The Justin Winsor Prize is awarded by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association for the best library history essay. The award was established in 1978 and named for the American Library Association's first president, Justin Winsor. Winsor (1831–1896) was a prominent writer, historian, and the long-time Librarian at Harvard University. Award winners 1979 Dennis Thomison, The Private Wars of Chicago's Big Bill Thompson 1980 Not awarded 1981 Mary Niles Maack, Women Librarians in France: The First Generation 1982 Pamela Spence Richards, Aryan Librarianship: Academic and Research Libraries Under Hitler & Wayne A. Wiegand, British Propaganda in American Libraries, 1914-1917 1983 Robert S. Martin, Maurice F. Tauber's Louis Round Wilson: An Analysis of a Collaboration 1984 Larry Yeatman, Literary Culture and the Role of Libraries in Democratic America: Baltimore, 1815-1940 1985 Not awarded 1986 Ronald Blazek, Adult Education and Economic Opportunity in the Gilded Age: The Library, the Chautauqua, and the Railroads in DeFuniak Springs, Florida 1987 Rosalee McReynolds, American Nervousness and Turn of the Century Librarians 1988 Brother Thomas O'Connor, Library Service to the American Committee to Negotiate Peace and to the Preparatory Inquiry, 1917-1919 1989 Frederick J. Stielow, Librarians, Warriors, and Rapprochement: Carl Milam, Archibald MacLeish, and World War II 1990 John Richardson, Teaching General Reference Work: The Essential Paradigm, 1890-1900 1991 Margaret Stieg, Post-War Purge of the German Public Libraries, Democracy, and the American Reaction 1992 Joanne E. Passet, Men in a Feminized Profession: The Male Librarian, 1887-1921 1993 Not awarded 1994 Not awarded 1995 Not awarded 1996 Wayne A. Wiegand, The Amherst Method: The Origins of the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme 1997 Cheryl Knott Malone, Houston's Colored Carnegie Library, 1907-1922 1998 Not awarded 1999 Christine Pawley, Advocate for Access: Lutie Stearns and the Traveling Libraries of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission, 1895-1914 2000 Not awarded 2001 Not awarded 2002 Marek Sroka The Destruction of Jewish Libraries and Archives in Crakow (Krakow) During World War II 2003 Not awarded 2004 Joyce M. Latham Clergy of the Mind: William S. Learned, the Carnegie Corporation, and the American Library Association 2005 Donald C. Boyd The Book Women of Kentucky: The WPA Pack Horse Library Project, 1935-1943 2006 Not awarded 2007 Dr. Jean L. Preer Promoting Citizenship: Librarians Help Get Out the Vote in the 1952 Presidential Election 2008 Jeremy Dibbell A Library of the Most Celebrated & Approved Authors: The First Purchase Collection of Union College