List of Braverman Awards
Past Miriam Braverman Memorial Prizes
2023
Out of Bounds: Sexual Harassment from Patrons in the Public Library [read]
By Maggie Grabmeier
2022
A Promised (But Ultimately Unreachable) Land: The Fallacy of “Political Neutrality” Exemplified by Fmr. U.S. President Barack Obama’s Appearance at the 2021 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition [read]
By Daniel Clarkson Fisher
2021
Death to the Professional: Re-envisioning Labour in the Public Library [read]
By Eli Holliday
See press release
Prison Zines: Relations, Communication, and Records [read]
By Ashley Huot
See press release
2019
Towards Universal Access to Knowledge: The Invisible Labor of Digitizing [read]
By Yoonhee Lee
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #47, pp. 118-127. See also press release
2018
Libraries, Power, and Justice: Toward a Sociohistorically Informed Intellectual Freedom [read]
By Alessandra Seiter
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #47, pp. 107-117. See also press release
2017
Personal Health Data, Surveillance, & Biopolitics: Toward a Personal Health Data Information Literacy [read]
By Matthew Weirick Johnson
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #46, pp. 150-158. See also press release
2016
I'll Drown My Book: Visibility, Gender, and Classification in The University of Arizona Poetry Center Library [read]
By Sarah S. Kortemeier
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #45, pp. 101-112. See also press release
2015
Intellectual Freedom Is Not Social Justice: The Symbolic Capital of Intellectual Freedom in ALA Accreditation and LIS Curricula [read]
By Kyle Shockey
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #44, pp. 101-110
2014
Deconstructing the "Books for Boys" Discourse [read]
By Denise Scott
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #42, pp. 115-122
2013
Loud Hands in the Library: Neurodiversity in LIS Theory & Practice [read]
By Emily Lawrence
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #41, pp. 98-109
2012
Through a Distant Lens: Visions of Native Hawaiians in Children's Picture Books [read]
By Sara Zettervall
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #40, pp. 109-124
2011
Design Implications: How Space Can Transform the Library and Its Public [read]
By Tiffany Chow
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #36/37, pp. 71-76
2010
"Breaking Secrets" In the Catalog: Proposing the Black Queer Studies Collection At the University of Texas at Austin [read]
By Kristen Hogan
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #34/35, pp. 50-57
2009
Marketing the Library? Why Librarians Should Focus On Stewardship and Advocacy [read]
By Sarah Clark
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #33, pp. 93-100
2008
Just Throw It All Away! (and Other Thoughts I Have Had That May Bar Me From a Career In Archiving [read]
By Miriam Rigby
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #31, pp. 46-52
2007
Towards a Progressive Discourse On Community Needs Assessment: Perspectives From Collaborative Ethnography and Action Research [read]
By Marcel A. Q. LaFlamme
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #29, pp. 55-62
2006
Becoming Responsible Mediators: The Application of Postmodern Perspectives to Archival Arrangement & Description [read]
By Joseph Deodato
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #27, pp. 52-63
2005
Public Library Collection Development Issues Regarding the Information Needs of GLBT Patrons [read]
By Jennifer Downey
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #25, pp. 86-95
2003
Operation - Patriots Act: The Role of School Libraries In Promoting a Free and Informed Society [read]
By Michele Sipley
Published in Progressive Librarian issue #22, pp. 52-61