Granted to an information professional to recognize a lifetime of achievement as well as exceptional service to SLA and the library and information profession.
Ruth S. Smith (1979) Jessie C. Wheelwright (1979) Dr. Estelle Brodman (1981) James Humphry III (1982) Arleen N. Somerville (1983) Dr. Ellis Mount (1984) David Rhydwen (1984) Constance Ford (1985) Doris L. Schild (1986) Ann Strickland (1986) Laura N. Gasaway (1987) Nancy Terry Munger (1987) Beryl L. Anderson (1988) Ron Coplen (1988) Paul Klinefelter (1988) Enid T. Thompson (1988) Adelaide del Frate (1990) Mary Murphy (1990)
| Lou Thomas (1990) Dorothy McGarry (1991) Masha Zipper (1992) Roger K. Haley (1993) Joan Gervino (1994) Julia Peterson (1994) Nicholas Mercury (1995) Charles F. Finnerty (1997) Sarah K. Wiant (1997) Joanne G. Marshall (1998) Fred Roper (1999) David R. Bender (2001) Mimi Drake (2002) Donna Scheeder (2004) Barbara Semonche (2004) Sylvia A.E. Piggott (2005) Judith J. Field (2006) | Gloria Zamora (2007) Bill Fisher (2008) Richard Geiger (2009) Jim Tchobanoff (2010) Lynne McCay (2011) Jesus Lau (2012) Dan Trefethen (2013) Cindy Hill (2014) Marjorie Hlava (2015) Jim Matarazzo (2016) Toby Pearlstein (2016) Doris Small Helfer (2017) Karen Kreizman Reczek (2018) Guy St. Clair (2019) Richard Hulser (2020) Sharon Lenius (2020) Jill Hurst-Wahl (2021) Tom Rink (2023) |