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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

Last updated: 23 August 2023