ostrowski Books, Maps, and Politics: a Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861 University of Massachusetts Press
2010[3] David Allan A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England British Library
2013[4] Dr. Christine Pawley Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America University of Massachusetts Press
2016 Dr. Cheryl Knott Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow University of Massachusetts Press
2019[5] Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South Louisiana State University Press

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References[]

  1. ^ "Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award". American Library Association. 2007-03-29. Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  2. ^ "Fall 2004". American Library Association. 2006-11-29. Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  3. ^ Jewell, Caroline (2010-06-27). "The Library History Round Table Announces 2010 Award Recipients". American Library Association. Archived from the original on 2015-12-16. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  4. ^ Rose, Norman (2013-05-10). "Dr. Christine Pawley Receives 2013 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award". American Library Association. Archived from the original on 2013-08-20. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  5. ^ Ponton, Danielle M. (2019-04-02). "Wayne and Shirley Wiegand receive 2019 Gleason Book Award for history of integration of Southern public libraries". American Library Association. Archived from the original on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
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