The Beta Phi Mu Award is an annual award to a library school faculty member or to an individual for distinguished service to education for librarianship. The first award was made in 1954 to Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness, Dean of the University of Michigan's Library Science Department from 1940 to 1964. The Award is sponsored by the International Honorary Society, Beta Phi Mu. Prominent Leaders in the field of Librarianship include those who were selected for the Beta Phi Mu Award. Beta Phi Mu (ΒΦΜ or βφμ) was founded in 1948 by a group of leading librarians and library educators to recognize and encourage scholastic achievement among library and information studies students. The motto, "Aliis inserviendo consumor," meaning “Consumed in the service of others” was selected by the founders based on the concept of dedication of librarians and other information professionals to the service of others. Eligibility for membership in Beta Phi Mu is by invitation of the faculty from an American Library Association accredited professional degree program.
2016. Annabel K.Stephens, University of Southern Mississippi
2015. Beverly P.Lynch, University of California, Los Angeles
2014. Beth M. Paskoff, Louisiana State University.
2013. Elizabeth Aversa, University of Alabama
2012. Mary Wagner, St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn.
2011. Lesley S.J. Farmer, California State University Long Beach
2010. Ken Haycock Ph.D., San Jose State University
2009. C. James Schmidt, San Jose State University Schmidt,
2008. Ching-chih Chen, Simmons College, Boston
2007. Barbara Immroth, University of Texas-Austin
2006. Lois Mai Chan, University of Kentucky
2005. Lynn Akin, Texas Woman's University
2004. Linda C. Smith, University of Illinois
2003. Kathleen de la Peña McCook, Louisiana State University, University of South Florida.
2002. Leigh Stewart Estabrook, University of Illinois
2001. Lotsee Patterson, University of Oklahoma
2000. Shirley Fitzgibbons, Indiana University
1999. D. W. Krummel, University of Illinois
1998. Elizabeth Stone, Catholic University
1997. Charles Bunge, University of Wisconsin
1996. Robert N. Broadus, Northern Illinois University
1995. Elizabeth Futas, University of Rhode Island
1994. Jane B. Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1993. Kathryn Luther Henderson, University of Illinois
1992. Guy Garrison, Drexel University
1991. Edward G. Holley, University of North Carolina
1990. Robert D. Stueart, Simmons College, Boston
1989. Charles D. Patterson, Louisiana State University
1988. Samuel Rothstein, University of British Columbia (first Canadian to hold Ph.D. in Librarianship)
1987. Sarah K. Vann, University of Hawaii
1986. Agnes Lytton Reagan, ALA Accreditation Officer
1985. Robert M. Hayes, University of California Los Angeles
1984. Jane Anne Hannigan, Columbia University, Rutgers University
1983. J. Periam Danton, University of California, Berkeley
1982. David K. Berninghausen, University of Minnesota
1981. Haynes McMullen, University of North Carolina at Chapel
1980. Virginia Lacy Jones, Atlanta University
1979. Conrad Rawski, Case Western Reserve. University
1978. Frances E. Henne, Columbia University
1977. Russell E. Bidlack, University of Michigan
1976. Carolyn Whitenack, Purdue University
1975. Kenneth R. Shaffer, Simmons College
1974. Martha Boaz, University of Southern California
1973. Lester Asheim, University of Chicago, University of North Carolina
1972. Margaret E. Monroe, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1971. Leon Carnovsky University of Chicago
1970. Raynard C. Swank, University of California Berkeley
1969. Ethel M. Fair
1968. Sarah R. Reed
1967. Louis Shores, Florida State University
1966. James J. Kortendick
1965. Jesse H. Shera, University of Chicago, Case Western Reserve University
1964. Charles C. Williamson, Columbia University
1963 Ernest J. Reece
1962 Florrinell F. Morton, Louisiana State University
1961. Robert L. Gitler
1960. Louis Round Wilson, University of Chicago, University of North Carolina
1959.Anita Miller Hostetter
1958. Florence Van Hoesen
1957. Lucy M. Crissey
1956. Margaret I Rufsvold
1955. Gretchen Knief Schenk
1954. Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness, University of Michigan
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