Bob Williams Paper Award Recipients
Established in 2009 as the History of Information Science and Technology Fund Awards, the grant and paper awards were collectively renamed the Bob Williams Awards in 2017.
The recipients of the Bob Williams Paper Awards Grant are:
Year
Recipient
2023
Geoffrey Yeo for “Let Us See What Is Meant by the Word Recorde”: Concepts of Record from the Middle Ages to the Early 20th Century"
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2022
Zack Lischer-Katz for "The emergence of digital reformatting in the history of preservation knowledge: 1823–2015"
2021
2020
Rodrigo Ochigame, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for “Informatics of the Oppressed”
2019
Not awarded
2018
Brian Dobreski and Barbara Kwaśnik, for “Changing Depictions of Persons in Library Practice: Spirits, Pseudonyms, and Human Books”;
and Alex Poole, Drexel University, for ”Harold T. Pinkett and the Lonely Crusade of African American Archivists in the Twentieth Century”
2017
Alex Poole, Drexel University, for “Could my dark hands break through the dark shadow?” The North Carolina Negro Library Association’s War on Information Poverty in the Long Civil Rights Movement, 1935-1955″
2016
Gábor Szommer, Hungarian independent researcher, for “Parallel Expansions: The Role of Information during the Formative Years of the English East India Company”
2015
Not awarded
2014
Not awarded
2013
Xiaohua Zhu, University of Tennessee, for “Who Had Access to Juris?: A Failed Case of Open Access”
2012
Not awarded
2011
Not awarded
2010
Sarah Buchanan, UCLA, for “‘Name’s the Same?’: The Los Angeles Chapter of ASIST upon its Semicentennial”
2009
Rachel Plotnick, doctoral student in Media, Technology and Society at Northwestern University, for “Computers, Systems Theory and the Making of a Wired Hospital: A History of Technicon Medical Information System, 1964-1987.”