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The Award of Merit is bestowed by the Association for Information Science and Technology. It is an annual prize to an individual for a lifetime of achievement that recognizes sustained contributions to and/or achievements in the field of information science and/or the professions in which it is practiced. The Award of Merit was first given in 1964 to Hans Peter Luhn.

Karen Spärck Jones-2002
Frederick G. Kilgour-1979
Eugene Garfield- 1975
Claire Kelly Schultz-1980
Mortimer Taube -1966
Name Date Major accomplishments
Marcia Lei Zeng 2024 Professor of Information Science at Kent State University
Andrew Dillon 2023 V.M. Daniel Professor of Information in the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin.
Harry Bruce 2022 Dean, University of Washington Information School
Steve Sawyer 2021 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
Diane H. Sonnenwald 2020 Theory Development in the Information Sciences.
Christine Borgman 2019 Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World
Toni Carbo 2018 Executive Director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS)
Thomas D. Wilson 2017 "Fifty Years of Information Behaviour Research."
Peter Ingwersen 2016 The Turn - Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context.
Michael E.D. Koenig 2015 Knowledge Management (Km) Processes in Organizations: Theoretical Foundations and Practice.
Marjorie M.K. Hlava 2014 President, Access Innovations.
Carol C. Kuhlthau 2013 Guided Inquiry : Learning in the 21st Century.
Michael Buckland 2012 Information and Society.
Gary Marchionini 2011 Information Concepts: From Books to Cyberspace Identities.
Linda C. Smith 2010 Library and Information Science, Interdisciplinary Perspectives: A Festschrift in Honor of Linda C. Smith.
Carol Tenopir 2009 Communication Patterns of Engineers.
Clifford Lynch 2008 Director of the Coalition for Networked Information.
Donald H. Kraft 2007 Operations Research for Libraries and Information Agencies; editor Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology for 24 years.
Blaise Cronin 2006 Dean of the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University.
Marcia Bates 2005 Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
Howard D. White 2004 “Combining Bibliometrics Information Retrieval and Relevance Theory."
Nicholas J. Belkin 2003 Interaction in Information Systems: A Review of Research from Document Retrieval to Knowledge-Based Systems.
Karen Spärck Jones 2002 "A Statistical Interpretation of Term Specificity and Its Application in Retrieval."
Patrick G. Wilson 2001 Two Kinds of Power; an Essay on Bibliographical Control.
Donald R. Swanson 2000 Swanson Linking; Dean of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School.
José-Marie Griffiths 1999 V.P., board directors, King Research, Inc.
Henry Small 1998 Institute for Scientific Information; Bibliometrics of Basic Research."Macrolevel changes in the structure of co-citation clusters."
Dagobert Soergel 1997 Best Information Science Book of the Year-1987-Organizing Information: Principles of Data Base and Retrieval Systems.
Jean Tague-Sutcliffe 1996 Measuring Information: An Information Services Perspective.
Tefko Saracevic 1995 “A Study of Information Seeking and Retrieving. III. Searchers Searches and Overlap.” Editor-in Chief Information Processing & Management (1985-2008).
Harold Borko 1994 "Artificial intelligence and expert systems research and their possible impact on information." American Society for Information Science, president 1966.
Robert M. Hayes 1993 Handbook of Data Processing for Libraries.
Robert Saxton Taylor 1992 The Making of a Library; the Academic Library in Transition.“Value-Added Processes in the Information Life Cycle.”
Roger K. Summit 1991 Founder of Dialog Information Services, "father of modern online searching."
Pauline Atherton Cochrane 1990 Papers in Honor of Pauline Atherton Cochrane. One of the most highly cited authors in the field of library and information sciences.
Gerard Salton 1989 Dynamic Information and Library Processing.ACM Fellow.
F. Wilfrid Lancaster 1988 Toward Paperless Information Systems.; Most cited in 1970s- 1990s.
Donald W. King 1987 President of ASIS; Key Papers in the Economics of Information.
Bernard M. Fry 1986 Founding editor, Government Publications Review; Festschrift;Government Publications: Their Role in the National Program for Library and Information Services.
Robert L. Chartrand 1985 "Computer Technology and the Congress."
Joseph Becker and Martha E. Williams 1984 Becker, “Communications Networks for Libraries.” and Williams,“Education and Training for Online Use of Data Bases.”
Dale B.Baker 1983 Director of Chemical Abstracts.
Andrew A. Aines 1982 Director of COSATI
Herbert S. White 1981 Festschrift in Honour of Herbert S. White
Claire Kelly Schultz 1980 President of the American Documentation Institute, 1962."Claire Kelly Schultz (1924-2015)."
Frederick Kilgour 1979 President of OCLC; Legion of Merit for intelligence work during World War II, “History of Library Computerization.”,American Library Association Honorary Membership.
Calvin Mooers 1978 Coined the term "information retrieval." "A Pioneer Of Information Retrieval."
Allen Kent 1977 Best Information Science Book of the Year- 1979-The Structure and Governance of Library Networks.; Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.
Laurence Heilprin 1976 "Laurence B. Heilprin, 1906-1993.
Eugene Garfield 1975 Founder of bibliometrics and scientometrics and Science Citation Index; A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield.
Manfred Kochen 1974 Founding Editor of Human Systems Management.
Jesse Shera 1973 Documentation and the organization of knowledge;American Library Association Honorary Membership Papers in honor of Jesse Hauk Shera.
Phyllis Richmond 1972 ‘‘Hierarchical Definition;’’"The Art and Science of Classification: Phyllis Allen Richmond, 1921–1997."
Jerrold Orne 1971 Chaired Z39 Committee, precursor to National Information Standards Organization, Director University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries and professor of Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Cyril W. Cleverdon 1970 Cranfield Experiments; "Cyril W. Cleverdon."
No Award 1969
Carlos Cuadra 1968 Best Information Science Book Award-1969- for Annual Review of Information Science and Technology; “Role of the Private Sector in the Development and Improvement of Library and Information Services."
Robert Fairthorne 1967 "Robert Fairthorne and the Scope of Information Science."“Robert A. Fairthorne, a Biographical Sketch.”
Mortimer Taube 1966 “Theoretical Principles of Information Organization in Librarianship.” "On the Shoulder of Giants."
Charles P. Bourne 1965 “Cost Analysis and Simulation Procedures for the Evaluation of Large Information Systems.”
Hans Peter Luhn 1964 Luhn algorithm; H.P. Luhn: Pioneer of Information Science.

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